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The Berlin based gallery Dittrich & Schlechtriem shows the „Mona Lisas of the suburbs“ by Werner and Ute Mahler. We invite you to the opening on friday. In their work „Mona Lisas of the suburbs“ Werner and Ute Mahler deal with the "in between", on a temporal as well as on a spatial level. They show girls in Europe's suburbs, who are in a state of transition: between city and countryside, between being a child and being a woman. After forty years of marriage and individual careers in photography this is their first collaborative project. The book accompanying the exhibition has recently been published by Meier and Mueller with a print run limited to 500 copies. In addition, a limited edition box with a gelatine print and a print edition with an inkjet print are available. „Mona Lisas of the suburbs“
Opening: 4 November, 6.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Exhibition: 5 November 2011 - 7 January 2012

Dittrich & Schlechtriem
Tucholskystr 38, 10117 Berlin
Tue - Sat 11.00 am - 6. 00 pm
www.dittrich-schlechtriem.com

The first love and the ever repeating patterns and rituals of approach are the theme of Annette Hauschilds series "first love", which will now be exhibited for the first time. It shows young people who can be bold and confident, and then again shy and awkward in their attempt to get close to each other.
The exhibition is part of the international conference "First Love. On Second Thought" and will be introduced by art historian Prof. Dr. Annette Geiger.
A limited edition with four prints from the series is now available on OSTKREUZ-Store.

"First Love. At First Sight. Fotoarbeiten von Annette Hauschild"
Opening: 27 October 2011, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 28 October 2011 - 15 February 2012

Einstein Forum Am Neuen Markt 7, 14467 Potsdam
www.einsteinforum.de

In screenings, speeches and panels, the present and future of author photography in Germany and this year´s guest country Italy will be discussed. On friday, OSTKREUZ photographer Maurice Weiss will speak with four other experts about actuality and relevance in documentary photography.

FOTODOKS 2011: 12 Oktober - 16 Oktober 2011 Panel: „Am Stammtisch der Bildproduzenten und -konsumenten“ with Maurice Weiss and others
14 Oktober 2011, 7.00 pm MaximiliansForum
http://fotodoks.de/programm2011 "UNGLAUBLICH – INCREDIBILE. SENSATIONSLUST, DOKUMENT, REALITÄT.“
Vernissage & Festival Opening: 12 October 2011, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 13 October - 13 November 2011
Artist talk, Awards ceremony and FOTODOKS party: 15 October 2011

Muenchner Stadtmuseum
St.-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 Muenchen
Tue - Sun 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
www.muenchner-stadtmuseum.de

Our group exhibtion „The City. Becoming and Decaying“ is visiting the metropolises of India. The Goethe Institute is taking it accross the country, from Hyderabad over Chennai and Kolkata to New Delhi.

"The City. Becoming and Decaying" Hyderabad: 05.10. – 19.10.2011, Salar Jung Museum
Chennai: 02.11. – 12.11. 2011, School of Architecture and Planning, Anna University
Kolkata: 05.12. – 13.12.2011, Rabindranath Tagore Centre
New Delhi: 21.12.20111 – 19.01.2012

Youth consecration on the countryside, punks and May parades in East Berlin, dance and nostalgia in Clärchens Ballhaus: The exhibition "OSTZEIT" evokes a country that no longer exists, even if its traces still surround many of us day per day.
50 years after the construction of the Wall, the OSTKREUZ group exhibition is shown in Cottbus. Our photographers Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler and Harald Hauswald will hold an artist talk on 20 October.

"OSTZEIT. Stories from a vanished Country"
Opening: 29 September 2011, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 29 September 2011 - 15 February 2012
Artist Talk: 20 October 2011, 7.00 pm
KUNSTMUSEUM DIESELKRAFTWERK COTTBUS
Uferstraße / Am Amtsteich 15, 03046 Cottbus
Tue - Sun 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
www.museum-dkw.de

OSTKREUZ photographers Dawin Meckel and Julian Röder have been awarded this year´s European Architectural Photography Prize. The exhibition „Dazwischen | in between“ diplays works by the awardees and is now on show in Stuttgart.
„Dazwischen | in between“
Opening: 28 September 2011, 7.30 pm
Exhibition: 29 September - 20 November 2011 (closed from 30 october – 01 November 2011)

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

Ute and Werner Mahler were awarded this year's "Kunstpreis Fotografie" by Lotto Brandenburg for their "Mona Lisas of the suburbs". The award ceremony will be held on 15 September 2011 at Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte in Potsdam. Starting on 16 September, the work will be shown at Potsdam's Kunsthaus sans titre.

"Kunstpreis Fotografie" by Lotto Brandenburg
Award ceremony: 15 September 2011, 7.00 pm

Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte 

Kutschstall, Am Neuen Markt 9, 14467 Potsdam

"Mona Lisas of the suburbs"
Exhibition: 18 - 30 September 2011
Preview: 15 September 2011, 2.00 pm - 6.30 pm
Kunsthaus sans titre

Französische Straße 18, 14467 Potsdam

You meant so much to all of us, as a mentor and as a friend. Arno Fischer (1927 - 2011).

Today Sibylle Bergemann would have turned 70. We still miss her so much. Sabine Michel filmed Sibylle during her last days. The long version of her portrait premiers today at Babylon Berlin. TAKE A PICTURE - Die Fotografin Sibylle Bergemann
Premiere: 29 August 2011, 08.15 pm
Babylon Mitte
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin

On August 29, Sibylle Bergemann would have celebrated her 70th birthday. On this occasion a Berlin Gallery displays a selection of her Polaroids. Many of them have been taken in Sibylle's family environment and are showing very private motives.

„Sibylle Bergemann. Die Polaroids“
Opening: 26 August 2011, 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm
Exhibition: 27 August - 15 October 2011

Johanna Breede 
PHOTOKUNST
Fasanenstr. 69, 10719 Berlin
Tue-Fri 11.00 am - 6.00 pm, Sat 11.00 am - 4.00 pm
www.johanna-breede.com

For over 40 years Sibylle Bergemann took Polaroids. She was fascinated by the immediacy of the medium and the peculiar color of the images. An exhibition at C/O Berlin now presents 140 Polaroids throughout the whole of her artistic career. At the opening, the long version of Sabine Michel's film on Sibylle Bergemann will premier.
In addition, the book "Polaroids" by Sibylle Bergemann is published by Hatje Cantz Verlag.

"Sibylle Bergemann. Polaroids "
Opening: 01 July 2011, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 02 July - 04 September 2011

C/O Berlin at Postfuhramt
Oranienburgerstrasse 35/36, 10117 Berlin
daily 11.00 am- 8.00 pm
www.co-berlin.info

Just two houses away from OSTKREUZ office, an exhibition of photographs by Harald Hauswald and Frieda von Wild is being held. Among the images by Hauswald, there will be several unpublished photos across the last three decades with, how Harald himself says: "a lot of architecture and few humans".

"Staedte - Raeume - Beobachtungen"
Opening: 25 June, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 26 June - 16 July 2011

Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg
Greifswalder Str 218, 10405 Berlin
Tue-Sat 2.00 pm - 7.00 pm
www.staatsgalerie-prenzlauerberg.de

On 23 June, Harald Hauswald and director Joerg Herrmann will present the documentary "Zwischen Liebe und Zorn - Harald Hauswald, Fotograf" at the Brotfabrik in Berlin. The cinema will show the film for one week.

"Zwischen Liebe und Zorn - Harald Hauswald, Fotograf"
23 June - 29 June 2011, 8.00 pm

Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Brotfabrik
Caligariplatz, 13086 Berlin
www.brotfabrik-berlin.dehttp://www.staatsgalerie-prenzlauerberg.de

In August 2011 Sibylle Bergemann would have celebrated her 70th birthday. She still had been involved in the planning of the exhibition which the Leonhardi Museum Dresden holds on this occasion. A selection of her major works will be shown as well as several previously unpublished pictures, including some from Sibylle Bergemann's first work "windows". This work will now also be published in a book by Edition Braus.

"Sibylle Bergemann" 

Opening: 17 June 2011, 8.00 am
Exhibition: 18 June - 04 September 2011

Leonhardi Museum Dresden 

Grundstraße 26, 01326 Dresden
Tue-Fri 2.00 pm. - 6.00 pm, Sat/Sun 10.00 am - 6.00 pm
http://www.leonhardi-museum.de

Our group exhibition "The City. Becoming and Decaying" will stay at the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg only until 19 June 2011. It is the last chance to visit the exhibition in Germany before it will be displayed worldwide by the Goethe-Institute. On 18 June, in the course of the the Museum night Altenburg, several guided tours through the exhibition will be organised, among others by OSTKREUZ photographer Maurice Weiss.

Last month, Annette Hauschild, Dawin Meckel and Espen Eichhöfer went to Altenburg to hold a photo seminar with students on the theme of the exhibition, the becoming and decaying of cities.

"The City. Becoming and Decaying"
Exhibition: 13 March - 19 June 2011
Guided tour by Maurice Weiss: 18 June, 7.00 pm
Tue-Fri 12.00 am - 6.00 pm, Sat-Sun 10.00 am - 6.00 pm

Lindenau-Museum Altenburg
Gabelentz Strasse 5, Altenburg, Germany
www.lindenau-museum.de

Our current intern Franziska Strauss was awarded the BFF-Förderpreis & Reinhart-Wolf-Preis 2011. OSTKREUZ congratulates!
The awarded series "reckoner / I killed my dinner with karate" will be on display at a photo exhibition in Stuttgart.

„Licht_Bild_Welt_Stuttgart_2011“
Opening and awards ceremony: 09 June 2011, 7.30 pm
Exhibition: 10 June - 09 July

Haus der Wirtschaft
Willi-Bleicher-Str. 19, Stuttgart
Mon - Sat 11.00 am - 7.00 pm, Thu 11.00 am - 8.00 pm
www.hausderwirtschaft.de

Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art shows photos from Maurice Weiss series "Ordos" in the exhibition "LIVING". The interdisciplinary show presents current and visionary approaches to the subject of architecture and housing, turning the spotlight on the question: “How does the Good Life look today?”.

"LIVING. Frontiers of Architecture III & IV"
Exhibition: 01 June - 02 October 2011

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk
Tue - Fri 11.00 am - 10.00 pm, Sat/Sun 11.00 am - 6.00 pm
www.lousiana.dk

The exhibition "Hijacked 2" presents an overview of contemporary photography in two distant countries: Germany and Australia. OSTKREUZ members Joerg Brueggemann and Julian Roeder are among the 16 German photographers represented in the show.

"HIJACKED 2: Australia/Germany"
Exhibition: 13 May - 11 July 2011

Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
University of South Australia
55 North Terrace, Adelaide
www.unisa.edu.au

Two OSTKREUZ photographers were able to win over the jury of the European Architectural Photography Prize 2011. Dawin Meckel receives one of the two second prizes for his series 'DownTown'. Julian Roeder is awarded for his work 'Lagos transformation'.
The series of both photographers are displayed in the exhibition "Dazwischen | in between". After Frankfurt, it will be on show in Kassel, Isny and Stuttgart.

"Dazwischen | in between"
Opening and awards ceremony: 6 May 2011, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 7 May - 19 June 2011

Deutsches Architekturmuseum DAM
Schaumainkai 43, 60596 Frankfurt/Main
Tue, Thu - Sat 11.00 am - 6.00 pm, Sun 11.00 am - 7.00 pm, Wed 11.00 am - 8.00 pm
www.dam-online.de