C/O Berlin: New Visions
Marking C/O Berlin’s twenty-fifth anniversary, the exhibition “Documentary in Flux” surveys two decades of the C/O Berlin Talent Award, highlighting how young artists and theorists have pushed the boundaries of documentary photography.
Fourteen award-winning talents are represented through images, installations, and essays, with the show organized thematically rather than chronologically. From classical reportage to experimental media, each section reflects the evolving aesthetics and social urgencies of its time.
Sibylle Fendt, from the series Uneins
Adji Dieye, Culture Lost and Learned by Heart, 2020, installation view (detail)
Karolina Wojtas, Abzgram, 2017–2023
Willem Popelier, Your Weekly President, 2016
Photobooks, video works, AI-generated imagery, and archival material reveal how today’s documentarians question linearity, objectivity, and truth. The exhibition is not just a retrospective, but a provocation, asking what documentary photography can, and should, be now.
Florian van Roekel, Chapter Four, IV, from the series How Terry likes his coffee, 2010
Anna Ehrenstein, Nyamwathi, 2018. Courtesy the artist and KOW, Berlin
Janina Wick, Jennifer, 2007, from the series Dreizehn
The exhibition “Documentary in Flux” is on view at C/O Berlin in Berlin, Germany, until September 16.
