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 Ute Mahler and Thomas Meyer.

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.

Ute Mahler was born in Berka/Wipper in 1949. From 1969 to 1974 she studied photography at the Acade- my of Fine Arts Leipzig and subsequently worked as a freelance photographer. From 2000 to 2015 she held a professorship for photography at the Hamburg Uni- versity of Applied Sciences, and she also taught at the Ostkreuz School of Photography for several years. Since 2008 she has undertaken joint projects with Werner Mahler. Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler: Werkschau was shown at the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, in 2014. In 2019 she was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal alongside Werner 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. 

Thomas Meyer was born in Delmenhorst in 1967. He studied at the University of the Arts in Bremen and attended Arno Fischer’s masterclass in Berlin in 2007. Meyer has worked as a freelance photographer in Berlin since 1997. He took on various teaching assignments, including at the Ostkreuz School of Photography and the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Technik in Berlin. He has had a number of solo and group exhibitions. Meyer has been the in-house photographer of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation since 2017. In 2019 he published Bauhaus Dessau Architecture (Hirmer Verlag, Munich). Meyer lives and works in Berlin. OSTKREUZ member since 2002.