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2013 the Visual Leader exhibition opens a couple of weeks before the presentation of the Lead Awards. 200 works from the creative and media scene, of which the best will be awarded on 13 September at the Deichtorhallen. OSTKREUZ will be represented by Werner and Ute Mahler and their Mona Lisas and by Tobias Kruse with his bus station in Tel Aviv.

Visual Leader 2013
Opening 26 July 2013, 7.00 Uhr pm
Exhibition: 27 July - 13 October 2013

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen
Deichtorstraße 1-2, Hamburg
Tue - Sun, 11.00 am - 6.00 pm
© Tobias Kruse/OSTKREUZ

Almost exactly two years ago, the Leonhardi Museum in Dresden showed a large Sibylle Bergemann survey exhibition. Now Harald Hauswald's GDR work will be presented in the halls of the former water mill. The exhibition includes icons such as the 1 May flag bearers.

Harald Hauswald
„Erinnerung ausgegraben | Fotografien 1976–1990“
Exhibition: 6 Juli - 22 September 2013

Leonhardi-Museum Dresden
Grundstraße 26, 01326 Dresden
Tue-Fri 2.00 - 6.00 pm, Sa/So 10.00 am - 6.00 pm

From friday on, Harald Hauswald will be teaching a class at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee. This time, his students will be hunting shadows with their camera, a subject, that plays an important role in Harald's own photography.

In our newest group project, the OSTKREUZ photographers tell stories about borders. In 17 individual positions they explore territorial, social and ethical boundaries - in Berlin, around the world and on their own body.
Our exhibition is spending the summer in Dresden. On 16 May „On Borders" opens at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum with a speech given by Matthias Flügge. 


"On Borders"

Opening: 16 May 2013, 7.00 pm

Exhibition: 17 May - 11 August 2013

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
Lingnerplatz 1, Dresden

Tue - Sun 10 am - 6 pm Anne Schönharting/OSTKREUZ

Ute Mahler had an crucial impact on fashion photography in the former GDR. In Halle a broad collection of her images can be seen vis-à-vis Rudolf Schäfer's fashion photographs and portraits.
"Moment-Aufnahmen. Portait- und Modefotografie in der DDR"
Opening: 3 May 2013, 8pm
Exhibition: 4 May - 9 June 2013

Kunstverein "Talstraße"
Talstraße 23, 06120 Halle
Tue - Fri 2pm - 7pm, Sat & Sun 2pm - 5pm

The memorial of the Berlin Wall is being slightly disrupted by advancing dredgers, but now vivid photographs dealing with the life behind the wall can be seen only a few feet away. The East Side Hotel shows Harald Hauswald's GDR photographs. The opening is also an opportunity to say "Happy Birthday" to him.

"Harald Hauswald - Pictures behind the Wall"
Opening: 3 May 2013, 8pm
Exhibition: 4 May - Summer 2013

East-Side-Hotel
Mühlenstrasse 6, 10243 Berlin

50 pictures, 50 photographers, one city. In the coming exhibition, the Photo Gallery "pavlov's dog" paints a picture of Berlin. Heinrich Voelkel and Joerg Brueggemann join in.

„BER- Bilder“
Opening: 11 April 2013, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 12 April - 18. May 2013

pavlov’s dog
raum für fotografie
Bergstrasse 19, 10115 Berlin
Thu - Sat 4.00 pm - 8.00 pm

When you think of Harald Hauswald pictures, you mostly think in black and white. The extent of his color archive surprised Harald himself when he sighted images of the late GDR. He found so many colored treasures that now the first Harald Harald Hauswald book in color has been published by Lehmstedt Verlag.

Harald Hauswald: "Ferner Osten. Die letzten Jahre der DDR - Fotografien 1986-1990"
Lehmstedt Verlag

He has one of the most widely recognized faces in the world. Portraits of Karl Marx' bearded head have been swarming art, culture and advertising since one and a half centuries. An exhibition at Marx hometown Trier now brings together the most important images. Including one, in which the famous beard is obscured by a cloud: Sibylle Bergemann's Marx-Engels monument in front of the sculptor's workshop.

"Ikone Karl Marx. Kultbilder und Bilderkult"
Exhibition: 17 March - 18 October 2013

Stadtmuseum Simeonstift Trier
Simeonstr. 60, Trier
Tue - Sun 10am - 17pm

Three is not necessarily the first number that comes to mind when one thinks of portraits. Trios give very charming photo opportunities though, as shows an exhibition in Berlin. It features portraits of three by Henri Cartier-Bresson, August Sander or Lee Friedlander and also by Sibylle Bergemann.

„3/Drei"
Opening: 28 February, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 29 February - April 2013

ONLY PHOTOGRAPHY Roland Angst
Niebuhrstr. 78, 10629 Berlin
Wed-Fri 2.00 - 7.00 pm, Sat 11.00 am - 4.00 pm
www.only-photography.com

The Kunstmuseum Magdeburg shows Pepa Hristovas series "Sworn Virgins" on northern Albanian men-women. The work has been awarded the Otto Steinert Award of excellent German Photographic Society. It is now also published as a book by Kehrer Verlag and as a Collector's Edition with two Prints.
„Pepa Hristova. Sworn Virgins“
Opening: 27 February, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 28 February - 26 May 2013

Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen
Regierungsstraße 4-6, 39104 Magdeburg
Tue - Sun 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
http://www.kunstmuseum-magdeburg.de/

In northern Albania, families who have lost their male patriarch can name a woman from the family to take his place. She vows to keep her virginity forever and starts dressing, working and living like a man. Over the years, she merges so much with her role that she is outside the family no longer recognized as a woman.

Pepa Hristova visited the last men-women in Europe. Her series Sworn Virgins is now published as a book by Kehrer Verlag, edited by F. C. Gundlach. The collectors edition contains, in addition to the book, two prints.

Right in the turmoil of the Arab revolutions, Joerg Brueggemann, Tobias Kruse and Maurice Weiss ventured to North Africa. What they have seen, they now show in an exhibition at the Latitudes Festival in Spain.

Latitudes: Festival Internacional de Fotografía
"Tres países – tres miradas. Egipto, Túnez, Libia."

Exhibition: 21 February - 31 March
Casa Colon
Plaza del Punto, Huelva, Spain

The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations presents Sibylle Bergemann's work to the whole world. In spring and summer the traveling exhibition "Photographien" will be shown in South East Asia. The next stop is Indonesia, followed by Malaysia and Thailand.

"Sibylle Bergemann Photographien"
Exhibition: 21 February - 5 March 2013

Bentara Budaya
Jakarta, Indonesia

With the end of the year 2012, our joint exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen Berlin terminated. We have been very happy about the great interest and thank the many visitors who went to see the exhibition in Berlin.
 From May on, we show "On Borders" at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, a little bigger and with a slightly different presentation. In the meantime, our catalog is still available, with all the series shown in the exhibition and additional texts.

"On Borders"

Opening: 16 May, 7 pm

Exhibition: 17 May - 11 August

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
Lingnerplatz 1, Dresden

Tue - Sun 10 am - 6 pm

Next summer semester, Linn Schröder will be teaching photography at the HTW Berlin.
Harald Hauswald will lecture at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee. Under the theme of "terminal" he sends his students from the central square Alexanderplatz to the final stops in Berlin.

Work is one of the most determinant aspects of our everyday reality. An exhibition in Berlin explores how we use space while working, how men and women interact with each other and how varied work activities can be. Half of the selected photographers are OSTKREUZ members: Harald Hauswald, Werner Mahler, Ute Mahler and Frank Schinski. We invite you to the opening on Friday.

"ort/zeit/los"
Opening: 1 February 2013, 7 pm
Exhibition: 2 February - 16 March 2013

Kunstverein Tiergarten | Gallery Nord
Turmstrasse 75, Berlin
Tue- Sat 2 - 7 pm

We are currently looking for a trainee as
Specialist in media and information services in the field of picture agencies (m/f)
Start: Summer 2013

The training at OSTKREUZ agency of photographers includes the editing of image requests and advising clients in the selection process of images. Picture research and editorial assistance are also part of the training. Further you will also deal with the processing of receipts and its accounting and assist us in the project coordination.
Please send your applications from now on.
Requirements:
- German: mother tongue level; English: fluently spoken and written - Solid foundation of general knowledge in culture, politics and current affaires - Interest in photography
Please send us your applications as PDF to: mail(at)ostkreuz.de

We are just as proud of our catalog as we are of the exhibition. It is an autonomous work on the theme to which we have dedicated the last two years: borders.
Over several months we have selected images, which was quite difficult because of the many great pictures that our photographers had brought from their border excursions. Our graphic designer Jan Spading has created a very varied layout, tailored to each series. Fabian Dietrich of Dummy magazine wrote texts about the various topics of the series, plus there are lots of exciting articles by authors who have accompanied the photographers on their trips to the borders.
In the end, Sibylle Fendt and Pepa Hristova have monitored the printing a whole sleepless night long. They were so strict that the printer has temporarily run out of paper.