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23rd May, 2025

Arendt award 2025

The five nominees for the EMoP Arendt Award in relation to the topic of Rethinking Photography are: Sylvie Bonnot (Paris), Marta Djourina (Berlin), Raisan Hameed (Leibzig), Simon Lehner (Vienne), Paulo Simāo (Lisbonne). The winner of the 2025 edition is Marta Djourina.
EMoP jury members of 2025 edition: Paul di Felice (president/Luxbg.), Rui Prata (Imago Lisboa), Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Kulturprojekte Berlin), Delphine Dumont / Paul de la Marandais (PhotoBrussels / Hangar), Mona Schubert / Felix Hoffmann ...
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19th February, 2025

Arendt Award 2025 Rethinking photography

After Rethinking Nature (2021) and Rethinking Identity (2023), the curatorial team of EMOP has chosen the theme of Rethinking Photography for its 2025 edition. Among a pool of artistic positions proposed and discussed by the curators of the EMOP network within the framework of this theme, the following five artists, all of whom live and work in Europe, have been nominated for the EMOP Arendt Award 2025: Sylvie Bonnot (Paris), Marta Djourina (Berlin), Raisan Hameed (Leipzig), Simon Lehner (Vienna), and Pau...
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7th June, 2022

EMOP Arendt award 2023 – Rethinking Identity

Nominees: CIHAN CAKMAK, ULLA DEVENTER, JOJO GRONOSTAY, LIVIA MELZI, KAROLINA WOJTAS
The five artists nominated for the EMoP Arendt Award in relation to the theme of Rethinking Identity take different paths through singular reinterpretations that go beyond the classic clichés of identity.
Out of a more individual vision, Cihan Cakmak addresses the reminiscences of a Kurdish identity fracture by creating personal dreamlike situations challenging the social fragmentation and isolation she has undergone....
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8th June, 2021

Arendt Award 2021

The EMOP Arendt Award 2021, endowed with 6,000 euros, was given to the Swedish artist duo Inka&Niklas in Luxembourg.  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 Tkachenko (Moscow) were part of the show at Arendt, the headquarters of law firm Arendt & Medernach and at other locations in the city in the framework of the Mois Européen de la Photograp...
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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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