lecturerUte Mahler ©Arne Wesenberg© Arne Wesenberg

Biography

1949 Born in Berka/Wipper, Thuringia

1968 High School, Runge High School, Oranienburg

1969 – 1974 Studied photography, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig

Since 1974 Freelance photographerSince then numerous solo exhibitions

1981 Member of the VBK (Association of Visual Artists)

1990 Founding member of OSTKREUZ agency of photographersSince then numerous joint exhibition projects

2000 – 2015 Professor of photography at University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Hamburg

Since 2005 Lecturer at the Ostkreuzschule for photography, Berlin

Since 2009 Collaborative artistic photographic projects with Werner Mahler

ute.mahler[at]ostkreuzschule.de
Exhibitions (selection)

2014 «Ute Mahler und Werner Mahler: Werkschau», Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

2014 «Die seltsamen Tage», Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg

2011 «Monalisen der Vorstädte», Gallery Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)
2016 «Sibylle», Art Gallery Rostock, Rostock

2015 «25 Years Ostkreuz», BETC, Paris

2012 «Über Grenzen», Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2010 «Die Stadt», CO-Berlin, Berlin

Publications
2018 «Kleinstadt», Hartmann Projects Verlag
2016 «Sibylle – Magazine for Fashion and Cultur», Hartmann Projects, Stuttgart

2015 «Die seltsamen Tage», artist book, edition of 50, self-published

2014 «Ute Mahler und Werner Mahler: Werkschau», Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg

2011 «Monalisen der Vorstädte», Meier & Müller, Berlin

Catalogues

2015 «25 Years Ostkreuz», Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

2012 «Über Grenzen», Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

2010 «Die Stadt», Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

Ute Mahler
When I take photographs, I’m focused and energized.
I do not want to be distracted. Doing something else at the same time doesn’t work.
So, either I go for a walk or I go take pictures. I cannot do both.
To make really good pictures, you have to be completely in the matter.

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