Hosted by Ciclo Plataforma, the FUTURES MeetUp will take place on June 6th and 7th in Porto, Portugal. Stay tuned for more details!
Join us for an exclusive open studio with visual artist Valeria Cherchi, our newest resident at the FUTURES Hub.
Valeria will present her ongoing project RE:Birth. Through a multimedia and non-linear approach, she investigates obstetric and gynecological violence—a form of abuse that has remained hidden for a long time and continues to be largely ignored. RE:Birth invites the viewer to reflect on critical but often invisible issues, such as trauma, bodily autonomy, and the dynamics of power, offering a profound and multi-layered exploration of obstetric and gynecological violence.
Thursday, 19th December
Walk-in: 17:00 – 18:00 | Artist Q&A: 18:30 | Studio open until 20:00
About Valeria:
Valeria Cherchi (b.1986) is an artist and educator from Sardinia, Italy, currently based in Milan. Her non-linear practice focuses on the meaning of the ‘unspoken’, with a particular interest in using images and words to shed light on little known stories about lack of social justice. By weaving together her photography, journal of on-site research, archival material and official narratives, Cherchi creates multivocal chronicles that exposes the contradictions of certain social and political phenomenons before their removal from historical consciousness.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Supported by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea.
More info will follow.
More info will follow.
We are pleased to invite you to the opening The Institute for Scene Experiments by visual artist Nikhil Vettukattil which will take place on 03 October at 17:00 at the Futures Hub in Amsterdam.
The Institute for Scene Experiments is a parafictional institution devoted to the investigation, production and dissemination of scenes. In residence through FUTURES X MPB, the ISE will assemble a group of performers and technicians to analyse, deconstruct and reconstitute elements of cinematic scenes for camera, exploring alternative modes of staging narratives, framing, sound, and light. ISE aims to reflect on the film crew as a social form, engaging in the generativity and potentialities of scenes independent of plot, development and conclusivity, through formal techniques as well as collective authorship, ‘open rehearsal’ and collective editing. Some of the raw materials produced during the residency will be made publicly available for viewers to re-edit. A variety of game strategies are implemented in the process to examine both what is being filmed and the structures behind it. The work during the residency will reference lucid dreaming and hypnosis and borrow techniques from live action role playing games and theatrical exercises for improvisation, in preparation for a live event and workshop in October at Shedhalle, Zurich.
This event is part of the FUTURES X MPB residency is supported by MPB the largest global platform to buy, sell, and trade used photo and video equipment.
Opening | The Institute for Scene Experiments by Nikhil Vettukattil
Date: 03 October, 2024
Time: 17:00 - 20:30
Location: Isaac Titsinghkade 6B, Amsterdam
Free entrance!
Don't miss out, we look forward to seeing you there!
As part of this event, Nikhil invites participants to develop and workshop a scene.
Using a simple game strategy, we will re-enact a short, realistic dialogue for the camera, making modifications with each take and documenting the scene from different perspectives. The dialogue is based on a formal score, from which we will improvise. The exercise will examine the scene on two levels: the dynamic between the roles and the composition for a prospective edit.
The workshop will take place from 16:30 – 19:00, followed by a short conversation.
No prior experience is necessary.
Please note that participation means consenting to being filmed. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please register [here].
About Nikhil Vettukattil:
Nikhil Vettukattil is an artist living and working in Oslo. Using a range of media such as sound, installation, performance, text, sculpture, and video, their practice questions modes of representation and image-making processes in their relation to lived experiences. They studied at Central St. Martins in London and the Center for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP). Recent exhibitions include Hothouse Flowers, Podium, Oslo
(2024), Post Production, Studiengalerie 1.357 Goethe University, Frankfurt (2023), Contaminators, FELIX GAUDLITZ, Vienna (2023) and Claustrophobia Alpina III, Ford, Geneva (2023). They are a founding member of the Institute for Scene Experiments. Forthcoming solo presentations include Oslo Kunstforening, AGIT, Berlin and Arcadia Missa, London.
In 2024, FUTURES annual event will be hosted by Organ Vida in Zagreb. For three days almost one hundred artists, twenty curators and heads of major international contemporary photography institutions will meet with the aim of building relationships, discussing the issues of our time and feeling increasingly part of a strong community based on contemporary photography. During the event the new FUTURES exhibition will be launched.
Join us this year as FUTURES brings a full program to Unseen Photography Fair!
Featured Artists:
At our booth, we are proud to present the works of Karolina Wojtas, Alexey Shlyk, and Claudia Fuggetti, three standout artists who were residents at the FUTURES Hub in Amsterdam earlier this year.
Artist Talk:
On Friday, September 20th, at 17:00, don’t miss a special artist talk by Nikhil Vettukattil, the current artist-in-residence from the FUTURES X MPB program. Nikhil will present their project The Institute for Scene Experiments at Meijburg Lounge - Unseen.
UNFOLDING FUTURES Showcase:
FUTURES will also spotlight four talented recent graduates from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)—Alia Leonardi, Joseph Kennel, Daniel Zduniuk, and Benjamin Morrison. Their projects from the UNFOLDING FUTURES residency will be featured on a dedicated wall at Unseen, offering a glimpse into the innovative approaches of the next generation of photographers.
FUTURES at Unseen Fair
🗓️ Thursday, September 19 – Sunday, September 22
🎤 Artist Talk: Friday, September 20 at 17:00 | Meijburg Lounge, Unseen Amsterdam Photography Fair
📌 Location: Klönneplein 1, 1014 DD Amsterdam
We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us on Saturday August 31st for the collective open studio celebrating the conclusion of the summer residency UNFOLDING FUTURES.
During two months, four emerging photographers have been in residency at FUTURES Hub, exploring contemporary photographic formats and installation displays. Their studios have become a generative space for experimentation and research during their creative processes.
In this final event, the four photographers will share a collective installation at the studio space, including additional works activating the building of FUTURES Photography Hub. The event will include a presentation talk in which we will reflect together with the public on their experiences during the residency, the importance of the creative process and the experimentation with the photographic medium.
It will be accompanied by a display of publications and photobooks by the participating artists including the works of other photographers recently graduated from diverse art academies and universities in the Netherlands.
The collective event of UNFOLDING FUTURES is also willing to bring together emerging photographers from diverse backgrounds, providing a meeting platform for creative exchange.
UNFOLDING FUTURES - Collective Installation and Public Event
Date: August 31st, 2024
Schedule:
18:00 Welcoming
18:30 - 21:00 Collective installation and public event
Location: FUTURES Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6, 1018 LL Amsterdam
Daniel Zduniuk, Must Be Eaten
"Must be Eaten", an ongoing project, questions the accessibility of contemporary art institutions to the public via a disruptive element: the silverfish. Because its diet is based mainly on paper, the silverfish is seen as an undesirable creature eager to eat paper: to eat art. Using a game of scale, perspective and composite photography, the project aims to challenge the established codes of the art market and conservation, by proposing a cyclical, organic vision of the art production process.
Opening and Open Studio Daniel Zduniuk
Date: 29 August 2024
Schedule:
- 18:00: Welcoming
- 18:30 - 21.00: Open Studio and Screening
Location: FUTURES Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6, 1018 LL Amsterdam
Alia Leonardi, Moi, a girl
“Moi, a girl” showcases the interplay of semantics and imagery on social media, in doing so highlighting the platforms’ transformative power in shaping contemporary gender expressions. This project seeks to explore gender performativity within digital and meme culture. The girls online fight against scrutinisation, can online identity and the aesthetic of the “coquette/silly girls” in fact be seen as as strategy against gender norms and societal expectations? Despite the capitalist nature of social media, there is potential for feminist discourses and resistance to organise on such platforms against patriarchal structures. What if endless doomscrolling was an act of resistance?
Drawing on the “Theory of the Young Girl” by Tiqqun, cyberfeminism and postmodernist frameworks are used to reappropriate an identity constructed by consumerist culture and the male gaze. The girls of the internet act as subversive figures, with the idea that if the space exists, it should be taken over or transformed.
In this subversive exploration, stereotypically feminine craft techniques like embroidery and textiles are employed to emphasise the engagement of the work. The installation manifests as a network of objects, visuals, and texts, all interwoven to reflect the interconnected reality of the girl’s online existence and its impact on the physical world but also as a refusal to be completely perceived by an outsider audience.
this one’s for the girls and the gays <3
Opening and Open Studio Alia Leonardi
Date: 15 August 2024
Schedule:
- 18:00: Welcoming
- 18:30 - 21.00: Open Studio and Screening
Location: FUTURES Hub, Isaac Titsinghkade 6, 1018 LL Amsterdam