In addition to Harald Hauswald's classics, completely new insights into the everyday world of the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s are now being shown for the first time at C/O Berlin!
The book of the same name accompanying the exhibition will be published by Steidl Verlag.
„voll das Leben!” / “Full of Life!”
September 12, 2020 to January 23, 2021
C/O Berlin, Amerika Haus
Hardenbergstrasse 22-24
10623 Berlin
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An exhibition by OSTKREUZ - Agentur der Fotografen and the Akademie der Künste
2 October 2020 - 10 January 2021
Academy of Arts, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin
Opening: 1 October together with EMOP (European Month of Photography)
"KONTINENT - In Search of Europe" is the current, thematically designed joint exhibition of all members of the OSTKREUZ - Agentur der Fotografen in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste.
As an artistic and political statement in the Academy of Arts at Pariser Platz, the exhibition focuses on the present of Europe and critically examines it in 22 positions. In independent projects, the OSTKREUZ photographers* explore various aspects of coexistence in Europe, focusing on personal, social and political phenomena as well as fundamental structures and historical developments.
Participating photographers: Jörg Brüggemann, Espen Eichhöfer, Sibylle Fendt, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Annette Hauschild, Harald Hauswald, Heinrich Holtgreve, Tobias Kruse, Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, Dawin Meckel, Thomas Meyer, Frank Schinski Jordis Antonia Schlösser, Ina Schoenenburg, Anne Schönharting, Linn Schröder, Stephanie Steinkopf, Mila Teshaieva, Heinrich Völkel, Maurice Weiss, Sebastian Wells and Sibylle Bergemann (1941-2010)
Curator: Ingo Taubhorn
It is the first major museum presentation by Jörg Brüggemann and combines the three independent works AUTOBAHN, MI MADRE TIENE NOVIO and EL DERECHO DE VIVIR EN PAZ. The photo book AUTOBAHN will be published by Hartmann Books for the exhibition.
„wie lange noch” / “for how much longer”
September 05, 2020 to January 06, 2021
Reiss-Engelhorn Museen
Museum Weltkulturen D5
68159 Mannheim
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„Gemeinsam” / “Together”
30 years of reunification - 30 years of OSTKREUZ - agency of photographers
The focus of the exhibition is on the people who are always involved in their environment: in society, the city in which they live, their neighborhood, family and friendships.
Participating photographers: Sibylle Fendt, Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, Thomas Meyer, Ina Schoenenburg, Jordis Antonia Schlösser, Stephanie Steinkopf, Linn Schröder and Maurice Weiss
„Gemeinsam” / “Together”
September 9 to October 25, 2020
Forum Alte Post
Poststrasse 2
66954 Pirmasens
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OSTKREUZ was selected to display photo series in a pavilion for three days at the EinheitsEXPO in Potsdam. Each member shows a work on the topic of Germany.
The EinheitsEXPO can be visited between Freundschaftsinsel and Hegelallee, Luisenplatz and Lustgarten and will be on view for a total of 30 days.
EinheitsEXPO
September 26 to September 28, 2020 OSTKREUZ Pavilion
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The Fotoforum Frankfurt is the second stop of the group exhibition “Recommended Olympus Fellowship”. Tobias Kruse shows his new work “DEPONIE” here. In addition, the photo series by Karla Hiraldo Voleau and Mika Sperling will be presented.
Opening September 18, 2020
September 9, 2020 to October 25, 2020
Photography Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstrasse 30-32
60311 Frankfurt am Main
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The exhibition „Zusammenleben” brings together photographic positions by Joachim Brohm, Ute Mahler and John Myers from the 1970s and 1980s. The work by Ute Mahler gives the title and serves as a thematic bracket.
„Zusammenleben” / “Living together”
Joachim Brohm - Ute Mahler - John Myers
September 13, 2020 to January 3, 2021
art gallery Darmstadt
Steubenplatz 1
64293 Darmstadt
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This summer Jörg Brüggemann photographed city projects in Rotterdam, Brussels, Bordeaux and Barcelona. His pictures are part of the exhibition “Living the City”, which will take place from September 25 to December 20, 2020 at the former Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.
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Annette Hauschild shows photos from “Last Days of Disco” in the group exhibition „Ein Paradies von einer Stadt!”. A metropolitan installation as part of MODELL BERLIN.
„Ein Paradies von einer Stadt!”
September 20, 2020 to October 2, 2020
St. Matthäus-Kirche
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
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During this period of contact ban, 9 photographers from Germany and France send a photo letter to ARTE Info every week. The photographers observe the world around them and report on their current living conditions. A personal and poetic look at a helpless world. Every week a series of the letters is presented on ARTE Info. There are 5 photographers* from OSTKREUZ: Jörg Brüggemann, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Tobias Kruse, Stephanie Steinkopf and Sebastian Wells.
Director: Paul Ouazan
ARTE Atelier de recherches, ARTE France
Produced by: ARTE France Développement France 2020
Tobias Kruse shows his new work "Deponie", which was created in the context of the "Recommended Olympus Fellowship". The exhibition of the three fellows will then be shown at Fotoforum Frankfurt and FOAM Amsterdam.
Vernissage: Friday, 20.03.2020, 6.30 pm
Duration: 20.03.–14.06.2020
Location: House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Deichtorstr. 1–2, 20095 Hamburg
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As part of the Biennale for Contemporary Photography, Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler's work "Kleinstadt" was selected by the curator David Campany for the central exhibition "Walker Evans Revisited" at the Kunsthalle Mannheim. This exhibition brings together artistic positions from Europe and America that revive Walker Evans' work.
Vernissage: Friday, 28.02.2020, 5.30 pm
Duration: 29.02.-26.04.2020
Location: Kunsthalle Mannheim, Friedrichsplatz 4, 68165 Mannheim
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"Hambi" remains - but seven towns are still to make way for brown coal mining in the Rhineland.
The photographer Jordis Schlösser documents the inner conflict of the inhabitants and the absurdity of German coal policy.
The for DEUTSCHLAND IM JAHRE 2019- 22 photo films
a cooperation of ARTE France and OSTKREUZ; Director: Paul Ouzan
emerged series has now been published in greenpeace magazine.
Link to the photofilm
Together with Katharina Mouratidi and Natascha Pohlmann, Espen Eichhöfer has curated the current exhibition "Das illegale Bild" for f³.
Six artistic positions illuminate the question of legal and illegal images - between social taboo, social relevance and artistic freedom. Espen Eichhöfer's work "A to B" is also part of the exhibition.
Vernissage: Wednesday, 05.02.2020, 7 pm
Duration: 06.02.–05.04.2020
Location: f³, free space for photography, Waldemarstraße 17, 10179 Berlin
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The experiences of loss, grief and change hold a disturbing potential that is difficult to name and seems to elude representation. The exhibition "Mourning" is dedicated to this theme and shows Sibylle Fendt's work "Gärtners Reise".
Vernissage: 06.02.2020, 7 pm
Duration: 07.02.-14.05.2020
Location: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Glockengießerwall 5, 20095 Hamburg
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The series "Hello Berlin!" was created in the summer in Berlin and shows not only a journey to the city's landmarks, but also the everyday life of the tourist places with a special view on the youth in the metropolis Berlin.
Vernissage: Thursday, 30.01.2020, 6.30 pm
Duration: 01.02.–27.03.2020
Place: GOETHE INSTITUTE Nancy, 39 rue de la Ravinelle, 54052 Nancy
As part of the exhibition "Hello Berlin!", a selection of films from the ARTE series "Germany in 2019" will be shown on the opening evening, which Ostkreuz 2019 has realized in cooperation with the director Paul Ouazan for the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler have been creating their own oeuvre for 30 years, and since 2009 they have been working on common series of works. For this comprehensive exhibition, which presents the work of Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler in its entirety, a total of 700 works have been selected by the curatorial team Ingo Taubhorn and Brigitte Woischnik.
Vernissage: Saturday, 25.01.2020, 6 pm
Artist talk: 26.01.2020, 14 h
Duration: 26.01.–13.04.2020
Location: Kunsthalle Rostock, Hamburger Straße 40, 18069 Rostock
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The dialogical exhibition "Kein schöner Land" contrasts the comprehensive work "Kleinstadt" by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler with the series "Hinterland" by Hans-Christian Schink. In the emphatically unagitated and carefully compiled photographs, the exhibition attempts to question the potential of concepts such as small town or hinterland in the sense of a utopian concept of home based on Ernst Bloch.
Vernissage: Thursday, 23 January, 7.30 pm
Duration: 24.01.–15.03.2020
Location: New gallery in the Höhmannhaus, Maximilianstraße 48, 86150 Augsburg
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The exhibition "UNSEEN / UNGESEHEN" shows four different views of Europe from four female photographers on their travels. Mila Teshaieva shows photographs taken in the rural regions of Albania and in former industrial cities in eastern Germany. The exhibition was initiated by the Goethe Institute Milan.
Vernissage: Saturday, 18.01.2020, 3 pm
Duration: 19.01.–23.02.2020
Location: Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Neuwerk 11, 06108 Halle (Saale)
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The group exhibition "Framing Identity" deals with the question of what moves people of Generation Y today and takes a current, photographic look at their search for identity and at existing role models. Sebastian Wells' series "Hong Kong Protests", created in August 2019, is shown in the exhibition.
Vernissage: Friday, 17.01.2020, 7 pm
Duration: 18.01.–23.02.2020
Location: Museum for Photography Braunschweig, Helmstedter Straße 1, 38102 Braunschweig
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