In 1990, East German photographers founded OSTKREUZ in Paris. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, it is considered Germany’s most renowned agency for photographers today. The Goethe Institut Paris presents a retrospective of the entire photographic spectrum of the Berlin-based agency at two venues.


Founding moment in Paris
In the spring of 1990, inspiration struck as seven photographers from East Berlin, among them Sibylle Bergemann, Harald Hauswald as well as Ute Mahler and Wern… more

Head of the Cabinet de la Photographie of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou Over a few months in London in 1972, Harry Gruyaert started to take colour photographs of the screen of his malfunctioning television set. An apparently trivial gesture, but one rich in meaning which fitted into two movements: the artistic and playful American Pop Art movement of the previous decade, from Nam June Paik to Andy Warhol with their fascination for the television as object and for its images;… more

From 18 April to 3 June 2007, the Passage du Désir will propose a unique experience to its visitors: an exhibition whose subject is the exhibition venue itself, a moment of its history.

For the building located on 85/87 rue du Faubourg St Martin, in Paris' 10th arrondissement, which now houses the Passage du Désir exhibition centre as well as the BETC Euro RSCG advertising agency, had a special destiny during the last war. Between July 1943 and August 1944, the former 'Lévitan' department … more