Biography
Ann-Christin Bertrand has been a curator, author and lecturer in photography for many years. In her work to date, she has combined both practical institutional and academic experience. During her almost ten years as a permanent curator at the C/O Berlin Foundation, she has been able to build up a large international network of institutions, artists and experts and has also conceived and introduced several programme formats that deal with the profound changes in photography since digitization and with questions about the future of the medium.
In addition to numerous group exhibitions, such as most recently BACK TO THE FUTURE - The 19th Century in the 21st Century or WATCHED - Surveillance Art and Photography, the exhibition series THINKING ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, in which she has been showing international, conceptually working artists since 2014, who reflect on the changing conditions of production, distribution, presentation and reception of the medium in their work, should be mentioned here in particular. The IN TRANSITION series of events she conceived also highlighted aspects of this complex development with discussions and lectures by international experts and artists. She was also responsible for the TALENT AWARDS at C/O Berlin, which are awarded once a year on the subject of New Documentary Strategies.
Next to her curatorial work, she has regularly given lectures and seminars at numerous universities, such as Aalto University of Arts & Design Helsinki, Hochschule fu¨r Kunst und Medien Köln, HfbK Hamburg and Folkwang University Essen. Since 2016, she has also been a lecturer in the Master Photography programme at ECAL, University of Arts and Design Lausanne, Switzerland. Here she was involved in the two research projects “Augmented Photography” and “Automated Photography”, which examined the mutability of the digital photographic image and the increasing use and influence of automation processes in the production of photographic images.
