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, Werner Mahler and Jordis Antonia Schlösser.

Join the photographers along 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. in Giessen, 1969) studied photography at the Lette Verein Berlin from 1991 to 1993. From 2003 to 2004, she was a member of Arno Fischer’s masterclass at the Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm photography school in Berlin. Among her nume-rous exhibitions and grants, Hauschild received the Crossing Borders fellowship from Robert Bosch Stiftung and a Neustart Kultur grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2022. In 2018 she published her book, Last Days of Disco (Hatje Cantz, Berlin). She has co-curated OSTKREUZ exhibition projects, including Ostzeit: Stories from a Vanished Country (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2009) and On Borders (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2012). Hauschild lives and works in Berlin. OSTKREUZ member since 1996.

Werner Mahler (b. in Bossdorf, 1950)  worked as an assistant to Ludwig Schirmer between 1971 and 1973 before studying photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig from 1973 to 1978. He was managing director of the OSTKREUZ agency until 2018. In 2004 he founded the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie with Thomas Sandberg. The two remained directors until 2023. Since 2008 he has undertaken joint projects with Ute Mahler. Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler: Werkschau was shown at the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, in 2014. In 2019 he was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal alongside Ute Mahler, and in 2023, both were honored with the Cultural Award of the German Society for Photography. Mahler lives and works in Lehnitz, near Berlin. OSTKREUZ founding member.

Jordis Antonia Schlösser (b. in Göttingen, 1967) completed her photography design studies with Arno Fischer at Fachhochschule Dortmund in 1996. In 1999 she was a finalist in the Grand Prix CARE International du Reportage Humanitaire. In 1999 and 2002 she received the Hansel-Mieth-Prize, and in 2001 she was runner-up at the World Press Photo Contest. She has had many solo and group exhibitions, including Vor dem Verschwinden (Before Disappearance) at Fotogalerie Friedrichshain in Berlin in 2022. Schlösser lives and works in Berlin. OSTKREUZ member since 1997.