Viktoria Binschtok

Playing an exciting game of confusion of digital reality and analog virtuality, Viktoria Binschtok questions accustomed visual behavior and materializes the Internet’s flood of images, or rather, dematerializes reality. On the occasion of the exhibition Marriage is a Lie/Fried Chickenat C/O Berlin, this publication comprises short essays that critically discuss the questions thrown up by Viktoria Binschtok about the future of the photographic medium. Based on her works, four international authors trace their own associations and thought processes – working in a similar way to the search algorithm that the artist uses. Thus, a richly faceted collage of highly diverse reflections on the far-reaching changes in the photographic medium arises, which furthermore embeds Viktoria Binschtok’s works in current international discourse. Viktoria Binschtok (b.1972 in Moscow) studied artistic photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and was a master’s apprentice under Timm Rautert. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, among others at the Centre Pompidou Metz, at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden, at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, and at Les Rencontres d’Arles. Viktoria Binschtok lives and works in Berlin.