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8th June, 2021

Winners of the EMOP Arendt Award 2021: Inka & Niclas

Last week, the EMOP Arendt Award, endowed with 6,000 euros, was given to the Swedish artist duo Inka&Niklas in Luxembourg. The jury, which also chose the theme “Rethinking Nature/Rethinking Landscape”, is composed of members of the photo festival network “European Month of Photography”. The works of Inka & Niclas as well as those of the other nominated artists, Vanja Bucan (Nova Goricia/Berlin), Maria Magdalena Ianchis (Cluj/Vienna), Anastasia Mityukova (Geneva) and Danila ...
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18th January, 2021

Postponement of FOTO WIEN to 2022

Due to the current Covid 19 developments, we are unfortunately forced to postpone FOTO WIEN. The planning security for all participants involved in the festival is simply not given at the moment and the health risk is too great. Therefore, after a thorough internal review and consultation with programme partners and political representatives, we have come to the decision to postpone FOTO WIEN by one year so that the festival can take place in its entirety from 9 to 27 March 2022 – please mark this date ...
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28th October, 2020

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EMOP AREND AWARD NOMINEES 2021

The EMOP network gladly announces the five nominees for the European Month of Photography Arendt Award 2021:
Vanja Bucan (Nova Goricia/Berlin)
Maria Magdalena Ianchis (Cluj/Vienna)
Inka&Niclas (Stockholm)
Anastasia Mityukova (Geneva)
Danila Tkachenko (Moscow)

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16th October, 2020

EUROPEAN MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARENDT AWARD 2021

EUROPEAN MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARENDT AWARD 2021

Under the title “Rethinking Nature/Rethinking Landscape” the curators of the European Month of Photography network focus on the representation of nature in contemporary photography.
Exhibition projects in relation to this theme will be exhibited during the photo Festivals EMOPLUX (Luxembourg), CIRCULATION(S) (Paris) and IMAGO LISBOA (Lisbon) in 2021 and at FOTO WIEN (Vienna) in March 2022.
From about 40 artistic positions, proposed and reviewed by t...
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8th October, 2020

Rethinking Nature/Rethinking Landscape

Rethinking Nature/Rethinking Landscape is the new theme of the EMOP network. The curators of the participating photo festivals  are currently reviewing works by emerging European photographers. The five nominated artists for the EMOP Arendt Award will be announced in October 2020.

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17th May, 2018

Vienna meeting April

The Vienna meeting end of April confirmed a close collaboration of five cities (Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, Luxembourg, Paris and Vienna ) on the common project “The body in contemporary European photography”. The subject was discussed in depth within the five curators and a list of about 40 artists/photographers was kept to be part of the book project and exhibitions in Budapest and Bratislava ( autumn 2018), Vienna and Luxembourg ( spring 2019). Paris is said to schedule the next festival ...
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