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See you in Vienna!

After opening the exhibition “Reister & Von Aspern: Berlin + Wien” at BURJUAR, Berlin, with some busloads of nice audience last friday it is now open until March 23ed. Then the pictures will be sent to Vienna for the second exhibition at Eigensinnig Schauraum für Mode und Fotografie. Meanwhile the book is ready for order online. Today I’m going to carry 24 books to the post office. The book is limited to 100 copies only, so this is a forth of the whole edition. Huuuu…

More Infos:

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All about the book

Exhibition at BURJUAR, Berlin

Exhibition at Eigensinnig, Vienna

…und my friend Katrin Ströbel wrote a nice text for the exhibition.

It’s going to be a wild photographic mixture at Gleimtunnel this weekend. I’m going to participate at the KLEISTER NORD one-day exhibition next Saturday along with Christine Bachmann, Frank Bartsch, Eva Brunner, Lia Darjes, Christoph David Drange, Torben Geeck, April Gertler, Hannah Goldstein, Jan von Holleben, Philipp Jester, Katja Klemm, Sebastian Laraia, Mareike Lauken, Soliman Lawrence, Christian Lewandrowski, Henrik Malmström, Jan Michalko, Florian Oellers, Yvi Philipp, Corinna Sauer, Julia Schiller, Anne Schwalbe, Andre Simonow, Parker Tilghman, Dagmar Tränkle, Nadja Ritter, Gilles Roudière, Stefanie Rumpler, Constanze Vielgosz, Frido Welti and Jan Zappner.
More infos on tumblr. Finissage at Kugelbahn Wedding from 8pm til late.

The venue: Gleimtunnel between Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding

I’m going to show some new work from my project with the working title NACHT which I am still working on. I’m nosey how it will work…

There’ll be a nice 1 day open air photo exhibition in Kreuzberg tomorrow. Check out KLEISTER here.

There are some nice openings in Berlin tonight. Al least I’ll pop in at argus fotokunst gallery that is showing “Faszination New York”, an exhibition with classic photographs of Will McBride, René Burri, Arno Fisher etc. Also promising: Thekla Ehling at Robert Murat’s showroom.

Seconds2Real’s exhibition “Fascination Street” will have its next stop in Vienna. As it is my first exhibition in Austria, I am going to show parts of my series and book ALEX from 2008-2010. All details here.

Gundula Schulze Eldowy’s exhibition Die Frühen Jahre / The early Years at c/o Berlin is opening tonight at 7pm. There’ll be several series shown from her latest books Berlin in einer Hundenacht and Der große und der kleine Schritt. Read reviews in German here and here.

Update: review on Spiegel Online.

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.

‘Within Shadows’ by Susan Burnstine is the first exhibition of the American photographer in Berlin. Susan Burnstine works with homemade film cameras to get a very blurred and unfocsed styles which suits perfectly to her dream-like photographs. Burnstine usually sets her black and white pictures up but the result is still supposed to be a matter of some “magical” chance. Along with the exhibition comes her frist book with the same title.

There’s a slideshow of ‘Within Shadows’ and and interview about her work on Youtube. Susan Burnstine is also running an interesting blog called underexposed with interviews and thoughts photography.

The exhibition in Berlin is hosted at Galerie Hiltawsky until December 23th.

Four more opening days, then the Fascination Street exhibition in Berlin will be closed. This Sunday at 7pm we’ll be having a public finissage. Everybody’s invited to come along (again) and have a drink with us. Siegfried Hansen, Thorsten Strasas, Guido Steenkamp, me, and maybe some more exhibiting photographers will be present. Eventpage on facebook.

Btw: meanwhile my ALEX book was sold out at the gallery. They now have more copies – and it’s still possible to order it online – signed or unsigned.

Seconds2Real launched an album of pictures from the Fascination Street vernissage and the first 2 days over on facebook.

The opening of Seconds2Real’s first group show last friday was a stunning and funny night with lots of good conversations + very different people. I was happy to see a lot of old friends as well as a lot of people whom I didn’t know but who knew me. The exhibiton is open until October 30th.

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.

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.