Berlin<>Rio: Routes and Memories
The “Berlin<>Rio: Routes and Memories” project addresses the history of my family bridging different political and cultural systems, following its spatial and chronological development across five generations.
It starts with my great-great-grandfather Valentin Manheimer, Jewish entrepreneur who in 1840 founded one of Berlin’s first clothing businesses. It continues with the family of my grandfather Bruno Valentin in Berlin and in Hannover; then, my grandparents’ and parents’ exile to Brazil fleeing from Nazi persecution; a new beginning in Rio de Janeiro and finally remigration to Germany.
I have worked with historical photographs and documents from my family’s archives, created photographic re-enactments and films. Here, Germany reaches out towards Brazil – rather, homeland to exile - and vice versa.
In 2016 the project was awarded a prize by the National Arts Foundation of Brazil. On May 3rd 2018 opened an exhibition at Berlin’s Haus am Kleistpark and a book in German and English was published.
You can check it out here.
Those are some of the contemporary photographs from Berlin and Brazil that are being shown at the exhibit.

Tempelhof, Berlin, 2014.
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Tempelhof, Berlin, 2015.
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S-Bahn, Berlin, 2016.
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Oranienstrasse, Berlin, 2014.
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Alexanderplatz, Berlin, 2016.
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Holocaust-Mahnmal, Berlin, 2014.
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Haus des Lehrers, Berlin, 2014.
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Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, 2014.
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Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin, 2014
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Sowjetisches Ehrenmal im Treptower Park, Berlin, 2015.
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Treptower Park, Berlin, 2015.
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Treptower Park, Berlin, 2015.
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Landwehr Kanal, Berlin, 2015.
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Tiergarten, Berlin, 2014.
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Tiergarten, Berlin, 2014.
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Mauerpark, Berlin, 2014.
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Tiergarten, Berlin, 2014.
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Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, 2018.
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Praça Paris, Rio de Janeiro, 2018.
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Parque Nacional das Agulhas Negras, Itatiaia, 2018.
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Agulhas Negras, Itatiaia, 2018.
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Itatiaia, 2018.
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