First 4 editions of the common projects: includes the three Mutations exhibitions and DistUrbances.

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The European Month of Photography Luxembourg (biannual) is organized by Café-Crème asbl since 2007 in partnership with almost all of Luxembourg’s state and city art institutions joined by private galleries. Outside the capital, the cities of Dudelange, Clervaux and Ettelbruck also host major art events. The 9th festival started May 2023; some exhibitions will continue until September.

Created in 2015 by Hangar, PhotoBrussels Festival is the unmissable annual event dedicated to photography. Exhibitions, meetings, workshops, conferences… constitute a global program that covers the whole city of Brussels through forty partner venues.

Hangar is the epicenter of the Festival, proposing a thematic exhibition and creating a common program for all the venues

The nominees for the EMOP Arendt Award 2019 are: Carina Brandes, Matthieu Gafsou, Weronika Gęsicka, Alix Marie, SMITH.
The award ceremony will be held on May 15th, 2019 at Arendt House in Luxembourg/Kirchberg.

The winner of the 2019 EMOP Arendt Award is Weronika Gęsicka.

Budapest, Bratislava are actively preparing their exhibitions particularly the one relation to the topic chosen by EMOP curators. Bodyfiction attempts to give an overview on recent development in photography and it representation of the body. Vienna (March 2019) and Luxembourg (May 2019) will follow. The Luxembourg based law firm Arendt & Medernach will reward one of upstarting artists out the general selection. Nominees for the EMOP Arendt Award 2019 are: Carina Brandes, Matthieu Gafsou, Weronika Gesicka, Alix Marie, SMITH.

The EMOP catalogue 0f 2019 features new ways of envisioning the body.
Under the generic title “Bodyfiction” EMOP showcases contemporary photographic art by emerging artists who reconsider the body and the human figure. About 40 European artists/photographers have been contacted to participate in the project.
The artistic positioning of this new generation of photographers diverges from classical models by an often disturbing – sometimes provocative – questioning of these models. The fragmentation of the body is a main feature of  these pictures questioning the aesthetics of the representation in relation to the gender or bio-technical issues of today.

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 only in 2020 due delays in setting up the new organisational structure after Jean-Luc Monterosso, founder of the festival, retired this year as director of the Maison européenne de la photographie.

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.

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 to Budapest; the festival planning is underway. In Luxembourg, a new director (Suzan Cotter from Fondation Serralves in Porto) will also take office at the Mudam (Musée d’art moderne) this month. The meeting dealt mainly with the management of the festivals considering the circumstances and discussed the planned book on the topic “The Body on contemporary photography” (expected in spring 2019 ) and the related exhibitions in the member cities.

Athens: Athens Photo Festival – June 6 – July 29, 2018
Berlin: EMOP Berlin – October 2018 (opening September 28)
Bratislava: Month of Photography – November 2018
Budapest: Month of Photography – October/November 2018 (opening mid-October)
Ljubljana: Photonic Moments – June 2018 (opening May 30-June 2)
Luxembourg: EMOP Luxembourg – May 2019
Paris: Month of Photography of Greater Paris – spring 2019
Vienna: Month of Photography – March/April 2019 (opening March 21, t.b.c.)

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.

All members of The EMoP Network and designated curators met in Vienna on January 23d to discuss the planned book on the topic ” The Body on contemporary photography ” ( expected Spring 2019 ) and the related exhibitions in the member cities.

This catalogue was published in 2016 and deals with photography after the 9/11 events. Artists in this publication deal with the surveillance scandals (NSA), the identity crisis in Europe and the rise of nationalism, modern warfare in relation to the Middle-East and above all the refugee crisis.

“Looking for the Clouds” is hinting at the great expectations refugees and immigrants  might have when reaching for the shores of Europe after the 9/11 aggression developed in a full war in the Middle-East with a lot of consequences worsening the then also existing financial crisis and economic turmoil in some European countries. The refugee crisis brought many countries to the brink of explosion as an after-effect of the wars in the Middle-East.

War on terror also meant more surveillance and control on ordinary citizens. Il also meant new war-strategies of which drones are just an aspect. And watching the clouds can therefore also be an expression of fear.

Artists: Leila Alaoui, Isabelle Arvers, Andrej Ban, Dario Belic, David Birkin, James Bridle, Tanja Boukal, Paolo Cirio, Raphael Dallaporta, Richard Drew, Omer Fast, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Balazs Deim, Mykola Ridnyi, Patrick Galbats, Rainer Ganahl, Gelitin, Aldo Giannotti, Marco Godinho, Samuel Gratacap, Ibro Hasanovic, Sven Johne, Anna Jermolaewa, Jure Kastelic, Gabor Kerekes, Flo Kasearu, Martin Kollar, Carine & Elisabeth Krecké, Aude Moreau, Dimitris Michalakis, Juraj Mravec, Giorgios Moutafis, Boris Nemeth, Tami Notsani, Laurent Mareschal, Daniel Mayrit, Florian Rainer, Swen Renault, Julian Röder, Wolfgang Reichmann, Aida Silvestri, Panos Tsagaris, Jules Spinatsch, Jens Ulrich, Matic Zorman.

Texts by Paul Ardenne, Pierre Stiwer, Miha Colner

The nominees for the European Month of Photography Arendt 2017 award are:
Samuel Gratacap, Jure Kastelic, Daniel Mayrit, Aida Silvestri, Panos Tsagaris.

The winner 2017 is Samuel Gratacap who was rewarded with 6000. euros and some of his works entering the collection of the Law firm.

Arendt & Medernach is an independent law firm based in Luxembourg, with offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Moscow, New York, and Paris. Arendt & Medernach is committed to contemporary art (Steichen Award for the MUDAM) and especially photography (support of Café-Crème asbl). Faithful to its passion, the law firm Arendt & Medernach wishes to encourage openness, diversity and the sharing of emotions.
Since 2013, Arendt & Medernach has been affiliated with the European Photography Month through the sponsorship of the EMOP Arendt Award, which offers a platform to five pre-selected emerging artists chosen from the pool of artists invited to the exhibitions of the European EMOP network. By rewarding young laureates and participating in EMOP exhibitions, Arendt & Medernach supports the art of photography and thus seeks to awaken curiosity and the willingness to exchange.

The 2017 edition of the EMOP Arendt Award presenteds the work of five young artists, each of whom has interpreted the political themes under the title “Looking for the Clouds”.
The young French Samuel Gratacap is a visual artist. He is interested in problems related to migration and the resulting places of transit. His work, which is both sensitive and objective, stands at the crossroads of photojournalism and contemporary art.
Departing from media clichés and exploring a range of photographic techniques (medium format, polaroids, etc.) and contemporary artistic techniques (drawing, video, writing, etc.), he has created a new relationship between time and topicality via an effectively constructed artistic discourse.
The Slovenian artist Jure Kastelic also deals with the temporality of the image. In his series Death Reporters, which comprises photographs created from television stills, he focuses the image on the faces of presenters at the moment that they announce the number of victims during catastrophic events worldwide. In this way, he deconstructs media communications strategies This is also the case in the work of Daniel Mayrit, who through his hazy portraits (robot portraits of sorts that evoke the guilt of some of the most influential people in London) contradicts the “glamorous” image of these personalities, who are suddenly the target of surveillance cameras, exactly like criminals.
In the series of Libération magazine covers entitled For Between the Light and the Darkness We Stand, the Greek artist Panos Tsagaris interrupts the flow of news by replacing it with a symbolic work reflecting what he calls “the gradual disconnection from materiality and the slow awakening of higher consciousness.”
In a completely different way, the work of Aida Silvestri, originally from Eritrea, is part of a personal and altruistic quest focused on the fate of African refugees, which she presents in the form of blurred portraits and with the traces of their routes embroidered directly onto the photographs. Poems on the themes of collective and individual identity and displacement accompany this political and human work.
The five very singular proposals of these emerging artists of different nationalities each take with relevance and originality the sub-themes of “Looking for the Clouds – Contemporary Photography in Times of Conflicts”.

EMOP Berlin is Germany’s largest photography festival. Since 2004, the bi-annual event is a showcase for a wide range of exhibitions and events on historic and contemporary photography. The festival is organized by Kulturprojekte Berlin in collaboration with museums, cultural institutions, galleries, embassies, project spaces, and photography schools in Berlin and Potsdam.

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 countries.

The project was born from the collaboration between artcontemporain.lu, the Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg (CAL), the Luxembourg Agency for Cultural Action a.s.b.l. (ALAC) and the City of Luxembourg.

The Luxembourg Art Week 2016 will comprise two main gallery sections, Positions and Take Off, as well as the annual exhibition by the Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg (CAL). Admission free.

“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 great expectations refugees and immigrants  might have when reaching for the shores of Europe after the 9/11 aggression developed in a full war in the Middle-East with a lot of consequences worsening the then also existing financial crisis and economic turmoil in some European countries. The refugee crisis brought many countries to the brink of explosion as an after-effect of the wars in the Middle-East. War on terror also meant more surveillance and control on ordinary citizens. Il also meant new war-strategies of which drones are just an aspect. And watching the clouds can therefore also be an expression of fear.

Artist in this book – and for most of them –  in one or the other show in the eight member cities deal with this topic. The catalogue will be lavishly illustrated. Articles will be written by well-known experts in the field of photography.

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Lors de notre dernière rencontre avec nos partenaires du groupe EMoP ( European Month of Photography ) la semaine dernière à Bratislava à la Maison de la photographie de l’Europe centrale, la recherche d’une meilleure harmonisation des stratégies de communication des villes organisant un festival photo était à l’ordre du jour. Les propositions faites par le bureau Naroska Design ont été adoptées par l’ensemble des villes. Ainsi, dès septembre Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienne adopteront un design similaire pour les affiches, catalogues et site internet. Le nouveau logo – qui sera le même pour l’ensemble des festivals – sera placé à côté du logo spécifique de chaque festival. En effet, le souci d’harmonisation, n’avait pas pour but d’éliminer les particularités de chaque ville; certaines organisent un festival depuis 25 ans et plus. Il s’agissait avant tout de proposer une meilleure lisibilité des festivals photo au niveau européen et de faire voir les rapprochements qui se font entre les diverses villes qui collaborent ensemble maintenant depuis 10 ans.Il reste un souci: le festival photo de Paris s’est décidé tout récemment en faveur d’un repositionnement de son événement en le déplaçant du mois de novembre au printemps 2017. Le nom changera également. Nous ne sommes donc pas certain dans quelle mesure Paris sera en mesure de reprendre les propositions faites au groupe. On verra.

[lang_en]An important aspect on the agenda of the most recent meeting with our partners of the EMoP (European Month of Photography) last week in Bratislava in the Central European House of Photography, was a strategic one. We were seeking for a better harmonization of  the communication strategies of eight cities hosting a festival on photography. The proposals made by Naroska Design have been adopted by all cities. Thus, in September Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna will adopt a similar design for posters, catalogues and website. The new logo – which will be the same for all the festivals – will be placed next to the logo specific to each festival. Indeed, despite the need to show more coherence,  it was not our intend to eliminate the characteristics of each city; some are organizing a festival for 25 years and more. Our aim was primarily to provide a better readability of photo festivals in Europe and to see the connections that are made between the various cities that work together now for 10 years.There are some concerns: the Paris Photo Festival recently shifted its festival from November to spring 2017. The name changes also. We are therefore not sure how Paris will be able to adopt the proposals to the group as their own redesign was decided some months ago already. We’ll see.

EMoP is showing up the the ViennaPhotoBookFestival 2015.
The ViennaPhotoBookFestival is Europe’s largest festival focusing on the photo book, initiated by Anzenberger Gallery and OstLicht. Gallery for Photography. It takes place for the third time this year, on June 20 and 21, 2015 at Brotfabrik Wien. Due to the festival’s cooperation with Superar and Photon Gallery, more than 1,000 m² will be available for the 80 participating international booksellers. A high-caliber program of lectures, talks and discussions has again this year first-hand information about photobook.
For the third edition of the festival succeeded in one of the most important protagonists of the photo book scene, the American star photographer William Klein to get the first time to give a lecture in Vienna. With its striking black and white photography Klein significantly shaped the Japanese photobook culture of the 60s and 70s. Similarly, the currently most sought photobook critic Colin Pantall (UK) and the star publisher Michael Mack (UK) will give the first time the Austrian public knowledge. Another program focus of this year’s festival is “collect photobook” dedicated to the subject. For this, the important collector Michel Auer (CH), Manfred Heiting (US), Gerry Badger (UK) and Andreas Bitesnich (AT) will discuss.
Furthermore, the following international guests could be won on Photobook for lectures: Olivia Arthur (Magnum photographer on the project “Inge Morath – Danube Revisited”, UK), Nicolo Degiorgis (with the most successful book of the year 2014 “Hidden Islam”, IT) and Ania Nalecka (one of the best photo book designers, PL).
With the successful launch last year ViennaPhotoBookReview, which takes place this year continued, and the participation of more than twenty universities in the study Photography from all over Europe, the ViennaPhotoBookFestival has established itself as one of the main venues for the discovery of young talents.
In usual pleasant atmosphere with food, drinks and music, the third edition of the ViennaPhotoBookFFestival provides a platform for contacts and further cooperation of international publishers, artists, dealers, collectors and lovers of the photo book, beyond the festival have wide inventory

The main programme of the Athens Photo Festival 2015 will take place from June 3d through July 26th 2015 at the Benaki Museum, featuring 78 established and emerging artists from 25 countries. The 2015 festival theme under the on the interconnections between collective and individual memory, time and perception, exploring the relationship between past and present, both experimental and mainstream. Memory Lab: Photography challenges history is part of the program. During the festival, the Emop meeting was held at the Benaki Museum addition.

See here for the website.

Near all members of the Emop network showed up in Luxembourg during the opening week from April 22 to 25th.( see all venues ) On this picture, the group visits the Mudam exhibition of Memory Lab: photography challenges History part one. On this picture Christophe Gallois of mudam ( left ) gives some explanations to group members and invited artists.Thomas Licek from Vienna takes some pictures in the background, former MEP Paris representative Barbara Wollfer, Adrian Paci, Musa Vienna curator Gunda Achleitner, Rui Prata ( former director of the Braga Foto Museum in Portugal), Gabriall Uhl from Budapest, Aura Rosenberg ( New York ), Oliver Baetz from Monat der Fotografie Berlin cleaning his glasses, jean-Luc Soret from the Maison européenne de la Photographie Paris. In the background, reading, Tatiana Lecomte from Vienna and Adrien Pezennec from Arles, France.

Be informed about the ongoing exhibitions of the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg. Until End of May for most exhibitions; some until July and even September.