"Stadt, Land, Arbeit" (City, Country, Work) brings together ten photographic positions by nine members of the OSTKREUZ agency from the past thirty years of the agency's history, which are presented distributed across the various levels and spaces of the Speicher.
THE GRAMZOW STORAGEHOUSE, the exhibition venue located in the middle of the uckermark landscape on the edge of the village of the same name, was built in 1953/54 as a grain and rapeseed silo. Today, as an industrial monument, it not only has a special technical and architectural historical significance, but is also considered an important industrial monument with regard to its references to economic and social history.
The exhibition takes up these aspects and, with the title ""Stadt, Land, Arbeit" (City, Country, Work), spans a thematic network in which the photographic positions of the OSTKREUZ photographers are located. All works show images of people and their surroundings, which is always the focus of OSTKREUZ. They are pictures of everyday life, leisure, work, industry and also nature. They are photographs taken both in the city and in the countryside, both in the still divided Germany and today, 30 years after reunification. What they have in common is that, taken as a whole, they reflect the transformation processes to which the city, the countryside and work are always subject in mutual dependence and which bring about social change.
Three of the founders of the agency, Harald Hauswald, Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, are represented in the exhibition "Stadt, Land, Arbeit". Furthermore, it shows works by Johanna-Maria Fritz (in collaboration with Charlotte Schmitz), Frank Schinski, Jordis Antonia Schlösser, Ina Schoenenburg, Stephanie Steinkopf and Mila Teshaieva, who belong to the middle and youngest OSTKREUZ generation. In addition, a selection of photographic films from the series "Germany in 2019" will be shown, which was created in 2019 as a cooperation between ARTE France and OSTKREUZ.
The exhibition "Stadt, Land, Arbeit" (City, Country, Work) was conceived by OSTKREUZ - Agency of Photographers in 2020 for the opening of SPEICHER GRAMZOW and was postponed for a year due to the Covid 19 pandemic.
As soon as the Corona emergency brake allows, you can reserve a time slot for your visit to the exhibition at info@speicher-art.de. With over 400 sq. ft. of space per storage level, spacing rules will be met no matter what.
All further information at: www.speicher-gramzow.de