In The Expos, we present our talents' work in two online exhibitions. The shows will be hosted by Fotomat, available from the 5th to the 31st of October.
RESET
Hosted by and curated by Salvatore Vitale, the expo RESET investigates our main theme with projects by seven artists from our platform: Julie Poly, Ela Polkowska, Eva O'Leary, Garry Loughlin, Sanne De Wilde, Dávid Biró, and Ana Zibelnik.
2020 will likely be remembered as one of the most tumultuous years in modernity. The process it started is still ongoing and may be a catalyst for general changes that were already underway. This takes the connotation of a reset which is leading human beings to re-think the basis of their positions in the world through a process able to place creativity and free-thinking as cornerstones to foster pragmatic processes. Taking these processes as a starting point, we ask ourselves how contemporary artists and thinkers have impacted and reacted to social tensions through their often personal visions, strategies of isolation, and forms of self-organisation, regrouping, and dispersion.
The exhibition RESET features the work of seven artists who, in- and within their differentiated and multi-layered practices, offer plural methods and visions to address some key issues and stories concerning modernity.
You can access the exhibition here.
FUTURES TALENTS 2020
The programme of exhibitions also presents the showcase Futures Talents 2020, which introduces our 59 emerging artists of this year. The online show has been curated by trying to answer the question ‘What are emerging artists in Europe talking about today?’. Identities, territories, spirituality, physicality and memory are some of the topics that have arisen from the talents' works.
You can access the exhibition here.
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The Open Mic is a private activity, when our talents can present their ongoing projects in an online space with artists and other professionals from the industry.
On Mondays throughout the month, we offer this year’s artists the opportunity to digitally present their ongoing and unfinished projects to an exclusive audience of fellow artists and relevant industry professionals. The artists selected for these private sessions are Ana Zibelnik, András Ladocsi, Brave Boy Studio, Hanna Jarzabek, Jon Gorospe, Mar Sáez, Ruth Montel Arias, Sebastian Steveniers and Vera Ryklova.
In October, we invite you to join our talents online with the Futures Digital Festival: RESET. Every year, our platform organizes a main event with our artists and members. For 2020, this will take the form of a virtual festival with talks, exhibitions and other online activities.
So far, 2020 has presented many challenges and will likely be remembered as one of the most tumultuous years in modernity. But how will this year shift the way we produce and experience art? How are the artists dealing with this time of change?
Co-funded by Creative Europe and designed by Vandejong Creative Agency, the Futures Digital Festival brings together our 12 members and all the artists who have joined our platform since 2018. Under the theme RESET, the programme focuses on discussing these changes we are facing nowadays and how art is responding to them.
From the 5th to the 31st of October, the festival unfolds into five main programmes: The Expos, The Assembly, The Conversations, The Open Mic, and The Studio Visit.
For The Expos, we present our talents in two online exhibitions. Powered by Fotomat and curated by Salvatore Vitale, the expo RESET investigates our main theme with the projects by seven artists from our platform: Julie Poly, Ela Polkowska, Eva O'Leary, Garry Loughlin, Sanne De Wilde, Dávid Biró, and Ana Zibelnik.
The programme of expos also presents the showcase Futures Talents 2020, which introduces our 59 emerging artists of this year. The online show has been curated by trying to answer the question ‘What are emerging artists in Europe talking about today?’. Identities, territories, spirituality, physicality and memory are some of the topics that have arisen from the talents' works.
During The Assembly, our Futures members organize a series of talks with art professionals in topics related to the main theme RESET. The assemblies take place online, via Zoom and streamed on our social media channels. The full programme of talks will be released in the upcoming weeks.
The Conversations is a private event in which we invite a group of professionals and our talents for a series of portfolio review and coaching sessions.
The Open Mic is also a private activity, when our talents can present their ongoing projects in an online space with artists and other professionals from the industry.
Finally, The Studio Visit programme is an online activity organized by Futures and curated by Marina Paulenka. Once a week, the curator presents a virtual online tour of our talents' studios, talking about their inspirations, creative process, and ongoing projects. This activity is mainly exclusive to VIPs and guests.
The Conversations is an event in which we invite a group of professionals and our talents for a series of portfolio review and coaching sessions. These meetings will take place once a week during the month of October, in a private and online environment.
From different countries, the list of professionals includes artists, curators, photo-editors, gallerists, publishers, etc. They are:
Angel Luis Gonzales – Director and Founder of the PhotoIreland Festival
Raphaelle Stopin - Curator at International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Fashion Accessories of Hyères
Giangavino Pazzola - Curator at Camera-Italian Center for Photography in Turin
Lyza Premiak - Editor at The Calvert Journal
Fotofestiwal Lodz
Ingrid Leonard and Rein Desle - FOMU
Sebastian Vaida – Founder of the Photo Romania Festival
Istvan Virágvölgyi - Curator, photo editor and secretary of the Robert Capa Photography Grand Prize Hungary
Ana Berruguete – curator at PHotoESPAÑA
Clara Chalou - Artistic committee of the association Fetart and organizers of festival Circulation(s) in Paris
Elias Redstone - Founder and Artistic Director of PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography in Melbourne (AU)
Federica Chiocchetti - Writer, curator, editor and lecturer. Founder of Photocaptionist
Daria Tuminas - Curator at FOTODOK in Utrecht and former Head of Book Market at Unseen Amsterdam
Cale Garrido and Anja Kneller - Curators for Triennial of Photography Hamburg
Isabelle van Hemert - Photo Editor at De Correspondent
Alessia Glaviano - Senior photo editor for Vogue Itália and L’Uomo Vogue
Donald Weber – Photographer, teacher and founder of the Master Photography & Society program at the KABK
Jason Fullford - Photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He i salso a Guggenheim Fellow
Bruno Ceschel - Director and founder of Self Publish, Be Happy. Lecturer at ECAL and UAL and writer/curator/consultant on contemporary photography
Valerie Cazin - Director of Galerie Binome in Paris
Azu Nwagbogu - Founder and Director of African Artists’ Foundation (AAF); Founder and Director of LagosPhoto Festival, in Nigeria
Bindi Vora - Artist, curator, and curatorial project manager at Autograph in London
Elena Vaninetti - Curator, educator, and editor (YET magazine)
Narda van 't Veer – Founder of the Ravestjin Gallery
Janice McLaren - Head of Education & Projects at The Photographers’ Gallery in London
Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen - Head of the Copenhagen Photo Festival
Claire Gould - Curator of the Copenhagen Photo Festival
Tim Clark - Founder and editor of 1000 Words
Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo - Independent artist and curator, currently completing his PhD at the National Photography School in Arles, France (ENSP)
Kim Boske - Visual artist. She studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, from which she received her BA in 2005
Salvatore Vitale - Visual artist, editor of Yet Magazine and professor at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
Sarker Protick - Visual artist, teacher and curator
Aaron Schuman - Artist, photographer, writer, editor, curator and teacher at UWE Bristol
Max Pinkers - Artist based in Brussels, Belgium
Nicolas Polli - Artist, graphic designer and founder of Ciao Press Publishing
Valentina Abenavoli - Visual artist and founder of Akina Books
Marcella Manni - Founder of Metronom gallery and publishing house based in Modena (IT)
Claudia Dader - Fashion Editor at O'Neill
Juan Curto - Founder, owner and director of Camara Oscura in Madrid
Tommaso Parrillo - Publisher and founder of Witty books (Witty Kiwi)
Erik Vroons - Editor-at-large for GUP Magazine
Caroline O'Breen - Founder and director of Galerie Caroline O'Breen in Amsterdam
Yvette Mutumba - ‘Curator-at-large’ at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and editor-in-chief of the art magazine Contemporary And (C&)
Jenny Nordquist - Artistic director for Landskrona Foto, Sweden
Taco Hidde Bakker - Writer, translator, teacher, curator, and sparring partner for photographers and artists
Thyago Nogueira - Head of the Contemporary Photography Department at Instituto Moreira Salles, Brazil and editor of ZUM photography magazine
Void Publishing
Milo Montelli – Publisher and founder of SKINNERBOOX
Virgilio Ferreira - Founder and director of Ci.CLO Porto
Emma Bowkett - Director of Photography at the Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine
Rebecca Simons - Independent photography editor, producer and educator
Belgium bursts with photographic talent that asks to be seen. Since 2012, FOMU has been selecting ten of the very best of the up-and-coming image makers of Belgium every year for the .tiff magazine, which has since grown into an international platform.
The project is part of Futures. And the nominated talents also join our platform: Laure Cottin Stefanelli, Etienne Courtois, David Denil, Katherine Longly, Renée Lorie, Sebastian Steveniers, Wiktoria Synak, Florine Thiebaud, Pierre Vanneste en Sybren Vanoverberghe.
Besides the magazine, their work is also being exhibited in a show at FOMU. You can visit the exhibition until February 21.
More information: https://fomu.be/en/exhibitions/33-days-of-tiff
The Futures Talents nominated by PHotoESPAÑA this year will be presented in a collective exhibition within the festival’s main programme in Madrid. Curated by Ana Berruguete, the show will bring together works from five emerging artist from September 17th to January 24th at the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
Every year, PHotoESPAÑA nominates five talents to our platform. The artists selected for this year are: Bernardita Morello (Buenos Aires, 1984), Mar Sáez (Murcia, 1983), Ire Lenes (Madrid, 1981), Ruth Montiel Arias (A Coruna, 1977) and Jon Gorospe (Vitoria, 1986).
In 2020, PHotoESPAÑA is hosting one of its most unique editions. The exceptional situation around the world caused by the coronavirus health crisis has prompted substantial changes in all areas of our lives, including changes in the way we live and interact, which the festival is experiencing as well.
Despite having been hatched under exceptional circumstances, the 23rd edition of PHotoESPAÑA, which will last through 31 October this year and encompass almost all of Spain, will focus on important digital projects. The programme include activities online and offline.
Collective. FUTURES
17.09.2020 - 24.01.2021
Círculo de Bellas Artes (Sala Minerva) - Calle Alcalá, 42, 28014, Madrid
Info: https://www.phe.es/en/
What is hidden behind the need to collect, own and catalogue photographs? Can collecting become an obsession? What is the value of the photographs we want to keep with us? If you wish to experience culture outside the internet, Fotofestiwal invites you to Lodz between 6 and 23 August. The festival programme will focus on truly exceptional, original, bold photographic collections. This year, the exhibitions will also be available online.
Thanks to the determination and support of partners, artists and curators, this year’s edition of the International Festival of Photography in Lodz will be held in the post-industrial spaces of Art_Inkubator – two months after the originally planned date – between 6 and 23 August. Due to safety reasons, the programme of the event will focus mainly on exhibitions. While meetings with the audience will be limited and organised online, there will still be some special events available to visitors. Two exhibitions – one in the Muzeum Sztuki ms1 in Łódź and the other one in the so called Motyl UŁ building (with an unmistakeable butterfly-mural) – will be opened in autumn. The main theme of this year’s exhibitions is collecting as a form of art, habit, passion, and sometimes obsession.
During this year’s edition of Fotofestiwal, we will get to know extraordinary collectors. All of them have been building their unique collections for years, making them very original compilations of photographs, selected based on unconventional criteria and often originating from surprising sources. Thanks to their determination, passion and obsession, they have managed to create inspiring stories about the contemporary society and breakthrough moments in the history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Apart from amateur photography, the collections also include works that have been displayed in prestigious museums around the world and at a number of international festivals. The common denominator of all this year’s exhibitions is that, with one exception, the collectors themselves will become their main narrators and curators.
oo’s & iii’s is a selection of works from two collections of New York curator W.M. Hunt: Dancing Bear, consisting of magical, intriguing photographs of people with their eyes closed, obscured or otherwise invisible, and Blind Pirate, which is a collection of photographs of various groups from before 1950, including American soldiers, workers and students. The emphasis for this show is on abstraction and shape with oo’s being eyes, faces, heads and circles and iii’s representing densely grouped crowds of people, looking like masses of vertical lines. Hunt’s collections, photographs found in a nearby thrift shop appear right next to works by such artists as Diane Arbus or Robert Frank.
Jean-Marie Donat focuses on amateur photos only. He rummages for them at flea markets all over the world, finds them on the Internet and creates compilations which he then releases as self-published photo books. Often, certain recurring motifs can be found in these images: men flexing their muscles, posing with cars, scratched out faces of disliked people, holiday family portraits with a traditional “white bear”. All this makes up a funny and bitter self-portrait of the world in the 20th century.
The last, but not least, element of the international part of the Festival’s main programme will be the Hungarian Fortepan collection, created by Miklós Tamási. This thoughtfully curated collection of photographs by István Virágvölgyi from Robert Capa Center in Budapest is currently one of the most interesting digital archives of vernacular photography that has been made available on the Internet – and it all started with a bag of photographs found in a trashcan. The collection now consists of hundreds of thousands of photographs – retrieved from cellars, garbage bins, antique shops, but also donated by individuals and institutions –
and it has been proving since its very conception that there is a talented artist in every family from the beginning.
The closing exhibition of the Festival programme will be presented in the Museum of Art in Lodz, this time a bit unusually – in the autumn. It is the outstanding collection created for more than 30 years by the well-known French art promoter and merchant Antoine de Galbert, founder of the private La Maison Rouge museum in Paris. His collections contain over three thousand exhibits. Antoine de Galbert is known for his unconventional approach to exhibiting his works. One of his previous exhibitions, The Wall, was made in collaboration with an IT specialist, using the Monte-Carlo method. A randomly generated algorithm selected works solely on the basis of two indicators: image size and inventory number. For Fotofestiwal, Antoine de Galbert prepared a curatorial exhibition titled The Burning House, which shows the contemporary world in crisis. The exhibition will include works by politically and socially engaged artists, including Christian Boltanski, Boris Mikhailov, Jonathan Horowitz, David Goldblatt, Mikhael Subotzky, Yoho Tsuda.
The festival programme will include, as always, the Open Program section (formerly Grand Prix Fotofestiwal) – a result of annual open call and cooperation with an international jury. The projects of the six selected artists present the most interesting and the latest phenomena in contemporary photography. They address such issues as: selfie factories in the USA, Polish migration to the South American countries during the partitions the interwar period, military-themed summer camps for kids in Eastern Europe or the problem of radioactive waste – they present a cross-section of the most interesting and current trends in contemporary photography. This year, works of the following artists will be presented: Jorge Fuembuena, Kata Geibl, Máté Bartha, Marcel Rickli, Katarzyna and Marianna Wąsowska and Sheila Weiler.
In response to the current global economic situation, the organisers decided to reduce the ticket price to a symbolic amount. For safety reasons, parts of the programme involving the audience will be significantly limited and organized online. The programme of this year’s edition encourages you to devote more time to experience the exhibitions and exceptional spaces of unique Lodz.
Fotofestiwal – International Festival of Photography in Lodz
6-23 August 2020
Lodz & Internet
More info about the Fotofestiwal – International Festival of Photography in Lodz: www.fotofestiwal.com
Programme news: https://www.facebook.com/events/451900638974793/
Organized by Fotofestiwal in Lodz and Krakow Photomonth Festival, the Photo Match will be hosted online this year. The artists will show their projects during four days, between the 3rd and 6th of August. On the 7th of August, they will be matched with the reviewers and the portfolio review sessions will take place in a digital system from 11am to 4pm.
There is an open call to participate in the sessions and showcase. Projects must be submitted online until June 30th here.
The Photo Match’s model breathes new life into the traditional formula of portfolio reviews through placing a special emphasis on the series of open networking events, public presentations and an equal status granted to the reviewers as well as all artists. Twenty reviewers and twenty authors will be invited to participate this year. The list of reviewers includes magazine editors, book publishers, photography festivals’ directors, museum curators, gallery owners, independent art consultants:
Franek Ammer, Fotofestiwal
Alex Bocchetto, Akina Books
Shannon Ghannam, Magnum Photos
Angel Luis Gonzalez, PhotoIreland
Joanna Gorlach, Krakow Photomonth Festival
Karol Grygoruk, Rats Agency
Virgilio Ferreira, Porto Biennial
Michael Itkoff, Daylight Books
Kasia Kubicka, independent editor
Pablo Berástegui Lozano, Salut Au Monde
Amie Norris, ACN Studio
Marina Paulenka, independent curator
Liza Premiyak, Calvert Journal
Tereza Rudolf, Fotograf Festival
Aaron Schuman, independent curator, educator
Enrico Stefanelli, Photolux Lucca
Ben Weaver, The Wire, Here Press
Lars Willumeit, independent curator
Istvan Virágvölgyi, Capa Center
Salvatore Vitale, YET magazine
Due to the pandemic, Camera's Masterclass program will be entirely online this year. In this edition, Camera offers a three-week Intensive Online Course in Visual Storytelling organized with the ICP-International Center of Photography of New York, from July 13 to 31.
The lessons will be held online by American and British teachers. The whole course costs 490 euros. You can apply online until July 6: http://camera.to/en/didattica/icp-online-intensive-course-in-visual-storytelling/
On July 16 and 23, Camera and ICP will also host a live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CameraTorino/
Under the title ON/OFF, PhotoIreland Festival will take place 8-19 July with a special programme adapted to the safety measures due to the pandemic. This year, the festival will be brought to you through two separate channels, navigating virtual and physical worlds: online with stimulating participative events, and offline, both in print, capitalising on the forthcoming OVER journal, and at The Library Project.
Online activities feature a collaboration with Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery to deliver a special Screen Walk, and with Fotomuseum Winterthur for an exclusive presentation of their programme of SITUATIONS – a series of onlinepropositions – SITUATION #202.
The programme will be complemented with the Tokyo International Photography Competition 2020 that offers a wide range of practices from around the world. It will be displayed at The Library Project, Dublin, 1-26 July.
More information and the full programme can be found here: http://festival.photoireland.org/