27 FEB–2 MAR 2025: EMOP OPENING DAYS
With the EMOP Opening Days, EMOP Berlin once again, in 2025, commences a month brimming with exhibitions and events around the medium of photography. For three days, a diverse program in the festival centre at the Akademie der Künste invites visitors to get involved and delve into current discourses.
In addition to the opening ceremony of the main festival exhibition what stands between us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling and the exhibition A Village 1950–2022 by photographers Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler, and Ludwig Schirmer, we invite visitors to take part in artists’ talks that offer insight into the respective artistic practices. Panel discussions pick up thematically on the leitmotif what stands between us. Of essence here are questions about documentary as a political practice and about the role photographic (archival) images play in mechanisms of remembering and forgetting. Photographers today are concerned with experiences of flight and displacement and the image politics derived from them, as with the question over an appropriate approach to the climate crisis in visual work. At Photos in Books, you can discover the publications of small and large photo book publishers and attend book talks. With the opening of the joint exhibition, the EMOP Special Young Scene presents six well-known educational institutions in the field of photography, while the Fotobus Society, also present at the festival centre, shows young up-and-coming artists.
Another highlight of the first festival weekend are the numerous exhibition openings of the partner institutions throughout the city.