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Die ARTCO Gallery Berlin zeigt noch bis Anfang April die Einzelausstellung „Jenseits der Grenzen“ von Johanna-Maria Fritz. Seit fast zehn Jahren bereist sie als Fotografin die Welt und findet ihre Motive in Krisen, Konflikten, zerfallenden Staaten, bei verfolgten Minderheiten, an den Rändern der Gesellschaft. Die Ausstellung besteht aus verschiedenen Serien, insbesondere stellt sie seit dem Kriegsausbruch in der Ukraine im letzten Jahr entstandene, verstörende Aufnahmen in den Mittelpunkt: Bilder aus Kyjiw während der Belagerung, aus Butscha unmittelbar nach der Befreiung und aus Bachmut während der Schlacht um die Stadt.

Ende März wird es in einem Gespräch zwischen Johanna-Maria Fritz mit der Bildredakteurin Barbara Stauss um die Frage „Wie funktioniert Kriegsfotografie?“ gehen, außerdem wird die Fotografin ihre in der Galerie erhältlichen Bücher signieren.

Datum Gespräch: 29.3.23, 20 Uhr

Laufzeit Ausstellung: noch bis 15.4.23

Weitere Informationen hier.

Seit Oktober 2022 haben Sebastian Wells und die Redakteur:innen Ivanna Kozachenko, Andrii Ushytskyi und Vsevolod Kazarin, die Art Direktion um Anne-Lene Proff und Peter Bünnagel (Kollektiv Scrollan) sowie der Verlag SHIFT BOOKS aus Berlin an einer zweiten Ausgabe des Solomiya-Magazins gearbeitet. Die 132 Seiten starke Ausgabe enthält Arbeiten talentierter, bereits bekannter ukrainischer Künstler:innen aus den Bereichen Fotografie und Grafik. Außerdem Texte über Fotografie, Film, zeitgenössische Kunst, Literatur und insbesondere den Alltag junger Menschen in der Ukraine, die versuchen, die vielschichtige Lebensrealität im ständigen Visier der russischen Aggressoren begreifbar zu machen. "This magazine is a testament to resistance through the means of art”, erklären die Redakteur:innen.

Am 24. März wird das neue Heft in Berlin und am 28. März in Kyjiw vorgestellt. Das Magazin kann über den OSTKREUZ-Shop bestellt werden.

Berlin: 24.3.2023, KVOST, Leipziger Str. 47, 19 Uhr (CET)
Kyjiw: 28.3.2023, THE NAKED ROOM, Reitarska Str. 21, 18 Uhr (EET)

Weitere Informationen:
www.kvost.de
www.thenakedroom.com

In the current print issue of The New Yorker, author Joshua Yaffa and photographer Emile Ducke report from the eastern Ukrainian town of Isyum after its liberation from several months of Russian occupation.

In the small town, where everyone knows everyone, the inhabitants are now faced with the delicate and complicated question of how to deal with wartime collaboration: Who did what and why during the occupation, and what will happen to the collaborators? 

More information here.

Sibylle Fendt is participating with her work "Gärtners Reise" in the group exhibition "'Alle Wege sind offen'. Fotografinnen auf Reise" (All paths are open. Female photographers on the road.) at the Kulturforum Hermann Stenner in Bielefeld. The exhibition presents positions of international female photographers with their respective specific approaches to the supposedly longing topic of "travel".  

This exhibition is intended to open our eyes to a female view of the world and its far reaches, from the Weimar period to the present day, loosely based on the quote "Alle Wege sind offen" by Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who is also represented with works in the exhibition. Other artists are Gisela Wölbing, Gertrud van Dyck, Ruth Orkin, Elia Alba, Victoria Sambunaris, Katharina Bosse, Justine Kurland, Amy Stein, Anja Conrad, Kelli Connell, Andrea Diefenbach and Emine Akbaba. 

Opening: 25.3.2023, 7pm 

Duration: 26.3. until 13.8.2023 

More information here.

Laufzeit: 26.3. bis 13.8.2023 

Weitere Informationen hier.

Sebastian Wells and the Ukrainian photographer Vsevolod Kazarin have realised portraits together in Kyiv, which are now part of the finalist exhibition of the "Portraits Hellerau Photography Award" in the Technische Sammlung Dresden. The festive award ceremony will take place during the opening.

Another joint project by Sebastian Wells and Vsevolod Kazarin is the Solomiya-Magazine. For the realisation of the second issue, the photographers have currently started a crowdfunding and would be very happy about your financial support: https://shiftbooks.de/shop/solomiya-2/ 

Opening: 16.3.2023 

Duration: 17.3. until 2.5.2023 

Further information here.

The focus of the EMOP's anniversary exhibition entitled "Touch. Politiken der Berührung" focuses on the polyphonic juxtaposition of Berlin's photographic scenes. The group exhibition will be shown in the Amtsalon on Kantstrasse; on four floors, works by 40 Berlin artists who have decisively shaped the city's photographic image culture for many decades will be brought into relation with each other. Sibylle Bergemann and Ute Mahler are both part of this exhibition. The latter is represented in the exhibition with her series "The Rats 07" from the early nineties, for which she accompanied a theatre project which involves homeless people and to which the Volksbühne opened its rooms in the Wende years.

In addition, Ute Mahler is an invited talk guest at the Podiumsdiskussion „Fotografie Jetzt. Ein Medium im Wandel bewahren und entwickeln“ (Photography Now. Preserving and Developing a Medium in Transition). Other guests include Claudia Roth, Member of the German Bundestag, Minister of State for Culture and Media; Florian Ebner, Head of the photographic collection Centre Pompidou, Paris and Adrian Sauer, artist. Moderation by Kolja Reichert, Curator for Discourse, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. 

Opening Exhibition: 2.3.2023 7pm 

Duration: 3.3. until 31.3.2023 

Date panel discussion: 5.3.2023, 12 o'clock noon

Further information here.

fotoszene nürnberg e.V. presents Jordis Antonia Schlösser's series "Vor dem Verschwinden - Von Garzweiler bis Lützerath" at the Atelier- und Galeriehaus Defet in Nuremberg. Over a period of two decades, Schlösser's photographs show the destruction of villages and the fate of people in the Garzweiler region in the Rhenish open-cast lignite mining area - up to the recent eviction of Lützerath. 

Opening: 4.3.2023, 7 pm 

Duration: 5.3. until 27.5.2023 

Further information here.

As part of the EMOP, Galerie Buchkunst Berlin is juxtaposing the artistic positions of Harald Hauswald and the Czech Jindřich Štreit with the exhibition "Dissidentenball - Photography Under Surveillance". Both photographers were monitored, arrested and their photographs and negatives confiscated because of their portrayal of everyday life in their country's respective communist dictatorship. Under this permanent pressure, they developed sublime visual languages that show the contradictions between everyday living conditions and state propaganda and today provide an unadulterated view of this period. 

Opening: 4.3.2023, 6pm 

Duration: 9.3. until 29.4.2023 

Guided tour with Harald Hauswald: 18.3.2023, 3pm 

Finissage, guided tour and discussion "Die Bilder und der Staat" with Harald Hauswald: 29.03.2023, 4pm 

Further information here.

Johanna-Maria Fritz's work is currently being presented in three solo exhibitions, two of which are in Germany (Berlin and Aachen) and one in Belgium. There, The Verduyn Gallery in Moregem is showing her long-term work "Like a Bird" about circus in Muslim countries.

The ARTCO Gallery presents Fritz's series "A Grave in the Garden" in Aachen as well as the solo exhibition "Jenseits der Grenzen" in Berlin as part of the EMOP. Johanna-Maria Fritz was one of the first foreign photojournalists in Ukraine in the spring of 2022 and took photographs in Butscha, Kharkiv and the Donbas, among other places. 

Opening „Jenseits der Grenzen“, Berlin: 3.3.2023, 17pm 

Duration: 2.3. bis 15.4.2023 

Duration „Im Garten ein Grab“, Aachen: bis 25.2.2023 

Duration „Like a Bird“, Belgien: bis 19.3.2023 

Parallel to the European Month of Photography (EMOP), the Gallerie Poll in Berlin-Mitte is showing the solo exhibition "Aiming High" by Frank Schinski. From 2017 to 2020, Schinski photographed job fairs, job interviews, castings and assessment centres in various European countries. In the process, he observed all those involved, who are caught up in a seemingly firmly defined choreography of imaginary expectations. He focuses on the interactions between the individual and the world of work, which determine large areas of personal life. The exhibition provides an insight into the project, which will soon be published in its entirety as a book. 

Opening: 2.3.23, 6pm 

Duration: 3.3. until 15.4.2023 

More information here.

Sibylle Bergemann (1941-2010) is one of the most important German photographers of the past decades. The exhibition "Sibylle Bergemann. Photographien", developed in cooperation with OSTKREUZ, the Akademie der Künste and the ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), presents the complete oeuvre of the renowned photographer. Bergemann worked serially, but also documented themes over a longer period of time.

Currently and until May 3, 2023, the touring exhibition "Sibylle Bergemann. Photographien" can be seen at the Muzeum Narodowe / National Museum in Gdansk in Poland. It presents the complete works of the well-known OSTKREUZ photographer.

More information here.

Heinrich Holtgreve will give a workshop on "Artificial Intelligence for Dummies" at Galerie F3 - Freiraum für Fotografie in Berlin-Kreuzberg. This will take place as part of the workshop series "Rich and Famous". In the workshop, Holtgreve will give an insight into the available AI tools - such as Dall-E, Midjourney, DeepL and ChatGPT. In addition, legal questions will also be addressed, such as: "What were the algorithms trained with?", or: "Which stereotypes are reproduced by the AI tools?" and: "How can AI tools be used artistically?". Registration for the workshop is now open via Gallery F3. 

Date: 27.2.2023, 10am to 5pm. 

More information here.

A discussion titled "Deutsche Reinheit - Migrant:innen, der Osten und die Dominanzgesellschaft" (German Purity - Migrants, the East and the Dominant Society) will take place in Tobias Kruse's extended solo exhibition "Deponie" at ARTCO Gallery. Based on Naika Foroutan's thesis that East Germans are also migrants, Marion Brasch (author, "Ab jetzt ist Ruhe", 2012), Behzad Karim Khani (author, "Hund, Wolf, Schakal" 2022) and photographer Tobias Kruse will talk with moderator Anne Waak (author, podcast "Sibylle Bergemann. Die Frau hinter den Bildern", 2022) about the pressure to adapt and experiences of degradation in Germany between 1990 and today. 

Date: 17.2.2023, 7pm 

Duration: until 18.2.2023 

Further information here.
 

Anne Schönharting has photographed people in their apartments in Berlin-Charlottenburg for over ten years. The images in her series HABITAT, whose title refers to a living space, are interiors, portraits, still lifes, stagings of the photographer and at the same time documentation: gestures, postures, objects and furnishings of the living spaces are an expression of the social status and personal self-image of those portrayed. The photographer, whose eye is trained on the Old Masters, entered into this very special cosmos with an open mind and with pleasure. At the same time, the idea of a bygone, upper-middle-class Charlottenburg seems to shimmer through her fine pictorial compositions.

Anne Schönharting's photographs now enter into a dialogue with the historic Charlottenburg Art Collection and its 19th-century works and the Berlin Secession at the Villa Oppenheim. Prosperity and the need for recognition had favored an urban collection policy at the beginning of the 20th century. The need to represent oneself in and with images can be seen in both pictorial worlds. Painting and photography share questions of representation: composition, light mood, and materiality are, today as a hundred years ago, carefully placed pictorial means. Fur and brushwork, curiosities and preciousness, figures and coloration - the dialogue between the paintings and the photographs opens up a multitude of references.

Opening: Wednesday, 08.02.23, 6:30 p.m.

Duration: 09.02. - 21.05.23.

More information here. 

The Artco Gallery in Aachen presents the solo exhibition "A Grave in the Garden" by Johanna Maria Fritz. The works shown here were created during the first months of the war in the Kyiv region, in Irpin and Butscha. Since the beginning of November, Johanna has been traveling again in Ukraine to document the consequences of the war, most recently in the Donbas and at the turn of the year in Kyiv.

Opening: 17th January at 6 pm

Duration: 18.01- 25.02.23

More information here.

The Edvard Munch House Warnemünde shows in the group exhibition "nowhere - on persons and landscapes" works by eight Norwegian and German photographers, including Espen Eichhöfer. In his series "Papa, Gerd, und der Nordmann", the German-Norwegian photographer Espen Eichhöfer addresses his personal understanding of home by turning to his Norwegian family and his birthplace, which is remote in the Norwegian forests. The individual images condense into a narrative about experiencing one's own origins and reflect his doubts about the consistent concept of home.

Date Opening: 17.12.22, 7 p.m.

Duration: 18.12.22 to 19.2.23

More information here.

ARTCO-Gallery presents Tobias Kruse's solo exhibition "Deponie" in new spaces in Berlin-Schöneberg. For this work, the photographer went in search of the traces and scars of a time that still casts its shadow on the present: the years after the reunification in East Germany. Tobias Kruse's work "Deponie" was created as part of the "recommended Olympus Fellowship" program and was exhibited at the Haus der Photographie of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and FOAM Amsterdam. The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive catalog published by spectorbooks. The exhibition will be accompanied by a moderated artist talk with book signing.

Opening: 15.12.22, 6 p.m.

Artist talk with book signing: 17.12.22, 5 p.m.

Duration: 16.12.22 until 28.1.23

Further information here.

Anne Schönharting's solo exhibition "Habitat", for which she portrayed people in their Charlottenburg apartments over a period of ten years, can be seen at the Haus am Kleistpark in Berlin-Schöneberg until Sunday, December 11. At the finissage there will be a tour of the exhibition with Anne Schönharting and Barbara Esch Marowski, director of the Kommunale Galerien Tempelhof-Schöneberg.

Date: 11.12.22, 4 p.m.

Further information here.

Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler present their new book "Lissabon 87/88" at Galerie Springer in Fasanenstraße, recently published by Hartmann Books and designed by Florian Lamm. In 1987 and 1988, the Mahlers traveled to Lisbon with author Wolfgang Kil to photograph and describe the city and its people for a book project for Leipzig's Brockhaus Verlag. It was a rare opportunity for the photographers, who were well-known in the GDR at the time, to take a look in front of the Iron Curtain. But the book, which was planned for 1989, could not be published; the pictures and contact sheets disappeared for years in an archive, from which they did not reappear until 2021. Sifting through these photos, it turned out that "Lisbon" was actually the Mahlers' first joint project, long before they were to consciously decide on co-authorship for the first time. The book features black-and-white street photographs in the best sense of the word, taken while strolling in the unfamiliar city that fascinated the small group of travelers.

Date: 8.12.22, 7 p.m.

Further information here.

Until December 5, our billboard exhibition "Pictures from the Twin City" can be seen in public spaces in Bergisch Gladbach, Borna and Munich. This exhibition brings pictures taken by our photographers Emile Ducke, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Mila Teshaieva and Sebastian Wells, who have been regularly documenting the war in Ukraine since the end of February, to the German partner cities of the places where they were taken. Thus, Munich is the twin city of Kyiv, Bergisch Gladbach is the twin city of Butscha and Borna is the twin city of Irpin. Previously, the posters were also seen in Leipzig, Nuremberg, Memmingen and Freiburg. Presented on large-format billboards in the urban space, the exhibition aims to draw attention to the ongoing plight of the Ukrainian population and to appeal to the solidarity of residents to get involved in helping refugees. The project is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Duration: until 5.12.22

Further information here.