Meeting in Vienna

For the third time in a little more than a year Vienna hosted on January 8th and 9th one of the formal meetings of EMoP. It was held in the exhibition rooms of the MUSA which hosted the "distURBANces" exhibition and just closed. All seven members were present and discussed the new projects for the year to come. With new memberships pending, discussions were mainly about how to maintain a high level of activity in hard times. An exhibition project by Bratislava on propaganda imagery under communism and fascism as well as an ongoing project by the Vienna MUSA on the Sarajevo assassination which led to the first World War in 1914 were the basis of discussion around a contemporary photography exhibition inspired by these topics. Members decided to meet again in Paris by end of February as well as in Luxembourg on April 24th for the venue of the "distURBANces" exhibitions at the Musée national d'histoire et d'art in Luxembourg. This meeting also decided on the need to give legal existence to the group which meets regularly since 2004.

Meeting in front of the work of Paul Horn & Lotte Lyon

Venue at Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art contemporain

A huge picture of Catherine Val is about to be finished minutes before the opening of the exhibition " Second Lives: Jeux masqués et autres Je" at Casino Luxembourg featuring 24 artists whose work is about identity, roles, models and avatars.
More info on this event can be found here. Nearly all artists were present ( and many more international guests) at a nice dinner offered by Jo Cox managing director of this famous exhibition hall.

Conference at Clairefontaine gallery

Gallery owner Marita Ruiter had invited a pannel of photographers and representatives of some major institutions to discuss the situation of photography in Luxembourg at the occasion of an exhibition by photographer Michel Medinger.

Catalogue of the European Month of photography Luxembourg

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Vernissage Arsenal Metz

 
Christian Gattinoni, professeur en l'Ecole photographique d'Arles, présente son expositition Modèles-Danse à l'Arsenal de Metz. Pour la première fois, le Mois européen de la photo au Luxembourg s'étend à une ville voisine. M Jean-François Ramon, directeur de l'Arsenal, connaît très bien le Luxembourg. Il y a été directeur du Centre culturel français il y a quelques années.

Opening of the Braco Dimitrijevic exhibition in Luxembourg

 
Braco Dimitrijevic, one of the pioneers of conceptual art. He has participated in major group shows such as the Kassel Documenta 5. Documenta 6, Documenta 9, several times at the Venice Biennale. Dimitrijevic gained an international reputation in the seventies with his Casual passer-by series, in which gigantic photo portraits of anonymous people were displayed on prominent facades and billboards in European and American cities. The artist also mimicked other ways of glorifying important persons by building monuments to passers-by and installing memorial plaques in honour of anonymous citizens. 
The Museum of Art and History in Luxembourg ( MNHA ) has been partner of the European Month of Photography for 6 years now. The Museum hosts two more exhibitions on photography: Memories of ancient Egypt ( Travel photography of the 19th century: Dan Kyram collection, Jerusalem ) and an Edward Steichen exhibition ( collection of the Museum )