Berlin – Contre-Jour Art

Backstage Ausstellung’26

Karlo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:16:33 +0000

Backstage Ausstellungsbesuch

Berlin, Feb 2026

Visit of an Exhibtion in Berlin „Backstage“.

Abyss’25

Karlo — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:12:18 +0000

Mahalla: Into the Abyss with Orkgotik

Berlin Oberschöneweise 2025

I had the chance to make pictures from the performance „Into the Abyss“ a drag event at the Mahalla.
This is a part from the show and covers the exceptional transformation of the artist into something I would call „art species“. This reminded me very much into Kafkas book „Die Verwandlung“ (or engl „The Metamorphosis“).

The artists Orkgostik Instagram can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/orkgotik/

Jin Berlin’18

Karlo — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:52:43 +0000

Jin Berlin’18

Berlin, 2018

Jin from South Korea visited me in Berlin and we did a city walk photography afternoon in June 2018

Tomás Cohen’25

Karlo — Sat, 03 May 2025 23:02:29 +0000

Tomás Cohen

Berlin, 2025

Tomás Cohen in an interview and portrait.
Tomás is from Chile, writing spanish poems and will publish his latest book.
Link

Roby Ropes’25

Karlo — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:36:02 +0000

Roby in Ropes

BERLIN, APRIL 2025 IN WEISSENSEE AT THE STUDIO OF DANIEL KRAUSE

As a small art project I planned for Roby a surprise, a body paint on her with ropes and wax. My current working place at the Prachtsaal Studio in Neukölln did not allow me to do this performance without further long lastint conversations and elections by the collective which is there as main group.. while myself is a subcontractor of a subgroup who only rented desktop places.. – so no chance to do anything artisticly there. I asked a friend who is a scultpure if we could do this at his place, at his new studio place in Weissensee, Berlin and he agrees.. What a joy.
As a rope mistress I found Svetlana to tie Roby so that we do have her as a human sculpture, painted, waxed, roped into a form..- that was the idea.
To free up my mind I tried to forget as much as possible of what exactly I wanted to do.. – packed all stuff I might need, rented a car and wanted to let things come into a flow – means to be as open as possible to do finally what the situation, the model, the sculpture artist, myself and the rigger agrees.
I find this setting of „clear my mind the day before“ is a very important step to not be bothered or blocked with emotions if something might change, not coming, will go a different path or just things will develop differently, not speaking about people not coming at all..
It is important to keep yourself optimistic and in a good mood for any photography session:
Roby was so kind that she likes surprises and was really very open for anything which might come – so thankful about this cool setting!

Manifest:IO’25

Karlo — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:56:45 +0000

Manifest:IO 25 in Berlin

THE THIRD EDITION OF MANIFEST:IO, THE SYMPOSIUM FOR NEW MEDIA AND ELECTRONIC ART

A full weekend of workshops, talks, performances, and an exhibition hosting works from interactive installations to spatial sound experiences. Below is a brief overview of what we saw at MANIFEST:IO 2025.
My small documentary which is mostly driven by subjective impressions walking around, talking to people, wittness the performances and heard the symposium talks.

Pimp Costumes’24

Karlo — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:42:11 +0000

Pimp your Costumes

CORVINS COSTUMES PERFORMANCE AT CORVINS STUDIO IN BERLIN-KÖPENICK 2024

Do It Yourself
Make your own Costumes.
Live your life the most..
Studio visit at Corvins place in Köpenick and catch the moment.

Inside/Outside’22

Karlo — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 11:47:36 +0000

Inside – Outside

BEHIND-THE-SCENES CAPTURES FROM THE @MISTERGOMCOM MUSIC VIDEO SHOOT!

Location: @grosse_freiheit_114
Direction: @gregormarvel and @sally_b13
Cinematography: @sally_b13
Lights: @contre.jour
Script: @gregormarvel
Performers: @aidagey, @davewrs, @la_valentina_de_monia, @leobyleob
Props & Costume: Friendly Society Berlin, Gregor Marvel & Tarik

Seasons Closing’21

Karlo — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:15:02 +0000

Konchord Musicvideo

MUSICVIDEO PRODUCTION „SEASONS CLOSING“ AT SCHLOSS SCHÖNOW, 2021-11

Being part of the media team of a music video production of „Konchord – Seasons Closing“ I took pictures to be used as „making of“.. The location was a historic castle in Mecklenburg Vorpommern in North Germany and the production took place in the garden in front of the castle..
Please check out Konsti Lackners music productions for example on soundcloud and I assume that the video from this production will go live soon.
https://soundcloud.com/konchord

Painter Rabe’16

Karlo — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:34:48 +0000

Rabe

Portrait of Painter Rabe Habdank, Berlin 2016

In his studio in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Doing a portrait of a painter, it’s all about painting, isn’t it? Yes it is and to impact this creative process, we choose a blank canvas and the vision of a picture of a recent photography I have done from a bondage shooting in Hamburg.
The transformation using this material to form an art by contemplation, rethinking and overpainting again and again and again was a unique experience. This is also impacting me as a photographer rethinking of the eye instinct triggered picture making
and asks the question of how to pull again and again the picture by imagination, seeking, struggling and suffer to get the final one. Thanks a lot to Rabe, see his website