In honor of OONA’s exhibition opening at Schlachter 151, the teams from Numéro Berlin and CIFRA hosted a private dinner to celebrate the artist’s vision and her performance ‘For Human Eyes Only’ alongside close friends of the magazine and the art scene. Among the guests were many key figures from the Berlin fashion industry, such as Götz Offergeld, publisher and editor-in-chief of Numéro, as well as deputy-editor-in-chief Antonia Schmidt, Ann-Kathrin Riedl, editor-in-chief of Fräulein Magazine, the editor-in-chief of Gruppe Magazine, Hella Schneider, stylist Marvin Lobodda, and influencers Hanna Goldfisch and Lele Berlin, alongside the curator of the exhibition Anika Meier and other collectors and artists.

Throughout the evening, the artist remained true to her central motif. Despite her physical presence, her face stayed hidden to preserve her essential anonymity. Her work raises existential questions: “If machines are trained to read the body as data, what does it mean to be seen? And what becomes visible when the machine fails to detect the body?” In this context, cameras are transformed from instruments of control into collaborators.

Last week, the Schlachter 151 exhibition space hosted the opening of OONA’s first solo exhibition. Under the title “Dear David: A Surveillance Love Story,” the artist presents a body of work born from an unusual symbiosis. Since 2019, OONA has performed in the London Underground in front of surveillance cameras, appearing not as an anonymous passerby but as if positioned before the lens of a fashion photographer. To obtain this material, she entered into an exchange with David, whose job involves managing this data. Over 400 emails later, a digital connection developed between two strangers, forming the foundation of her art.

The dinner was powered by CIFRA, a platform for digital and video art that provides specialized software and hardware for a precise presentation of digital works. Stream OONA’s videos from the exhibition on CIFRA.COM