Artist Tour

Berlin found itself in flux after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, caught between past and future. The city was defined by political upheaval and a housing shortage, but the 1990s was also the time when a new and confident generation flourished, rediscovering the city’s spaces. The exhibition highlights the profound transformation of the city as well as the contradictions and uncertainties of that decade. C/O Berlin delves into the archive of nine OSTKREUZ photographers who documented the era, including Annette Hauschild, Maurice Weiss, and Harald Hauswald.

Join the photographers along with curator Boaz Levin on an exclusive tour of the exhibition and learn more about the creation stories behind the presented series. Gain unique insights into selected works that offer a personal perspective on the turbulent 1990s in Berlin.

Annette Hauschild (b. 1969, Gießen) studied photography at the Lette Verein Berlin from 1991 to 1993 and was a member of Arno Fischer's master class at the Photography School at Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, from 2003 to 2004. In 2018, she published her book Last Days of Disco with Hatje Cantz. As a curator, she contributed to several OSTKREUZ exhibition projects, such as Ostzeit. Stories from a Vanished Country (2009) and Über Grenzen (2012) at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Annette Hauschild lives and works in Berlin and has been a member of OSTKREUZ since 1996.

Harald Hauswald (b. 1954, Radebeul) began his career as a photographer with an apprenticeship from 1970 to 1972. In 1987, his first book East Berlin in the West was published by Piper Verlag. In 1989, he was admitted to the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). In 1997, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. Hauswald is a founding member of OSTKREUZ and has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In 2020 and 2021, C/O Berlin presented the solo exhibition Harald Hauswald . Voll das Leben! accompanied by a catalog. He lives and works in Berlin.

Maurice Weiss (b. 1964, Perpignan, France) studied photography, film, and design at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund from 1989 to 1993. In the 1990s, he documented reunified Berlin and collaborated closely with French media. From 2009, he worked as a freelance photographer for SPIEGEL, and from 2013 to 2017, he was the photographer for the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. In 2016, he was nominated for the Grimme Prize for the film Endstation Bataclan. Maurice Weiss has been an OSTKREUZ member since 1995 and lives in Berlin.