The new photo project ‘BERLIN VIEWS’, a joint venture between C/O Berlin and visitBerlin, is bringing an open-air exhibition of Berlin photographs to the MegaFence at Köpenicker Straße 70 from 22 October to 3 November 2024.
Image gallery
Ava During A Cold Winter, December 2023
Concrete Cadillac/Vostell, Halensee, 2021
Out Of The Noise, Tiergarten, 2024
BOLU, Neukölln, 2024
On display are works by Kristin Bethge, Delfina Carmona, Marina Mónaco and Christian Werner, four outstanding photographers living in Berlin who present their very personal view of the metropolis.
Their unconventional motifs and extraordinary 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 also revealing its creative pulse.
BERLIN VIEWS highlights Berlin's importance as a dynamic and creative hub for photography and visual art.
The images on display reflect the unexpected, diverse facets of Berlin.
- Concrete sculptures that at first glance look like futuristic monuments turn out to be the iconic ‘Cadillacs’ at Halensee.
- The deep blue, minimalist sunshade of one of the most famous Turkish supermarkets in Neukölln highlights the symbolic nature of urban typography.
- In a smoky Berlin bar, a melancholy scene speaks to the loneliness and intimacy of the city.
- In the dense greenery of the Tiergarten, a person escapes the hustle and bustle of the big city.
Kristin Bethge studied communication design with a focus on photography and art at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, with a year abroad at the EAV Parque Lage Art School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since 2016, she has been exploring the relationship between people and nature in the context of memory and identity in Brazil, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé. In 2021, she received the VG Bild-Kunst scholarship. In 2022, she will receive the Special Scholarship Initial 2 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 is a Berlin-based photographer and art director from Argentina. With a background in theatre and a career in professional photography, she devotes herself to visual arts and creative photography by constructing scenes and installations. Her work features small scenarios and performances, self-portraits, compositions with objects and vibrant colours. Often surreal and dream-like, her style encompasses absurd aesthetics, reflections and shadows, becoming a form of personal expression that opens a door to her emotional and sensitive world.
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 Europe's suburbs. Raw, vulnerable, uncompromising, her ongoing series Kids serves as a vivid manifesto of a generation she herself belongs to. In 2023, she presented her first solo exhibition in Berlin, I Saw You in a Song, and published a book of the same name. Monaco's latest projects include another book, I Saw You in a Song: An Anti-Memoir, and a new exhibition in Berlin. In June 2024, she made her debut with a solo exhibition and an artist-in-residence programme at Contact Photo in New York.
Christian Werner is a photographer based in Berlin. He has been an integral part of the Berlin 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, In terview, Numéro, SSENSE, ZEITmagazin and other German and international media. Werner has had his work published in several themed books, including LOS ANGELES (2019, Korbinian Verlag), STILLLEBEN BRD (2016, Kerber Verlag) and BONN. DAS ATLANTIS DER BRD (2019, Matthes & Seitz).
BERLIN VIEWS
A new photography project by C/O Berlin and visitBerlin
Open-air exhibition 22 Oct – 3 Nov 2024
Opening 22 Oct 2024, 5–10 p.m.
Location Köpenicker Straße 70, 10179 Berlin
