C/O Berlin Talent Award
C/O Berlin Talent Award 2018 Artist Stefanie Moshammer mit Urkunde
C/O Berlin Talent Award 2018 Artist Stefanie Moshammer mit Urkunde © David von Becker
DISCOVER AND SUPPORT EMERGING TALENTS

Supporting emerging talents is a vital part of C/O Berlin’s mission. Since 2006, the Talents program has recognized over 80 award winners, including the artists Karolina Wojtas, Anna Ehrenstein, Stefanie Moshammer, and Tobias Zielony as well as the theorists Emmanuel Iduma, Florian Ebner, Dr. Katja Müller-Helle, and Dr. Steffen Siegel. C/O Berlin is the only institution in Europe to offer a funding program aimed at the next generation of artists and theorists.

What it is about
Jurysitzung im Rahmen des C/O Berlin Talent Award 2023 © C/O Berlin Foundation, Stephanie von Becker
SUPPORTING YOUNG TALENTS IN THE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

The C/O Berlin Talent Award is awarded each year in the categories of art and theory to individuals under thirty-five years of age. The award carries a cash prize for both winners as well as a solo exhibition and an individually designed publication. A joint artist talk rounds off this union of theory and practice. Artists are nominated for the award by a committee of international experts. Theorists may apply during the open call. Our junior curator Veronika Epple heads the C/O Berlin Talent Award. Since 2020, the C/O Berlin Talent Award has been made possible by the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung.

In search of
Junior-Kuratorin Veronika Epple und Co-Programmleiterin Sophia Greiff sichten Einreichungen für den C/O Berlin Talent Award 2023 © C/O Berlin Talent Award, Stephanie von Becker
NEW DOCUMENTARY STRATEGIES

Since 2018, the overarching theme of the C/O Berlin Talent Award has been New Documentary Strategies. Our goal is to encourage a critical analysis of traditional documentary narratives and to share such analyses in exhibitions and publications. Photography has been a means of documentation since the advent of the medium, yet one at once dependent on the photographing subject, whose perspective of the world is shown in photographs. What sort of a documentary role does photography occupy today? Which new narrative strategies are currently being developed in order to show and understand the world? And how is our trust in photography changing in an era of networked images? The C/O Berlin Talent Award’s current focus on New Documentary Strategies seeks to offer answers to these questions in the prizewinning works. Our junior curator Veronika Epple heads the C/O Berlin Talent Award.

Year for Year

ALL TALENTS THROUGH TIME

Artist
Aladin Borioli
Theorist
Bas Blaasse
Shortlist
Arnout & Michiel De Cleene
Naima Green
Elias Holzknecht
Jan Staiger und Malte Uchtmann
Artist
Karolina Wojtas
Theorist
Matthias Gründig
Shortlist
Lucas Leffler
Irene Antonia Diane Reece
Alina Schmuch
Lisandro Suriel
Artist
Adji Dieye
Theorist
Emmanuel Iduma
Shortlist
Leonard Suryajaya
Marina Caneve
Max Colson
Salma Abedin Prithi
Artist
Anna Ehrenstein
Theorist
Emily Watlington
Shortlist
Laura Ben Hayoun
Esther Hovers
Alexander Rosenkranz
Alina Schmuch
Artist
Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques
Theorist
Mira Anneli Naß
Shortlist
Axel Braun
Jan Hoek
Camille Lévêque
Luo Yang
Artist
Stefanie Moshammer
Theorist
Andreas Prinzing
Shortlist
Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques
Joscha Steffens
Stephan Bögel
Mafalda Rakoš
Artist
Karolin Back
Theorist
Svenja Paulsen
Artist
Verónica Losantos
Bianca Pedrina
Method Sasha Kurmaz
Maja Wirkus
Theorist
Anja Schürmann
Larissa Kikol
Svea Bräunert
Jule Schaffer
Artist
Iveta Vaivode
Emanuel Mathias
Marc Beckmann
Krzysztof Pijarski
David Favrod
Theorist
Jule Hillgärtner
Sabine Weier
Sarah Alberti
Annika K. Kuhlmann
Julia Katharina Thiemann
Artist
Luise Schröder
Theorist
Hannah Peterson
Artist
Iveta Vaivode
Marc Beckmann
Theorist
Krzysztof Pijarski
Emanuel Mathias
Artist
Peikwen Cheng
Florian van Roekel
Daniel Seiffert
Willem Popelier
Theorist
Eileen Seifert
Nisaar Ulama
Agneta Jilek
Katja Müller-Helle
Artist
Iris Janke
Timotheus Tomicek
Anne Schumann
Mirko Martin
Theorist
Julia Pattis
Kathrin Schönegg
Thilo Westermann
Melanie Martin
Artist
Andy Spyra
Esther-Judith Hinz
Friederike Brandenburg
Markus Klingenhäger
Theorist
Christin Müller
Maria Schindelegger
Sophia Greiff
Christin Krause
Artist
Oskar Schmidt
Anne Lass
Christoph Engel
Ofer Wolberger
Theorist
Steffen Siegel
Katja Melzer
Ulrike Westphal
Jennifer Crowley
Artist
Ivonne Thein
Pepa Hristova
Janina Wick
Sebastian Stumpf
Theorist
Heide Häusler
Carolin Ellwanger
Ann-Christin Bertrand
Stefanie Hoch
Artist
Tobias Zielony
Wolfram Hahn
Marion Poussier
Frank Höhle
Theorist
Jutta v. Zitzewitz
Daniel Klemm
Marius Strasser
Thilo Scheffler
Artist
Stephanie Kiwitt
Sibylle Fendt
Stephen Waddell
Frank Berger
Gaël Peltier
Theorist
Claudia Gochmann
Anne Pascale Frohn
Katrin Blum
Florian Ebner
Thibaut de Ruyter
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