The 21st graduation class / Jahrgang 21 of the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie invites to the final exhibition in the Funkhaus Nalepastraße Berlin. Shown are 23 final works that have emerged in the past three and a half years.

The projects range from documentary long-term researches over personal photographic essays up to conceptual, staged and experimental works. Together they open up different perspectives on a present that is shaped by political, ecological, technological and societal changes. The works lead into Iran, into Ukraine, to Egypt, Norway, Sitges and Poland as well as to the Oder, into former GDR planned cities, into Swiss football stadiums, forests, family houses and industrial landscapes.

They occupy themselves with war and displacement, family and memory, queer life realities, the aftermaths of the German reunification, communities and landscapes in change as well as with the question how images shape our imagination of identity, history and present. The exhibition assembles 23 independent photographic positions that connect personal stories with societal developments and show how diversely photography is deployed today as an artistic medium.

Graduates

Henryk Boeck, Bennet Böckstiegel, Per Jacob Blut, Linus Bredehorst, Jan Bruhin, Faye Bryson, Marie Buchholz, Camille Cellier, Yuma Greco, Leah Haug, Alexander Kluge, Sebastian König, Katrine Larsen Mosbæk, Antonia Leicht, Ferdinand Peuker, Joëlle Quintin, Carl Raabe, Florian Scheible, Elena Sohmen, Laura Stauth, Nicole Wozniak, Heike Zappe, Michael Zeeh

Saturday, Sep 26, 2026, 12 noon – 5 am
Soft Opening & Party

1 PM
Q&A with the graduates in front of their works (DE+EN)
3 РМ
Opening Remarks by Jörg Brüggemann and the graduates 
4 PM
Guided tour with Sibylle Fendt (DE)
5 PM
DJs (sehraffin b2b Harun, DJ Starsand, keyk)
11 PM – 5 AM
Afterparty (DJIL, BOVSKEY, fbi b2b Karol b2b Meier)

Friday, Oct 2, 2026, 6 PM
Bar Evening: Photobooks in Conversation with Katrine Larsen Mosbæk, Per Jacob Blut and Yuma Greco, moderated by Andreas Trogisch (DE). Extended opening hours until 9:30 pm, and the bar will be open as well.

Saturday, Oct 3, 2026
2 PM
Guided tours by the graduates (DE+EN)
5 PM
Final Projects in Conversation with Camille Cellier, Ferdinand Peuker and Carl Raabe and Elena Sohmen, moderated by Victoria Jung (DE).

Sunday, Oct 4, 2026
2 PM
Final Projects in Conversation with Alexander Kluge, Florian Scheible and Jan Bruhin, moderated by Emile Ducke (DE).
5 PM
Final Projects in Conversation with Antonia Leicht, Heike Zappe and Henryk Boeck, moderated by Anne Waak (DE).

Friday, Oct 9, 2026
Bar Evening
6 PM
Photobooks in Conversation with Bennet Böckstiegel, Linus Bredehorst and Michael Zeeh, moderated by Andreas Trogisch (DE).
8 PM
Final Projects in Conversation with Leah Haug and Joëlle Quintin, moderated by Maidje Meergans
Followed by a presentation of Female Photo Club and Divaspora.

Saturday, Oct 10, 2026
2 PM
Guided tour with Miriam Zlobinski in conversation with the graduates (DE).
2 PM
Sony Photo Walk/Contest (DE+EN).
5 PM
Final Projects in Conversation with Faye Bryson, Sebastian Koenig, Laura Stauth and Nicole Wozniak, moderated by Miriam Zlobinski (DE+EN).

Sunday, Oct 11, 2026
Finissage
2 PM
Guided tour with Ingo Taubhorn in conversation with the graduates (DE).

Nalepastraße 18, 12459 Berlin, Germany
Opening hours for this exhibition: Mon – Fri 3 – 8 pm, Sat & Sun 12 – 8 pm
Admission free, donations welcome