Off to Elsewhere: DG x MK
Publication & Exhibition: "Off to Elsewhere" Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich (2024/25)
Berk Kır's work was selected for Off to Elsewhere, the official visual campaign of the 2024/25 season of the Münchner Kammerspiele. Curated by Çağla İlk, Artistic Director of Maxim Gorki Theater and curator of the German Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, the project was chosen through an international open call with over 1,000 submissions from 82 countries.
The campaign was presented as a large-scale, city-wide image installation and site-specific exhibition across Munich. Berk's photograph was also included in a fold-out poster publication (420 × 594 mm), designed as a collectible extension of the project, featuring an essay by Caroline von Courten and an editorial by Artistic Director Daniel Veldhoen.
Fresh Eyes: Guide to Unique Photography, Top 100 New Generation Photographers in Europe
Publication: GUP Magazine, Amsterdam (2021)
In 2021, Berk Kır was named one of the Top 100 New Generation Photographers in Europe by the Amsterdam based Guide to Unique Photography.
Featured in the Fresh Eyes publication, his work was recognized as a distinctive contribution to the contemporary European visual landscape. Beyond its initial release, the 2021 edition was subsequently acquired for the permanent PhotoIreland Collection, placing Berk’s work within an international archival framework.
Art Unlimited Covers, 2021 - Ongoing
Since 2021, Berk Kır has been creating magazine covers for Art Unlimited, an Istanbul-based cultural and art publication. Each bimonthly issue becomes a conceptual ground where he develops a visual dialogue that resonates with the featured artist’s practice, contributing to an ongoing printed archive of contemporary art.
In this process, he is responsible not only for photographing the covers but also for constructing the scenes themselves, shaping their composition, atmosphere, and visual language. Working across image making and artistic direction, Kır positions each cover as a carefully staged encounter rather than a mere representation.
Semiramis, 2025
Bringing together three figures from different generations and disciplines, Mahmut Anlar, Berk Kır, and Semiramis Pekkan, this collaboration unfolds as a layered encounter shaped by time, perception, and shared sensibility.
In his portraits of Semiramis Pekkan, Kır resists the clarity of iconic representation, instead approaching the subject through a melancholic and contemplative gaze. The images linger in moments of pause and interiority, where silence becomes a form of expression and presence is defined as much by withdrawal as by visibility.
The work situates itself within a dialogue across generations, where distinct practices and lived experiences intersect. Through this exchange, the series reflects on the persistence of image, the fragility of identity, and the subtle emotional textures that emerge in the space between artist, subject, and viewer.
