Dawin Meckel
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- Exposition
25 Years Ostkreuz
In 1990, East German photographers founded OSTKREUZ in Paris. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, it is considered Germany’s most renowned agency for photographers today. The Goethe Institut Paris presents a retrospective of the entire photographic spectrum of the Berlin-based agency at two venues.
Founding moment in Paris
In the spring of 1990, inspiration struck as seven photographers from East Berlin, among them Sibylle Bergemann, Harald Hauswald as well as Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, were sitting in a Parisian market hall café. Mitterrand had invited the photographers to Paris for an exhibition featuring major GDR-artists. It was during the transitional period following the fall of the Berlin Wall when Germany was still officially divided and no one really knew what was to come.
For year... - Exposition
Becoming and decaying, State Museum and Exhibition Centre for Photography, Saint-Petersburg
The city. Becoming and decaying
Photography exhibition by Ostkreuz agency (Berlin)
Sibylle Bergemann » Jörg Brüggemann » Espen Eichhöfer » Annette Hauschild » Harald Hauswald » Pepa Hristova » Andrej Krementschouk » Werner Mahler » Ute Mahler » Dawin Meckel » Thomas Meyer » Julian Röder » Frank Schinski » Jordis Antonia Schlösser » Anne Schönharting » Linn Schröder » Heinrich Völkel » Maurice Weiss »
© Ute Mahler / Ostkreuz
The City. Becoming and Decaying by the legendary Berlin photographic agency, Ostkreuz, touches upon urbanization. For two years, 18 of the agency’s photographers travelled all over the world shooting cont... - Exposition
« On borders », a collective exhibition by OSTKREUZ
A woman flees her homeland for a distant country. Two enemy armies face each other across a fence. The World Court condemns a war criminal. A desert gives birth to a new nation. A people topple their country’s dictator. And in a back courtyard someone takes a shot of heroin.
In their new joint exhibition, the 18 photographers of the OSTKREUZ agency tell stories about borders. They explore what borders mean to people and how people shape their lives along borders.
First of all, a border is not more than an imaginary line drawn to mark a difference. This ends here, something else starts over there. Most crossings occur smoothly, but once a barrier has been constructed, it can only be crossed at a border checkpoint. A barrier emphasizes differences via fences, walls, and ges...
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In 1990, East German photographers founded OSTKREUZ in Paris. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, it is considered Germany’s most renowned agency for photographers today. The Goethe Institut Paris presents a retrospective of the entire photographic spectrum of the Berlin-based agency at two venues.
Founding moment in Paris
In the spring of 1990, inspiration struck as seven photographers from East Berlin, among them Sibylle Bergemann, Harald Hauswald as well as Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, were sitting in a Parisian market hall café. Mitterrand had invited the photographers to Paris for an exhibition featuring major GDR-artists. It was during the transitional period following the fall of the Berlin Wall when Germany was still officially divided and no one really knew what was to come.
For year...
The city. Becoming and decaying
Photography exhibition by Ostkreuz agency (Berlin)
Sibylle Bergemann » Jörg Brüggemann » Espen Eichhöfer » Annette Hauschild » Harald Hauswald » Pepa Hristova » Andrej Krementschouk » Werner Mahler » Ute Mahler » Dawin Meckel » Thomas Meyer » Julian Röder » Frank Schinski » Jordis Antonia Schlösser » Anne Schönharting » Linn Schröder » Heinrich Völkel » Maurice Weiss »
© Ute Mahler / Ostkreuz
The City. Becoming and Decaying by the legendary Berlin photographic agency, Ostkreuz, touches upon urbanization. For two years, 18 of the agency’s photographers travelled all over the world shooting cont...
A woman flees her homeland for a distant country. Two enemy armies face each other across a fence. The World Court condemns a war criminal. A desert gives birth to a new nation. A people topple their country’s dictator. And in a back courtyard someone takes a shot of heroin.
In their new joint exhibition, the 18 photographers of the OSTKREUZ agency tell stories about borders. They explore what borders mean to people and how people shape their lives along borders.
First of all, a border is not more than an imaginary line drawn to mark a difference. This ends here, something else starts over there. Most crossings occur smoothly, but once a barrier has been constructed, it can only be crossed at a border checkpoint. A barrier emphasizes differences via fences, walls, and ges...