20 Years After - Participation in current exhibitions
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"Szenen und Spuren eines Falls - Die Berliner Mauer im Fokus der Photographen" ("Scenes and Traces of a Fall - The Berlin Wall in The Focus of Photographers") Max-Liebermann-Haus, Pariser Platz 7, 10117 Berlin 3 October – 6 December 2009 Opening 2 October 2009, at 7 p.m. www.brandenburgertor.de
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"Berlin Now" Gallery CAMERA WORK, Kantstrasse 149, 10623 Berlin 2 October – 17 October 2009 Opening on 1 October 2009, at 7 p.m. www.camerawork.de
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"Kunst und Kalter Krieg - Deutsche Positionen 1945-1989" ("Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures")
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Deutsches Historisches Museum, Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin 3 October 2009 – 10 January 2010 Opening on 2 October 2009, at 8.30 p.m. www.dhm.de
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"Auferstanden aus Ruinen" (Harald Hauswald) Landtag Brandenburg, Am Havelblick 8, 14473 Potsdam 6 October 2009 – 8 January 2010 Opening on 6 October 2009, at 12 a.m. www.landtag.brandenburg.de
Maurice Weiss accompanies Frank-Walter Steinmeier
Maurice Weiss accompanied chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier for nearly a year. The result is shown on Spiegel Online now: www.spiegel.de
24h Berlin · Book and Exhibition at C/O Berlin
On 5 September 2008 camera teams and photographers were out on the town of Berlin for one day to accompany the life of the city documentary. The produced film will have its premiere on the 5th of September this year and is to be seen at different places of the city and on tv channel ARTE.
Besides the filmic observation OSTKREUZ documented the attitude to life photographically. The result is a voluminous photo book, which unites the people, the rhythm and the different facets of Berlin on this 5 September 2008.
Each of the 36 photographers experienced the people and their environment with his own curiosity on that day. Furthermore 15 authors wrote about their experiences.
Book: two books in one Tupperware box
photo book, 544 pages, directory style
textbook, 120 pages, Bible paper
Steidl Publishing House, 24€
www.steidl.de
Kindly supported by POLYLOOKS
Pepa Hristova wins Dr.-Otto-Steinert-Prize 2009
Every two years the "picture"-section of the DGPh (German Society of Photography) awards a scholarship for a temporary photographic work.
This year Pepa Hristova received this grant for her reportage about the last man-women of Europe, which live in the mountains of Albania and are called "Sworn Virgins". These women take the vow to preserve their virginity their whole life and with that take the role of the patriarch in the society.
www.dgph.de
Linn Schroeder at Kuenstlerhaus Sootboern Hamburg
Dorothea Heinrich and Linn Schroeder are to be seen with their photography at Kuenstlerhaus Sootboern in Hamburg.
Linn Schroeder shows her project „To The Moon“, within which she explores a city full of life with still a lot of quiet moments, apart from all tourists' expectations.
Exhibition: 30 October 2009 – 1 November 2009
Opening: 30 October at 7 p.m.
Kuenstlerhaus Sootboern, Sootboern 22, 22453 Hamburg
www.kuenstlerhaus-sootboern.de
Andrej Krementschouk · book and exhibitions
The impressing work "An Deinem Haus" will be published in a book. In "No Direction Home" Andrej Krementschouk is tracing his Russian home country, which he left and which is no longer a home for him. With strong pictures he asks the questions of remembrance and loss, of emotional rootage and cultural identity. Accompanying this work there is a exhibition at Gallery FilippRosbach in Leipzig.
"No Direction Home", Andrej Krementschouk, Boris Mikhailov
Kehrer Publishing House, Heidelberg
hardcover, German, English, Russian
end of August 2009
Exhibition: 1 August 2009 - 5 September 2009
Galerie FilippRosbach, Spinnereistrasse 7, Halle 20.D, 04179 Leipzig
www.filipprosbach.com
Exhibition on fashion- and underground photography in the GDR 1979 - 1989
At Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin an exhibition with OSTKREUZ-photographers Ute and Werner Mahler, Sibylle Bergemann and Harald Hauswald takes place until 13 September 2009.
In the exhibition "In Grenzen frei" ("Free between Borders") the Kunstgewerbemuseum presents fashion subculture within the context of "official fashion" of the GDR in a first inventory.
About 150 pictures of important photographers, original model dresses of "Allerleihrauh" and "Exquisit", videos, slide projections and publications exemplify the topic.
Exhibition: 4 July 2009 - 13 September 2009
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Kulturforum am Potsdamer Platz, Matthaeikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin
www.smb.museum/smb/
Exhibition of Jordis Antonia Schloesser in Trent/Italy
On occasion of the 52nd Week of the Italian-German Historical Institute (FBK) Jordis Antonia Schloesser is presented in an exhibition about the topic "Nachdenken über die DDR 20 Jahre nach dem Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus" ("Thinking about the GDR 20 years after the collapse of the Communism"). She will present pictures from the Berlin of the 1990s, which show the change in the city after the Fall of the Wall.
"La nuova Berlino. Tracce di memoria urbana"
Opening: 9 October 2009 at 5:30 p.m.
Exhibition: 9 October 2009 - 25 October 2009
SASS · Spazio Archeologico Sotterraneo del Sas
Piazza Cesare Battisti, Trent/Italy
Scholarship of VG Bild-Kunst for Linn Schroeder
For her project "TO THE MONEY - in Zeiten der Wirtschaftskrise nach Las Vegas" ("TO THE MONEY - in times of global economic crisis to Las Vegas") Linn Schroeder receives a project grant of VG Bild-Kunst this year.
In this work Linn Schroeder examines the disturbances, which occur because of the crisis on a place that is based on surreal fairy-tale world and artificial fascination.
Linn Schroeder observed if the family-friendly paradise of commerce is influenced by the recession or affronts it with new ideas by means of the different theme hotels.
www.bildkunst.de
Espen Eichhoefer on the Philippines for Goethe-Institute
By invitation of Goethe-Institute Manila Espen Eichhoefer will be working on a free project on relationships and family in informal settlements of Manila from 28 August until 28 September 2009.
Furthermore he will hold a lesson on photography with Philippine students.
During this time he can be booked for assignments there.
www.goethe.de