FUTURES 2023
Fotogalleriet is a member of FUTURES, an Europe-based photography platform bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artist across the world. Alongside 21 other European art intuitions dedicated to photography, we nominate five artist each year to join the FUTURES platform and network.
The selected artists will join the platform’s activities to present their work to international professionals and to network, amongst other opportunities that will be developed for them, including exhibitions, publishing opportunities, portfolio reviews, and more.
The Fotogalleriet team and the 2023 nominated artists attended the FUTURES Annual Event hosted by the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest for the first time. The FUTURES Annual Event welcomed 100 artists, 23 curators, and the heads of major international contemporary photography institutions. Featuring one exhibition,three lectures, and four workshops, it offered an extensive calendar with exclusive appointments for the FUTURES artists selected in 2023, alongside public events.
The 2023 Fotogalleriet nominated artists Dev Dhunsi, Naina Helén Jåma, Bobby Yu Shuk Pui, Paulina Tamara, and Ilavenil Vasuky Jayapalan showcase their work as part of the Photo Festival Oslo Negativ.
Trigger #5: Energy, is an exploration of that question — and broadly thematizes alternative approaches to energy through photography, the issue of society’s decarbonization, the call for repair, and collective values.
Through this issue you’ll get another understanding of waste, the darkroom, and photography itself. It is photography itself that shows us possible routes, beyond the human, to spiritual energies that can help us repair and heal and ultimately centre (photography on) non-extractive values (and techniques). Trigger #5 consists of thirteen contributions (essays, artist contributions, conversations) which engender possible ways photography might start to unlearn entrenched ideas and habits concerning the use and abuse of energy.
Contributions by: Duncan Wooldridge, Sylvia Ballhause, Máté Dobokay, Agata Madejska, Mariama Attah, Euridice Zaituna Kala, René D’amour Hitimana, Risk Hazekamp, Eline Benjaminsen, Tanja Engelberts, Bas Blaasse, Hannah Fletcher, Hiroki Shin, Cara Daggett, Sheng-Wen Lo, Cale Garrido, Kateryna Radchenko, Yana Kononova, Tina Farifteh, Yvette Monahan, Hiền Hoàng, Sebastian Koudijzer, Léonard Pongo, Caroline Woolard.
Cover image: female anger expressed by Roshanak Morrowatian, photo by Tina Farifteh.
The jury appointed by Fotogalleriet for the 2023 FUTURES nomination process: artist, writer, and Dáiddadállu artists’ collective member Susanne Hætta, Guovdageaidnu/Vadsø; Liv Brissach, a writer and former curator at MUNCH, Oslo; Kristin Aasbø, curator and Senior Archivist at Preus, The National Museum of Photography, Horten; Miki Gebrelul, Head of Exhibitions at Fotogalleriet, Oslo, and Antonio Cataldo, Artistic Director of Fotogalleriet.
Co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, FUTURES is a Europe-based photography platform bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists worldwide. Since 2017, it has aimed to add long-term value in empowering early and mid-career photographers – launching initiatives to promote their work and granting them access to an unprecedented network of professionals, markets, and audiences.
Today, the project is a consortium of 18 prominent cultural institutions: CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE), Der Greif (DE), FOMU (BE), FOTODOK (NL), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), Fotogalleriet (NO), Fotograf 07 (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PHotoESPAÑA (ES), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto Ci.Clo (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR). Research member: Eurokleis s.r.l. (IT)
