The 2015 main programme is a gathering platform of 80 established and emerging artists from 36 countries, focused on the complex interconnections between collective and individual memory, time and perception, exploring and exposing the relationship between past and present. Using facts and insights from history and the current and changing socio-political context in Europe and globally, as a starting point, this year’s festival brings together a range of international artistic positions, attempting a critical examination of the past that helps us navigate the present and is critical to identity.
Over 600 photographs, 10 multimedia projects and 370 photobooks are spread across 5 halls at the Benaki Museums, exploring the impact of photography in its most expanded form on how memory been and might continue to be framed.
Featured artists & exhibitions
Adi Nes (IL), Andreas Olesen (DK), Christian Patterson (US), Christina de Middel (ES), Daesung Lee (KR), Danila Tkachenko (RU), David Favrod (CH), Dima Gavrysh (US), Gidon Levin (IL), Harry Griffin & Eva O’Leary (US), Helge Skodvin (NO), Huang Qingjun (CN), Jiehao Su (CN), Katrin Koenning (DE), Ksenia Yurkova (RU), Lizzie Calligas (GR), Mark Wilson (UK), Martina Cleary (IE), Michal Solarski & Tomasz Liboska (PL), Naomi Harris (US), Niina Vatanen & Hertta Kiiski (FI), Pericles Alkidis (GR), Peter Puklus (HU), Rahul Tarukder (BD), Simon Menner (DE), Simona Ghizzoni (IT), Stephanie Roland (BE), Viktor Koen (GR/US), Yiannis Theodoropoulos (GR), Laia Abril (ES) , Andrea Botto (IT) , Justin Maxon (USA)
