Meet Up Events 18-19 October 2024.
At North Bank House, 49 Castleforbes Rd, North Wall, Dublin 1.
FUTURES Photography Platform is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and PhotoIreland’s participation is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland through the Co-Funding Award.
The FUTURES Meet Up event acts as a get-together point for invited international and local professionals and local artists. As part of the FUTURES Meet Up in Dublin, PhotoIreland is programming a three-day programme of private and public events, including the Critical Practice Reviews, talks, and a tour. During the Meet-up, attendees will discover the work and practice of FUTURES talents and meet with other international and local professionals and artists. It is the ideal chance to exchange ideas and network.
To the Meet Up in Dublin, we welcome international exhibition artists Antonio Guerra, Dávid Biró, Hiền Hoàng, Marta Pinto Machado, Tanja Engelberts, Umberto Diecinove, Yana Kononova, and Yana Wernicke and professionals Anna O’Sullivan, Chris Clarke, Emese Musci, Henri Badaröh, Mariama Attah, Nadine Isabelle Henrich, Pádraic E. Moore, Sara Muthi, Sarah McAuliffe, and Tiago Casanova.
About the FUTURES Photography Platform
Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, FUTURES Photography Platform is a platform focused on amplifying emerging talents in photography in Europe. Since 2017, the aim of FUTURES Photography Platform is to pool the resources and talent programmes of leading photography institutions across Europe in order to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of its selected artists. The FUTURES Photography Platform has grown since 2018 a collaborative network of 20 prominent institutions operating in the field of photography around Europe. These are: 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 Magazine (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR), Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Photo Elysée (CH), and Centre de la photographie Genève (CH) and our research member, Eurokleis s.r.l. (IT)
In addition to the many local events and opportunities organised by the FUTURES members, an annual event brings together all artists and arts professionals from the platform. The format and events programmed change every year and in the past have included our presence at Unseen Amsterdam, involving a showcase of all the Futures artists, a special exhibition of a smaller selection of Futures artists, portfolio reviews, special Futures magazine publication, in addition to events like artists and members talks, networking opportunities etc. Beyond this work, the platform artists are promoted online, in publications, and have a profile page on the FUTURES website, where their work is featured: futures-photography.com/artists
Ireland in Europe and beyond
Since its inception, PhotoIreland has been the Irish member of the platform. Being invited as funding member was a clear sign of recognition of our work and ambition, and it has given us the opportunity to work in cooperation with many respected organisations, accessing and supporting exciting contemporary practices by artists and curators, while allowing us to promote Irish artists in the European arena.
To date, PhotoIreland has put forward 35 artists for the platform. They are: Aindreas Scholz, Aisling McCoy, Aoife Herrity, Audrey Gillespie, Barry W Hughes, Becks Butler, Berta Mars, Chris Finnegan, Cian Burke, Ciaran Óg Arnold, Clare Lyons, Debbie Castro, Dorje de Burgh, Emilia Rigaud, Emma O’Brien, Garry Loughlin, George Voronov, Jamin Keogh, Jialin Long, Leon Nevill Gallagher, Mark Duffy, Mark McGuinness, Megan Doherty, Miriam O’ Connor, Niamh Barry, Patrick O’Byrne, Pauline Rowan, Phelim Hoey, Róisín White, Ronan McCall, Ryan Allen, Sarah Navan, Shia Conlon, Vera Ryklova, and Yvette Monahan. PhotoIreland works with the platform members every year to support their practice and open new opportunities.
6-8pm Launch of Exhibition ENERGY: Redistributing Power and Taming Consumption
6:30pm Opening Speech by Ángel Luis González, Director of PhotoIreland, and Aoife Tunney, Joint Head of Creative Europe Culture Office of the Arts Council of Ireland
7-8pm Artists Meet and Greet with Antonio Guerra, Dávid Biró, Hiền Hoàng, Marta Pinto Machado, Tanja Engelberts, Umberto Diecinove, Yana Kononova, and Yana Wernicke.
The exhibition venues close strictly at 8pm.
The exhibition venues are closed on the 18th October to host the private programme and Critical Practice Reviews.
Irish Artists participating in the Critical Practice Reviews are Aisling McCoy, Aoife Herrity, Berta Mars, Caitriona Dunnett, Conn McCarrick, Daragh Soden, David Thomas Smith, Dee Byrne, Emma O’Brien, Garry Loughlin, Iollann Ó Murchú, Jane Cummins, Kate Nolan, Leon Neville Gallagher, Mary Furlong, Nazli Yildirim, Ryan Allen, Samuel Luke Booth, Spencer Glover, and Yvette Monahan.
Please note, the exhibition venues will be closed outside of the public events listed below to accommodate the Meet Up programme.
10-11:30am Exhibition Tour with PhotoIreland and exhibition artists Antonio Guerra, Dávid Biró, Hiền Hoàng, Marta Pinto Machado, Tanja Engelberts, Umberto Diecinove, Yana Kononova, and Yana Wernicke. The tour starts strictly at 10am at the North Bank House, proceeding to Glazier House, and concluding at the Sean O’Casey Park.
This event is free but booking is mandatory.
12-1pm Panel Talk: Fuelling Culture: Arts Practice and the sum of its parts.
This event is free and booking is mandatory.
The panel talk welcomes five professionals from a range of cultural sectors across Europe, to share their experience and gathered knowledge on encouraging cooperation and cultural exchange between arts organisations and artists across Europe and beyond.
We welcome Menno Liauw, Founder and Director of the European photography platform FUTURES and Artistic Director of EXPOSED Photography Festival in Turin; University of Westminster Reader in Photography Lucy Soutter introducing the recently released volume The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies; Emese Musci, Curator, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, contributor to The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies and member of the Global Photographies Network; Tiago Casanova, artist and editor at XYZ Books, who will share the motivation behind the new transnational project Intergalactica: books for the culture without borders and the role publishing plays in global connectivity; and Gavin Murphy, artist and co-founder of Artist Run Europe project, exemplifying how artist-run spaces are a distinctive and central part of visual art culture, and how they present a necessary set of alternatives to the art institution.. The panel will be chaired by Ángel Luis González, Director of PhotoIreland.
About FUTURES
FUTURES is a Europe-based photography platform bringing together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists across the world. The aim is 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.
About The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies
In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centres of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts.
Intergalactica: books for the culture without borders, is a transnational project which connects institutions and artists, across four different countries: Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, and Italy. Intergalactica aims to strengthen the cultural tradition of artbooks, create participatory space through the use of workshops, open talks and exhibitions.
Artist-Run Europe is part how-to manual, part history, and part socio-political critique of the conditions, organisational models, and role of artist-led practice within contemporary art and society.
[Image: Exhibition Tour at FUTURES Annual Event, Capa Center, Budapest, 2023. Image courtesy of Capa Center.]
