On October 31 2024, FUTURES and FOTODOK launch ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption.
This exhibition explores the ecological, socio-political, economic, and humanitarian energy crises that both human beings and non-human entities face today. But at the same time it reminds us that energy is seen – somewhat paradoxically – as the power we require to bring change to the world. It serves as a catalyst for vitality, creativity and strength. It brings people together, making us socially active and able to help one another, as well as allowing us to react to ecological and social and political emergencies.
The exhibition shows a diversity of approaches to the subject in the projects of the eight selected artists.Yana Kononova (Ukraine) talks about the destructive forces of energy in warfare, Tanja Engelberts (the Netherlands) examines the pitfalls of extractivism. Hiền Hoàng (Vietnam and Germany) reflects on healing and Yana Wernicke (Germany) advocates for unity across different species. Dávid Biró (Hungary), Umberto Diecinove (Italy) and Antonio Guerra (Spain) explore the potential of existing solutions to the crises we face. Elsewhere, Marta Pinto Machado (Cape Verde and Portugal) reimagines the energy of contemporary cities – themselves shaped by colonial and capitalist ideas – as a possible form of resistance.
Opening: 31 Oct. 2024 | 17:00 - 20:00 at FOTODOK, Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht.
Exhibition Run: November 1, 2024 – February 2, 2025 | at FOTODOK, Lange Nieuwstraat 7, Utrecht.
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Each year, a number of FUTURES members co-curate an international exhibition. The exhibition is launched at the members’ respective countries accompanied by the Meet Up event that acts as a get together point for invited international and local professionals and local artists. This year’s exhibition ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption is co-curated by members FOTODOK, PhotoIreland, and the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, with Fotomuseum Antwerpen as publishing partner of Trigger.
The Utrecht exhibition is curated by Daria Tuminas (FOTODOK).
ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption is a group exhibition, an anthology of diverse photographic projects focusing on energy, one of the most relevant and complex topics today, and one which everybody has to deal with either as a private or as a public matter.
From personal stories to documentary and social approaches, to the exploration of the limits of photography as a medium seeking new forms of narration, each photo series and multi-media installations lined up in the ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption exhibition could stand on its own as a case study, providing a condensed representation of the ideas associated with this multilayered topic. While some projects talk about the destructive forces of energy in warfare or in extractivist society (Tanja Engelberts; Yana Kononova), others explore existing strategies as possible solutions (Dávid Biró; Umberto Diecinove; Antonio Guerra), exemplify desirable companionships (Yana Wernicke) and reflect on healing (Hien Hoang). Finally, there is a perspective on how the colonial and capitalist structures shaped contemporary cities and how the energy of presence in these spaces could be a form of resistance (Marta Pinto Machado).
Exhibition Run 18 October–10 November 2024
Opening Hours 11am-6pm Tue-Sun. Closed Mondays and 18-19th October for events
At North Bank House, Coopers Cross, 49 Castleforbes Road, North Wall, Dublin 1
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Each year, a number of FUTURES members co-curate an international exhibition. The exhibition is launched at the members’ respective countries accompanied by the Meet Up event that acts as a get together point for invited international and local professionals and local artists. This year’s exhibition ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption is co-curated by members FOTODOK, PhotoIreland, and the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, with Fotomuseum Antwerpen as publishing partner of Trigger.
The Dublin exhibition is curated by Ángel Luis González and Julia Gelezova (PhotoIreland), with the support of Emese Mucsi (Capa Center) and Daria Tuminas (FOTODOK).
This October, FUTURES and PhotoIreland proudly present an exciting program in Dublin that showcases contemporary photographic practices while addressing pressing socio-political issues. The FUTURES MEET UP will offer artist-led tours, public talks, and exclusive professional opportunities for both local and international artists, including group critiques, networking events, and studio visits.
A highlight of the program is the launch of the traveling exhibition ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption, featuring works by Antonio Guerra (ES), Dávid Biró (HU), Hiền Hoàng (VE/DE), Marta Pinto Machado (CV/PT), Tanja Engelberts (NL), Umberto Diecinove (IT), Yana Kononova (UA), and Yana Wernicke (DE). Curated by Ángel Luis González and Julia Gelezova (PhotoIreland), with support from Emese Mucsi (Capa Center) and Daria Tuminas (FOTODOK),this exhibition marks the Dublin debut of these artists’ work.
FUTURES MEET UP 2024: Dublin
PROGRAMME
The FUTURES MEET UP includes a mix of public and private events. Public events are open to all, while private sessions are for invited participants only.
THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER
Public
6:00-8:00 PM | Launch of Exhibition: ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption
Location: North Bank House
6:30 PM: Opening speech by Ángel Luis González (Director, PhotoIreland) and Aoife Tunney (Joint Head, Creative Europe Culture Office, Arts Council of Ireland).
7:00-8:00 PM: Artists Meet and Greet with Antonio Guerra, Dávid Biró, Hiền Hoàng, Marta Pinto Machado, Tanja Engelberts, Umberto Diecinove, Yana Kononova, and Yana Wernicke.
FRIDAY 18TH OCTOBER
Private
10:30 AM-2:30 PM | Critical Practice Reviews
Location: North Bank House
Participating Irish artists: Aisling McCoy, Aoife Herrity, Berta Mars, Caitriona Dunnett, Conn McCarrick, and others.
3:00-5:00 PM | Private Exhibition Visits
Location: Dublin Port
Guided visit to TBG+S at Dublin Port, hosted by curator Michael Hill.
SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER
Public
10:00-11:30 AM | Exhibition Tour: ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption
Location: North Bank House
Join PhotoIreland staff and exhibiting artists for a guided tour (booking required).
Public
12:00-1:00 PM | Panel Talk: Fuelling Culture: Arts Practice and the Sum of Its Parts
Location: North Bank House
Speakers: Menno Liauw (FUTURES), Lucy Soutter, Emese Mucsi, Tiago Casanova, and Gavin Murphy. Chaired by Ángel Luis González (PhotoIreland).
Private
2:00-5:00 PM | Studio Visits for Guest Artists and Curators
Location: Various across Dublin city
In collaboration with TBG+S, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, and others.
Public
6:00-7:00 PM | Photobook Launch: All Things Laid Dormant by Benedetta Casagrande
Location: The Library Project
Celebrate the launch and meet the artist.
Private
7:00 PM | FUTURES MEET UP Closing Event
Location: The Library Project
A private celebration for all guests to conclude the meet-up.
Complete program available here
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and co-funded by Creative Europe.
We are pleased to invite you to the opening The Institute for Scene Experiments by visual artist Nikhil Vettukattil which will take place on 03 October at 17:00 at the Futures Hub in Amsterdam.
The Institute for Scene Experiments is a parafictional institution devoted to the investigation, production and dissemination of scenes. In residence through FUTURES X MPB, the ISE will assemble a group of performers and technicians to analyse, deconstruct and reconstitute elements of cinematic scenes for camera, exploring alternative modes of staging narratives, framing, sound, and light. ISE aims to reflect on the film crew as a social form, engaging in the generativity and potentialities of scenes independent of plot, development and conclusivity, through formal techniques as well as collective authorship, ‘open rehearsal’ and collective editing. Some of the raw materials produced during the residency will be made publicly available for viewers to re-edit. A variety of game strategies are implemented in the process to examine both what is being filmed and the structures behind it. The work during the residency will reference lucid dreaming and hypnosis and borrow techniques from live action role playing games and theatrical exercises for improvisation, in preparation for a live event and workshop in October at Shedhalle, Zurich.
This event is part of the FUTURES X MPB residency is supported by MPB the largest global platform to buy, sell, and trade used photo and video equipment.
Opening | The Institute for Scene Experiments by Nikhil Vettukattil
Date: 03 October, 2024
Time: 17:00 - 20:30
Location: Isaac Titsinghkade 6B, Amsterdam
Free entrance!
Don't miss out, we look forward to seeing you there!
As part of this event, Nikhil invites participants to develop and workshop a scene.
Using a simple game strategy, we will re-enact a short, realistic dialogue for the camera, making modifications with each take and documenting the scene from different perspectives. The dialogue is based on a formal score, from which we will improvise. The exercise will examine the scene on two levels: the dynamic between the roles and the composition for a prospective edit.
The workshop will take place from 16:30 – 19:00, followed by a short conversation.
No prior experience is necessary.
Please note that participation means consenting to being filmed. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please register [here].
About Nikhil Vettukattil:
Nikhil Vettukattil is an artist living and working in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, their practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences. They studied at Central St. Martins in London and the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP). Recent exhibitions include Hothouse Flowers, Podium, Oslo
(2024), Post Production, Studiengalerie 1.357 Goethe University, Frankfurt (2023), Contaminators, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna (2023) and Claustrophobia Alpina III, Ford, Geneva (2023). They are a founding member of the Institute for Scene Experiments. Forthcoming solo presentations include Oslo Kunstforening, AGIT, Berlin and Arcadia Missa, London.
The exhibition Ties That Bind, open until November 3, presents the work of seven artists, focused on this year’s theme, which aims to “to challenge, untie, and move beyond familial ties. It explores new, meaningful ways to belong, connect, and experience closeness. It imagines new forms of attachment and kinship that could exist beyond familiar social structures, relationships, and species...or grow from within their loopholes.” It challenges and raises “questions, including those that are mischievous, fun, and dissident. It embraces projects that embody fragmented, contradictory, and open constructions of our individual and collective selves.”
The featured artists - Ihar Hancharuk, Sasha Chaika, Angyvir Padilla, Jan Durina, Dev Dhunsi, Sheung Yiu, and Donja Nasseri - were invited to embrace, challenge or rediscover various forms of attachments and connections within different social structures and relationships.
The 2024 Open Call was curated by The Bienal Fotografia do Porto, Fotogalleriet, Fotograf Magazine and Organ Vida Festival.
Ties That Bind Zagreb exhibition is curated by Organ Vida Festival.
Exhibition Run 26 September - 03 November 2024
At Museum of Contemporary Art - Zagreb (Croatia)
More info at http://www.msu.hr/hr/
Credits images Sasha Chaika.
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
In 2024, FUTURES annual event will be hosted by Organ Vida in Zagreb. For three days almost one hundred artists, twenty curators and heads of major international contemporary photography institutions will meet with the aim of building relationships, discussing the issues of our time and feeling increasingly part of a strong community based on contemporary photography. During the event the new FUTURES exhibition will be launched.
Join us this year as FUTURES brings a full program to Unseen Photography Fair!
Featured Artists:
At our booth, we are proud to present the works of Karolina Wojtas, Alexey Shlyk, and Claudia Fuggetti, three standout artists who were residents at the FUTURES Hub in Amsterdam earlier this year.
Artist Talk:
On Friday, September 20th, at 17:00, don’t miss a special artist talk by Nikhil Vettukattil, the current artist-in-residence from the FUTURES X MPB program. Nikhil will present their project The Institute for Scene Experiments at Meijburg Lounge - Unseen.
UNFOLDING FUTURES Showcase:
FUTURES will also spotlight four talented recent graduates from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)—Alia Leonardi, Joseph Kennel, Daniel Zduniuk, and Benjamin Morrison. Their projects from the UNFOLDING FUTURES residency will be featured on a dedicated wall at Unseen, offering a glimpse into the innovative approaches of the next generation of photographers.
FUTURES at Unseen Fair
🗓️ Thursday, September 19 – Sunday, September 22
🎤 Artist Talk: Friday, September 20 at 17:00 | Meijburg Lounge, Unseen Amsterdam Photography Fair
📌 Location: Klönneplein 1, 1014 DD Amsterdam
We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us on Saturday August 31st for the collective open studio celebrating the conclusion of the summer residency UNFOLDING FUTURES.
During two months, four emerging photographers have been in residency at FUTURES Hub, exploring contemporary photographic formats and installation displays. Their studios have become a generative space for experimentation and research during their creative processes.
In this final event, the four photographers will share a collective installation at the studio space, including additional works activating the building of FUTURES Photography Hub. The event will include a presentation talk in which we will reflect together with the public on their experiences during the residency, the importance of the creative process and the experimentation with the photographic medium.
It will be accompanied by a display of publications and photobooks by the participating artists including the works of other photographers recently graduated from diverse art academies and universities in the Netherlands.
The collective event of UNFOLDING FUTURES is also willing to bring together emerging photographers from diverse backgrounds, providing a meeting platform for creative exchange.
UNFOLDING FUTURES - Collective Installation and Public Event
Date: August 31st, 2024
Schedule:
18:00 Welcoming
18:30 - 21:00 Collective installation and public event
Location: FUTURES Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6, 1018 LL Amsterdam
Daniel Zduniuk, Must Be Eaten
"Must be Eaten", an ongoing project, questions the accessibility of contemporary art institutions to the public via a disruptive element: the silverfish. Because its diet is based mainly on paper, the silverfish is seen as an undesirable creature eager to eat paper: to eat art. Using a game of scale, perspective and composite photography, the project aims to challenge the established codes of the art market and conservation, by proposing a cyclical, organic vision of the art production process.
Opening and Open Studio Daniel Zduniuk
Date: 29 August 2024
Schedule:
- 18:00: Welcoming
- 18:30 - 21.00: Open Studio and Screening
Location: FUTURES Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6, 1018 LL Amsterdam
Alia Leonardi, Moi, a girl
“Moi, a girl” showcases the interplay of semantics and imagery on social media, in doing so highlighting the platforms’ transformative power in shaping contemporary gender expressions. This project seeks to explore gender performativity within digital and meme culture. The girls online fight against scrutinisation, can online identity and the aesthetic of the “coquette/silly girls” in fact be seen as as strategy against gender norms and societal expectations? Despite the capitalist nature of social media, there is potential for feminist discourses and resistance to organise on such platforms against patriarchal structures. What if endless doomscrolling was an act of resistance?
Drawing on the “Theory of the Young Girl” by Tiqqun, cyberfeminism and postmodernist frameworks are used to reappropriate an identity constructed by consumerist culture and the male gaze. The girls of the internet act as subversive figures, with the idea that if the space exists, it should be taken over or transformed.
In this subversive exploration, stereotypically feminine craft techniques like embroidery and textiles are employed to emphasise the engagement of the work. The installation manifests as a network of objects, visuals, and texts, all interwoven to reflect the interconnected reality of the girl’s online existence and its impact on the physical world but also as a refusal to be completely perceived by an outsider audience.
this one’s for the girls and the gays <3
Opening and Open Studio Alia Leonardi
Date: 15 August 2024
Schedule:
- 18:00: Welcoming
- 18:30 - 21.00: Open Studio and Screening
Location: FUTURES Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6, 1018 LL Amsterdam