“What Remains” presents 18 photographic works from Ina Schoenenburg’s Ostkreuz School seminar.
In an increasingly fragile world, photographers search for what remains. They capture moments offering guidance through touches and glances, holding on and letting go – in everyday scenes: kitchen tables, rumpled sheets, old workbenches. Places harboring the familiar while allowing space for the new.
The exhibition invites your own search.
Discover more about the exhibition on instagram.com/ostkreuzschule_seminare
With works by Elisabeth Ann, Stephan Csiszar, Jana Dashevsky, Simon Drescher, Sascha Hoecker, Alex Huber, Uwe Jung-Kempe, Benjamin Meinberg, Jan Mitschulat, Kira Müller, Olivia Nikel, Oskar Paul, Sandra Prengel, Amelie Riedesel, Eva Rieß, Alejandro Soto, Gesche Viora.
Elisabeth Ann | In the thick of it and left out
Pregnancy, birth, child. These are images of a family in the making. But there is more to it than that.
Our child had to be carefully researched and planned. As a queer couple and with hormonal metabolic disorders, we are burdened by legal uncertainty, high costs and institutional discrimination. Serious birth injuries made our long-awaited start into parenthood even more difficult. Now we are in the thick of it. But legally, we are left out.
In my photographic project, I document our journey from the desire to have a child to the first years of our child’s life
elisabeth-ann.de | instagram.com/spinatstinkt
Stephan Csiszar | Dienststelle
A photographic exploration of my everyday life through the lens of my working environment – a look at structures, spaces, and the rhythm of the ordinary. Subtle details emerge that are otherwise easily overlooked: small gestures, routines, shifts in light. The result is a visual diary that reveals the hidden and highlights the poetry of the everyday.
Alben von S|C – Archive | Flickr
Jana Dashevsky | Love Affair
What happens between two people in a relationship?
Visible or beneath the surface?
Each image captures a moment, a fragment of a story that leaves enough room for your own interpretations.
Simon Drescher | Gotti
Gotti – Swiss German for godmother – is 95 years old, my grandmother, and at the same time my older brother’s godmother. The images follow her delicate shifts between radiance and searching, between closeness and loss. They show the fading of strength and the warmth that remains. In glances, gestures, and quiet moments, a gentle portrait emerges – of our intimate relationship and of the time that shapes us even as it slips away.
Sascha Hoecker | 92c
On the map, nothing but a number – a place fated to sink into absence for decades.
I trace the final weeks of a homeland, held by a family uprooted once more in the name of power, as if history itself were a mine that keeps swallowing their ground.
What remains, when “home” lives only in what the heart remembers?
saschahoecker.de | instagram.com/saschahoecker
Alexander Huber | Offstage
Offstage Theatre is created for a specific moment and perspective.
My images tell of what happens before, behind, and beside.
instagram.com/alex.huber.berlin
Uwe Jung-Kempe | Homeless
Not having a safe home for yourself and for the things that are important to you is a life catastrophe. This holds true even if (mostly) church institutions in smaller cities at least provide emergency shelter, so that those affected are not left defenseless against wind and weather. Homelessness, a disgrace to any society that calls itself humane.
uwekempe.de | instagram.com/monochromer.buntschopf
Benjamin Meinberg | Platte (Slab)
The photo project was created in Hanover in 2025 over several months. The photographs depict people living on the streets. At a time when much is being said about the cityscape, the portraits reveal a way of life situated in the open space of the city, becoming visible beyond simplistic categorizations.
Fee Kunze & Jan Mitschulat | Scenes from a relation
Fee Kunze and Jan Mitschulat collaboratively develop and stage scenes from a relation. In this autofiction, they explore intimacy, conflict, and togetherness. The work becomes a space of possibility: The scenes shift between play and constellation, unfolding into a process of reflection — on closeness, on living together, and on confrontation.
Kira Müller | Mom, which colours don’t you know?
In this ongoing photo series, I document my family cosmos. Pictures that are more than just memories: they tell our story. Who are we, together and as individuals?
Olivia Nikel | 2450 Meters of Asphalt
Potsdamer Straße is the very image of Berlin – loud and quiet, shiny and rough, familiar and ever changing. Along the 2,450 meters between Potsdamer Platz and Kleistpark, old institutions meet modern galleries, kebab stands neighbor Michelin-star restaurants and high-end fashion boutiques border the street sex trade. In my series, I portray people who live and work here, who heal and comfort, who dance and pray. They are the protagonists of my story about this kaleidoscope of Berlin.
olivianikel.com | instagram.com/olivia_nikel_photography
Oskar Paul | Wonderland
What springs to mind when you hear the words ‘Marzahn-Hellersdorf’? Do you think of the comedian Cindy aus Marzahn? The GDR? Plattenbau? Or neo-Nazis? Most people intuitively have a range of images in their minds, when they think of the district in eastern Berlin. But these are just fragments. If you care to look for yourself, you’ll find a wonderland on the outskirts of Berlin.
Sandra Prengel | What Comes Next
As school draws to a close, a new chapter begins
The world unfolds, full of possibilities to imagine and pursue
With freedom and courage guiding us
One question prevails: What comes next?
We step forward.
Portraits of young people in Berlin.
Amelie Riedesel | Daughters of the House
Growing up together, we engage with our origins in different ways. In this series, I stage the four of us in familiar places and historical spaces that become stages for inner processes: Which ideas and role models do we carry forward – and what do we leave behind? How do we shape life paths that do not conform to traditional and heteronormative ideas? In my images, I explore the space between family roots, identity and the freedom to shape our own future.
Eva Rieß | Body matters
Embodied knowledge arises from tactile experiences and results from activities that can only be approximated in words. In an age of digital transformation, craft-based knowledge appears to be losing its significance. This project traces traditional trades and practices that shape both our material and cultural heritage.
Alejandro Soto | Ripples
Water lies at the heart of life. Being alive, either as an individual or as part of society, evolves around it. In a city, a river takes on many roles, not only as a source of water but also as a route of transport and a lifeline for the people. And yet, it remains invisible to many, perceived only as part of everyday life. In Berlin, the influence of the Spree and its canals is immeasurable. Anything that can happen in the city, can also unfold along the river. This photo series emerges as an observation of life by the water.
alejandrosotophoto.com | instagram.com/alejjandrosoto
Gesche Viora | We Are We
My father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 44. This work tells the story of how a chronic illness seeps into the fabric of a family’s relationships. It tells of a longing for lightness and a thirst for life. Of melancholy and distress, and the powerful presence of an unpredictable illness that my parents faced with unwavering determination until the very end.
Framework program
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Thursday, Feb 12, 2026, 7 pm
Opening reception
Sat & Sun, Feb 14 & 15, 2026, 3 pm
Guided tours (de)
Exhibition venue
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Fri & Sat, Feb 13 & 14: 12 noon – 8 pm + Sun, Feb 15: 12 noon – 4 pm
