Exhibitions

Exhibition: Rencontres de la Photographie de Marrakech, Morocco

Exhibition: Rencontres de la Photographie de Marrakech, Morocco

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining the 4th edition of Les Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech, thanks to our partnership with the Centre Photographique Marseille (@centrephotomarseille). The Rencontres de la Photographie de Marrakech is an independent festival in its fourth edition. The festival is organized by the association Voix Plurielles. The Association Voix Plurielles is a cultural association created in 2018. Its mission is to develop cultural projects that contribute to the animation and enrichment of city life. Its activities span various fields such as art, organizing symposiums, and literary, artistic, and cultural meetings related to major cultural and civilizational issues. The conception of our projects is mainly based on: Creativity, as a source and motivation for individual, social, and economic development.

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Exhibition: Brutus x Wild Summer of Art 2024, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Exhibition: Brutus x Wild Summer of Art 2024, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Brutus Space presents the 2nd edition of a Wild Summer of Art featuring work by 50 Rotterdam-based contemporary artists and a dynamic public program of events, screenings and performances. This year's edition is guest-curated by Amira Gad in collaboration with Sophie de Vos. The participating artists were selected from a long-list of creatives nominated by a select group of scouts who are well-versed with Rotterdam's art scene.

Official opening July 12th

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Finalist Discovery Awards Encontros Da Imagem festival, braga 2023

15.09 —28.10.23
Museu D.Diogo de Sousa
R. dos Bombeiros Voluntários s/n
Tuesday→Sunday: 10:30am–5:30pm

Encontros da Imagem, with over 30 years of existence, is a non-profit Cultural Association that organizes Encontros da Imagem – International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts in the city of Braga, Portugal. The festival promotes classic and contemporary photography through the exhibition of works by established and emerging authors.

The award Discovery Awards 2023 aims to show and give visibility to photographers and photographic projects that are not yet well known in the field. Every year, around thirty photographers are selected, with half having exhibitions at the festival and the other half having their work presented in a projection format. The screening of the 15 selected photography projects takes place at the Galeria do Largo do Paço between the 15th of September and the 28th of October. The exhibitions are distributed through various spaces according to the two themes Environmental Futures and Cultural Futures.

Finalists in exhibition: 
Agnieszka Sejud - Mimesis
Akshay Mahajan - People of Clay
Chloé Milos Azzopardi - Non technological Devices
Cinzia Romanin - Transcendence
Davide Degano - Romanzo Meticcio
Emilia Pennanen - Mirage
Gabriele Cecconi - TiàWùK
Glauco Canalis - The darkest the night, the brighter the stars
Hahn & Hartung - Mother of Water
Julia Gat - Khamsa khamsa khamsa
María Sánchez Martín - Wastelands
Marta Bogdanska - SHIFTERS
Toma Gerzha - ctrl + r

‘Khamsa khamsa khamsa’ — “five” in Arabic, repeated three times like a protective incantation — is an autobiographical visual narrative in the form of a family archive. At first glance, it is where Julia Gat tells the story of her childhood and adolescence growing up with four brothers and sisters educated by alternative teaching methods. 

However, underneath images that look like a family album, a photographer’s writing emerges. Julia Gat tells her story by gradually defining how she sees the faces and growing bodies of those around her, sometimes in peaceful Mediterranean landscapes. Portraits of friends and domestic scenes punctuate the work, which is structured around five protagonists: sisters Sara and Nina, brothers Michael and Jonathan, and Julia, the fifth sibling, who projects herself onto them behind her lens. “When I was ten, I promised myself never to forget how children see the world,” she says. “Everything’s new. Imagination blends in with reality and the unknown is exciting.” Documenting her everyday life is the running thread of the artist’s work, allowing her to connect the adult photographer to her childhood sensibility.

Pennings Foundation: HP Prize 2023 finalists

Harry Penningsprijs 2023

Groepsexpositie

Khamsa khamsa khamsa is nominated for the Harry Pennings Prize 2023. Together with 8 other nominees there will be a group exhibition from May 6 till June 24. The award ceremony will take place on June 10. Please register if you would like to join the award ceremony on June 10 (16:00 – 18:00)

About the prize 

In 2023, Pennings Foundation will exist for 5 years! We want to celebrate this with the presentation of the 6th Harry Pennings Prize. Gallery Pennings created the prize in 2007 partly in memory of its founder, and partly to give starting photographers a chance to distinguish themselves and present themselves in the gallery. Previously awarded to: Renée van Trier (2007), Wytske van Keulen (2009), Awoiska van der Molen (2011), Maroesjka Lavigne (2015) and Marwan Bassiouni (2019).


IN SITU EXHIBITION WORM: RDM PHOTO DUMP (nl)

ART & EXPO - WORM ROTTERDAM

THU 9 MARCH 2023
START → 17:30
END → 19:00

RDM PHOTO DUMP is a site specific installation by Julia Gat, portraying a 5-year long photographic archive dedicated to the people, places, joys and cries she wishes to remember from Rotterdam. The project is exhibited in an unconventional space – the entrance hallway between S/ash Gallery and UBIK Theatre.

We invite you to the opening at 17:30 and after to join us on an event in Fem Fest!

Now based in Marseille (FR), Julia has been photographing WORM’s events as part of her freelance work, including portraits and documentary. This exhibition portrays her relationship to the venue and its unique events and artists. In short, RDM PHOTO DUMP is an eclectic collection of memories to celebrate.

Read more about the artist here:
Born in 1997, Julia Gat is a photographer based between Marseille and Rotterdam. At the crossroads of documentary and portraiture, her work explores human interaction in its purest form. She won the 2022 Polyptyque Prize, the 2021 Steenbergen Stipendium public award and the 2020 Isem Documentary Photographer Prize. She is currently exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Hangar Art Center Brussels and the Gallery Sit Down in Paris. Her first photography book Khamsa khamsa khamsa was published by Actes Sud in 2022.