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The FUTURES Annual Event will unfold over a three-day program, featuring both activities curated exclusively for FUTURES artists and events open to the public. FUTURES artists will have the opportunity to attend workshops on building narratives, the role of titles and annotations, and the relationship between photography and algorithms, as well as portfolio reviews with international experts, feedback sessions, and networking opportunities.
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For the first time, the Fotograf Zone festival will present the exhibition Metamorphosis, featuring FUTURES artists Benedetta Casagrande, Vitalii Halanzha, Ksenia Ivanova, Emilia Martin, Anna Orłowska, Balázs Turós, Viktoriia Tymonova, and Yana Wernicke. The exhibition explores how social structures, modes of perception, and memory evolve over time. Starting in Prague, Metamorphosis will travel to Budapest, Turin, and Rouen.
“Transformation is an inevitable movement, often barely perceptible, yet fundamental. The exhibition Metamorphosis presents eight artistic approaches that explore how social structures, modes of perception, and memory change over time. These are not sudden ruptures, but gradual processes, subtle shifts that shape our experience and leave their imprint on the environment and visual language. The featured projects address urgent political and social issues of the present – from the impacts of conflicts on the Eurasian continent to ecological and introspective themes. Myths, collective and personal memory, and fluid narratives intertwine, influencing our ability to understand the past and orient ourselves in the present. The exhibiting artists explore how identity is formed between reality and fiction, between individual stories and broader social frameworks.”
The theme was curated by Emese Mucsi (Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center), Raphaëlle Stopin (Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie), and Světlana Malina (Fotograf Zone), in close collaboration with Angelo Luis Gonzalez and Júlia Gelezova (PhotoIreland / OVER Journal).
The Ties That Bind exhibition will end its journey through Europe in Prague. After traveling to Porto and Zagreb, this will be the last opportunity to see works by artists Dev Dhunsi, Sasha Chaika, Ihar Hancharuk, Donja Nasseri, and Sheung Yiu, which examine how traditional notions of family, identity, and social structures can be re-evaluated and reshaped.
Both exhibitions have been curated by Světlana Malina and are part of the Fotograf Zone Festival 2025, under the theme TALK TOGETHER.
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Fotograf Zone, hosting this year’s FUTURES Annual Event for the first time, is a Prague-based platform for contemporary photography, moving image, and visual culture since 2002. Originally based on a print magazine, a Prague gallery, and a festival, the project is now consolidated into a web portal, with a digitised archive of all the articles from our more than 20-year history.
Images © Anna Orlowska, Balázs Turós and Sheung Yiu
FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Union. The Swiss program is supported by Pro Helvetia.
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