Berliner Luft - Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière

The 12th installment of Berliner Luft at Dittrich & Schlechtriem, featuring a collaborative work by Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charrière, opens on Monday, August 3 and will be on view daily from 11 AM to 6 PM through Saturday, August 8. The established artist duo works at the threshold of science and art, examining our relationships to nature, society, and history. It will be the first presentation of the series of photographs from Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer Than They Appear in Berlin.

Objects in Mirror Might Be Closer was shot in the Exclusion Zone, an area stretching 30 kilometers in all directions around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, whose explosion in 1986 rendered the land uninhabitable. The series is an excursion into the “involuntary park” the region has become––a glimpse into a non-human space overrun by wildlife and forest as seen through the perspective of a living deer, made possible by mounting a camera on the animal’s antlers and training it on its eye.