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Ute Mahler photographed the various ways in which people live together, everyday life and the most special moments in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s. The series "Zusammenleben" (Living together) that she started 40 years ago will now be published as a book for the first time by Hatje Cantz.

We will celebrate, with pictures, music and talks at the Rote Salon, Volksbuehne Berlin. Jana Hoehl, as a child, one of the protagonists of the series, reads the introduction of the book by Sibylle Berg. The filmmaker Sabine Michel and Nadine Barth by Hatje Cantz speak with Ute Mahler about her work, the series "Zusammenleben" and the conditions of photography then and now.

Book Release "Zusammenleben"
22. April 2014, 20.00 pm
Roter Salon
Volksbuehne Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
6,- Euro at the door, Order tickets --> www.volksbuehne-berlin.de

For our "On Borders"-exhibition in 2012, Thomas Meyer portrayed the Bengali minority in Calcutta. People of different social classes, all of which come from the country that we call Bangladesh today. Now the images go back to where they originated. A gallery in Calcutta shows "Exile in Calcutta" in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute.

"Exile in in Calkutta"
Opening: 6. 30 pm, 10 April 2014
Exhibition: 11 April - 26 April 2014

Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre
36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata

www.goethe.de

Als Jugendliche haben Werner und Ute Mahler gemeinsam beschlossen, Fotografen zu werden. Über 40 Jahre später werden sie von den Deichtorhallen mit einer großen Werkschau geehrt. Das Hamburger Museum zeigt aktuelle Bilder und Klassiker, Einzelarbeiten und Fotografie im Duo. Zu sehen ist auch erstmals ihre neue gemeinsame Arbeit "Die seltsamen Tage".

"Ute Mahler und Werner Mahler - Werkschau"
Eröffnung: 10. April 2014, 19.00 Uhr
Ausstellung: 11. April - 29. Juni 2014

Deichtorhallen Hamburg
HAUS DER PHOTOGRAPHIE
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg
www.deichtorhallen.de

An OSTKREUZ photographer with a solo exhibition in Chad, this is a first. Maurice Weiss exhibits images from the turnaround and the reunited Germany in N'Djamena. Funded by the German Embassy and the Institut Francais he also travels through the country for three weeks realizing a new photography project.

"Tomber les murs"
Eröffnung: 19. März 2014

Institut Français du Tchad
Avenue Mobutu, BP 1284
N'Djamena , Tschad
www.institut-francais-tchad.org

From 1 - 31 March, the "International Image Festival" is held in Jordan, this year under the theme "together". The Foresight Gallery in Amman exhibits in this context Sibylle Fendt's work "Gaertners' Voyage". The pictures show a woman with dementia and her husband on their last trip through Europe.

"Gaertners' Voyage"
Exhibition: 11 - 31 March 2014

Foresight Gallery
bn Al Roumi st. 32.
Amman, Jordanien

Playtime" is a friendly title for an exhibition about work. The big show in Munich discusses the importance of work in our society and its echo in art. Julian Roeder shows images from his series Human Resources, in which the staff at trade fairs blurs with the illusory world of the market.

"Playtime"
Opening: 14 March 2014, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 15 March - 29 June 2014

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
Luis Straße 33, 80333 Munich
www.lenbachhaus.de

An exhibition in Frankfurt deals with images of masculinity in photography over the past 40 years. Pepa Hristova shows her Albanian "Sworn Virgins". Biologically, they are women, but they have taken over clothing, tasks and habits of men to fill the role of head of the family.

"Mannsbilder"
Exhibition: 7 March - 17 May 2014

DZ BANK Kunstsammlung
Platz der Republik
60325 Frankfurt am Main
www.dzbank-kunstsammlung.de

For twenty years now, the Wuestenrot Foundation has been awarding prizes to outstanding young documentary photographers, including several OSTKREUZ members. An exhibition at the Museum Folkwang now shows current works by 17 selected winners such as Espen Eichhoefer, Sibylle Fendt and Linn Schroeder.

"Past and Present"
Opening: 7 March 2014, 19.00 clock
Exhibition: 8 March - 15 June 2014

Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
www.museum-folkwang.de

One of the most exciting contemporary themes is how our increasingly diverse society can form a harmonious unit. The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden presents now a huge exhibition on the theme of migration and diversity, among others with pictures by Maurice Weiss and Julian Roeder. Stephan Cleef and Anna-Christina Hartmann have designed the image concept for the book accompanying the exhibition.

"Das neue Deutschland. Von Migration und Vielfalt"
Exhibition: 8 March to 12 October 2014
Book: Konstanz University Press, 250 pages, with a colored Essay cycle of OSTKREUZ - photographers agency

www.dhmd.de/index.php

Our collective exhibition "On Borders" was already shown in Berlin and Dresden, now the Kulturforum Schorndorf presents a newly edited version. Seven OSTKREUZ photographers tell about the emergence of a new African state, the tolerated refugees in Berlin, the walls of Belfast and other visible and invisible borders.

"On Borders"
Opening: 21 February 2014, 8.00 pm
Exhibition: 22 February - 27 April 2014

Kulturforum Schorndorf
Karlstraße 19, 73614 Schorndorf
www.kulturforum-schorndorf.de

Hijacked - is the name of a project that confronts Australian Photography with images of a host country.

Meanwhile, there is already a third edition, but Hijacked 2 with focus on Germany is still touring the galleries.
The German co-curators Ute Noll and Markus Schaden selected among others Joerg Brueggemann and Julian Röder for the exhibition. It is now on show in Stuttgart.

HIJACKED Volume 2
Opening: Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 7.30 pm
Exhibition: 13 February – 30 March 2014

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

Bruce Springsteen, known to be Born in the USA, played the biggest concert of his career in 1988 in East Berlin. 185 000 visitors at the velodrome Weissensee, among them Harald Hauswald who photographed fans, America flags and the marshals from the GDR youth organisation FDJ.

This and other images taken between 1976-1990 are displayed at the Kunstverein Dahlenburg.
A highlight at the opening: the actor Henning Barren reads from Harald Hauswald's memories.

Harald Hauswald
Far East - Photographs 1976 - 1990
Opening: 12 January 2014 11:30
Exhibition: 13 January - 16 February

Kunstverein Region Dahlenburg
Lüneburger Str. 14, 21368 Dahlenburg

For her work "Selfportrait with one breast and twins" Linn Schröder has been awarded the Zeitmagazin Fotopreis 2013 at the FotoDoks festival in Munich.

The Jury:
"The work that we want to honor this evening with the ZEITmagazin Fotopreis is based on an experience, but abstracts this to a metaphor that goes far beyond the personal. It is a work which looks back and reflects upon serious life events. It’s about life, death, fate but also about the future and change.
The work combines complex subjects. It is a work that, in an exhibition with various serial approaches needs only one single image. The autobiographical background of cancer, mastectomy and the birth of twins fused in this haunting single image with art historical references. In a contemporary portrait of the Madonna Linn Schröder draws a very personal boundary between life and death."

A Sunday-morning at the Academy of Arts: Flowers, Champagne and 18 awardees.

In a solo exhibition, Sibylle Fendt shows two of her most interesting works of the last two years. "Dear Mrs. K." documents the life as a tolerated refugee in Berlin, the uncertainty and ambiguity. In "Gärtners travels", Sibylle Fendt follows a husband and his wife, the latter of which had been diagnosed with dementia, during their last trip through Europe.

Sibylle Fend has taken up a teaching position for photography at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld.

"Sibylle Fendt - Photography"
Exhibition: 18 October - 3 November 2013

Kunstverein Lüneburg
Am Ochsenmarkt 1a, 21335 Lüneburg

Michael Haneke, Katharina Thalbach or Lars von Trier… So far, only individual people have been awarded the Konrad-Wolf-Preis. In 2013 though, for the first time, the prize by the Akademie der Künste goes to a group: Ostkreuz! We are particularly happy, because the award honors our efforts as a collective, by which have been produced e.g. our group exhibitions and which is crucial to the concept of our agency as well as to our self-perception. Or as the jury put it: "Ostkreuz is a place, where you can discuss the quality of pictures and talk about experiences like a colleague. And where the picture, that you produce of the world is always challenged."

Konrad-Wolf-Preis 2013
Award Ceremony: October 20th 2013, 11.30 am

Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin
Hanseatenweg 10, Studio

The Fotodoks in Munich is among the most interesting photo festivals every year. The focus this year is scandinavian photography. Somehow though, two OSTKREUZ photographers made into the competition anyway: Pepa Hristova with "Sworn Virgins" and Linn Schröder with "Self-portrait with one breast and twins".

„Stranger World“
Exhibition of the FotoDoks-Festival at the Stadtmuseum in Munich
October 15th - December 1st 2013

Münchner Stadtmuseum
St.-Jakobs-Platz 1, 80331 Munich
Tue - Sun 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
http://fotodoks.de/die-ausstellung-2013/