By
Álvaro De Benito
GRACIELA ITURBIDE BRINGS HER MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE TO BERLIN
A major exhibition at C/O Berlin traces more than five decades of the Mexican photographer’s career, presenting over 250 works including her most iconic series.
April 16, 2026
Graciela Iturbide. Mujer angel, Desierto de Sonora, 1979
C/O Berlin hosts Eyes to Fly With until June, the first major retrospective of Graciela Iturbide in the German capital, bringing together around 250 works. Through a carefully curated selection, the exhibition surveys more than five decades of her artistic career, including her most celebrated series alongside lesser-known photographs.
Iturbide’s long-standing body of work consistently explores the relationships between identity, ritual, and society, always through an intimate and poetic lens. Over time, she has developed a distinctive visual language that moves between documentary photography and deeply personal, subjective reflection, gradually evolving toward more introspective images that engage with spirituality and the tensions between tradition and modernity.
The exhibition highlights diverse social contexts, featuring images of the Seri people in northwestern Mexico and, in the series La Matanza, documenting ritual animal slaughter in the Mixteca region. The representation of women is also central, particularly in her work on Juchitán, which serves as a key record of a social structure in which women hold dominant roles.
Within this sociological framework that permeates her work, the White Fence project stands out as especially significant. In this series, Iturbide turns her attention to Chicano culture and the Chola subculture in Los Angeles, exploring the effects of immigration, constructed identity, and racial marginalization in urban environments. In addition, Eyes to Fly With includes her work at the Casa Azul of Frida Kahlo, where she captures the symbolic presence of the artist through personal objects.
Graciela Iturbide: Eyes to Fly With is on view until June 10, 2026, at C/O Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 22–24, Berlin (Germany).
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