From September 22 to October 22, 2023, we are delighted to present Dear Moment, I Keep U for Later, the second exhibition for the FUTURES hub's opening month, featuring the work of Swiss artist Nicolas Polli. Witness the evolution of his nearly finished exhibition, which he will continue to develop over the weeks following its opening, as Nicolas resides within the exhibition space. This promises to be an innovative and multilayered experience that you won't want to miss.
"At Futures, I will have a month, with a chance of showing already to the public my work after a few days from my arrival. I need to be prepared, I need to work on an exhibition that can exist as an evolutionary practice. I want to work on the idea of dexterity and layering.I will print some of my images in different sizes, and start using them in the space. My work regularly plays between the commercial creation of images together with the reflection around waste or what is considered as such.I would like the experience in Amsterdam to be a chance to focus on space and materiality. Showcasing an immerging world for a public outside Switzerland and not used to seeing what I create. I want people to come several times and try to experience something new each time.I would like to create new images, working with the local culture and focusing on representing realities around me. Working with markets, buying, photographing, and consuming local products. I would like to understand the habits of a fast city like Amsterdam, how do people consume? how do people waste? What attitude is behind reusing things?I will also do performances around food, showcasing photography that will then find a place on plates that are going to be served to people, between a tasteful reality immersed in a visual one. This will be my experience there. A hub evolving in time.Images will be composed analogically, cutting and ripping paper to work with layers. Conceptually I will represent the layering of advertising in the street, where one advertising goes on top of another one, and a poster goes on top of another one, keeping track of the fast-consuming society we live in. The exhibition will be overwhelming with several images used in different ways: on the walls, on the ground, on stands, on the windows, outside"
Opening: 22 September, 2023
Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Location: Isaac Titsinghkade 6B, 1018 CA, Amsterdam
Nestled in the center of the city on a former industrial site, FUTURES Hub is a flexible space that serves as both the headquarters for all FUTURES activities worldwide and an adaptable exhibition area that can quickly transform into a residency.
Join us on September 7, 2023, as we open the FUTURES Hub to the public with an exciting group exhibition featuring Lola Beekhuijzen, Noah van de Wetering, and Mandy Nijhof – three exceptionally talented budding artists and 2022 graduates of the HKU Photography Department.
Lola Beekhuijzen (b. 1999)
Lola Beekhuijzen born in Duiven, works and lives in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. "The body is daily transporting a human, a murmur in the quiet. Humming systems hidden underneath what provides protection. Inextricably linked to what makes us us. What does it mean to be human and to have a body available? Formed and entwined with the systems of technology. Looking for differences, similarities and imperfections between computer and mortal, I take on different shapes, roles and materials."
Noah van de Wetering (b. 1999)
Noah van de Wetering, Zwolle, the Netherlands, 1999, currently lives and works in Utrecht, the Netherlands. In his work, Noah van de Wetering analyses the creative process in experimental approaches toward image-making and reading. His entry points are often photographic techniques, which have led him to question the use of communication. Abstraction is therefore used to counter the figurative and communicative nature of photography. Besides all the image reading, there are words scattered around the bodies, words of critical reflection as well as nonsensical sentences. These introspective sentences are attempts to come closer and closer to the core of the creative process, a point of pure autonomy.
Mandy Nijhof (b. 1995)
Mandy Nijhof born in Apeldoorn 1995, studied fashion design and photography, based in Arnhem, Netherlands. "I don’t want to work to scream “look at me I’m the victim, look what he did to me”. But I had to carry the secret for 24 years. Now I am at the point where I don’t want to carry it alone anymore, so here it is. See what you see in it, feel what you feel about it but it is not my own to carry anymore."
Opening FUTURES Hub
Date: 7 September, 2023
Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Location: Isaac Titsinghkade 6B, Amsterdam
More info will follow!
FUTURES platform is thrilled to announce that On the Verge Exhibition will travel also to the Fotofestiwal in Łódź! After Turin and Copenhagen visitors will have the opportunity to experience the exhibition from June 15th to June 25th at Art_Inkubator, Tymienieckiego 3, Łódź.
Hope is the new keyword of Fotofestiwal this year, and it is in this context that the exhibition On the Verge presents the works of 7 FUTURES artists selected from among Europe's most talented photographers. The projects featured by Cian Burke (Ireland, 1978), Mark Duffy (Ireland, 1981), Pauline Hisbacq (France, 1980), Julia Klewaniec (Poland, 1996), Alice Pallot (France, 1995), Daniel Szalai (Hungary, 1991) and Ugo Woatzi (France, 1991) tell personal and collective stories concerning conflicts, struggles for gender equality, food and ecological sustainability, and the rise of populism and nationalism, throughout Europe. At the same time, from an aesthetic point of view and in terms of photographic languages, these works represent the most innovative and relevant experiences in the current European photography panorama.
The exhibition is curated by Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen (Copenhagen Photo Festival), Giangavino Pazzola (CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia) and Marta Szymańska (FotoFestiwal) and it promises to be a highlight of this year's festival.
In addition to the exhibition, Fotofestiwal and FUTURES are organizing a two-day meeting program, which will run parallel to the festival. Photo-Match is a unique event that will focus on networking, equality and the broadest possible presentation of photographic works and institutions.
WHAT IS PHOTO MATCH?
The PHOTO MATCH model brings new life into the traditional formula of portfolio reviews by placing special emphasis on a series of open networking events and public presentations. PHOTO MATCH is based on a democratic and inclusive model, free of charge, in which experts and artists have the same space for sharing and pitching their experience, work and motivations.
DAY ONE: PRESENTATIONS + MATCHING [ 16th of June 10:30 AM. – 3:30 PM. CET ]
It’s a day dedicated to both photographers and experts to introduce themselves, their work and practice through short live presentations. This moment takes place not only for Photo Match participants, but also for anyone from Fotofestiwal’s audience who wants to attend the event, therefore ensuring that artists and reviewers can widen their group of spectators..
Based on these introductions and their own impressions, each participant will choose 4 reviewers (in case of photographers) or 4 artists (in case of experts) with whom they would like to meet and share their work. The matching process will happen through a specific digital system, where all the participants will be connected, therefore allowing them to either invite people and/or be invited to meet. By the end of this day each attendee will have 4 meetings scheduled for the next day.
DAY TWO: MEETINGS [ 17th of June 10:00 AM – 13:00 PM CET ]
The real deal! All participants attend private meetings in accordance with the timetable generated based on the choices made on the previous day. Every photographer and expert attends 4 meetings. For those who want - PHOTO MATCH will finish with 1 open extra session, an opportunity to enjoy conversation and exchange ideas with someone with whom there was no previous match.
REVIEWERS
Agata Stoinska Blow Photo & D-Light Studios, Dublin
Agnieszka Olszewska MuFo Museum of Photography, Krakow
Ana Berruguete Photo España, La Fábrica, Madrid (Futures Photography Platform)
Ana Guimarães and Virgílio Ferreira Ci-CLO, Biennial of Photography, Porto, (Futures Photography Platform)
Bettina Freimann Âme Nue, Hamburg
Christina Töpfer Camera Austria, Graz
Constanze Müller f/stop Festival, Leipzig
Daniele de Luigi Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
Giangavino Pazzola Camera Torino, Turin, (Futures Photography Platform)
Grzegorz Jarmocewicz Interphoto, Białystok
Ilaria Campioli Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia
Ingo Taubhorn Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Jan Hladoník Fotograf Festival and Magazine, Prague
João Linneu VOID, (Futures Photography Platform)
Johan Nane Simonsen Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna
Julia Bunnemann Photoworks UK, Brighton, (Futures Photography Platform)
Julija Berkovica ISSP, Riga
Kateryna Radchenko Odesa Photo Days
Katrin Trautner GEO Magazine, Hamburg
Lara Huck Deputy Director of Photography DIE ZEIT, Hamburg
Lea Vene Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, (Futures Photography Platform)
Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen Copenhagen Photo Festival, (Futures Photography Platform)
Maja Kaszkur Sopot Photography Festival
Monika Szewczyk-Wittek Independent curator, Warsaw
Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo Independent curator, Arles
Results of the call for Photo-Match here
FUTURES is supported by the European Union under the Creative Europe Program.
This year's Copenhagen Photo Festival will take place from June 1st to 11th, 2023, with the theme of Rewilding.
As a part of the festival, FUTURES meet-up will be held during the first two days of the event, June 1 and 2, 2023. It is a unique opportunity to participate in lectures, screenings, panel discussions, portfolio reviews, and other activities related to contemporary photography. Don't miss the chance to connect with artists and learn from experts in the field!
We are thrilled to announce that the exhibition On the Verge will also be featured at the Copenhagen Photo Festival from June 1 to June 11, 2023!
The projects featured by Cian Burke (Ireland, 1978), Mark Duffy (Ireland, 1981), Pauline Hisbacq (France, 1980), Julia Klewaniec (Poland, 1996), Alice Pallot (France, 1995), Daniel Szalai (Hungary, 1991) and Ugo Woatzi (France, 1991) tell personal and collective stories concerning conflicts, struggles for gender equality, food and ecological sustainability, and the rise of populism and nationalism throughout Europe. Their works also represent the most innovative and relevant experiences in the current European photographic landscape, both in terms of aesthetics and photographic languages. The exhibition is curated by Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen (Copenhagen Photo Festival), Giangavino Pazzola (CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia) and Marta Szymańska (FotoFestiwal).
FUTURES meet-up will take place at a double tipi in the middle of Copenhagen rewilded exhibition park in a post-industrial shipyard district. The event will be part of the 11-day festival, which includes exhibitions, workshops, talks, photobook markets, and more.The two-day FUTURES 2023 programme aims to inspire and explore while giving space for networking across national and cultural borders and across professional circles and industries within culture.
Below you will find FUTURES meet-up program:
THURSDAY JUNE 1ST: A SUSTAINABLE ART’S PRACTICE
9:30: Welcome and registration
10-12: Portfolio sessions
Portfolio reviews for Futures talents + students from the Nordic Schools and the selected solo artists of 2023.
12-1 pm: Lunch in small groups
1 pm-4 pm: A sustainable art’s practice – moderated by Imagine 5
The challenges of a sustainable practice, explored from artist, institutional, and event perspective
1-2:15 pm:Part one
Panel discussion about the challenges of a sustainable art practice. Keywords: climate aesthetics, climate activism and sustainable practices.
Artists in the panel: Futures artist Alice Pallot (FR), CPF solo artist Daniel Hinks (CH/UK) and artist Yana Weinicke (DE)
Break
2:30-4 pm: Part two
Round table discussions with an expert at each table with the aim of creating 5-10 useful dogmas based on games about the 17 UN Goals. Presentation of the results from the round Table
4-7 pm: Official opening of Copenhagen Photo Festival – open for everyone
● 4-5 pm: Happy hour, music (16.45-17.00 speech)
● 5 - 5.20 pm: Performance and pop-up exhibition: Rewilding Women – A performance around the wilderness of the festival centre by Womankind
● 5.30-6.30 pm: Guided tours around the exhibitions (the tours will last max. 30 minutes)
– Guided tour with the artists Alice Pallot (FR) and Daniel Szalai (HU) in their exhibitions with co-curator Marta Szymanska (PL) from Fotofestiwal, Lodz
– Guided tour with the artists Ugo Woatzi (FR) and Pauline Hisbacq (FR) in their exhibitions with co-curator Giangavino Pazzola (IT) from Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin
– Guided tour with the artists Julia Klewaniec (PL), Cian Burke (IR/SE) and Mark Duffy (GB) with Jõao Linneu (BR/ICE)/VOID Photography Books
– Guided tour with CPF solo artists Daniel Hinks (UK/CH), Kristina Knipe (US), Craig Ames (GB), Hilla Kurki (FI) and Erik Berglin (SE) with CPF curator Lise de Ganck
● 6.15 pm: Vernissage of the Womankind popup-exhibition
7 pm: Networking dinner at Øens Have for all participating artists, speakers and invited Partners
9 pm: Art Bar at Nikolaj Kunsthal in collaboration with Art Week (not mandatory)
FRIDAY JUNE 2ND: REWILDING ART INTO PUBLIC SPACE
9.30 am: Welcome and registration
10 am-1 pm: Art in public Space
Is the future of art to be more public – is it more sustainable, more democratic? Possibilities and Challenges.
10-11:30 am: Part one
Panel discussion about art in public space. Key words: strengths and weaknesses of public space, how to enter the public sphere, funding, visibility, a scene for new partnerships?
Artists in the panel: CPF solo artists Erik Berglin (SE), Hilla Kurki (FI) and Kristina Knipe (US).
Break
11:45-1pm:Part two.
Project pitching Group sessions where project ideas are pitched/discussed with the group's expert
1-2 pm: Lunch break
2-3:30 pm: Panel discussion about future aspects:
Artificial intelligence, utopias and science
Artists in the panel: CPF solo artist Craig Ames (UK), Futures 2023 talent Susanne Fagerlund (SE) and Futures artist Daniel Szalai (HU).
3:30 pm: Wrap up and goodbye
Join us at the Copenhagen Photo Festival to experience the FUTURES meet-up and the On the Verge exhibition!
Find more information here
The second FUTURES Meet-Up in 2023 will be organised and hosted by our member Copenhagen Photo Festival. There will be a variety of activities and there will be a chance to see the travelling exhibition 'On the Verge' previously hosted by CAMERA in Turin.
Stay tuned for more information!
On the Verge is the new exhibition opening at CAMERA in its Project Room from 4 November 2022 to 8 January 2023. It features a group show investigating the major themes of our time, comprising over 70 works produced by seven young photographers selected from the FUTURES Photography network, of which CAMERA is the only Italian representative in a network of some 20 European partners.
The projects featured by Cian Burke (Ireland, 1978), Mark Duffy (Ireland, 1981), Pauline Hisbacq (France, 1980), Julia Klewaniec (Poland, 1996), Alice Pallot (France, 1995), Daniel Szalai (Hungary, 1991) and Ugo Woatzi (France, 1991) tell personal and collective stories concerning conflicts, struggles for gender equality, food and ecological sustainability, and the rise of populism and nationalism throughout Europe. At the same time, from an aesthetic point of view and in terms of photographic languages, these works represent the most innovative and relevant experiences in the current European photography panorama.
The European programme FUTURES (EPP – European Photography Platform) is a research platform on contemporary photography supported by the European Union and focused on mapping and supporting emerging authors beyond national borders.
In addition to CAMERA, the platform’s only Italian institution, the FUTURES partners are Bienal Fotografia, Porto; Centre Photographique Rouen, Normandy; Copenhagen Photo Festival; Der Greif, Munich; FOMU Fotomuseum, Antwerp; Fotodok, Utrecht; Fotofestiwal, Lodz; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Fotograf Magazine, Prague; ISPP, Riga; Organ Vida, Zagreb; PHotoEspaña, Madrid; Photo Romania Festival, Cluj-Napoca; PhotoIreland, Dublin; Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest; Triennale der Photographie Hamburg; and Void (Athens).
FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Eurokleis is a platform partner.
This years FUTURES annual event of will be hosted by CAMERA in Turin. Coinciding with the Turin Contemporary Art Week, from 4 to 6 November, one hundred artists, twenty curators and heads of major international contemporary photography institutions will be guests at CAMERA for the Annual Event of the European FUTURES Photography platform.
The FUTURES Annual Event offers a calendar of events that will take place over the three days, with appointments exclusively for the artists selected in 2022, alternating with other public events. Among these, the most important is the exhibition ON THE VERGE, curated by Giangavino Pazzola, in collaboration with Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen and Marta Szymańska, which will open to the public on Friday 4 November, in CAMERA’s Project Room.
A programme full of events on photography and contemporary visual research that also includes numerous moments of sociability and encounter between the community of artists and the public in collaboration with Centralino, Square Comunicazione and PopUp Date. Aperitifs, DJ sets and music, all under the aegis of contemporary photography, young talent and internationality.
Exhibition that brings together the works of the photographers selected after the call for Futures Photography.
Maija Savolainen, Carlos Alba, Hien Hoang, Emily Graham, Eva Kreuger, Marta Bogdanska, Alexey Shlyk, Valeria Cherchi, Io Sivertsen, Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond Skeaping and Jean Vincent Simonet have been selected by the Festival and will become part of this platform that promotes the mobility and visibility of emerging photographers.
After a year of comings and goings and uncertainties, the current reality is anything but balanced. Waves of counter narratives continue to flourish and subvert our knowledge base, altering all the parameters that marked the sense of being and belonging.
In Europe, the new generations try to promote a new cultural literacy. Although it seems difficult to be able to define a direction in such a cluttered environment. Within this climate of hybrid experimentation, we are witnessing new realities being forged every day. What new ways of doing, narrating and understanding are here to stay, and what can we do with the horizon that lies ahead?
These eleven artists will explore these questions in this exhibition. These photographers were selected through an open call among the authors who are part of the platform Futures Photography, created in 2018. PHotoESPAÑA selected Carlos Alba who joins the rest of the authors selected by the rest of the European institutions that are part of this project.
A hybrid proposal in which, from different media, in dialogue with photography, the impact of technology and photography on Humanity and the natural world is investigated.
Eleonora Agostini, Matteo de Mayda, Leonardo Magrelli, Giulia Parlato and Silvia Rosi are the five photographers chosen this year for Futures by CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia and have been involved in activities along with another seventy artists from various European countries: they have taken part in workshops with photographers of international calibre, as well as numerous professional encounters at the Futures Photography Festival in Amsterdam. And now, thanks to a partnership with five independent spaces around Turin, in Italy, they will be able to showcase their work from the end of November through until mid-March 2022.
The spaces involved in this synergic cooperation process – Almanac Inn, Cripta747, Jest, Mucho Mas! and Recontemporary – are non-profit organisations working towards the promotion of new talents and the languages of contemporary art on the national and international scene. CAMERA asked each of them to host a solo exhibition, respectively by Eleonora Agostini, Matteo De Mayda, Leonardo Magrelli, Giulia Parlato and Silvia Rosi, delegating to the individual organisations the contact with the artists, as well as the conception, development and production of the exhibition.
THE PROGRAMME:
Leonardo Magrelli @ Jest
Via Bernardino Galliari 15/D, 10125, Turin
24 November 2021 – 23 January 2022
Jest is a space given over to photographic culture, operating through the organisation of exhibitions of national and international artists, courses and educational activities, events and presentations. A point of reference and a place of exchange for all lovers of the visual arts, Jest interprets photography both as an expressive and narrative medium, and as a language and democratic communication tool for the construction of a more aware, critical and participatory civil society.
Leonardo Magrelli presents a preview of his most recent work, The Plant, which is still in the expansion phase. The exhibition reflects the potential nature of the evolving work, adopting an open, fragmented and combinatorial approach that invites the viewer to interact with the images, recomposing them within customisable and ever-changing publications. The photographs thus lose their entirety and fixity, presenting a jagged dimension of the image, where individual details alternate, almost to the point of abstraction.
Silvia Rosi @ Recontemporary
Via Gaudenzio Ferrari 12, 10124, Turin
15 December 2021 – 4 February 2022
Founded in 2018 to explore the impact of digital technologies in contemporary art, Recontemporary aims to build an active and participatory community, making audiovisual languages more accessible. Through exhibitions, workshops and laboratories with schools, this cultural reality fosters collaboration and dialogue between institutions and artists on the international scene in order to offer an increasingly complete and up-to-date vision of a constantly evolving art form.
Silvia Rosi’s exhibition, held in the spaces in Via Gaudenzio Ferrari and split into three video works, retraces a key theme from the photographer’s artistic research: the deployment of memory as a means of handing down traditions and the reproduction of movements to stimulate recollection. Rosi thus analyses her family’s origins and their experience of migration from Togo to Italy, taking up the ancestral memories of her own roots.
Giulia Parlato @ Mucho Mas!
Corso Brescia 89, 10154, Turin
14 January – 27 February 2022
Mucho Mas! is an artist-run space founded in 2018 by Luca Vianello and Silvia Mangosio. A place for meetings and experimentation, sharing and research. Since its opening, Mucho Mas! has hosted emerging and mid-career artists, both from Italy and abroad, bringing back a transversal and experimental approach to contemporary imagery.
Diachronicles (2019–2021) is a project by Giulia Parlato that recounts the absence of memory and the central role that archaeology, photography and the museum take on in the fabrication of collective history. The exhibition focuses on a more installation-based approach, telling the story of the intricate and complex world the artist creates through her imagery.
Eleonora Agostini @ Almanac Inn
Via Reggio 13, 10153, Turin
4 February – 4 March 2022
Almanac Inn is a non-profit organisation that aims to develop the artistic research of emerging artists, to promote art as an educational medium and facilitate exchanges between young international artists, local audiences, institutions and art professionals. Founded as a programme parallel to Almanac Projects in London, the platform is delivered as a series of residencies and exhibitions guided by critical research.
A Study On Waitressing is the latest project in which Eleonora Agostini uses photography, text and the moving image as forms of exploration of stage, backstage and performance. The figure of the mother and her job as a waitress serve as a vehicle to address concerns about the visible and the hidden in interpersonal relationships, as well as the roles we play in our daily lives.
Matteo De Mayda @ CRIPTA747
Via Catania 15/F, 10153, Turin
4 February – 28 February 2022
Cripta747 is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 to support research and contemporary art. It operates at the intersection of artistic practices and cultural debates, offering an annual programme of exhibitions, residencies, talks and events designed to encourage dialogue and exchange between visual arts and other expressive languages, and to offer the public an authentic and unfiltered vision. The projects carried out over the years have brought to Turin a new way of narrating the evolution of contemporary realities through the work of emerging artists and curators, but also of major historical figures. This approach makes Cripta747 a platform for meeting and exchange open to the outside world and to collaboration supporting and promoting artistic production.
Non c’è quiete dopo la tempesta (‘There is no calm after the storm’) is a long-term research project by Matteo De Mayda that weaves together archive and reportage photos, satellite and microscope images, individual testimonies and scientific theories, with the aim of telling the story of storm Vaia and the communities it affected. The project analyses what happened, weighing up the causes, responsibilities̀, consequences and future prospects, while raising greater public awareness of climate change.