Boaz Levin

Boaz M. Levin is a Berlin-based writer, curator and filmmaker. His curatorial work deals with histories of ecology and technology and the ways these have influenced visual culture. "Mining Photography: The ecological Footprint of Image Production" curated together with Esther Ruelfs, and (2023) and "Image Ecology" curated together with Kathrin Schönegg (2024), as well as his essay "The Pencil of Cheap Nature: Towards an Environemtal History of Photography" have become key references in the discourse around the ecology of image production. Since October 2023, he has served as Co-Head of Program and curator at C/O Berlin, where he co-curated exhibitions such as "Valie Export. Retrospective"; "Studio Rex, the Jean-Marie Donat collection"; "Träum Weiter – Berlin, the 90er," and Dörte Eißfeldt. Archipelago. In 2022, Levin was co-curator of the 3rd Chennai Photo Biennale. In 2017, he was co-curator together with Florian Ebner, Kerstin Meinicke, Kathrin Schonegg, and Christin Müller of the 7th edition of the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, which takes place in Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg. He is an editor of Cabinet Magazine's Kiosk. His essay, "On Distance", was published by Atlas Projectos, Berlin, as part of the Next Spring series of occasional reviews. His writing has been published by magazines such as Camera Austria, Texte Zur Künst, and Frieze. He is an AICA, and DGPh member, and has been an ICOM member. Levin has curated exhibitions at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Heidelberger Kunstverein, The Jewish Museum Munich, and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, KunstHausWien, and C/O Berlin, among other venues. Levin is the co-founder, together with Vera Tollmann and Hito Steyerl, of the Research Center for Proxy Politics. Levin has served as both nominator and jury member for numerous prizes and fellowships, including the DAAD film Film Residency Award, Hamburger Bahnhof's inaugural Studio Award, and the C/O Berlin's After Nature Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize.

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