EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography is entering its 11th round from March 1 to 31, 2025. Germany’s largest photography festival invites you to rediscover the world of photography in all its facets.
Image above: Hannah Darabi, Benoît Grimbert: Materialien aus dem Künstlerbuch: Neuköln Heroes, 2013. Bartleby & Co: Brüssel 2013 © Hannah Darabi, Benoît Grimbert.
100 exhibitions from more than 170 submissions await visitors. This year, museums, galleries, archives and project spaces throughout Berlin will be presenting a wide variety of works that reflect contemporary trends. Under the leitmotif of what stands between us, EMOP Berlin addresses current political tensions and the fragility of democratic values – a theme that encourages a reflective and critical debate through the photographs. However, the festival also leaves room for projects that broaden the view in other directions – and, for example, thematize the technical image from experimental uses to AI-generated images.
With EMOP Berlin 2025, the photo festival is more present in the city than ever before,” said Berlin photographer and professor of photography Wiebke Loeper, who was part of the jury, summing up the selection process. Jury member and visual artist Akinbode Akinbiyi added that the upcoming edition of EMOP Berlin will be a festival that provides information about “a medium in flux, to which we constantly relate ourselves anew.”
For the 11th edition, EMOP Berlin is setting up a festival center for the first time. The strong cooperation with the Akademie der Künste will be continued. Starting from the Hanseatenweg location, visitors can explore the many galleries, museums, project spaces and other locations. This partnership is not only reflected in the central festival exhibition curated by Artistic Director Maren Lübbke-Tidow, was zwischen uns steht. Photography as a Medium of Chronicle with projects by around 20 artists, but also the partner exhibition Ein Dorf 1950-2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler and Ludwig Schirmer, presented by the Akademie der Künste. EMOP Berlin also offers an extensive program of talks and panel discussions during the EMOP Opening Days at the festival center, with various EMOP Specials and a supporting program throughout the month of March.
EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography is a festival for photography organized by Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with numerous institutions in the city. It is made possible by funding from the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
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Saturday, March 01 – Monday, March 31, 2025.
