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My friend and mentor Andreas Rost finally has his own website. Next to newer series from the Arabian word and portraits from the Occupy Berlin movement there are also his b/w-Berlin series from the late 90s “vergehen” and “Paraden” which are some of my favourite works of Andreas.

Max Thielmann’s series Casino Boogie consists of photographs taken in Berliner bars during the last twenty years. Those who have been in Berlin in the 90s may spot some long gone places like Mary Chain Bar, Kastanienallee, or Obst und Gemüse, Oranienburger Straße. Some pictures seem to twinkle over from a hazy distant past, some are just from around the corner and could have been taken last night. Max Thielmanns ode to Berliner night- and bar-life is on exhibition at FENSTER61 until May, 15th.

The relaunch of FENSTER61′s website is online. Almost 70 exhibitions are in the archive by now, all about Berlin. It seems it became a real fine survey of different photographic views on the city. The new FENSTER61 blog wants to keep you update about acitivities of photographers who showed their work at FENSTER61. Feel free to add it to your blogrolls.

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Frank Silberbach’s Berliner panorama street photographs finally have their own website. It features a vast archive of all 213 pictures published as a weekly column in Berliner Zeitung over the period of more than four years as well as newer photographs that were taken in the last couple of years. Take your time and enjoy.

Kickoff for the weekend: the Berliner photo school Neue Schule Für Fotografie presents its first group exhibition with works of the lectureres Thomas Anschütz, Eva Bertram, Bertram Kober, Bodo Müller, Eva Maria Ocherbauer, Arne Reinhardt and Marc Volk. Opening tonight at 7 pm.

This year’s Ostkreuz Schule für Fotografie und Gestaltung graduates are presenting their work in a an exhibition called “Schau” that will open tonight at 7pm. Check www.schau2011.de for location details and opening hours. The website provides a promising preview on the works that will be shown. Among them – hurray! – our dear fellow Thomas Lobenwein with his new series Floria and Fjodor.

My neunplus colleague Mirjam Siefert is exhibiting parts of her long time project Heaven Is Under Construction together with the painter Gabor A. Nagy at an exhibition titled “The Wasp and the Jar” at GHYCZY Galerie, Knaackstraße 96, Berlin. Opening tonight at 7pm.

After the release of Henrik Verning’s book Berlin – Die Stadt und die Beute in 2008 I asked him if he would like to exhibit some of his photographs at FENSTER61. He exhibited some new work there in 2009 and some of the pictures are now part of his new publication Sampler.01/Berlin:Crash. Verning shows a collection of photographs with hard contrasts in grainy black and white. A wild mixture of steet impressions, close-ups, portraits, animals and night visions that drag you through a dark, rough and blurry version of the city.

The magazine is planned to be published as a limited edition of 100 on a regular basis. Here’s a video on vimeo that gives an impression about the first issue.

Kickoff for the weekend – two promising openings in Berlin I won’t miss tonight:
Charlie Jouvet at Pavlov’s Dog and
Ute & Werner Mahler at Dittrich & Schlechtriem (former pool gallery)

Kickstart for the weekend – join the opening party of Seconds2Real’s group exhibition Fascination Street this Friday, 14th, from 7pm til late. Nine members of Seconds2Real – including me – are showing about 100 prints at MEINBLAU Kunsthaus in Berlin. There are Gallery Talks and Tours on the weekend also. Check Seconds2Real’s website for all details.

Berlin 2011

Kickoff for the weekend… Friedrich Seidenstücker’s big retrospective will open tonight at 7pm at Berlinische Galerie. Seidenstücker (1882-1966) is best known for his humorous photographs of every day life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and post-war Berlin, especially from the Berliner Zoo. There will be around 200 prints in the exhibition and a book is published as well (Von Nilpferden und anderen Menschen/Of Hippos and Other Humas). Check a selection of his photographs and a german article on spiegel-online.de.

Update: more reviews
tagesspiegel.de | RBB Abendschau | Die Welt | dradio.de

There’s a weekly interview series with members of Seconds2Real street photography collective in celebration of the forthcoming exhibition in Berlin on Sara T’Rula’s blog. The following interviews have been published so far: Elisabeth Schuh, Thorsten Strasas, Andreas Stelter, Mario Cuic and – today – me. Check all interviews here.

Very Berlin, very factual, very architecture – there are two exhibitions by Jörg Schmiedekind in Berlin at the time. One at galerie en passant, the other one a view blocks further at FENSTER61.