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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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2nd March, 2018

Berlin meeting February

Emop curators met in Berlin on February 26/27th at Podewil Palais of Kulturprojekte Berlin to discuss content of the next book on contemporary photography and connected exhibition projects. Discussions addressed several topics such as the body in contemporary photography and how digital technologies influence representation. Outcome was a list of about 40 artists whose works need further discussions.

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25th January, 2018

Vienna meeting January 2018

All members of the EMoP met in Vienna on January 22/23 to discuss the future of the network considering major institutional changes. At the MEP in Paris, long time director and founder Jean-Luc Monterosso will retire in April and the new director, Simon Baker from the Tate Modern, will take office. In Vienna, the KunstHaus will replace MUSA whose future is uncertain considering the restructuring of the Vienna Museum landscape. Budapest is considering the move of the Museum of photography from Kecskemét t...
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25th September, 2017

Berlin meeting : Elections of new board

During its meeting in Berlin today, a new board was elected according to the statutes: Vaclav Macek (Central European House of Photography, Bratislava) as President, Jean-Luc Soret (Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris) as Vice-President, Pierre Stiwer (Café-Crème Asbl, Luxembourg ) as Director of Finances and Oliver Baetz (Kulturprojekte Berlin) as Financial Supervisor. Thomas Licek (Vienna) was appointed Secretary General of the new permanent secretariat hosted in Vienna.

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12th October, 2016

Café-Crème asbl to participate in Luxembourg art week

Emop Luxembourg representative Café-Crème asbl has accepted an invitation by the Art week Luxembourg founders to represent EMOP for this second edition which will take place from November 9-13th 2016 at the Halle Victor Hugo (Luxembourg / Limpertsberg)
The first edition of Luxembourg Art Week has been a huge success with more than 7000 visitors in 6 days. Luxembourg Art Week is a contemporary art exhibition, which offers an extensive overview of contemporary art from Luxembourg and its neighbouring co...
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3rd October, 2016

Looking for the Clouds catalogue 2016

“Looking for the Clouds, contemporary photography in times of conflict”  – our new book / catalogue accompanying the exhibitions of the Emop network in Bratislava and Vienna 2016  ( spring 2017 in Athens, Luxembourg)  – is out. Not less than 50 artists (photography and video projects) will make up for a more than 20o pages book on recent developments in the field of photography around the crisis that erupted out of 9/11.
“Looking for the Clouds” is hinting at the gr...
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