FUTURES 2024
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.
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, Ties That Bind, will be launched.
Ihar Hancharuk
Sasha Chaika
Angyvir Padilla
Jan Durina
Dev Dhunsi (Fotogalleriet nominee 2023)
Luna Mahoux
Sheung Yiu (Fotogalleriet nominee 2024)
Donja Nasseri
Their projects will be exhibited at Organ Vida Festival (Zagreb), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (Porto) and Fotograf Magazine (Prague).
FUTURES’ annual theme Ties That Bind invites us “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 Jury:
Organ Vida Festival
Bienal Fotografia do Porto
Fotograf Magazine
Presenting FUTURES 2024 nominee, Nayara Leite.
More info to come.
The committee appointed by Fotogalleriet for the 2024 FUTURES nomination process consisted of museum director at The Finish Museum of Photography Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger; Yuvinka Medina, senior curator of Bonniers Kunsthall; Marianne Bjørnmyr og Dan Mariner, creative directors of NŌUA, an artist run institution dedicated to photography as contemporary art; Antonio Cataldo, artistic director of Fotogalleriet and Miki Gebrelul, curator and head of exhibitions at 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)
FUTURES is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Eurokleis is a research partner of the platform, and MAGNUM PHOTOS is the educational partner of FUTURES.