C.B. Evans: Reality or Not

C.B. Evans' artistic practice explores the structures of the digital world and their impact on our present.

Rather than approaching these structures through abstraction or alienation, their films, installations, sculptures, and collages turn toward the intimate terrain of human emotions, examining its value and inevitable rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. Their work seizes on the points where emotions falter, push back, or find new form in the face of such forces.  

Drawing on a collage of animation techniques, staged live action, and found footage, Evans’s films place storytelling at their core. Politics, literature, cinema, and popular culture serve as entry points into speculative narratives. Evans’s first solo exhibition in Berlin centers around the film Reality or Not (2023), which examines the production of reality under conditions shaped by entertainment, algorithmic, and image economies- all competing to control the narrative.  

"Reality or Not" follows a group of high school students from a suburb north of Paris who are invited by an American producer to participate in a reality TV show only to reject reality itself. The students’ radicalization is pushed by the Producer (C.B. Evans) and narrated by their former teacher (Alexandra Stewart), as they begin a practice of world jumping that moves the film across disparate realities.

Runtime: Sat, 13/06/2026 to Sun, 16/08/2026

Takes place here:

• Schinkel Pavillon