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The EMOP Opening Days will kick off of this year’s edition of the photo festival EMOP BERLIN – a month that is all about photography. EMOP Berlin invites visitors to the festival centre at the Akademie der Künste’s site on Hanseatenweg for a comprehensive programme that includes not just two main exhibitions, but also offers the opportunity to engage intensively with current discourses around the medium of photography.

Press Contact EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025
Nancy Henze
Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH
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Press Releases

10.02.2025
EMOP Berlin 2025 – Invitation to the press conference

30.01.2025
EMOP Opening Days – Kick-off with numerous exhibitions and a comprehensive programme of events and talks

23.01.2025
what stands between us – Photography as a medium for chronicling

16.12.2024
Photographic artistic perspectives in dialogue: EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

EMOP Berlin Festivalguide 2025

Flip through the digital programme guide of EMOP Berlin 2025.

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© Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Justus Lemm

© Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Justus Lemm

© Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Justus Lemm

© Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Anna Tiessen

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© Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Justus Lemm

© Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Justus Lemm

L to R: Johanna M. Keller, Program Coordinator of Akademie der Künste, Moritz van Dülmen, Managing Director of Kulturprojekte Berlin, Werner Mahler, Ute Mahler, Maren Lübbke-Tiedow, Curator of the main festival exhibition what stands between us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling, Marit Lena Herrmann, Curator of the exhibition Ein Dorf 1950-2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler und Ludwig Schirmer, Manos Tsangaris, President of Akademie der Künste und Yevgenia Belorusets © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Justus Lemm

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Installation view what stands between us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling. Main festival exhibition EMOP Berlin 2025, Akademie der Künste, 2025. Ilit Azoulay in collaboration with Maisoun Karaman, Heart to Heart, 2023 © Kulturprojekte Berline, photography: dotgain.info

Installation view what stands between us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling. Main festival exhibition EMOP Berlin 2025, Akademie der Künste, 2025. Maya Schweizer, Which story would you prefer not to recall, 2009 – ongoing © Kulturprojekte Berline, photography: dotgain.info

Installation view what stands between us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling. Main festival exhibition EMOP Berlin 2025, Akademie der Künste, 2025 © Kulturprojekte Berlin, photography: dotgain.info

Installation view what stands between us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling. Main festival exhibition EMOP Berlin 2025, Akademie der Künste, 2025. Susanne Keichel, Soziale Gerechtigkeit (Herkunft, Schule, Arbeit) (Social Justice [Origin, School, Work]), 2021 – ongoing © Kulturprojekte Berlin, photography: dotgain.info

Installation view what stands between us. Photography as a Medium for Chronicling. Main festival exhibition EMOP Berlin 2025, Akademie der Künste, 2025. Simon Lehner, various work groups and formats, 2018–2025 © Kulturprojekte Berlin, photography: dotgain.info

Hannah Darabi, Benoît Grimbert: Materialien aus dem Künstlerbuch: Neuköln Heroes, 2013. Bartleby & Co: Brussels 2013 © Hannah Darabi, Benoît Grimbert

Bérangère Fromont, Untitled. From the series: Except the Clouds, 2018. Black and white photography, 30 x 20 cm, Courtesy Galerie Baqueville, Paris © Bérangère Fromont

Raisan Hameed, Untitled. From the series: Zer – Störung, Mossul 1993-94, 2022. C-Print, 60 x 40 cm © Raisan Hameed

Susanne Keichel, Berufsschüler*in I, Duisburg, 2023. From the series: Soziale Gerechtigkeit Teil II – Arbeit, 2023-2024. Fine Art Print, 60 x 40 cm © Susanne Keichel

Simon Lehner, Father, Archive material 3D scan/rendering with incorporated archive images (early stage), 2005-2018. From the series: How far is a lightyear?, 2005 – 2019. C-Print, 90 x 72 cm, Courtesy KOW Berlin © Simon Lehner

Simon Lehner, Balance study with boy. 2018. From the series: How far is a lightyear?, 2005 – 2019. Pigment-print, 90 x 72 cm. Courtesy KOW Berlin © Simon Lehner

Boris Mikhailov: Requiem. From the series: Case History, 1997-1998, Chromogenic Color Print, 196 x 127 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung, Inv.Nr.: Foto 1109.7

Helga Paris, Untitled. From the series: Frauen im Bekleidungswerk Treff-Modelle, Berlin, 1984, 2004. Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 28,3 x 19,3 cm © Helga Paris

Maya Schweizer, Untitled. From the series: Which Story Would You Prefer Not To Recall / An welche Geschichte würdest Du dich lieber nicht erinnern, ongong since 2009. C-Print, 42 x 59 cm © Maya Schweizer, VG Bild-Kunst

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Thero Mamani Valles, Shaya, 2024. From the series: Portraits of us, Photography, © Thero Mamani Valles

Lina Czerny, Armor, 2024, Photography, © Lina Czerny

Michel Kekulé, 50_15, 2022, Photography, © Michel Kekulé

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Elena Helfrecht, Flight II, 2023. From the series: Plexus, 2023 © Elena Helfrecht

Lisa Wassmann Sebiana Venice, Florida, 2024. From the series: Somewhere Else, 2007-2024. Digital photography © Lisa Wassmann

Dana Rabea Jäger, Notes IOU in Purple, 2022. Digital photography, 105 × 70 cm © Dana Rabea Jäger

Louisa Clement, Fracture #7, 2016. Inkjet printing. Courtesy Galerie Eigen+Art © Louisa Clement

Sophia Kesting and Dana Lorenz, Untitled, 2013. From the series: Asphalt, Steine, Scherben, 2012-2024. Black and white medium format negative/Gelatin silver print © Sophia Kesting and Dana Lorenz, VG Bildkunst, Bonn, 2024

Felipe Romero Beltrán, Untitled, 2023. From the series: Dialect. Photography © Felipe Romero Beltrán

Johanna-Maria Fritz, Untitled, 2019. From the series: Daughters of Magic (Mogoșoaia, Rumänien), 2019. Photography © Johanna-Maria Fritz / Ostkreuz

Thomas Florschuetz, Untitled (Sitio Burle Marx) 12, 2023. Photography © Thomas Florschuetz, VG Bildkunst, Bonn

Louis Roth, Bewässerungsarbeiter, 2023. From the series: fata morgana, 2023-2024. Inkjet print, 42 × 30 cm © Louis Roth

Marina Mónaco, MM_14. From the series: Neue Welle. Analog photography © Marina Mónaco

Ute Mahler, Untitled, 2021-2022. Modern Baryt © Ute Mahler / Ostkreuz

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EMOP Berlin 2023 © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Alexander Rentsch

EMOP Berlin 2023 © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Alexander Rentsch

EMOP Berlin 2023 © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Alexander Rentsch