Join us for an Open Studio with Leonardo Angelucci and Sabrina Cerea, from the Zürich-based studio UNSTATED, our newest residents at the FUTURES Hub.
Leonardo Angelucci and Sabrina Cerea will present their project From Nowhere.
As part of the FUTURES & MPB Residency, From Nowhere explores the act of seeing in the age of automation, using an autonomous agent to navigate satellite imagery and virtual maps, registering traces of space and presence through algorithmic vision. Paying tribute to On Kawara, the project reimagines mapping as a detached and procedural act. What emerges is a continuous performance across virtual territories: systematic, impersonal, and subtly poetic.
The event will include a workshop exploring the intersection of design, technology, and artificial intelligence, highlighting how creative reappropriation can extend the possibilities of interactive systems. It examines the evolving relationship between humans and machines, questioning how AI-driven decision-making shapes our interactions and perceptions.
Participants: The workshop is open to everyone and does not require any advanced programming knowledge. Designers, makers, creatives, artists, amateurs. Anyone with a genuine interest in the use of technology for creative purposes. Its goal is to provide an introductory overview of the available tools and possibilities, offering the basics to start exploring them independently
Maximum number of participants: 8
Duration: 2 hours
What you need: laptop
📅 Event Details
Date: Wednesday, 27th August 2025
Location: FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
- Workshop: 16:00 – 18:00
- Artist Q&A: 18:30
- Studio Open Until: 20:00
🔗 RSVP by 26th August to confirm your attendance
About UNSTATED
UNSTATED is a Zürich–based practice that merges the physical and digital worlds through innovative strategy and design. They are committed to creating work that adapts to our changing environment.
About Leonardo Angelucci
Leonardo Angelucci is a Swiss-Italian graphic designer and coder, who completed his education in Visual Communication at SUPSI University in Southern Switzerland in 2013. He founded UNSTATED, a creative studio based in Zurich and Ticino, where he collaborates with a wide array of national and international clients, focusing mainly on projects within the cultural and art and institutional field. His work is characterized by a blend of graphic design and technology.
In addition to his professional practice at his studio, Leonardo is deeply involved in academic circles. He lectures on graphic design and interaction design at various universities throughout Switzerland and internationally.
About Sabrina Cerea
After graduating in 2011 in Visual Communication from SUPSI University in Lugano, she worked for a few years at ma.x. museo and at Spazio Officina of Centro Culturale Chiasso. She then moved to Zurich for an internship at MuDA Museum of Digital Art and to attend master courses in Curatorial studies at ZHdK, Zurich.
In 2016, she returned to Lugano to work for Studio Juma, Balerna, and then for CCRZ Studio, Balerna. Moving to Zurich, she began running her own studio, UNSTATED, with Leonardo Angelucci. She occasionally teaches workshops and classes at SUPSI Lugano.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The opening is part of FUTURES X MPB residency, supported by MPB, the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video kit.
Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK).
Thursday, July 10 | 15:00–19:00
Come spend an afternoon with us at a special session of the FUTURES: Learn with Magnum Photos program. This event includes a live lecture led by Magnum followed by a friendly get-together with drinks and good conversation.
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
The event is curated exclusively for FUTURES artists.
Join us for an Open Studio with visual artist Bobby Shuk Pui Yu, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub.
Bobby Shuk Pui Yu will present her ongoing project Curses, Human-faced Fish, Sadako Yamamura, which explores how folklore and visual culture materialize collective fears and societal anxieties through the transmission of curses.Inspired by two iconic Asian narratives—the Taiwanese legend of the human-faced fish and Sadako Yamamura from Japan’s Ring—her project examines how fear spreads through storytelling and visual media, shaping behaviors around self-preservation. As part of the FUTURES & MPB Residency, Bobby continued researching and developing her forthcoming solo exhibition at Fotografiens Hus (October 2025), investigating how traditional folklore evolves in contemporary contexts.
The event will include a workshop on Nightmare Sharing & Amulet Making
We will explore how our nightmares can hold hidden messages or subconscious “curses” that shape our fears and desires. Together, we will share personal dream experiences in a safe and supportive space, transforming them into protective amulets (護身符). Using materials like fabric, stuffing, or bed sheets, each participant will create a comforting object that symbolises courage and healing. This collective ritual invites us to turn shared anxieties into soft resistance and mutual support — carrying forward blessings rather than burdens.
📅 Event Details
Date: Wednesday, 2nd July 2025
Location: FUTURES Photography Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6A, B, 1018 CA Amsterdam
- Walk-in: 17:00 – 18:00
- Artist Q&A: 18:30
- Studio Open Until: 20:00
🔗 RSVP by June 30 to confirm you attendance!
About Bobby Shuk Pui:
Yu Shuk Pui Bobby is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Hong Kong and Oslo. Working across film, text, installation, sculpture, and performance, Bobby's practice centers on themes of identity construction, cultural displacement, and family mythology. Her work often reflects her personal experiences as an "escaper" navigating multiple languages without a fixed mother tongue, creating layered narratives filled with humor, surrealism, and empathy.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The opening is part of FUTURES X MPB residency, supported by MPB, the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video kit.
Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK)
Photo Credits: Jonas Carlsen
Join us on June 25 for the FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight featuring Rebecca Topakian.
Rebecca Topakian is a French-Armenian artist living between Paris region and Yerevan. After studying philosophy and geography, she turned to photography and graduated from the ENSP Arles in 2015. She is interested in defining identity through its invisible, mythological, and fictional dimensions.
For this talk, Topakian will present her photobook Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories.
Her starting point for the project is the unique story of her Armenian family, who lived in Turkey before her grandfather emigrated to France. This story is about the love of her great-grandparents – Garabed and Gulizar.
Topakian explored this part of her identity by choosing fiction and mythology. Bearing the love story of her ancestors in mind while she traveled and lived in Armenia, desire became the thread of this project: it is a desire for earth, ground, identity, but also for the other’s body acting almost as a mirror.
Dame Gulizar and Other Love Stories will be on show at MAC VAL – Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val de Marne from 14 June till 4 January 2026 as part of the Forever Young group show.
About FUTURES x Magnum Artist Spotlight:
Every two months, we’ll invite a photographer from the FUTURES platform to join us for an engaging online conversation about their artistic journey. This series offers a unique chance for audiences worldwide to hear directly from the artist, gaining insight into their practice, motivations, and creative processes.
We also hope to inspire the next generation of photographers, providing them with the opportunity to connect with artists who recently began their careers.
© Rebecca Topakian
Hosted by Ci.clo Plataforma, the FUTURES community will gather in Porto on 6th and 7th of June to take part in the annual Meet-Up.
FUTURES MEET UP 2025: Porto
PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 6TH JUNE
14:00 | Futures Meet-up Porto: Workshop
Location: Entre Quintas
Five emerging FUTURES artists, selected by Bienal Fotografia do Porto, will participate in a two-day workshop. The workshop will focus on supporting Futures artists in improving their communication about the purposes of their artistic work and the importance of how the portfolio is built and presented to enhance their professional career.
Around the same table, the five artists, with the support of four experts, Sonia Jeunet, Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo, Jayne Dyer and Virgílio Ferreira, will analyse principal and practical issues related to each artist’s portfolio, such as the purpose of the portfolio, artist statements, artistic strategies and methodologies, selection of works and sequentiality, and different formats of portfolios and ways of presenting them.
17:30 | Futures Meet-up Porto: Round table
Location: Aula Magna - Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto
The round table brings together four experts - Sonia Jeunet (Global Education Director at Magnum Photos), Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo (artistic director and co-founder of artistic doubledummy studio), Jayne Dyer and Virgílio Ferreira (co-artistic directors of Bienal'25 Fotografia do Porto) - to talk about strategies for emerging artists to boost their career in photography.
SUNDAY 7TH JUNE
17:00 | Guided tour: Ties That Bind exhibition
Location: Casa Comun - Reitoria da Universidade do Porto
Guided tour of the Ties that Bind exhibition, conducted by the Bienal'25 co-artistic directors, Jayne Dyer and Virgílio Ferreira.
17:00 | Guided tour: Lightseekers exhibition
Location: Centro Portuguêse de Fotografia
Guided tour of the Lightseekers exhibition, conducted by the curator Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo.
Check the complete program here.
Credits image Sheung Yiu.
FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Join us for an exclusive open studio with visual artist Laure Winants, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub.
Laure Winants will present her ongoing project Time Capsule, a transtemporal laboratory that explores shifting ecologies and entangled temporalities.
The project highlights the interdependence between living organisms and their environments, weaving together biological, social, and techno-scientific systems through artistic and scientific approaches. Time Capsule is conceived as a space for experimentation, fiction, and anticipatory storytelling, developed through an interdisciplinary investigation that resonates with the practice promoted by the FUTURES & MPB Residency.
The public event will include in situ performances, readings, and a participatory conversation, creating a living archive of the expedition.
The event will include:
- lab-like installation in progress, combining sound, video, and material experiments
- footage from her fieldwork
- first material samples from the research
📅 Event Details
Date: Thursday, 5th June 2025
- Walk-in: 17:00 – 18:00
- Artist Q&A: 18:30
- Studio Open Until: 20:00
About Laure Winants:
Laure Winants is an artist-researcher based in Paris and Brussels. Laure collaborates with transdisciplinary research groups including the CNRS/CNES on atmospheric pollution in the Pyrenees with Albedo 2021, the Volcanology Laboratory in Iceland on the monitoring of natural and anthropogenic phenomena such as volcanic activity with Phenomena 2022, and the Norwegian Polar Institute on its polar research with the Time Capsule 2023-2024 project.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The opening is part of FUTURES X MPB residency, supported by MPB, the largest global platform to buy, sell and trade used photo and video kit.
Photo Credits: Laure Winants
Join the Open Studio at ISSP in Riga!
Julius Thissen will speak about their multidisciplinary artistic practice, how they developed their current project “Bones of Graphene, Skin of Kevlar”, and the research on trans community rights that they conducted during the residency at ISSP in May 2025.
The exhibition Ties That Bind, featuring Ihar Hancharuk, Sasha Chaika, Angyvir Padilla, Jan Durina, Dev Dhunsi, Sheung Yiu and Donja Nasseri, will be showcased in Porto starting from May 15.
Focused on the 2024 FUTURES annual theme, Ties That Bind explores and challenges the networks of interdependence linking social, natural, and scientific structures.
The seven FUTURES artists were invited to embrace, challenge or rediscover various forms of attachments and connections within different social structures and relationships: from exploring intimate family bonds with Angyvir Padilla, to revealing an intricate web of relationships that are the result of human misconduct with Donja Nasseri; from interwoven ties where past meets the present in Dev Dhunsi’s work, to entanglement of biological and technological ecologies in Sheung Yiu research; while Jan Durina's work shows how hate-fueled rhetoric results in violent actions towards queer people, Ihar Hancharuk focuses on tensions and public paranoia that through images become palpable; finally, Sasha Chaika explore new ways of kinship that are not dependent on language.
As part of the FUTURES Meet-Up, the FUTURES community is invited to take part to a guided tour of the Ties That Bind exhibition, conducted by the Bienal'25 co-artistic directors, Jayne Dyer and Virgílio Ferreira, on June 7th at 5 PM.
The 2024 Open Call was curated by The Bienal Fotografia do Porto, Fotogalleriet, Fotograf Magazine and Organ Vida Festival.
Ties That Bind exhibition in porto is curated by Ci.CLO Plataforma, Organ Vida and Fotograf Zone.
Exhibition Run 15 May - 28 June 2025
At Casa Comun - Reitoria da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
Credits image Dev Dhunsi
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Join us on Tuesday 6 May for an online presentation by Matt Black of his long term project American Geography.
Between 2014 and 2020, Matt Black traveled from his hometown in California's Central Valley to hundreds of other communities across the United States. Concentrating on cities, towns, and counties with poverty rates above 20%, he discovered that he could travel from coast to coast without ever crossing above the poverty line. His exploration of this stark American reality grew to cover over 100,000 miles and 46 states, spread across five cross-country trips.
In a 2016 article titled “Economic growth in the United States: A tale of two countries,” economists Emmanuel Saez, Thomas Piketty, and Gabriel Zucman state, “Our data show that the bottom half of the income distribution in the United States has been completely shut off from economic growth since the 1970s. It’s a tale of two countries. For the 117 million U.S. adults in the bottom half of the income distribution, growth has been non-existent for a generation while at the top of the ladder it has been extraordinarily strong.” With his project American Geography, Matt Black chose to focus on one of these two countries. For six years, starting in 2014, traveling by bus and by car across the US, he explored “the geography of poverty” – photographing an America and American lives that to him were the rule, not the exception.
A photobook was published by Thames & Hudson in 2021.
The FUTURES: Learn with Magnum Photos program is designed to help FUTURES artists address challenges in their photography careers, inspire creativity, and build a sense of community. The success of this program relies heavily on your participation. We encourage you to register for the sessions, stay fully engaged, keep your video on, and actively participate with questions and comments. We are working to make the program more interactive, aiming to overcome the limitations of online meetings, and we are confident that together, we can create something meaningful and valuable.
Curated exclusively for FUTURES artists.
Join the Open Studio at Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest!
Tim will present his project, "Prophetic Futures", about the tension between progress and present-day challenges through the lens of his great-great-grandfather Ludwig Stein’s theory of Evolutionary Optimism.