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Photography in Flux – 20 Years C/O Talents Award
BlackBox / Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung, Munich
Curated by Veronika Epple, C/O Berlin

The exhibition Photography in Flux: 20 Years C/O Berlin Talent Award presents works by 14 selected award winners in two chapters: Documentary Reality and Expanded Image Worlds. The exhibition features series that range from explorations of documentary image forms and genres to the dissolution of the “typical” photographic image itself, incorporating installation-based, conceptual, and multimedia approaches. Documentary photography is presented not as a fixed genre, but as an evolving practice that continuously responds to changing technological and social conditions.

Featuring works by:
Friederike Brandenburg, Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, Adji Dieye, Anna Ehrenstein, Sibylle Fendt, Pepa Hristova, Sasha Kurmaz, Emanuel Mathias, Willem Popelier, Florian van Roekel, Ivonne Thein, Janina Wick, Karolina Wojtas, Tobias Zielony

Exhibition dates: October 16, 2026 – February 25, 2027

BlackBox &  First Floor
Georg-Muche-Straße 4
80807 Munich, Germany

Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung

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On 29 August 2026, MDR Sachsenspiegel aired a feature on the work My (s(h)elf) at Trans Art Val in Göhrenz, presented as part of the festival A Horse With No Name. Watch the TV feature here: https://www.mdr.de/video/mdr-videos/c/video-1639482.html

Editor: Sybille Muth

rans–Art–Val
August 30, 2026
3–10 PM
Installation, Performance
August 31 – October 26, 2026

In his largest installation to date—and his first situated in a natural environment—
MY S(h)ELF, Mathias takes up residence on the grounds of ↗ Trans–Art–Val in a large-scale shelving system, quite literally turning it into a temporary space for living and working. At the same time, it becomes a walk-in aesthetic space for reflection, where thoughts, images, and objects from his artistic research enter into a relationship with the surrounding natural environment.

What happens when scientific thinking in categories and systems of order encounters the order of cultivated nature? What happens to the urge and longing for systematic organization when the usually carefully protected archive of scientific and artistic artifacts is subjected to renewed examination?

At the same time, the installation connects the question of observation—for example, the perspective of primate researchers observing great apes—with the artist’s own situatedness in the storefront studio in Leipzig-Grünau that he has occupied for the past year.

How do artists and scientists relate to the realities of their lives, as well as to societal questions of participation and connectedness? How does moving through their own living environments and those of others affect their perspectives?

As part of the exhibition, a public round table on artistic research, organized by the ↗ Very Ape Institut and Emanuel Mathias, will take place on September 3. In the form of a fishbowl discussion, visitors are invited to listen to the conversation and, if they wish, take part themselves.

The event is part of the ↗ A Horse With No Name festival, an art route through rural Saxony.

Opening on Thursday, September 25, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

Exhibition runs until August 31, 2027

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

Main Building D, Foyer 3rd Floor (Hg/D/3)

Eberhard-Leibnitz-Straße 2

06217 Merseburg