The opening of the new photo project BERLIN VIEWS presented by C/O Berlin and visitBerlin will take place on 22 October 2024 at MegaFence in Berlin-Mitte. The project includes an open-air exhibition, a targeted regional and international poster campaign and a microsite with photographs by Kristin Bethge, Delfina Carmona, Marina Mónaco and Christian Werner.
Image above: Ava During A Cold Winter, December 2023 © Marina Mónaco
“Nearly twenty-five years ago we founded C/O Berlin in this city and there couldn’t have been a better place for our institution. Berlin is more diverse than any other city in Germany, and there are many different things that make this city so attractive. I am very pleased that the four photographers we have chosen will enable us to participate in their own personal view of Berlin, while also showing us Berlin from perspectives that we might not be familiar with, allowing our passion for this city to grow even more.”-Stephan Erfurt, CEO, C/O Berlin Foundation
“C/O Berlin is one of the most important photography houses in the world and a magnet for cultural tourism. With BERLIN VIEWS, we want to show our city with all its energy and creativity.” – Burkhard Kieker, Spokesman of the Management Board, visitBerlin
Concrete sculptures that at first glance look like futuristic monuments turn out to be Cadillacs in Halensee. The deep blue, minimalist awning of one of the best-known Turkish supermarkets in Neukölln emphasises the symbolic quality of urban typography. A melancholy scene in a smoky Berlin bar tells of loneliness and intimacy in the city. A man seeks seclusion from the hustle and bustle of the city in the dense greenery of the Tiergarten park. Taken far away from the city’s major attractions, these images reflect unexpected, multi-layered aspects of Berlin – and are at the centre of the new photo project.
For BERLIN VIEWS, C/O Berlin and visitBerlin have invited four outstanding Berlin-based photographers – Kristin Bethge, Delfina Carmona, Marina Mónaco and Christian Werner – to present their very personal view of the metropolis. Their unconventional motifs and unusual photographic approaches open up new perspectives on life, people and the hidden places of Berlin. The result is an impressive and multi-layered portrait of the city that captures its complexity and changeability while at the same time making its creative pulse palpable. BERLIN VIEWS emphasises Berlin’s importance as a dynamic and creative hub for photography and visual art.
About the photographers
Kristin Bethge
Kristin Bethge studied communication design with a focus on photography and art at Mainz University of Applied Sciences with a year abroad at the EAV Parque Lage art academy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since 2016, she has been working on the relationship between people and nature in the context of memory and identity in Brazil, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé. 2021 she received the VG Bild-Kunst scholarship. This was followed in 2022 by the Initial 2 special scholarship from the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Bethge works for magazines such as M Le Monde Magazine, ZEITmagazin, Monocle, Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. She lives and works in Berlin and Rio de Janeiro.
Delfina Carmona
Delfina Carmona is a Berlin-based photographer and art director from Argentina. With a background in theatre and a career in professional photography, she is dedicated to the visual arts and creative photography by constructing scenes and installations. Her works show small scenarios and performances, self-portraits, compositions with objects and vibrant colours. Often surreal and dreamlike, her style embraces absurd aesthetics, reflections and shadows, becoming a form of personal expression that opens a door to her emotional and sensitive world.
Marina Mónaco
Marina Mónaco is a Berlin-based photographer and director from Buenos Aires. Since moving to Germany in 2020 to study at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, she has been exploring the spectrum of youth culture in the suburbs of Europe. Raw, vulnerable, uncompromising – her ongoing series Kids serves as a living manifesto of a generation to which she herself belongs. In 2023, she presented I Saw You in a Song, her first solo exhibition in Berlin, and published a book of the same name. Mónaco’s latest projects include another book I Saw You in a Song: An Anti-Memoir and a new exhibition in Berlin. She made her debut in June 2024 with a solo exhibition and artist residency programme at Contact Photo in New York.
Christian Werner
Christian Werner is a photographer living in Berlin. He has been an integral part of Berlin’s cultural landscape since the late 1990s. His passion for portraying fascinating people has led him to photograph celebrities such as Billie Eilish, M.I.A., Bret Easton Ellis, Harun Farocki and Susan Sarandon for 032c, Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, Numéro, SSENSE, ZEITmagazin and other German and international media. Werner has published his work in several themed books, including LOS ANGELES (2019, Korbinian Verlag), STILLLEBEN BRD (2016, Kerber Verlag) and BONN. DAS ATLANTIS DER BRD (2019, Matthes & Seitz).
WHEN?
Opening: Tuesday, 22. October 2024, 5-10 pm.
Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 22. October – Sunday, 03. November 2024
Opening hours: Daily, 11 am.-8 pm.
WHERE?
MegaFence
Köpenicker Straße 70,
10179 Berlin
