An exhibition in Frankfurt deals with images of masculinity in photography over the past 40 years. Pepa Hristova shows her Albanian "Sworn Virgins". Biologically, they are women, but they have taken over clothing, tasks and habits of men to fill the role of head of the family.
"Mannsbilder"
Exhibition: 7 March - 17 May 2014
DZ BANK Kunstsammlung
Platz der Republik
60325 Frankfurt am Main
www.dzbank-kunstsammlung.de
For twenty years now, the Wuestenrot Foundation has been awarding prizes to outstanding young documentary photographers, including several OSTKREUZ members. An exhibition at the Museum Folkwang now shows current works by 17 selected winners such as Espen Eichhoefer, Sibylle Fendt and Linn Schroeder.
"Past and Present"
Opening: 7 March 2014, 19.00 clock
Exhibition: 8 March - 15 June 2014
Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
www.museum-folkwang.de
One of the most exciting contemporary themes is how our increasingly diverse society can form a harmonious unit. The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden presents now a huge exhibition on the theme of migration and diversity, among others with pictures by Maurice Weiss and Julian Roeder. Stephan Cleef and Anna-Christina Hartmann have designed the image concept for the book accompanying the exhibition.
"Das neue Deutschland. Von Migration und Vielfalt"
Exhibition: 8 March to 12 October 2014
Book: Konstanz University Press, 250 pages, with a colored Essay cycle of OSTKREUZ - photographers agency
Our collective exhibition "On Borders" was already shown in Berlin and Dresden, now the Kulturforum Schorndorf presents a newly edited version. Seven OSTKREUZ photographers tell about the emergence of a new African state, the tolerated refugees in Berlin, the walls of Belfast and other visible and invisible borders.
"On Borders"
Opening: 21 February 2014, 8.00 pm
Exhibition: 22 February - 27 April 2014
Kulturforum Schorndorf
Karlstraße 19, 73614 Schorndorf
www.kulturforum-schorndorf.de
Hijacked - is the name of a project that confronts Australian Photography with images of a host country.
Meanwhile, there is already a third edition, but Hijacked 2 with focus on Germany is still touring the galleries.
The German co-curators Ute Noll and Markus Schaden selected among others Joerg Brueggemann and Julian Röder for the exhibition. It is now on show in Stuttgart.
HIJACKED Volume 2
Opening: Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 7.30 pm
Exhibition: 13 February – 30 March 2014
VHS photogalerie
Rotebühlplatz 28, 70173 Stuttgart
Mon-Sat 8.00 am - 11.00 pm, Sun 9.00 am- 6.00 pm
www.vhs-photogalerie.de
Bruce Springsteen, known to be Born in the USA, played the biggest concert of his career in 1988 in East Berlin. 185 000 visitors at the velodrome Weissensee, among them Harald Hauswald who photographed fans, America flags and the marshals from the GDR youth organisation FDJ.
This and other images taken between 1976-1990 are displayed at the Kunstverein Dahlenburg.
A highlight at the opening: the actor Henning Barren reads from Harald Hauswald's memories.
Harald Hauswald
Far East - Photographs 1976 - 1990
Opening: 12 January 2014 11:30
Exhibition: 13 January - 16 February
Kunstverein Region Dahlenburg
Lüneburger Str. 14, 21368 Dahlenburg
For her work "Selfportrait with one breast and twins" Linn Schröder has been awarded the Zeitmagazin Fotopreis 2013 at the FotoDoks festival in Munich.
The Jury:
"The work that we want to honor this evening with the ZEITmagazin Fotopreis is based on an experience, but abstracts this to a metaphor that goes far beyond the personal. It is a work which looks back and reflects upon serious life events. It’s about life, death, fate but also about the future and change.
The work combines complex subjects. It is a work that, in an exhibition with various serial approaches needs only one single image. The autobiographical background of cancer, mastectomy and the birth of twins fused in this haunting single image with art historical references. In a contemporary portrait of the Madonna Linn Schröder draws a very personal boundary between life and death."
A Sunday-morning at the Academy of Arts: Flowers, Champagne and 18 awardees.
In a solo exhibition, Sibylle Fendt shows two of her most interesting works of the last two years. "Dear Mrs. K." documents the life as a tolerated refugee in Berlin, the uncertainty and ambiguity. In "Gärtners travels", Sibylle Fendt follows a husband and his wife, the latter of which had been diagnosed with dementia, during their last trip through Europe.
Sibylle Fend has taken up a teaching position for photography at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld.
"Sibylle Fendt - Photography"
Exhibition: 18 October - 3 November 2013
Kunstverein Lüneburg
Am Ochsenmarkt 1a, 21335 Lüneburg
Michael Haneke, Katharina Thalbach or Lars von Trier… So far, only individual people have been awarded the Konrad-Wolf-Preis. In 2013 though, for the first time, the prize by the Akademie der Künste goes to a group: Ostkreuz! We are particularly happy, because the award honors our efforts as a collective, by which have been produced e.g. our group exhibitions and which is crucial to the concept of our agency as well as to our self-perception. Or as the jury put it: "Ostkreuz is a place, where you can discuss the quality of pictures and talk about experiences like a colleague. And where the picture, that you produce of the world is always challenged."
Konrad-Wolf-Preis 2013
Award Ceremony: October 20th 2013, 11.30 am
Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
Hanseatenweg 10, Studio
The Fotodoks in Munich is among the most interesting photo festivals every year. The focus this year is scandinavian photography. Somehow though, two OSTKREUZ photographers made into the competition anyway: Pepa Hristova with "Sworn Virgins" and Linn Schröder with "Self-portrait with one breast and twins".
„Stranger World“
Exhibition of the FotoDoks-Festival at the Stadtmuseum in Munich
October 15th - December 1st 2013
Münchner Stadtmuseum
St.-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 Munich
Tue - Sun 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
http://fotodoks.de/die-ausstellung-2013/
The Monalisas take the veil!
For their book- and exhibition project, Werner and Ute Mahler photographed baffling girls between child- and womanhood, between city and country. Now their "Monalisas of the Suburbs" will be shown at the Obermarchtal monastery
"Monalisas of the Suburbs"
Exhibition: September 24th 2013 - January 26 2014
Kirchliche Akademie der Lehrerfortbildung
Klosteranlage 2/1
89611 Obermarchtal
Mon - Sat, 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
https://www.schulstiftung.de/aktuelles/aktuelle-meldungen/meldung-detail/datum/2013/07/29/neue-austellung-in-obermarchtal-monalisen-der-vorstaedte/
It can be quite cozy at the Bahnhof Zoo station, we realized when we opened our Exhibition "OSTKREUZ To the West" at C/O Berlin.
Thanks to everyone who was there, see you next time!
"OSTKREUZ To the west. A new perspective on Charlottenburg"
Opening: 19 September, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 20 September - 24 November 2013
C/O Berlin · Amerika Haus
Hardenbergstraße 22-24, 10623 Berlin
Daily 0.00 - 24.00
admission free
Almost a year ago, we opened our OSTKREUZ group exhibition "On Borders" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Our colleagues from Magnum will deal with the same subject at the photo festival in Mannheim Ludwigshafen. We look forward to it.
In a panel discussion, Sibylle Fendt, Annette Hauschild and Heinrich Völkel will speak about their own experiences with borders and the daily routine in a photographer's agency.
5th Photo festival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg
14th September - 10th November 2013
Panel
"What does it mean to be a photographer of OSTKREUZ"
23rd September 2013, 5.00 pm
zeitraumexit e.V., Hafenstrasse 68, 68159 Mannheim (Kiosk room)
Reunion in the west. Three years after "The City", C/O Berlin shows another OSTKREUZ exhibition, open air at the new location at the Amerika Haus. In "To the West" 13 OSTKREUZ-photographers explore one of the most interesting urban zones in Germany: the area around the Zoo station in Berlin-Charlottenburg. They show the changes that are currently underway and deal with myths and legends about the zoo area. They expose the contrasts that characterize the neighborhood and they portray its people, residents and visitors, strollers and Charlottenburg veterans.
"OSTKREUZ To the west. A new perspective on Charlottenburg"
Opening: 19 September, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 20 September - 24 November 2013
C/O Berlin · Amerika Haus
Hardenbergstraße 22-24, 10623 Berlin
Daily 0.00 - 24.00
admission free
Bored in Hanoi? Our collective exhibition THE CITY. BECOMING AND DECAYING. opens at the Museum of Fine Arts Vietnam and the Goethe-Institut Hanoi. Our photographers Ute Mahler and Joerg Brueggemann will give lectures about the exhibition and conduct a workshop.
THE CITY. BECOMING AND DECAYING
Opening: 28 August 2013, 6.30 pm with an introduction by Joerg Brueggemann
Exhibition: 29 August – 14 September 2013
Museum of Fine Arts Vietnam und Goethe-Institut Hanoi
66 Nguyen Thai Hoc / 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc