Looking at Documentary in Flux

In this dialogical format, Dr. Kathrin Schönegg and Junior Curator Veronika Epple jointly guide visitors through Documentary in Flux. The exhibition uses fourteen selected artistic positions to illuminate the transformation of documentary strategies in contemporary photographic discourse – from classic genres of documentary photography and staged documentaries to the expansion of the concept of media and possible visions of the future.

Schönegg directed the C/O Berlin Talent Award from 2019 to 2023 and conceived the exhibitions and publications by Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, Anna Ehrenstein, Adji Dieye and Karolina Wojtas in close collaboration with the artists. Together with Veronika Epple, she looks back on the exhibitions, the respective documentary strategies and the developments of the award.

Kathrin Schönegg is a curator and an awarded writer on photography. She conceptualized exhibitions for the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, the Berlinische Galerie, and Rencontres d’Arles, France. 2019–2023 she was co-head of program at C/O Berlin, where she led the C/O Berlin Talent Award and curated more than 20 solo and thematic shows such as Send me an Image. From Postcards to Social Media (2020) and Songs of the Sky. Photography & the Cloud (2021). Since 2023 she heads the photography department at the Münchner Stadtmuseum, beeing responsible for the oldest collection dedicated to photography in Germany