Berlin in the 90s: After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the city is in transition, in a transitional space between past and future. New beginnings and fear of loss lie close together and form the basic tone of this time. Unique spaces of possibility opened up and led to a flowering of creative interim uses. Berlin became a metropolis of subcultures - but at the same time a struggle began over the design of the new capital and its center. The potentials and utopias of the 90s have left their mark on the city's image and continue to shape it to this day.

In the midst of this upheaval, a group of photographers from the former GDR founded the agency OSTKREUZ in 1990. Since then, it has established itself internationally as one of Germany's most important photo agencies. In the exhibition, C/O Berlin shows works by nine members of the OSTKREUZ agency, including the co-founders Sibylle Bergemann, Harald Hauswald, Ute Mahler, and Werner Mahler, as well as by Annette Hauschild, Thomas Meyer, Jordis Antonia Schlösser, Anne Schönharting, and Maurice Weiss. These photographers observe the societal changes and the challenges of the reunification of the former Wall city.

Thirty-five years after the founding of the agency OSTKREUZ and in the anniversary year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the exhibition "Dream on - Berlin, the 90s" presents around 200 works. In addition to a few classics, many previously unpublished images from the archives of the OSTKREUZ photographers are on display. These gain a whole new relevance with the view from today and serve as material for a mood picture of this formative decade. 

They reflect a city in transition with all its ambivalences - beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall, through the dance in the ruins of the flourishing techno scene, to the social and economic changes and the transformation of Berlin into the new capital.

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