FUTURES Meet-Up in Portugal
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 (1/2)
Location: Oficinas
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 ValenzuelaEscobedo, 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.