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Hristina Tasheva

Nominated in
2026
By
Void
Lives and Works in
The Netherlands
Hristina Tasheva (1976) is a Bulgarian-born visual artist based in the Netherlands. Her practice unfolds through long-term, research-driven projects that move between personal experience and collective history, examining identity and the politics of memory. Working across photography, archival material, text, and performative strategies, she constructs layered narratives attentive to silences and unresolved historical legacies. Tasheva holds a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and an MA in Photography from AKV|St. Joost in Breda. Her recent artist book Far Away From Home reflects on the divergent histories of communism in Bulgaria and the Netherlands. The book won the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award and the Athens Photo Festival Pick:24 Book Award, and was nominated, among others, for the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Award. She is currently developing FOREVERMORE I love you (A letter to a man), a project exploring how Europe remembers its wars and how memory shapes identity.
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2026

FOREVERMORE I love you (A letter to a man)

FOREVERMORE I love you (A letter to a man) is a work in progress, currently in its research and experimentation phase. Conceived as a long-term artistic investigation, the project explores how Europe remembers its wars and how practices of remembrance shape identity, belonging, and ideas of a shared future. It is inspired by a World War I love letter returned to its sender marked “KILLED,” a fragment that reveals the enduring emotional aftermath of war beyond official histories. Developed in response to the present political climate and ongoing war in Europe, the project reflects on the uneven proximity of conflict across the continent. Living and working in the Netherlands while maintaining close ties to Eastern Europe informs my perspective, raising questions about whether a collective European “we” exists amid divergent memories, fears, and political positions. In this early phase, I am testing visual and conceptual approaches. The research focuses on memory cultures across different European contexts, moving geographically from Western to Eastern Europe and from historical to contemporary conflicts. Positioning myself as both observer and potential participant, I ask how personal loss intersects with collective rituals, and whether contemporary forms of remembrance allow space for critical reflection. The project is envisioned to evolve into an artist book and exhibition formats.
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Hristina Tasheva
was nominated by
Void
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2026
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Each year every member of the FUTURES European Photography Platform nominates a set of artists and projects to become part of the FUTURES network.

Francesca Giaitzoglou-Watkinson

Void selected Francesca Giaitzoglou-Watkinson for her use of photography as an in-between space of encounter: between the self and the other, the image and the memory, the vulnerability and care. Across long-term, research-led projects, she treats photography as a psychological terrain, where identity, gender, belonging, and trauma are processed through her intimacy. Also very distinguishes her work is her capacity to intertwine her own experiences with a broader cultural framework. Allowing personal histories to resonate beyond the self without losing their intimacy. Her practice proposes photography as a tool for self-understanding and transformation, and a form of accepting healing.

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Hristina Tasheva

Hristina Tasheva was selected for her rigorous approach to photography. Using it as a tool for thinking through history instead of trying to illustrate it. Her long-term, research-driven practice moves between personal position and collective memory. We also highlight her plurality: working across photography, archival material, text, and performative gestures. Grounded in lived experience while aware of Europe’s fractured historical landscape, her practice navigates proximity and distance, care and critique. The understanding of historical complexity, combined with her research-based approach, aligns with Futures’ commitment to artists who engage photography as a critical and reflective medium within contemporary realities.

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Odysseas Tsompanoglou

Odysseas Tsompanoglou was selected for his searching engagement with photography as a space for reflection. His practice moves between document and fiction, questioning how truth is constructed and experienced in a time shaped by mediation, instability, and perception. Working with loss, melancholy, and the possibility of collective healing, Odysseas incorporate in his practice his experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, by applying strict technical constraints to his practice, using photography as a therapeutic tool to metabolise the instability of time and perception.

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Members of the jury:

Myrto Steirou — Editor and Founder of Void

Kata Geibl — Photographer and Professor in the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design BA and MA program

Maria Sturm — Photographer and teacher at HBK Braunschweig

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