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Events Sunday 25.11.

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Portfolio Review

For the first time, the European Month of Photography, Berlin, offers a portfolio viewing, to take place at the Berlinische Galerie as the conclusion of the festival on November 24 and 25, 2012. Selected emerging photographers can present their works ...

Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstr. 124-128, 10969 Berlin, www.mdf-berlin.de

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Camera Obscura - Workshop

On the occasion of his exhibition "MULTIPLE I - self-portraits with the Camera Obscura" at Pflüger68 Ono Ludwig offers Workshops on construction and photographing with the Camera Obscura.

Pflüger68 Pflügerstraße 68 12047 Berlin www.ono-ludwig.de/seminar

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Focus on Faces

The goal of portrait photography is to bring out the characteristic essence of the subject. How was the man, the woman or the child portrayed – objectively, naturally or dramatically? What message did the model or the photographer want to ...

Martin-Gropius-Bau Niederkirchnerstraße 7 10963 Berlin www.berlinerfestspiele.de/de/aktuell

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Out and About with…Arwed Messmer and Annett Gröscher

In 1952, the photographer Fritz Tiedemann documented Fruchtstrasse in Berlin between Ostbahnhof und Stalinallee in the form of a sequence of building façades. This is the source material for the new photographic and literary project Berlin, Fruchtstrasse am 27. März ...

Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 Foyer des ND-Hauses 10243 Berlin www.franzmehringplatz.de

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Sculpture and Photography

Was das Foto verschweigt (‘what photos don’t say’) is the title of a sculpture by Bogomir Ecker, whose intention is to reveal the deficiencies of the medium photography. Meanwhile Ecker presents his passionately collected historic photographs in a double exhibition ...

Museum für Fotografie Jebensstraße 2 10623 Berlin www.smb.museum/mf

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Finissage/Award ceremony 5th European Month of Photography Berlin

For the conclusion of the festival, a Portfolio Review is taking place at the Berlinische Galerie on the weekend of 24 and 25 Novembers 2012, and the public award ceremony and finissage of the festival on Sunday at 6 pm. ...

Berlinische Galerie Alte Jakobstraße 124-128 10969 Berlin www.berlinischegalerie.de

Finissages Sunday 25.11.

3:00 pm

12 Responses to Berlin

 
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Jérémie Aubouin, Andreas Burger, Serge Clément, Stéphane Duroy, Benedetta Grossrubatscher…

The twelve photographers exhibited come from eight different countries. For some of them, Berlin was only a stopover, for others, a place to work for a time. Others still are long-time residents. These outsiders have not one, but twelve perspectives ...

Kommunale Galerie Hohenzollerndamm 176 10713 Berlin www.kommunalegalerie-berlin.de

9:00 pm

Un-Posed

 
Michal Adamski, Damian Chrobak, Maciej Dakowicz, Andy Kochanowski, Piotr Koszczynski, Tomasz Lazar…

Un-posed is a group of Polish photographers whose work documents all aspects of day-to-day life. Established in 2011, the group has exhibited its work in the Leica Gallery in Warsaw and published in a dozen of magazines in Poland, Russia, ...

Club der Polnischen Versager Ackerstraße 168 10115 Berlin www.polnischeversager.de

Exhibitions Sunday 25.11.

31.05. - 25.11.2012

Moses Nappelbaum (1869 – 1958): Portraits of Soviet Intellectuals

 
Moissej Nappelbaum (1869-1958)

Galerie Berinson presents Moses Nappelbaum, the most important portrait photographer of Soviet Russia. The exhibition comprises more than 50 rare original prints – including portraits of Vladimir Tatlin, Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Eisenstein, Maxim Gorki, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lion Feuchtwanger. Nappelbaum’s ...

Galerie Berinson Lindenstraße 34 10969 Berlin www.berinson.de

12.09. - 15.12.2012

Janos Frecot. Péter Nádas

 
Janos Frecot, Péter Nádas

In 2012, during the 5th European Month of Photography, Kicken Berlin will show a survey of the photographic work of the important German photography curator and historian Janos Frecot. As the founder and long-time director of the photography collection at ...

Kicken Linienstraße 161A/155 10115 Berlin www.kicken-gallery.com

14.09. - 30.11.2012

Berlin relatives

 
Anna Kott

Ballet, burlesque, kitsch and tattoos – the visual universe of Anna Kott is baroque, melancholy, cheerful and bright all at once. Strength and weakness, physical confidence and embarrassment, grace and awkwardness are the contradictions she captures in her pictures. The ...

Polnisches Institut Burgstraße 27 10178 Berlin www.polnischekultur.de

20.09. - 17.12.2012

Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album

 
Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper (1936 – 2010) was an artist, director and actor. He always had his camera with him: in the car, on film sets, at parties, in studios and galleries. After his death, 400 vintage photographs from the 1960s were ...

Martin-Gropius-Bau Niederkirchnerstraße 7 10963 Berlin www.gropiusbau.de

27.09. - 16.12.2012

Fruchtstrasse, Berlin, 27th March, 1952

 
Annett Gröschner, Arwed Messmer, Fritz Tiedemann

On 27 March, 1952, Fritz Tiedemann photographed Fruchtstrasse in Berlin between Ostbahnhof and Stalinallee for the municipal government of East Berlin. He documented the condition of the buildings in the form of a façade elevations seven years after the end ...

Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 Foyer des ND-Hauses 10243 Berlin www.franzmehringplatz.de

28.09. - 30.11.2012

Roma in Rome

 
Nihad Nino Pušija

In his photo reportage, the Bosnian Nihad Nino Pušija from Sarajevo offers a new realistic view of the ethnic minority he belongs to, the Roma. While other photographers generally focus on the Roma’s impoverishment and hardship, and above all on ...

Galerie Kai Dikhas Prinzenstraße 85D 10969 Berlin www.kaidikhas.com

5.10. - 14.12.2012

Hein Gorny in the Spectrum Photogalerie, Hanover, 1972

 
Hein Gorny, Heinrich Riebesehl

The spectrum Photogalerie in Hanover, founded in 1972, dedicated its first exhibition to the photographer Hein Gorny (1904 – 1967). Forty years later, Collection Regard has created an exhibition on the exhibition with photographs by Hein Gorny and Heinrich Riebesehl, ...

Collection Regard Steinstraße 12 10119 Berlin www.collectionregard.com

5.10. - 28.01.2013

The Shuttered Society

 
Ursula Arnold, Tina Bara, Sibylle Bergemann, Christian Borchert, Micha Brendel, Kurt Buchwald…

The Berlinische Galerie presents the first exhibition in the world to take a comprehensive look at art photography in the GDR. Key questions are: Was art photography ever free under authoritarian East German conditions? And how did art photography change ...

Berlinische Galerie Alte Jakobstraße 124-128 10969 Berlin www.berlinischegalerie.de

12.10. - 21.12.2012

connect: Bright Future

 
Moufida Fedhila, Aïcha Filali, Faten Gaddes, Halim Karabibene, Mouna Karray, Nicéne Kossentini…

The road to democratisation in Tunisia is rough and rocky. The aims of the January 2011 rebellion, such as the introduction of personal liberties, is proving more difficult than anticipated. The revolution is not over yet. The exhibition Bright Future ...

ifa-Galerie Berlin / Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Linienstraße 139 10115 Berlin www.ifa.de

12.10. - 23.12.2012

Forest: Landscapes of Remembrance

 
Michael Lange

Michael Lange’s project Wald: Landschaften der Erinnerung (Forest: Landscapes of Remembrance) was created in the forests of Germany over a period of three years. The photographs reflect the artist’s experiences of landscapes in twilight. They manifest the fact that ‘landscapes ...

ALFRED EHRHARDT STIFTUNG Auguststraße 75 10117 Berlin www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de

18.10. - 27.01.2013

Anita Neugebauer – photo art basel

 
Claude Baechtold, Derek P. Bennett, Werner Bischof, Tom Bisig, Edouard Boubat, Denis Brihat…

‘I wanted to get to know the people who reveal my inner life with their pictures.’ Anita Neugebauer (born in 1916 in Berlin) studied photography at the Contempora – Lehrateliers für neue Werkkunst in Berlin in the 1930s. She is ...

DAS VERBORGENE MUSEUM Schlüterstraße 70 10625 Berlin www.dasverborgenemuseum.de

18.10. - 26.11.2012

distURBANces – Can Fiction Beat Reality?

 
Thibault Brunet

In the framework of the European project distURBANces, the Month of Photography presents works by the French artist Thibault Brunet in the Computerspielemuseum (Computer Game Museum) Berlin. Brunet deals with the topic of reality and the imitation of reality by ...

Computerspielemuseum Karl-Marx-Allee 93A 10243 Berlin www.computerspielemuseum.de

18.10. - 30.11.2012

IN TRANSIT

 
Sascha Bachmann, Dido Baxevanidis, Jens Beckmann, Sebastian Bolesch, Patrik Budenz, Andreas Burger…

In Transit takes up the challenge of comprehending photography as a documentary, artistic and political description of the world and presenting it as a participatory project in a public in-transit room at the Ostkreuz railway station. Jaana Prüss situates ‘the ...

Und.Institut für Kunst, Kultur & Zukunftsfähigkeit Markgrafendamm 10245 Berlin intransitfoto.wordpress.com

19.10. - 25.11.2012

Cairo. Open City

 
     
Lara Baladi, Kaya Behkalam, Taha Belal, Chris Michalski & Sebastian Stumpf, Denis Dailleux, Osama Dawod…

The exhibition Cairo. Open City tells two stories. The first reports on the political and social upheaval of a young generation, which began on 25 January 2011 with the mass protests on Tahrir Square in Cairo and continues until today. ...

Festivalzentrum Pariser Platz 4A 10117 Berlin

19.10. - 30.11.2012

Georgia on my mind

 
Jörg Rubbert

In his exhibition Georgia on My Mind, Jörg Rubbert shows the southern state from an unusual perspective. Far away from the boom town of Atlanta, in central and southern Georgia, people live according to another, slower rhythm. Georgia has suffered ...

Fotogalerie Friedrichshain Helsingforser Platz 1 10243 Berlin www.kulturring.org

19.10. - 25.11.2012

Hokus Pokus Photon Photos

 
Tony Binder

Tony Binder does not use photos to take possession of reality for later transcription into paintings, as photographers and artists of his time commonly did. The photo helps him comprehend a little known reality and, like all seekers, he is ...

WW48 Studio Weichselstraße 48 12045 Berlin ww48studio.com

19.10. - 30.11.2012

Multiple 1

 
Ono Ludwig

Since 2009, the Berlin photographer Ono Ludwig has been exploring the creative potential of the camera obscura. He continues to create playful and sometimes unsettling self-portraits today in continuously developing series. As a result of the camera obscura’s long exposure ...

Pflüger68 Pflügerstraße 68 12047 Berlin www.pflueger68.de

19.10. - 25.11.2012

Nostalgia

 
Sergei Michailowitsch Prokudin-Gorski

In 1909, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863 – 1944) set out on a journey to capture all of Russia in colour for Czar Nicholas II. One of the pioneers of colour photography, Prokudin-Gorskii systematically documented the ...

Gestalten Space Sophienstraße 21 Sophie-Gips-Höfe 10178 Berlin www.gestalten.com/space

19.10. - 25.11.2012

Open Shutter

 
Michael Wesely

Since the early 1990s, the photographer Michael Wesely has been inventing and refining techniques using extremely long exposures to take uniquely compelling photographs. Using filters and an aperture that is very small, yet common with professional camera lenses, he is ...

Fahnemann Projects Fasanenstraße 61 10719 Berlin www.fahnemannprojects.com

19.10. - 25.11.2012

Pavlov and Pavlov

 
   
Michael Wesely

The sculptor Auguste Rodin said that if he had created his walking statue John the Baptist based on snapshot photography, it ‘would present the bizarre appearance of a man suddenly stricken with paralysis and petrified’. Wesely’s photographs achieve the opposite ...

Pavlov's Dog Bergstraße 19 10115 Berlin www.pavlovsdog.org

19.10. - 25.11.2012

Same-Same, but Different

 
James Clancy

Dark streets, silhouetted buildings and figures: At a first glance the nighttime urban scenes illuminated by single streetlights seem to portray the very same location. Only on a closer look do the differences become visible. As often happens in a ...

Botschaft Irland Jägerstraße 51 10117 Berlin www.embassyofireland.de

19.10. - 25.11.2012

Un-Posed

 
Michal Adamski, Damian Chrobak, Maciej Dakowicz, Andy Kochanowski, Piotr Koszczynski, Tomasz Lazar…

Un-posed is a group of Polish photographers whose work documents all aspects of day-to-day life. Established in 2011, the group has exhibited its work in the Leica Gallery in Warsaw and published in a dozen of magazines in Poland, Russia, ...

Club der Polnischen Versager Ackerstraße 168 10115 Berlin www.polnischeversager.de

20.10. - 1.12.2012

Artists at Work

 
Elina Brotherus

Gallery TAIK is proud to present Elina Brotherus’s most recent photographs from the series Artists at Work. Brotherus once again uses herself as the principal model in her pictures. However, in contrast to her previous works she uses her role ...

Gallery TAIK Bergstraße 22 10115 Berlin www.helsinkischool.fi

20.10. - 1.12.2012

Gender Studies

 
Bettina Rheims

Bettina Rheims says she wants to see and show people as they see themselves. In keeping with this philosophy, and with an awareness of the social importance of the topic, Rheims has once again worked with transgender people. She has ...

CAMERA WORK Kantstraße 149 10623 Berlin www.camerawork.de

20.10. - 1.12.2012

On Desire

 
Carina Linge

As in her previous works, Carina Linge draws on the allegorical iconography of the Renaissance and the Baroque, yet at the same time she refers to the present. Impressions, shadows and the residual heat of people or things are depicted ...

Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner Invalidenstraße 50/51 Halle am Wasser 10557 Berlin www.jarmuschek.de

20.10. - 13.01.2013

Urban Archaeology

 
Stéphane Couturier

Since 1994, Stéphane Couturier has been exhibiting a series of works that paved the way for his work titled Archéologie Urbaine (Urban Archaeology). He photographs the city as a living, multifaceted organism removed from any poetry, nostalgia or exoticism. His ...

Institut français Kurfürstendamm 211 10719 Berlin www.institutfrancais.de/berlin

20.10. - 15.12.2012

Winter

 
Lars Tunbjörk

Snowbound streets, buildings and abandoned cars, a dirty snowman standing forlorn in a garden. But interiors too, and portraits of people in their homes, at work, in cafés and at parties. For his series Vinter (Winter), Lars Tunbjörk travelled through ...

Swedish Photography Karl-Marx-Allee 62 10243 Berlin www.swedishphotography.org

21.10. - 25.11.2012

12 Responses to Berlin

 
Akinbode Akinbiyi, Jérémie Aubouin, Andreas Burger, Serge Clément, Stéphane Duroy, Benedetta Grossrubatscher…

The twelve photographers exhibited come from eight different countries. For some of them, Berlin was only a stopover, for others, a place to work for a time. Others still are long-time residents. These outsiders have not one, but twelve perspectives ...

Kommunale Galerie Hohenzollerndamm 176 10713 Berlin www.kommunalegalerie-berlin.de

21.10. - 30.11.2012

Me Exchanged

 
Ina Köhler

Every year, over 30,000 exchange students leave Germany to broaden their horizons and make themselves competitive. They are usually sixteen or seventeen years old and thus still in search of their own identity and their mooring in the world. Open ...

Galerie Ina Köhler Husemannstraße 27 10435 Berlin www.inakoehler.de

21.10. - 1.12.2012

The Artistic Portrait in the Age of Virtual Self-Presentation

 
Laurence Aëgeter, Boris von Brauchitsch, Aida Chehrehgosha, Steffen Junghans, Carina Linge, Oliver Mark…

The ubiquity of the portrait in the age of the Internet raises the question of its meaning and expression again in a radical way, since every creative and technically savvy individual can produce a self-portrait today and publish it online. ...

UF6 PROJECTS Köpenicker Straße 16 Alte Heeresbäckerei 10997 Berlin www.uf6projects.com

24.10. - 1.12.2012

Active Spaces

 
Tor Seidel

A glowing future, today almost past; although offline still radioactive for incomprehensible spans of time to come: a look into the abyss of time is demanded of us, a look that rocked geology around 1800 – the creation of the ...

Galerie cubus-m Pohlstraße 75 Inhaber Holger Marquardt 10785 Berlin www.cubus-m.com

24.10. - 15.12.2012

Perspectives

 
Imre Kinszki, Martin Zeller

What connects these artists is their search for unusual perspectives. Imre Kinszki (1901 – 1945) is considered one of the most consistent champions of New Objectivity among Hungarian artists. In search of his own pictorial language, he discovered the simple ...

KunstBüroBerlin Uhlandstraße 162 10719 Berlin www.kunstbueroberlin.de

24.10. - 21.12.2012

The Concealed

 
Andrea Aragón, Andrés Asturias, João Castilho, Cia de Foto, Sebastián Friedman, Alejandro Lipszyc…

The exhibition Verborgenes (The Concealed) presents works by ten photographers from Latin America who were selected by the curators Alejandro Castellote and Juan Antonio Molina at the invitation of the Instituto Cervantes. The selection process took place in 2009 as ...

Instituto Cervantes Rosenstraße 18 10178 Berlin www.cervantes.de

24.10. - 25.11.2012

Werner David Feist: Bauhaus Photos

 
Werner David Feist

Werner David Feist (1909 – 1998) gained recognition mainly as a result of his experimental photography during his time as a student at the Bauhaus (1927 – 1930). These photos are unique documents of life at the Bauhaus, and at ...

Bauhaus-Archiv Klingelhöferstraße 14 10785 Berlin www.bauhaus.de

25.10. - 30.11.2012

Looks of Change

 
Aenne Burghardt

People come and are given space to present themselves. Some allow themselves be enticed or seduced, others test themselves and reinvent themselves. Each individual shows just as much of himself or herself as he or she truly wants. What happens ...

Reha-Steglitz Bergstraße 1 12169 Berlin www.reha-steglitz.de

27.10. - 15.12.2012

Homecoming, Sun & Ruin

 
Björn Siebert

Björn Siebert calls his works Remakes. They are reconstructions, that is, faithful re-enactments, of amateur photos from the depths of the World Wide Web. Piece by piece in painstaking research, he assembles what in the found image was a chance ...

Hengesbach Gallery Charlottenstraße 1 10969 Berlin www.hengesbach-gallery.de

27.10. - 25.11.2012

The View of the Other

 
Studierende der Berliner Technischen Kunsthochschule | BTK students

New York, Hanoi, Tarkovo, Mila 23 2007 – 2011: Annual street photography workshop in New York accompanied by studio visits and lectures by renowned local artists and a final exhibition in Berlin. Direction: Thomas Keller and Todd Weinstein. 2011: Documentation ...

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule Bernburger Straße 24/25 10963 Berlin www.btk-fh.de

27.10. - 25.11.2012

Winter of the Century

 
Stephen Mooney

Stephen Mooney is a photographer, poet and filmmaker from the UK and has lived in Berlin since 2004. In Jahrhundertwinter (Winter of the Century) Mooney documents one of Berlin’s hardest winters on record and the terrible transient beauty of a ...

atelier freier fotografen Kochhannstraße 14 10249 Berlin www.aff-berlin.com

30.10. - 10.01.2013

Jimi Hendrix and the Love and Peace Festival

 
Frauke Bergemann

In 1970, thousands of music enthusiasts flocked to the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn in the hope of a German Woodstock. But incessant rain and storms prevented some of the famous bands on the bill from appearing. The presence of ...

WHITECONCEPTS by Nicole Loeser Stralauer Allee 3 10245 Berlin

2.11. - 8.12.2012

Guardian of Time

 
Stéphane Duroy

The Frenchman Stéphane Duroy was born in Bizerte (Tunisia) in 1948 and lives in Paris. He initially worked predominantly as a press photographer, and as a member of the photo agency VU shot extensive reportages for Die Zeit, Stern and ...

only photography Niebuhrstraße 78 10629 Berlin www.only-photography.com

2.11. - 1.12.2012

I am not interested in Reality

 
Erwin Olaf, Jorma Puranen, Natascha Stellmach, Raïssa Venables, Thomas Wrede

The group exhibition I am not interested in Reality presents five international photographers who work with reflections, scenes and reconstructions of reality, free of documentary impulses. Departing from contemporary visual habits and media worlds, they offer new looks at the ...

Galerie WAGNER + PARTNER Karl-Marx-Allee 87 10243 Berlin www.galerie-wagner-partner.com

2.11. - 16.12.2012

Jerry Berndt: Sacred / Profane

 
Jerry Berndt

Prostitutes, the sacred and the night create a tense atmosphere around the photographs in this exhibition. At a young age the American artist Jerry Berndt (*1943) acquired a sensitivity to the lonely and despairing aspects of the demimonde. This sensitivity ...

HAUS am KLEISTPARK Grunewaldstraße 6/7 10823 Berlin www.hausamkleistpark.de

2.11. - 28.11.2012

The German Vietnamese

 
Stefan Canham, Phuong-Dan Nguyen

Much has been written about the Vietnamese who came to Germany. Research has focused on ‘contract workers’ in the GDR; on Vietnamese children who were to be trained as the new socialist elite; and on boat people who fled from ...

25books Brunnenstraße 152 10115 Berlin www.25books.com

3.11. - 1.12.2012

In the Blink of an Eye. Standstill and Movement

 
Peter Gormanns, Michael Hughes, Ann-Christine Jansson, Wolfgang Krolow, Horst Luedeking, Toni Nemes…

The West Berlin of the 1970s and ’80s – Kreuzberg, the Wall, dereliction. Many of those who lived here had no other choice. The ruins of war, the struggle for survival, brief moments of happiness and permanent breakdowns. Old-age poverty, ...

Kreuzberg Museum c/o The Browse Gallery Marheinekeplatz 15 10961 Berlin www.community-impulse.de/index.html

3.11. - 15.12.2012

Living Room

 
   
Naomi Schenck

How do people live? How do friends and strangers live? How do I live myself? These are questions that Naomi Schenck has asked since her childhood. Questions with which she scours the globe for film locations – real places where ...

Petra Rietz Salon Galerie Koppenplatz 11A 10115 Berlin www.petrarietz.com

3.11. - 21.12.2012

One’s Own and the Other in Photography: An Exhibition for Hannah Höch

 
Susanne Ahner, Markus Ambach, Johanna Bartl, Christoph Bartolosch, Rainer Barzen, U.D. Bauer…

A look at art photography in general and at Hannah Höch in particular reveal a complexity that is transformed by the artistic eye and goes far beyond mere seeing. The participating artists present insights into many facets of their work ...

Deutscher Künstlerbund Rosenthaler Straße 11 10119 Berlin www.deutscher-kuenstlerbund.de

5.11. - 30.11.2012

The Familiar and the Unfamiliar

 
Fotoschüler des 3. Ausbildungsjahres BEST-Sabel Bildungszentrum

Throughout history people have been influenced by external events and behaviour – due to war, economic and religious influences or mass migration. We notice fashion and lifestyle trends set and followed by our children, neighbours, colleagues and friends. We adopt ...

BEST-Sabel Designschule Littenstraße 109 10179 Berlin www.design.best-sabel.de

8.11. - 31.08.2013

Wanderings

 
Walther Apel, Werner Köhler, Bruno Stephan

A series of sixty-five collodion prints is the subject of an exhibition about taking photographs as a practice of regional history in the 1920s. The photos were created during walking tours that the amateur photographers Bruno Stephan, Werner Köhler and ...

Mitte Museum Pankstraße 47 13357 Berlin www.mittemuseum.de

9.11. - 25.11.2012

Arrivare / Wolfsburg: Pictures of a Young City

 
Heinrich Heidersberger

In early 1962, when Heinrich Heidersberger (1906 – 2006) had just taken up residence in ‘Volkswagen City’, the first Italian workers arrived in Wolfsburg. At the time Heidersberger was at work on the book project Wolfsburg – Bilder einer jungen ...

Petra Rietz Salon Galerie / Institut Heidersberger / IZS Wolfsburg Auguststraße 90 10117 Berlin

9.11. - 29.11.2012

EAST END! – Punk in East Germany (Photographs from 1980 – 84)

 
Sabine Bading, Brigitte Bludau Munroe, Christiane Eisler, Michael Lindner, Hans Praefke, Ilse Ruppert…

The year 1980 began the final decade in the short existence of the GDR. The early punk scene in East Berlin and Leipzig was a shrill signal of its impending collapse. The impact that the first punks had on East ...

Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg Greifswalder Straße 218 10405 Berlin www.staatsgalerie-prenzlauerberg.de

9.11. - 29.01.2013

Ice

 
   
Antoine d'Agata

‘The actions of life alone will be communicated and these will be poetry, because, I say it again, there is no other poetry than true action.’ Pier Paolo Pasolini

I never photograph if I’m not a full participant in the ...

PHOTOPLATZ Schlüterstraße 45 10707 Berlin www.photoplatz.de

9.11. - 30.12.2012

On Borders

 
Jörg Brüggemann, Espen Eichhöfer, Sibylle Fendt, Annette Hauschild, Harald Hauswald, Pepa Hristova…

They offer protection, give rise to war, limit freedom or make it possible in the first place. They have always existed and always will. Hardly any other theme is as ambivalent, as timeless or as relevant as borders. The OSTKREUZ ...

Ostkreuz - Agentur der Fotografen John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin www.hkw.de

9.11. - 1.12.2012

Out of Sight

 
 
Hynek Alt, Charlotte Bastian, Radeq Brousil, Daniela Dostálková, Ivars Gravlejs, Simone Häckel…

The history of Berlin and Prague is one of upheavals and transformations in politics, society and culture. Looking back on earlier visits, artists from Scotty Enterprises travelled to Prague and developed photographic works, while artists from Prague were invited to ...

Scotty Enterprises Oranienstraße 46 10969 Berlin www.scotty-enterprises.de

9.11. - 28.02.2013

Seeing in Sectors

 
Wolfgang Albrecht, Dieter Breitenborn, Vera Breitenborn, Nicola Galliner, Willy Huschke, Henry Ries…

From 1945 until the early 1990s, life in Berlin was heavily influenced by the presence of the Allies: the four occupying military forces took up quarters in their respective sectors, and lived more or less the day-to-day life they were ...

Landesarchiv Berlin Eichborndamm 115-121 13403 Berlin www.landesarchiv.de

9.11. - 29.01.2013

The Future is Unwritten

 
Oscar Lebeck

‘This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life ...

PHOTOPLATZ Schlüterstraße 45 10707 Berlin www.photoplatz.de

9.11. - 21.12.2012

The Gift of the Private: East German Snapshots, 1945 – 1989

 
DDR Knipser/ Autoren

The exhibition presents examples from the nearly inexhaustible treasure trove of private snapshots: traces of ‘snapshooters’ in the territory of the GDR. The broad spectrum of private life is defined here, as in all industrial nations at that time, by ...

alte feuerwache Marchlewskistraße 6 10243 Berlin www.kulturamt-friedrichshain-kreuzberg.de

10.11. - 13.01.2013

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012

 
Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, John Stezaker, Christopher Williams

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, worth £30,000, is awarded annually at The Photographers’ Gallery in London to a living photographer of any nationality who has made an outstanding contribution, by an exhibition or a publication, to photography in Europe in ...

C/O Berlin Oranienburger Straße 35/36 Postfuhramt 10117 Berlin www.co-berlin.com

10.11. - 13.01.2013

Joel Sternfeld: Retrospective

 
Joel Sternfeld

The retrospective of the work of Joel Sternfeld, born in New York in 1944, is an epic journey across the USA, far from the beaten track and familiar landmarks of tourism. The landscapes, streets, green spaces and houses, together with ...

C/O Berlin Oranienburger Straße 35/36 Postfuhramt 10117 Berlin www.co-berlin.com

10.11. - 8.12.2012

René Groebli: The Eye of Love

 
René Groebli

After training as a photographer and cameraman, René Groebli initially worked as a photo reporter for various international magazines. Groebli married in October 1951, but had to return to work just a few days after the wedding. The photographer and ...

Pinter & Milch Auguststraße 49 10119 Berlin www.pinter-milch.com

11.11. - 25.11.2012

What Others Dream Of

 
Jule Kaiser, Charlotte Menin

Roma in Europe, like Native Americans in North America, are seen as people who have formed their own community on the fringes of society, under the pressure of poverty and criminality. In stories they are portrayed as ‘free nomads’ travelling ...

Meinblau Christinenstraße 18/19 10119 Berlin www.meinblau.de

14.11. - 30.11.2012

IBB Photography Award

 
IBB Preisträger 2012 | IBB prize winners 2012

The IBB Photography Award was established in 2007 as a joint initiative of the Investitionsbank Berlin and the Karl Hofer Society, which is the association of friends of the Berlin University of the Arts. The purpose of the IBB Photography ...

Investitionsbank Berlin Bundesallee 210 10719 Berlin www.ibb.de

14.11. - 11.12.2012

Walking

 
Thorsten Kirchhoff

For almost a year Thorsten Kirchhoff could not leave his neighbourhood. His radius of movement was severely limited for 12 months after an illness and a number of operations. A very painful and long healing process followed. Kirchhoff went for ...

FENSTER61 Torstraße 61 Schaufenster 10119 Berlin www.fenster61.de

16.11. - 17.02.2013

Bogomir Ecker: Idylls and Disasters

 
Giacchino Altobelli, Felice Beato, Edward S. Curtis, Louis-Emile Durandelle, Bogomir Ecker, Homer & Lockwood…

For many years, the artist Bogomir Ecker has been collecting historic photographs with an unconventional, artistic eye: from 19th-century landscape photos from all over the world to classic 20th-century press and sensational photography from the USA. He uses the images ...

Museum für Fotografie Jebensstraße 2 10623 Berlin www.smb.museum/mf

16.11. - 17.02.2013

Cold War and Economic Miracle

 
Herbert Maschke

The colour photographs of Herbert Maschke (1915 – 2005) show the proud image of a city being resurrected, with old and new landmarks, in the era of the Cold War and the ‘economic miracle’. Trained in Wrocław and Berlin, Maschke ...

Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin Poststraße 16 10178 Berlin

16.11. - 6.01.2013

Structure and Architecture

 
Anke Illing, Thomas Voßbeck

The unique industrial region of Upper Silesia in Germany’s neighbour country Poland has undergone extensive structural changes since the mid-1980s. Many plants in the steel and mining region have been shut down or demolished. How do people in the region ...

Haus d. Brandenburg.-Preuß. Geschichte Am Neuen Markt 9 Kutschstall 14467 Potsdam www.hbpg.de/Struktur_und_Architektur.html

23.11. - 22.12.2012

HORIZON VANISHED

 
     
Katrin Korfmann

The German artist Katrin Korfmann, who lives in the Netherlands, emerged as the winner of the Rado Star Prize for her work Count for Nothing. Korfmann transforms real landscapes into flat, cubist planes. Her images result from systematic processes of ...

GALERIE KAI HILGEMANN Markgrafenstraße 67 10969 Berlin www.kaihilgemann.com

24.11. - 16.12.2012

CROSSING COMPASSES

 
Princess Akin-Nibosun, Love Atuluku, Kayode Ayedero, Nadine Blanke, Ben Chislett, Alexander Fichert…

Crossing Compasses brings together young photographers from Nigeria and Germany in order to foster a creative intercultural exchange through images. Six students from the Department of Arts at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, and six from the Neue Schule für ...

Neue Schule für Fotografie Brunnenstraße 188 10119 Berlin www.neue-schule-berlin.com

25.11. - 17.02.2013

Roses Have Thorns

 
Rosa von Praunheim

Rosen haben Dornen (Roses Have Thorns) is the title of a retrospective exhibition at the Haus am Lützowplatz which will open the evening before Rosa von Praunheim’s seventieth birthday. This exhibition brings together the full diversity of the unique Berlin ...

Haus am Lützowplatz Lützowplatz 9 10785 Berlin www.hausamluetzowplatz-berlin.de