Kreuzberg – Amerika

“Kreuzberg – Amerika” is part of the project about the Werkstatt für Photographie 1976 – 1986, in which C/O Berlin, the Museum Folkwang Essen and the Sprengel Museum Hannover present the history, influences and effects of the legendary Berlin-based photographic institute and its key players in an intercity cooperation.

On the occasion of Werkstatt für Photographie’s 40th anniversary itself, the joint exhibition project portrays the situation of a changing medium, which focuses on independent, artistic authorship encouraged by consciousness of American photography. As such, they’re designing a lively and multi-perspective presentation of photography in the 1970s and 1980s that adds an additional chapter to the history of West German photography of the time beyond that of the Düsseldorf School.

The selection of American photographers such as Diane Arbus and Larry Clark is placed in a dialog with images from photographers, professors and guests of the Werkstatt (Gosbert Adler, Friedhelm Denkeler, Eva Maria Ocherbauer, and many others).