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As part of the exhibition "The New Abnormal" , which is currently on view at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg until November 6, Sebastian Wells, OSTKREUZ photographer and editor of the magazine soлomiya, discusses the topic "Into endlessness - Photographic reflections on the war in Ukraine" with his fellow photographers Mila Teshaieva and Daniil Russov. "It's not about photography, it's about me, my place, my history and the history of the whole world that is happening here right now," Mila Teshaieva wrote on March 3, 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion began, as the first entry in her Ukrainian War Diary for her eponymous work "Ukrainian Diary." How does one react as a photographer in Ukraine when suddenly a war begins that is unimaginable for many? What sense does one still see in photography when close friends suddenly become victims of missile attacks? Sebastian Wells asks his colleagues these and other questions during the artist talk, which was conducted in English and is now available online via Youtube. 

Link Online Artist-Talk here.

In the double exhibition "no place called home" the works of Annette Hauschild and Jordis Antonia Schlösser enter into dialogue. Both deal with a current topic: the loss of home. In "Hit the Road Jack," Annette Hauschild addresses the centuries-old exclusion of the Roma in Europe. Jordis Antonia Schlösser's work "Before the Disappearance" tells of the destruction of villages in the Rhenish open-cast lignite mining area over a period of almost two decades. 

Opening: 17.11.2022, 7 p.m. 
Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin 

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The exhibition project "Grenzen-Granice" deals with the meaning of "border" (Grenzen) in the broadest sense of the word: border as a dividing line that separates someone or something from each other, moral-ethical prohibitions or language barriers, borders in the sense of physical, psychological capacities, etc.. Ina Schoenenburg is represented in this group exhibition alongside German, Polish and Ukrainian artists with her work "Związki" (engl. Connections), which she has been realizing since 2016 on both sides of the German-Polish border river Oder. The exhibition will be presented both in Poznań at Jeżyckie Centrum Kultury and at St. Thomas Kirche on Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg. 

Opening Poznań: 22.10.2022 

Opening Berlin: 17.11.2022 

Duration of the exhibition in Berlin: 18.11. until 4.12.2022 

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Over the course of 10 years, Anne Schönharting has photographed people in their apartments in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The Haus am Kleistpark presents her finely composed portraits in the solo exhibition "Habitat". These show her protagonists and their apartments in wondrous, sometimes almost cinematic situations. Sometimes it is only the view of an empty room, a window or a door that tells of the people and the constellations of their cohabitation living in this place. In Anne Schönharting's photographs, the apartment becomes an individual stage, a place of self-expression as well as of social positioning. 

Accompanying the exhibition, the book of the same name will be published by Hartmann Books on October 13 with a text by the curator Inka Schube. An edition print will also be offered as part of the exhibition. 

Opening: 13.10.2022, 7-10 pm

Duration of exhibition: 14.10. to 11.12.2022. 

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On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the gallery, Galerie Springer Berlin presents a group exhibition with works by selected artists. Sebastian Wells and the Ukrainian photographer Vsevolod Kazarin are represented in the context of this exhibition in a one-week presentation with works created for their joint magazine "soлomiya" in Ukraine. At a panel discussion in October, Sebastian Wells and Vsevolod Kazarin will talk about their magazine and their joint work. The "soлomiya" magazine can be ordered through the OSTKREUZ store. 

Panel discussion: 12.10.2022, 7 p.m. 

Duration of the exhibition: 11.10. to 15.10.2022. 

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With the exhibition "Walker Evans Revisited" curated by David Campany, Museum Helmond shows different ways of dealing with Walker Evans' work by contemporary artists and photographers, ranging from appropriation and collage to re-examination and homage. Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler are represented in the group exhibition with their series "Small Town," for which they traveled throughout Germany several times from 2015 to 2018. In the process, they set out in search of images that reflect the mood, attitude to life and spirit of small towns in Germany. 

Duration exhibition: 11.10.2022 to 5.3.2023. 

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At the invitation of curator Sarah Carlet, Sebastian Wells work "La Rada di Augusta" will be shown at the festival "Castelnuovo Photography x Edizione" in Italy. Sebastian Wells realized this series in 2019-2020 at the bay of Augusta in southeastern Sicily. There, one oil refinery follows another along a thirty-kilometer stretch of coastline. The petrochemical industry has left a lasting mark on this landscape, its inhabitants and their lives for a good seventy years. 

Duration: 1.10. to 9.10.2022 

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The German Internet is connected to that of neighboring countries at only a few dozen transition points. The underground cables at highway parking lots, bridges, meadows and forests are unspectacular and essential at the same time. Heinrich Holtgreve and Moritz Metz research and visit the most important and most desolate border locations, equipped with camera, microphone and a big heart for the Net. They share their experiences as "Internet Explorers" in their podcast of the same name with the listeners. 

Duration exhibition: 13.10.2022 until mid-December 2022 

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In the spring of 2022, our photographer Thomas Meyer was invited by the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe (ZKM) to photograph a free creative work for the ZKM's new magazine, entitled "Innensicht" ("Inside View"). He gave a new dimension to the idea of staging employees in the rooms with impressive perspectives. His series of portraits was published as an artistic part of the magazine over 12 double pages plus the cover. 

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In 2012 Anne Schönharting began photographing the residents of Charlottenburg in their natural habitat. Over 10 years, she portrayed and staged people and their apartments in this traditional, "better" neighborhood of Berlin. To accompany her solo exhibition of the same name at the Haus am Kleistpark, her publication entitled "Habitat. Berlin-Charlottenburg" by Hartmann Books, designed by Stefan Stefanescu and with a text by Inka Schube. The book can already be pre-ordered. 

Duration exhibition: 13.10.2022 until mid-December 2022. 

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Kunsthalle Rostock is showing fashion photographs by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler entitled "Unsere Zeit auf dem Land, diese Tage am Fluss, sie werden uns bleiben. Für später und für immer." Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, a couple for more than 40 years, decided to photograph a fashion series together for F.A.Z. magazine in the summer of 2020. There were 25 years between this and their last fashion series. They photographed with their large-format camera in Werben (Saxony-Anhalt), the smallest Hanseatic town on the Elbe, and spent three days together there with the youthful models. In the Kunsthalle Rostock, the entire photo series will be exhibited for the first time. 

Duration of the exhibition: 2.10. to 27.11.2022 

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Until mid-October, the Berlinische Galerie is showing the wonderful exhibition "Sibylle Bergemann. Stadt Land Hund. Fotografien 1966-2010", which was developed by curator Katia Reich together with the Estate Sibylle Bergemann. The initiative "Das Archiv als helle Kammer" will be presented at the event "Das Archiv als helle Kammer. The Work of the Estate Sibylle Bergemann," talk with the daughter, Frieda von Wild, and the granddaughter of Sibylle Bergemann, Lily von Wild, about their tasks and challenges as administrators of the estate and ask: What does it mean today for the descendants to preserve, administer, and exhibit the photographer's estate? 

Date of the Talk: 22.9.2022, 7 p.m. 

Duration exhibition: until 10.10.2022 

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Our exhibition "Ostkreuz: Un Visa pour Paris" with photographs by Sibylle Bergemann, Ute Mahler, Harald Hauswald and Maurice Weiss is on view at the Institut Français am Ku'damm until September 17. For the finissage, the film "La Villette" (1990) will be shown in the auditorium of the Institute, followed by a moderated panel discussion about the exhibition "L'autre Allemagne hors les murs" (La Villette, 1990) with Gerd Kroske (director of the film), Christoph Tannert (curator of the exhibition in the Villette 1990), Maurice Weiss (photographer) and Pascal von Wroblewsky (singer). Registration requested. 

Finissage: 16.9.2022, 6 pm, anmeldung.berlin(at)institutfrancais.de 

Duration of the exhibition: until 17.9.2022. 

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The exhibition "Gaze/Maze II - Seeing Double" shows photographs from four long-term projects dedicated to the relationship between photographer and model. In addition to Katharina Bosse and Kelli Connell, the OSTKREUZ photographers Sibylle Fendt and Linn Schröder are represented. In her portrait series of feminist artists, Sybille Fendt shows people who inspire her and whom she gives a stage through an extensive collection of portraits and quotations. Linn Schröder, on the other hand, engages in an examination of her own biography in her self-portrait with twins.

Opening: 15.9.2022, 7 pm

Duration of exhibition: 16.9.-7.10.2022

Finissage with artist talk: 7.10.2022, 8 pm

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The festival Noorderlicht and the foundation "Oude Groninger Kerken" present the exhibition "Ukraine: The road to freedom" with Ukrainian photography from 1970 to today. Mila Teshaieva is represented in the Groningen exhibition with her series "Unfamiliar Memory". 

Works from the same series by Mila Teshaieva are currently on view and will be until Sept. 30 in Nimes, southern France, in the group exhibition "Body as Propaganda. Stand for Ukraine" at the NegPos Gallery. 

Opening: 10.9.2022 in the context of the Groningen Museum Night 

Duration of exhibition: 11.9. until 4.12.2022 

Stephanie Steinkopf is represented with her long-term project "VOGELFREI" in the group exhibition "Nachts. Fotografische Erkundungen zwischen den Abend- und Morgenstunden" at the Brandenburg Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst (BLMK), Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus. For her work "Vogelfrei" Stephanie Steinkopf accompanied several homeless women in Berlin from 2013 to 2015. 

Opening: 9.9.2022, 7 p.m. 

Duration exhibition: 10.9.- 20.11.2022. 

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Mila Teshaieva is represented with her work "Fragments of Life. An Ukrainian Diary" in the group exhibition "The New Abnormal" at PHOXXI, the temporary House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. The exhibition is a cooperation with the Odesa Photo Days Festival. Works by twelve Ukrainian photographers convey an impression of contemporary life in the face of war. 

Opening: 2.9.2022, 7 p.m. 

Duration of exhibition: 3.9.- 6.11.2022 

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Tamara Eckhardt's series "Youth of the Island Field" is exhibited at the gallery "Van Zijll Langhout" during the photo fair UNSEEN in Amsterdam. Over a period of almost three years, she accompanied children and young people in St. Marys Park, a neighborhood in Limerick, Ireland. Her work gives an intimate insight into the lives of the children growing up there.

Opening: 2.9.2022, 5 p.m. 

Duration of exhibition: 3.9. to 8.10.2022. 

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Johanna-Maria Fritz ist im Rahmen der diesjährigen  ebenfalls mit einem Book signing sowie einem Werkstattgespräch („Was bedeutet professionelle 

Johanna-Maria Fritz is at this year's Berlin Photo Week with a book signing and a workshop talk ("What does professional photography mean today?") in the Arena. In addition, she has self-published her first zine entitled "a grave in the garden" (edition of 50), which can be ordered online now. The zine features her photographs from Ukraine, where she went immediately after the attack by Russia in February 2022. Johanna-Maria Fritz will sign this and other publications at the Buchkunst Berlin booth. 

Workshop talk Arena: 2.9.2022, 1:20 p.m.

Book signing, Buchkunst Berlin booth: 2.9.2022, 2-3 p.m.

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The group exhibition "HOME AGAIN" at the Willy-Brandt-Haus shows contemporary photography and video works that examine the adaptability of a rapidly changing society. The exhibition will feature a conversation with some of the participating artists, including Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler. They are represented in the exhibition with their joint work "An den Strömen". 

Date: 1.9.2022, 7 p.m. 

Duration of the exhibition: until 25.9.2022 

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