What accumulates in a body does not disappear. It becomes method. Proximity and distance, memory and the present moment, the skin as landscape and the landscape as self: these are not themes. They are the conditions under which all three work. What they share is not origin. It is ground. They stand on it. They keep going.
Three photographers presenting together for the first time. Three distinct and uncompromising voices. Three eastern German biographies.
Connected through the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin: one graduating from the Abschlussklasse, one from the Meisterklasse, one an alumna of the school.
The exhibition is part of the Part of the OFF programme of Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles 2026 / Festival OFF Arles (July 6 – Oct 5, 2026).
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Sandra Buschow
Häutungen/Shedding
Shedding reclaims the body as a living archive, where tenderness becomes a form of resistance and visibility opens a space for healing, dignity, and self-possession.
Short Bio
Sandra Buschow (b. 1976, Leipzig, Germany) is a visual artist, photographer and lecturer born and raised in the former GDR, based between Berlin and Switzerland. Buschow completed the international VII Photo Agency Masterclass and graduated from the Meisterklasse at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the European Month of Photography Berlin, and has received recognition from Encontros da Imagem, OFF Bratislava, PORTRAITS Hellerau Photography Award, the Athens Photo Festival, and the International Photography Awards. Her work was recently on view at Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, and will be presented at Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, in July 2026. She is currently working on her first monograph.
Artist Statement
Working primarily with portraiture and autobiographical imagemaking, her practice centres on the body as a site of intimacy, memory, and self-determination, with a particular focus on transgenerational experience and the lived realities of women. Her work is recognised for its saturated colour, painterly sensitivity to light, and a slow, intuitive process in which chance and lived encounter play a central role.
Jenny Hasselbach
Albdruck
In Albdruck, Jenny Hasselbach composes a fragmented constellation of bodies, stone, water, light and organic structures—like a nightmare that cannot be fully recalled. Forms and traces appear on the verge of dissolution. They emerge, withdraw, and remain suspended in a state of uncertainty.
Short Bio
Jenny Hasselbach (b. 1983, near Dresden, former GDR) is a Berlin-based photographer, visual artist, designer and lecturer. Hasselbach studied Communication Design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle, and completed the photography programme at the Ostkreuz School of Photography in 2017. Since 2016 she has been a partner and managing director at the Design Studio Rimini Berlin. She has taught at art schools, including the University of Art Braunschweig, and gives workshops and lectures. Her work has been shown at Galerie erstererster, Berlin, and Kunstquartier Bethanien. Supported by the ifa – Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations he received the KAAF Residency in Tehran in 2019. Her publication seek and see, created with Ferdinand Peuker, was awarded Silver at the German Photobook Prize 2025 in the Self-Publishing category. She is currently working on a photobook based on her series Albdruck.
Artist Statement
Jenny Hasselbach sees photography as a form of expression that allows her to play with the meaning of the incidental. Her framing deliberately removes motifs from their original context, transforming everyday observations into new visual relationships. Her practice moves between documentary observation and formal reduction, drawing attention to traces of use, presence and absence.
Ferdinand Peuker
Export
Moving between documentation and dream, Export follows fragments of places, faces, and memories. Rather than unfolding chronologically, the work is guided by emotional movement—between closeness and distance, light and shadow, doubt and idealization. Export is not a closed narrative, but an open window in time: an attempt to let go of something while searching for a trace, a memory, a place where the contradictions of seeing and being briefly come together.
Short Bio
Ferdinand Peuker (b. 1978, Halle an der Saale, former GDR) is a Berlin-based photographer and visual artist. Peuker moved to Berlin in 1996. After completing training as a technician at Microsoft, he travelled through Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, and later across the Americas and Europe. His deeper engagement with photography began around 2010. He has studied at the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin since 2023 and is due to graduate in summer 2026. He works as an assistant for a non-profit art association. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions, including at Galerie erstererster, Berlin; Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin; Kulturfabrik Moabit, Berlin; and MVC, Petrolia, California. Together with Jenny Hasselbach, he has published Half Portrait and seek and see; the latter was awarded Silver at the German Photobook Prize 2025 in the Self-Publishing category.
Artist Statement
Peuker’s photographic work is shaped by documentary observation, a precise sense of atmosphere and an interest in places and situations on the margins of everyday life. His images move between direct observation and inner reflection. Working mostly in black and white, he uses the reduction of colour to abstract his subjects and fundamentally transform the atmosphere of a situation.
The exhibition and Sandra Buschow’s image from her series Shedding are featured on the cover of PiE Nº2 July — Sep 2026, our second quarterly print edition with recommendations across Europe!
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026, from 5 pm
Soft Opening
5 pm: Music & Drinks
8 pm: Opening remarks by Francesca Hummler, DER GREIF
Thursday, July 9, 2026, 5 pm
Opening
with Music & Drinks.
