Ute and Werner Mahler are being honored this spring by Hamburg's Haus der Photographie that is showing a large retrospective exhibition titled Werkschau.
Ute Mahler (born 1949) and Werner Mahler (born 1950) have been key figures of photography in the former GDR. After the German reunification they co-founded the prestigious Ostkreuz photography agency and the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin.
In spring 2011 the Robert Morat Gallery showed the first joint project of the married couple titled Monalisen der Vorstädte and is thrilled to now accompany the large institutional show with a presentation of the second joint body of work Die seltsamen Tage.
© Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler: Die seltsamen Tage #10
Die seltsamen Tage, a series of large landscape studies,...
An exhibition by the Foundation Brandenburger Tor organized by Matthias Harder
On October 3, 2009, the Day of German Unity, and on occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Foundation Brandenburger Tor in the Max Liebermann House will open the exhibition 'Szenen und Spuren eines Falls. Die Berliner Mauer im Fokus der Photographen' (Scenes and Traces of a Fall. The Berlin Wall in the eyes of photographers). This historical change is presented in an individual and, at the same time, exemplary manner in 140 works by 21 renowned photographers. The Foundation Brandenburger Tor has its seat directly adjacent to Germany' s national monument. For the Foundation it is both an opportunity and an obligation to document the fall of the Berlin Wall exactly here at this place, which formed the centre of e...