Sibylle Bergemann was a leading contemporary German photographers whose works are astonishingly diverse, covering subjects such as fashion, reportage, photographic essays, urban and rural landscapes and portraits. The social context was always a key factor in Bergemann’s work as in her critical analysis of reality during the times of the GDR. In the late 1960s, she worked in Berlin, and later in New York, Paris, Tokyo and São Paulo. For many years she worked with Polaroids and up to 1990 almost always in black and white, after which she was one of only a few photographers who used colour as a constitutive element of her works. After the reunification of Germany, Bergemann co-founded the OSTKREUZ agency and became a member of the Academy of Arts.
An exhibition by the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen),
www.ifa.de.
Associated Events:
Sat 3 Sept, 15:00
Talk by photographer Heinrich Voelkel
photographer Heinrich Voelkel, who will give an overview of the work of the OSTKREUZ agency, and also give a gallery tour of the Sibylle Bergemann exhibition. Born 1974 in Moscow, Heinrich was raised in Leipzig/East Germany and became a photographer after experiencing the events leading to the fall of the wall. He has been a member of the OSTKREUZ agency since 2005. He works for many major magazines and companies such as DIE ZEIT, Stern and DER SPIEGEL in Germany creating portraits and features. His own personal projects mainly deal with the consequences for people's of war and displacement.
Thu 15 Sept, 18:30
Filmscreenings of 'Just an Ordinary Life' & 'Take a Picture'
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