At the Futures Hub, Alexey Shlyk will present his ongoing research, 'Space Topologies,' alongside the premiere of his latest installation, "GOO" (2023-2024).
In the aftermath of the rigged elections in Belarus in 2020 and the ongoing war in Ukraine, Alexey found himself consumed by the news, particularly through the lens of pro-governmental media in Belarus and Russia. The ceaseless stream of hatred, disinformation, and falsehoods infiltrated his personal space, transforming his daily routine into a habit of relentless doomscrolling. Overwhelmed by the stark simplicity and brutality of propaganda methods, Alexey discovered himself immersed in a viscous space of lies, political slogans, and manipulated visuals.
GOO (2023-2024) stands as Alexey's visceral response to the world of propaganda and its profound impact on private life.
Opening: 02 February, 2024
Time: 17.00 - 21.00
Location: Isaac Titsinghkade 6B, 1018 CA, Amsterdam
Alexey Shlyk is a visual artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. He graduated with an MA in Mathematics in 2008 from Belarus State University, an MA in Photography in 2018 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, and an MA in Research in Art and Design in 2019 from Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
In his creative work, Shlyk explores personal and political subjects, memory, technology, and ingenuity. Through large-scale photographic installations, he investigates the relationship between image and space, employing photography, video, and sound.
In 2017, Shlyk was the winner of ArtContest in Belgium, received the LensCulture Emerging Talents Award, was a laureate of Carte Blanche Paris Photo, and was shortlisted for Prix Levallois. In 2018, he won the Prijs Roger De Conynck in Belgium and a Public Prize at the ING Unseen Talent Award. In 2020, together with Ben Van den Berghe, he received COVID-19 work grant from FOMU Antwerp and SOFAM grant in 2022.
He has had solo exhibitions in Belgium, Norway, China, Belarus, and Russia, and has participated in numerous group shows and photo festivals in Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Greece, Spain, Germany, France, Cambodia, among others. His work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, GEO Germany, De Standaard, Corriere della Sera, Néon France, Fisheye, and Artpress.
FUTURES MEET UP: REFLECTIONS ON PHOTOGRAPHY & ENERGY
FUTURES and FOMU invite you to an exclusive, two-day program of lectures, panel discussions, and other activities related to photography. During the meet-up, you will meet FUTURES talents, international curators (including Luce Lebart, Damarice Amao, and Amanda Maddox), and other artists. It is the ideal chance to exchange ideas and network.
During these days, FUTURES Annual Publication 2023 "Trigger#5: Energy," will be launched. It is published by FOMU and Fw:Books and edited and curated by FUTURES members FOMU, Fotodok, PhotoIreland, and Capa Center.
13th November 2023 – FUTURES MEET-UP
9.30 am: Welcome & registration
10.00 am: Guided visit to the FOMU exhibitions (James Barnor, a new retrospective developed in close collaboration with the photographer; Grace Ndiritu reimagines the FOMU collection; and Her Voice, a thematic exhibition on how the work of Chantal Akerman resonates today)
1.30 pm – 3.00 pm: ON MY MIND, 5 artists and curators speak on their critical reflections, passions, doubts or epiphanies during their process of art creation and curation.
Speakers:
Rein Deslé & Anne Ruygt
Marina Paulenka
Brahim Tall
Hien Hoang
Marina Caneve
3.00 pm – 3.30 pm: KEYNOTE by Luce Lebart
3.00 pm - 4.00 pm: Panel talk on Radically rethinking institutional (museum) spaces: How can we, as curators, directors and artists, use our radical vulnerability and intuition as a motor for change in the rigid environments that are (museum) institutions? How does one maneuver themselves within these institutions while pushback for new ideas is a possibility?
Speakers:
Damarice Amao
Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger
Felipe Romero Béltran
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm: Drinks at FOMU café
Evening Film screening Chantal Akerman (optional)
14th November 2023 – FUTURES MEET-UP
9.30 am: Welcome & registration
10.00 am - noon: Portfolio conversations (group sessions)
1.30 pm – 3.00 pm: ON MY MIND, 5 artists and curators speak on their critical reflections, passions, doubts or epiphanies during their process of art creation and curation.
Speakers:
Elephy
Marina Gaddoneix
Felipe Romero Béltran
Amanda Maddox
Doris Gassert
3.00 pm – 4.00 pm: Launch of the FUTURES Annual Publication. Trigger#5: Energy, is conceptualized as the FUTURES Annual Publication 2023, published by FOMU and Fw:Books and edited and curated by FUTURES members FOMU, Fotodok, PhotoIreland and Capa Center.
Speakers:
Mariama Attah
Sheng Wen Lo
Tanja Engelberts
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm: Drinks at FOMU café (optional)
6.00 pm: Departure
In the context of the Club to Club Festival, FUTURES collaborates with EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival and design studio Unstated to curate a multidisciplinary project that blends photography, music, and installation. EXPOSED PRELUDE, one of the teaser events of EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival, is part of this exciting collaboration.
On Sunday, November 5th, at the OGR venue, which will host the closing day of C2C, we will present a real-time installation on three LED screens. This installation will utilize AI and a dataset featuring images of FUTURES artists. The visuals will dynamically transform in response to the music played by the DJs during the event.
We look forward to seeing you there!
EXPOSED x C2C Festival w/ FUTURES and Unstated
Date: Sunday, November 5th
Venue: OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni
Admission with tickets.
FUTURES artists: Sybren Vanoverberghe, Adel Koleszar, Vassilis Triantis, Daniel Szalai, Xenia Petrovska, Filip Bojović, Cian Burke, Rocco Venezia, Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Cristina Garlesteanu, Maria Babikova, Martyna Benedyka, Walter Costa, Pablo Lerma, Nicola Di Giorgio, Sara Scanderebech, Riccardo Svelto, Ligia Popławska, Umberto Diecinove, Jialin Long, Eleni Onasoglou, Kaarina-Sirkku Kurz, Laura San Segundo, Marie Hervé, Eleonora Roaro, Kristine Krauze-Slucka, Javier Corso, Szilvia Mucsy, Panagiotis Papoutsis, Ruth Montiel, AriasJosephina, van de Water, Ryan Allen, Katherine Longly, Phelim Hoey, Claudiu Guraliuc, Joana Dionísio, Giulia Mangione, Oscar Scott CarlKarolina JonderkoJeroen De WandelLorenzo PingitoreAlessia RolloMatthieu Croizier Susanne FagerlundIrene ZottolaCamillo PasquarelliMatteo de MaydaLucija Bogunović, Laura Van Severen, Garry Loughlin, Marco Kesseler, Dávid BiróIeva Baltaduonyte, Carlos Trancoso, Dea Botica, Ania Vouloudi, Oxiea Villamonte, Juliette Cassidy, Michał Patycki, Kristof Thomas, Barbara Debeuckelaere, Maria João Salgado, Andrea Camiolo, Bärbel Reinhard, Carlos Alba, Romain Bagnard, Domenico Camarda, Patricia Morosan, Ela Polkowska, George Voronov, Maximilian MannKata, GeiblHilla Kurki, Tereza Kozinc, Enikő Hodosy, Emilia Rigaud, Ana Zibelnik, Szilvia Bolla, Pauline Niks, María Baoli, Jacopo Valentini, Olga Kocsi, Josef Janošík, Mara Palena,Maria Siorba, Ire Lenes, Jonas Yang Tislevoll, Emma O'Brien, Sebastian Steveniers, Vera Ryklova, Kacper Szalecki, Aindreas Scholz, Marysia Myanovska, Antonio Guerra, Alin Barbir, Thalles Piaget, Sári Zagyvai, Sasha Chaika, Sebastian Koudijzer, Yao Yuan, Camilla Ferrari andTamara Janes
Friday Finissage!
Exhibition "Dear Moment, I Keep U for Later" by Nicolas Polli.
We are excited to invite you to the finissage of Swiss artist Nicolas Polli's exhibition 'Dear Moment, I Keep U for Later' on October 20th. From September 22nd to October 20th, 2023, you have witnessed the evolution of his exhibition.
On October 20, you will have a chance to see the final result!
Finissage | Dear Moment, I Keep U for Later Exhibition by Nicolas Polli
Date: 20 October, 2023
Time: 16:00 PM - 18:00 PM
Location: Isaac Titsinghkade 6B, Amsterdam
We look forward to seeing you there!
In 2023, FUTURES annual event will be hosted by Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest. 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.
Artists: Antonio Guerra (ES), David Biro (HU), Hien Hoang (VE/DE), Marta Pinto Machado (CV/PT), Tanja Engelberts (NL), Umberto Diecinove (IT), Yana Kononova (UA) and Yana Wernicke (DE)
Exhibition curated by Emese Mucsi (Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center), Ángel Luis González and Julia Gelezova (PhotoIreland) and Daria Tuminas (FOTODOK).
ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption is the new FUTURES exhibition opening at Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest from October 15 to November 26, 2023. It features a group show, an anthology of diverse photography projects focusing on energy, one of the most relevant and complex topics, which everybody has to deal with either as a private or as a public matter. The show comprises over 80 works produced by eight young photographers selected from the FUTURES Photography network..
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, NL; Yana Kononova, UA), others explore existing strategies as possible solutions (Dávid Biró, HU); Umberto Diecinove, IT); Antonio Guerra, ES), exemplify desirable companionships (Yana Wernicke (DE) and reflect on healing (Hien Hoang, VE/DE). 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, CV/PT)
ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption will travel throughout the year to PhotoIreland and FOTODOK.
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.