EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography

The EMOP Berlin festival begins its 2025 programme with the leitmotif of this year’s edition, what stands between us. Dangerous political currents are showing us that democracies are under threat of breaking apart and that their foundations, even in Europe, are more fragile than we long believed them to be and that they require ongoing fortification. We’d like to answer to this with our own voice – and with visual imagery!

In this vein, EMOP Berlin takes a closer look at these tendencies and brings together exhibitions in which the photographic projects shown offer space for observations, experiences, expectations, hopes, and fears concerning various conflicts. With its selection of works, EMOP Berlin offers dialogue to counter the ongoing mechanisms of polarization.

On February 27, 2025, we invite the public to the opening of the main festival exhibition what stands between us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling at our festival centre in the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg, with projects by approximately 20 contemporary artists. This is also where the EMOP Opening Days launch takes place, with numerous artist talks, panel discussions, a film evening, and an awards ceremony – and of course the big EMOP opening party.

The key players in Germany’s largest biennial festival of photographic images, however, are the many museums, exhibition spaces, memorial sites, archives, collections, libraries, cultural institutes, universities, art academies and other educational institutions in the field of photography, as well as municipal and private galleries and project spaces in Berlin – together with the exhibiting artists. They are the ones that enrich the festival with each new edition.

Flip through the digital programme guide of EMOP Berlin 2025.

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