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Solo Exhibition / Retrospective

»Voll das Leben!« Retrospektive

Harald Hauswald

Curated by Felix Hoffmann (C/O Berlin) in cooperation with Ute Mahler and Laura Benz (Ostkreuz)

Currently closed, and extended until Mar 14, 2021 / Vorübergehend geschlossen, und verlängert bis 14. März 2021
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Raucous, flamboyantly dressed punks, hippies, and kissing couples in a sea of Trabi cars, confrontational banners and demonstrators at Alexanderplatz in East Berlin, shadowy figures and drunks at festivals and neighborhood bars, law-abiding citizens waiting patiently at stops: Harald Hauswald’s gaze is authentic and tender. His images radiate a sympathy for the objects and people he photographs, preserving their dignity and setting them apart from the surrounding madness and decay. The photographer shows the monotony and slowness of life in East Germany, bearing witness to an insular and isolated world shortly before its downfall. In contrast to the West’s prevalent images of the GDR as a country defined by the socialist state and the Free German Youth organization, by the Berlin Wall and barbed wire, by marches and military parades, Hauswald’s photographs offer unique and revealing insight into everyday socialist life, showing the evolving cityscape of East Berlin and the activities of opposition groups, artists, and youth subcultures.

The fact that Hauswald himself moved in these circles ensured that he was always present in his photographs, for he was a participant and not merely an observer. On his wide-ranging travels through East Berlin and to obscure spots in East Germany in the 1970s and ’80s, he laid bare the contrast between everyday life in decrepit cities and the inner emptiness concealed behind the laboriously constructed façade of the communist state. His black-and-white photographs alternate between an enchanted, playful intimacy and a sharply satirical, dispassionate gaze.

Harald Hauswald, Konzert von Big Country, Radrennbahn, Weißensee, Berlin, 1988 © Harald Hauswald/OSTKREUZ/Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
Harald Hauswald, Ehemaliger Grenzstreifen, Grenzdenkmal Hötensleben, 1995 © Harald Hauswald/OSTKREUZ/Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
Harald Hauswald, Berliner Mauer, Mitte, Berlin, 1990 © Harald Hauswald/OSTKREUZ/Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
Harald Hauswald, Radebeul, 1984 © Harald Hauswald/OSTKREUZ/Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung

For twenty-eight years, two months, and twenty-six days, the “anti-fascist protection barrier” known as the Berlin Wall divided the city and its inhabitants into East and West. This exhibition documents the social and political lives of people in East Germany and shows the challenges arising during the shift to a reunified Germany. As a co-founder of the photographers’ agency OSTKREUZ, Hauswald is one of the most important German figures in the history of photography. His works are invaluable, forming as they do a visual record of the history of a divided Germany. The Ostkreuz Association for Photography is working to ensure the conservation of over 7,500 of his rolls of film by the end of 2020. 6,000 individual images will be digitalized as part of a major project funded by the Federal Foundation for the Study of Communist Dictatorship in East Germany.

This show is Harald Hauswald’s first retrospective. It shows roughly 250 photographs taken between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s, including a large number of previously unpublished images. His images are placed in dialogue with the contents of the file kept on him by the East German secret police, the Stasi. No other East German photographer was monitored as closely as he was. The contents of the file were contributed by around forty informants (or “unofficial collaborators”) between 1977 and 1989 under the code name “Radfahrer” (cyclist). In 1985, the Stasi issued an internal warrant for Hauswald’s arrest on the grounds of anti-state activities, violating exchange-control regulations, acting as an agent, and passing on unclassified information. Hauswald was a single father and at times, his daughter was removed from his custody. This exhibition is the first to juxtapose references to contemporary history, photography, and work.

The exhibition is curated by Felix Hoffmann (C/O Berlin) in cooperation with Ute Mahler and Laura Benz (Ostkreuz). A catalogue published by Steidl Verlag accompanies the exhibition.

Harald Hauswald (b. 1954 in Radebeul, Saxony) is one of the most eminent East German photographers. Together with Sibylle Bergemann, Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, and others, he founded OSTKREUZ – Agentur der Fotografen, a photographer- run agency. After completing a traineeship to become a photographer, Hauswald moved to East Berlin in 1978, where he worked as a telegram carrier in Prenzlauer Berg and for the Stephanus Foundation, among other things. From the early 1980s, he regularly published photo-essays in West German periodicals including GEO, Stern, Zitty, and taz, at first using a pseudonym and later under his own name. His work has been shown in over 250 solo exhibitions across Germany, the United States, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and elsewhere, and has been published in diverse publications on East Berlin and everyday life in the GDR. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997) and the Einheitspreis – Bürgerpreis zur Deutschen Einheit (Citizens’ Award for German Unity, 2006). Harald Hauswald lives and works in Berlin.

Framework program

Guided Tours
Saturdays + Sundays + holidays 2 & 4 pm (German), 6 pm (English).
5 € plus admission fee. Duration ca. 60 min.
Individual guided tours (English and other languages) and guided tours for classes can be booked as well.
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Sep 24 + Oct 22 + Nov 12, 2020, 7 pm
After Work Tour + Drink
Held in German. 17 € incl. exhibition, tour & drink.
End of the week at C/O Berlin: Get your weekend off to a relaxing start with an evening tour through our current shows and a cold drink! We will be keeping our exhibitions open into the early evening exclusively for you.
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Simultaneous exhibitions at C/O Berlin:
Michael Danner »Migration as Avant-Garde«
Felicity Hammond »Remains in Development«

EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2020
Part of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2020
Oct 1 — 31, 2020
C/O Berlin Foundation

Sep 12, 2020 — Jan 23 extended until Mar 14, 2021
Opening Reception: Due to Corona restrictions, no exhibition opening will be held.
Framework program: please see above

Amerika Haus, Hardenbergstraße 22-24, 10623 Berlin
[District: Charlottenburg | Borough: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf]

Opening hours: Daily 11 am – 8 pm

Admission: 10 € / reduced 6 € | Online Ticket

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