The Futures artists nominated by PHotoESPAÑA in 2021 is being presented in a collective exhibition within the festival’s main programme in Madrid. The show brings together works from five talents from 14 September to 14 November at the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
Every year, PHotoESPAÑA nominates five talents to our platform. The artists selected for this year are: Marius Scarlat (Romania, 1993), Antonio Guerra (Zamora, 1983), Suwon Lee (Caracas, 1977), Carlos Alba (Madrid, 1984), and Arguiñe Escandón (Bilbao, 1979).
Futures Photography 2021
14 September – 14 November
Círculo de Bellas Artes (Sala Minerva)
Calle Alcalá, 42, 28014, Madrid
After a year of reckoning come and gone, in 2021 reality is anything but in balance. Waves of counter-narratives continue to bloom and subvert our knowledge base, flooding the frameworks that once navigated our senses of being and belonging.
Driven by the fusion of the physical and virtual realms – Europe now watches as a young generation of makers attempt to foster a new cultural literacy; searching, breaking, and reworking their mediums and conceptual moulds. But can we define a direction in all this disorder? Within this climate of hybrid experimentation, we are witnessing the forging of new realities each day. What new forms of making, narrating and reading are here to stay, and what can we just make out on the horizon ahead?
Eleven Futures artists will explore the festival's main theme in a hybrid exhibition, showcasing their work at Melkweg Expo and in an online environment, activated by QRcodes. The artists were selected through an open call for all the talents who have joined the platform in the past four years.
Making use of different mediums in dialogue with photography, the projects investigate the impact of technology and knowledge production on humankind and the natural world.
The show is curated by Marina Paulenka (Founder and former Artistic Director of Organ Vida and former Artistic Director of Unseen).
Here are the selected Futures artists to the show:
1. Maija Savolainen
2. Hien Hoang
3. Emily Graham
4. Carlos Alba
5. Eva Kreuger
6. Marta Bogdanska
7. Alexey Shlyk (in collaboration with Ben Van den Berghe)
8. Valeria Cherchi
9. Io Sivertsen (in collaboration with Ylva Gulpinar, Christa Barlinn Korvald and Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid)
10. Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping
At MILK CAFE in Melkweg, the artist Jean-Vincent Simonet will also present a live performance on 16 and 17 September. The project 'Mechanical Paintings' will then be featured in an upcoming publication by Futures, to be released this winter.
SHOWCASE
In addition to the show, we are also presenting a special showcase with all the talents who joined Futures in 2021.
Every year, Futures members nominate emerging artists to join the project. As in previous years, these new names in contemporary photography will be introduced in Futures Talents 2021. Curated by the platform, this showcase presents 68 talents by exploring themes and inspirations common to their work.
HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narrative
Curator: Marina Paulenka
Concept and text: Salvatore Vitale and Saba Askary
10 September - 17 October 2021
Melkweg Expo
Marnixstraat 409
1017 PJ Amsterdam
HYBRIDS: Forging New Realities as Counter-Narratives is made possible with the support of Creative Europe, Mondriaan Fund, Pro Helvetia and exhibition partner LG Electronics.
On Thursday, 15 July, at 7pm (CEST), CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia will present the artists selected for Futures this year. Since 2018, the project has offered a comprehensive programme of support, mobility and visibility through activities for the five artists selected by each institution every year.
The meeting is part of the appointments of the cycle ‘Hotel Panorama. Una nuova generazione italiana’ (‘Hotel Panorama. A new Italian generation’) through which CAMERA has launched a mapping of those experiences that today most characterise the latest forms of the photographic language, both locally and nationally.
The five talents chosen for Futures 2021 are: Eleonora Agostini (Mirano-VE, 1991), Matteo de Mayda(Treviso, 1984), Leonardo Magrelli (Rome, 1989), Giulia Parlato (Palermo, 1993) and Silvia Rosi(Scandiano, 1992). They will talk with Giangavino Pazzola, project coordinator, and Walter Guadagnini, director of CAMERA, about their own artistic practices, projecting images of their main works created so far.
Free admission with optional pre-booking on the CAMERA website under the ‘booking’ section.
Under the theme ‘Bite the hand that feeds you’, the PhotoIreland Festival 2021 will take place from 1 to 31 July with exhibitions in Dublin, Ireland. As it was in 2020, the festival will also organize a programme with online activities, including talks and a critical online cooking channel.
There is power in how we feed ourselves, with food being the cornerstone of cultures, ideologies, and principles. Eating or not eating can be an act of protest, feeding or not feeding — an act of control; food brings people together and pushes them apart. Through the presentation of current work and commissions, this year PhotoIreland Festival brings to local and international audiences selected artists exploring this contentious, yet every day, topic.
Taking its cue from current conflicts and affairs, the festival generates a discussion around complex social and global issues, with topics ranging from hospitality to colonisation, from hunger to overconsumption, trauma to technology, ethics to ideologies, to sustainability, and even surveillance capitalism. The programme does not claim an all-encompassing representation of food related issues, but is intended as a way to invoke specific questions, ideas, and research; it brings forth questions and considerations towards a conscious and informed consumption. We invite the audience to take a seat at our table and join the conversation on the politics and poetics of food.
The festival brings together traditional and contemporary lens-based works, alongside film and performance, serving a cornucopia of engaging and relevant material — with many works never before shown in Ireland — through exhibitions, talks, and a critical online cooking channel!
Every year FOMU selects ten promising phototographers, all living or working in Belgium. In addition to a variety of networking opportunities, FOMU will accompany them on a development journey to create the portfolio magazine .tiff, culminating in a group exhibition. Now you can visit this show until 12 September, 2021, at FOMU Antwerp.
The exhibition .tiff 2021 presents the work of: Aurélie Bayad, Sébastien Cuvelier, Michiel De Cleene, Youqine Lefèvre, Lucas Leffler, Kamel Moussa, Joud Toamah, Josephina van de Water, Erien Withouck and Ugo Woatzi.
Like ‘Belgian photography’, .tiff has many angles. It gives a flavour of the diversity and energy in Belgium’s photography landscape. Using .tiff, FOMU offers emerging talent a platform to reach a wider audience and network.
Special edition of Fotofestiwal calls for a one of a kind Portfolio Review. After the successful virtual debut last year, Fotofestiwal Lodz is coming back to the live formula in 2021. If you would like to participate and introduce your work to our reviewers, submit until the 26th of May.
What is PHOTO-MATCH?
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. The event is powered by Futures.
DAY ONE: PRESENTATIONS + MATCHING 11th of June 11:00AM – 3:30PM CET
It’s a day dedicated for everyone attending to introduce themselves, their work and practice through short presentations. Based on these introductions you will then choose 2 curators you would like to meet with, additionally you will also be chosen by 2 other curators who’d like to see your work. Which means each participant will have 4 meetings the next day.
DAY TWO: MEETINGS 12th of June 11:00AM – 4:00PM CET
The real deal! All participants attend private meetings held accordingly with the timetable generated based on your choices. Every photographer and reviewer attends four meetings at the most, two of which they’ve arranged themselves. PHOTO MATCH will conclude with an open session, an informal gathering of all participants who can finally enjoy some conversation with someone previously unavailable, with no strings attached.
REVIEWERS
The list of reviewers posted below includes magazine editors, book publishers, photography festivals’ directors, museum curators, gallery owners, independent art consultants:
Maciej Bujko, BWA Wrocław
Virgilio Ferreira, Ci.CLO Bienal
Angel Luis Goznalez, PhotoIreland
Grzegorz Kosmala, BLOW UP PRESS
Andrei Liankevich, Minsk Photomonth
Pablo Berástegui Lozano, Salut au Monde!
Olga Łacna, Fort Fotografii
Jeanne Mercier, Independent Curator
Manuela Matos Monteiro + João José Coito Lafuente, Mira Forum Porto
Giuseppe Oliverio, Photographic Museum of Humanity
Marie Papazoglou, Independent Curator
Jevgeni Roppel, Editor at Ostlook
Łukasz Rusznica + Łukasz Adamski, TIFF Festival
Istvan Virágvölgyi, Capa Center
Tomek Gutkowski, Kraków Photomonth
Emmanuelle Halkin + Clair Chalou, Circulacion
Nina Kassianou, Independent Curator
Marina Paulenka, Futures
Chiara Ruberti, Photolux Festival
Katarzyna Sagatowska, Galeria Jednostka
Nuno Salgado, Parallel Platform
Sergio Valenzuela, Independent Curator
The Fotofestiwal Lodz is celebrating its jubilee this year from 10 to 27 June in Lodz, Poland. In this edition, the program includes over 40 exhibitions throughout the city and presentations of 150 artists and their projects. Futures is one of the main partners of the event and supports the Photo-Match portfolio review program (https://www.futures-photography.com/events/photo-match-portfolio-review-2021).
The program of the 20th edition of Fotofestiwal is prepared jointly by Łódź curators, activists, creators, universities and students. Together, we will create a story about the city whose fascinating history combines the creative pursuit of avant-garde artists with the popular working-class culture.
The program will include exhibitions referring to the history of the city, meetings of local galleries and artists, and, most importantly, presentations of the most interesting achievements of artists associated with Łódź, whose accomplishments have become a permanent element of the canon of Polish art. A particularly large block of exhibitions will also be devoted to the contemporary world photography. We will show several international projects and platforms aimed at promoting and presenting the rising stars of contemporary photography. When it comes to numbers, Fotofestiwal 2021 includes over 40 exhibitions around Łódź, two festival centres, and presentations of the works by over 150 visual artists.
The main part of the Fotofestiwal program is being developed under the supervision of Prof. Józef Robakowski and is dedicated to the art scene in Łódź. Exhibitions will be shown in Art_Inkubator at 3 Tymienieckiego Street, as well as in galleries and informal spaces throughout the city. In the second festival centre, OFF Piotrkowska, among others, exhibitions prepared jointly by three universities in Łódź will be shown: the Lodz Film School, the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Lodz. The exhibition of photographs from the collection of Muzeum Sztuki (Museum of Art) in Łódź, organized jointly by the Festival and the Museum, will be another special event. This unique collection of photographs, gathered over the years by Urszula Czartoryska, will be presented at ms2 at 19 Ogrodowa Street. As every year, there will also be international projects. The Festival program will include, among others, a collective exhibition of the works created by the Open Call finalists, presentations of European photo platforms: Parallel and Futures, and exhibitions by photographers who have been invited to artistic residencies.
The Łódź art scene is based primarily on grassroots, often anarchist and anti-system initiatives. It is the result of collective energy, and it is thanks to such energy that the jubilee edition of Fotofestiwal is being created.
MAIN EXHIBITIONS:
1) Collective exhibitions curated by Prof. Józef Robakowski at Fabryka Sztuki
(over 40 artists, including Małgorzata Potocka, Aleksandra Ska, Karolina Breguła, Karolina Wojtas, Grzegorz Przyborek, Ryszard Waśko, Andrzej Różycki, Piotr Zbierski)
2) The first ever exhibition of the photography collection of the Muzeum Sztuki/Museum of Art in Łódź
(approx. 200 works, including Andy Warhol, Natalia LL, Karol Hiller, Zofia Rydet, Zbigniew Libera Jerzy Lewczyński, Roman Opałka, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson)
3) Exhibition of photographs by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz “Witkacy”
(“Multiple portrait”, Signum Gallery, reference to the exhibition from the Museum of Art in 1979)
4) Stories from the city of Łódź – historical and contemporary exhibitions about Łódź
(documentary exhibitions by Maciej Rawluk, Ula Tarasiewicz, Artur Urbański, as well as coloured photos from the 1920s and 1930s by Wiktor Jekimenka from the Veolia archive)
5) Academic space; exhibitions prepared by three universities in Łódź
(University of Łódź, Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Film School in Łódź)
6) Exhibitions from the STREFA MIASTO project
(ca. 30 exhibitions in museums, galleries and temporary spaces, including by Bogdan Konopka, Agnieszka Kurant, Sebastian Collet, Iacopo Pasqui, Bartłomiej Talaga)
7) Exhibitions from the international Open Call
Including by Federico Estol (Uruguay), Colin Delfosse (Belgium) Sima Choubdarzadeh (Iran) Rafael Heygster & Helena Manhartsberger (Germany), Robin Hinsch (Germany), Irmina Walczak (Polska)
8) Exhibitions from the European photography platform PARALLEL
(exhibitions presented by 30 young artists from around the world summarizing the annual cycle of one of the largest European projects supporting creators; the Parallel Platform brings together 19 institutions from all over Europe, such as galleries, festivals, and photo magazines)
The Copenhagen Photo Festival recently joined Futures as one of our members. For their festival’s fourth edition, they created a new programme focusing on Nordic artists, the Futures Nordic Talents.
The festival is now showcasing the five artists they selected for Futures this year in an exhibition at Refshaleøen in Copenhagen, from June 3 to 13. The show is an integral part of the festival’s programme and presents the work of Io Sivertsen (Norway), Nanna Navntoft (Denmark), Essi Maaria Orpana (Finland), Lars Dyrendom (Swedem) and Hrafn Jónsson (Krummi) (Iceland).
EXHIBITION PARK
Refshaleøen 173, 1432 Copenhagen
FESTIVAL OPENING HOURS
Opening Day June 3: 17:00-22:00
June 4-6: 10:00-20:00
June 7-9: 12:00-20:00
June 10-13: 10:00-20:00
TICKETS
Festival wristband: 150dkk for adults, 100 dkk for students
and free for kids below 18 years old.
Once again, five of our Futures artists have been nominated for the ING Talent Award. The winner will be announced on Wednesday 2 June. It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 2021 Online ING Talent Award Ceremony. This is the eighth time that the ING Talent Award will be presented. This year the award ceremony takes place in Kunsthal Rotterdam and will be streamed online.
The Online Ceremony starts at 5 pm CET and will take about 20 minutes. The winners will be announced by Steven van Rijswijk, CEO of ING Group.
ING Art Management and Kunsthal Rotterdam have selected five exceptional finalists from a longlist of talented photographers from all over Europe: Etienne Courtois (1969, Belgium), Camilla Ferrari (1992, Italy), Alina Frieske (1994, Germany), Esther Hovers (1991, the Netherlands) and Ire Lenes (1981, Spain).
Under the guidance of the renowned American photographer Alec Soth, each finalist has created a work of art for the ING Collection on this year’s theme of Resilience: a personal story. Their work will be shown at Kunsthal Rotterdam from 27 May to 19 September 2021.
To attend the ceremony, please register online here.
Meanwhile, vote on your favorite artist here.
Once again, some of our Futures artists have been nominated for the ING Talent Award. They have joined an intensive three-month coaching programme and have been creating new works for the ING Collection. Under the guidance of the famous American photographer Alec Soth, they have been working with the theme ‘Resilience, a personal story’, a subject relevant to these challenging times in which an extra dose of resilience is required from us all. The result of this work can be seen in an exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam from 27 May until 19 September.
This is the eighth edition of the ING Talent Award. This year’s finalists are Alina Frieske (1994, Germany), Camilla Ferrari (1992, Italy), Esther Hovers (1991, the Netherlands), Etienne Courtois (1969, Belgium), and Ire Lenes (1981, Spain). The winner will be announce on Wednesday 2 June in an Award Ceremony at Kunsthal Rotterdam, but can be also followed online (RSVP here).
WINNERS 2013 - 2019
The works of the winners of the Jury Award of the past years will also be presented in the exhibition at Kunsthal: 2013 - Ola Lanko (1985, Ukraine), 2014 - Anne Geene (1983, the Netherlands), 2015 - Sophie Jung (1982, Luxembourg), 2016 - Thomas Albdorf (1983, Austria), 2017 - Andrea Grützner (1984, Germany), 2018 - Jaakko Kahilaniemi (1989, Finland) en 2019 - Karolina Wojtas (1996, Poland).
ING Talent Award: Resilience, A Personal Story
May 27, 2021 – Sept. 19, 2021
Kunsthal Rotterdam:
Museumpark - Westzeedijk 341
3015 AA Rotterdam