MILA TESHAIEVA
MILA TESHAIEVA
(*1974, Kiev/Ucraine) 2010–2012 Master of Arts in Photography at the Burg Giebichenstein Academy of Art in Halle. 2013 Kehrer Verlag published her book PROMISING WATERS, followed in 2014-2015 by the eponymous solo exhibition in the Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA, in the Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee/USA, and in the museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr. In 2015 and 2016, the catalogues of the exhibitions FACES AND STORIES OF ENTREPRENEURS and INSELWESEN were published. She has been a member of OSTKREUZ since 2016. In 2017 INSELWESEN was shown in the museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, and INSELALLTAG in the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin. For the series INSELWESEN she used the old technique of light painting, where her only source of light was a flashlight. In this way she has created Baroque-like, mystical portraits. In 2018/2019 the MIT Museum in Boston, USA, devoted a major show to her work under the title IMAGINED COMMUNITIES.
TOBIAS KRUSE
(*1979, Waren an der Müritz)studied graphic design from 1996–2000, worked as graphic artist from 2000–2004. 2005–2009 further studies at the Ostkreuz School of Photography with Ute Mahler, masterclass with Arno Fischer, Berlin. In 2008 he won the NEW YORK PHOTO AWARD in the category Student Editorial Series; 2010 the main prize at F/STOP, the International Photography Festival in Leipzig. From 2009 to 2011 he was head of photography at the Dummy magazine. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2011. 2019 exhibition and publication of MATERIAL in the Robert Morat Gallery, Berlin, published by Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld; 2019/2020 recommended scholarship candidate; exhibition of DEPONIE in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg and in the Photography Forum Frankfurt; 2020 publication of FREUNDSCHAFT (Friendship), together with Jörg Brüggemann, also published in Kerber Verlag.