Parallel European Photo Based Platform
The Capa Center is delighted to take part in the four-year Parallel European Photo Based Platform project, which has evolved as a result of the cooperation between 18 European photography institutions, and which primarily aims to provide an opportunity for talented young photographers and curators to present themselves in the international professional scene.
The project consists of annually repeating cycles – this year’s cycle is structured the following way:
PARALLEL INTERSECTION LISBOA
The first public event of the PARALLEL project took place in the Convento da Trindade, Lisbon, Portugal, between November 23 and December 10, 2017. Here, 23 emerging photographers participating in the project – including the Capa Center delegate Milán Rácmolnár – were introduced in a group exhibition.
The exhibiting emerging artists were: Andrej Lamut, Antonina Gugała, Charlotte Mano, Emanuel Cederquist, Glorija Lizde, Ida Nissen, Jacopo Tomassini, Josephine Desmenez, Joshua Phillips, Laura Rämö, Livia Sperandio, Mark McGuinness, Milán Rácmolnár, Morten Barker, Nita Vera, Nuno Barroso, Pedro Koch, Philipp Meuser, Ramona Güntert, Šarūnas Kvietkus, Sofia Okkonen, Thomas Wynne, and Toms Harjo.
Each of the member institutions of the project could also delegate one photographer from the mid-generation, who could showcase one of their works in the joint exhibition titled VOICES FROM EUROPE running parallel with the above event. The delegate of the Capa Center was Szabolcs Barakonyi.
The exhibiting mid-generation artists were: Andrejs Strokins, António Júlio Duarte, Borko Vukosav, Donatas Stankevicius, Eamonn Doyle, Gaël Bonnefon, Ivan Dvoršak, Jari Silomaki, João Grama, Lasse Krog Møller, Linda Hansen, Lukasz Rusznica, Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Neak Sophal, Phil Toledano, Szabolcs Barakonyi, Tiziano Rossano Mainieri, and Zoé Van der Haegen.
Besides the introduction in Lisbon, the first year of the project provides an opportunity for 23 young photographers to realize a new art project with the help of 5 mentors. These will be assessed by the 6 young curators participating in the first year of the project, who will each make their selection for a separate exhibition. These exhibitions will be held in one of the 6 institutions participating in the first year of the project.
The mentors of the young photographers are: Peggy Sue Amison, Hester Keijser, Alejandro Castellote, Rui Prata, and Federico Clavarino.
The 6 emerging curators, including the Capa Center delegate Emese Mucsi, are as follows: Nikki Ommes, Bruno Humberto, Emese Mucsi, Teo Pitella, Maria Faarinen, and Gintarė Krasuckaitė.
As part of the PARALLEL project, Emese Mucsi will be the curator of an exhibition at the LANDSKRONA FOTO Festival in September 2018, while in April 2018, the young associate of the Lithuanian Kaunas Gallery, Gintarė Krasuckaitė will curate an exhibit at the Capa Center in Budapest.
During the opening week of the PARALLEL INTERSECTION LISBOA exhibition, the representatives of all institutions, young authors, mentors and young curators met in Portugal, where they started their intensive cooperation.
Curatorship
At the beginning of 2018, all curators will pay a short visit to the exhibiting institutions; afterward, all authors, curators, and exhibitors will meet again in February 2018, in Kaunas, Lithuania, to make further arrangements regarding the works in progress, and do delineate the exhibitions showcasing these.
Open Call
Due to the tendering schedule of the European Commission, the member institutions have a very short time between the assessment of the EU tender and the start of the project; therefore, in the first years of the project, member institutions have delegated the participants. The organizers wish to change this: in the following year there would be an open call for tenders, where a professional jury would select the young professionals starting their careers to participate in the next year of the project.
Exhibitions
In the spring and summer of 2018, the 6 young curators will organize exhibitions in this year’s 6 exhibiting institutions (The Triennial of Photography Hamburg, the FORMAT International Photography Festival – Derby QUAD, the Polish Fotofestiwal Lódz, the LANDSKRONA FOTO Festival, the UGM l Umetnostna galerija of Maribor, Slovenia, and the Capa Center, Budapest, Hungary) showcasing the works of the young authors.
Intersection
The joint exhibition showcasing the works of all authors will take place at the Organ Vida International Photo Festival of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2018. There will also be a joint exhibition here for the authors having been selected in the meantime via the open call; they will also start the preparations for presenting their works in the next year of the project together with the 2019 exhibiting institutions, the new young curators, and mentors.
The member institutions participating in the Parallel Project in 2017–2018:
Procur.arte (Lisszabon, Portugália) https://www.procurarte.org
Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (Guimarães, Portugália) http://www.ciajg.pt
ISSP (Riga, Lettország) http://www.issp.lv
Le Château d’Eau (Toulouse, Franciaország) http://www.galeriechateaudeau.org/wp
Hamburgi Fotótriennálé (Hamburg, Németország) http://phototriennale.de
FORMAT Nemzetközi Fotográfiai Fesztivál – Derby QUAD (Derby, Egyesült Királyság) http://www.formatfestival.com
Finn Fotográfiai Múzeum (Helsinki, Finnország) http://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en
Fondazione Fotografia Modena (Modena, Olaszország) http://www.fondazionefotografia.org
Fotofestiwal Lódz – Vizuális Nevelésért Alapítvány (Lódz, Lengyelország) http://fotofestiwal.com
Galleri Image (Aarhus, Dánia) http://www.galleriimage.dk
KATALOG magazin (Kerteminde, Dánia) http://katalog-journal.com
Landskrona Fotófesztivál (Landskrona, Svédország) http://www.landskronafoto.org
Kaunas Galéria (Kaunas, Litvánia) https://kaunasgallery.lt
UGM l Umetnostna galerija Maribor (Maribor, Szlovénia) http://www.ugm.si/en
Musée de la photographie à Charleroi (Charleroi, Belgium) http://www.museephoto.be
Organ Vida – Nemzetközi Fotográfiai Fesztivál (Zágráb, Horvátország) https://organvida.com
Capa Központ (Budapest, Magyarország) https://capacenter.hu/
PhotoIreland Fesztivál (Dublin, Írország) http://photoireland.org
