Make Voices Be Heard @Fotograf Festival 04.10–06.01.2025
by Maya Hristova
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The 14th edition of Fotograf Festival unfolds across Prague with the thematic series Make Voices Be Heard, spotlighting underrepresented perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Curated by Noemi Smolík and Adam Vačkář, the festival comprises four chapters hosted in different venues:
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Chapter One at Fotograf Gallery (04.10–08.11.2024) features Paul Chaney's installation Donetsk Syndrome Diagrammatic and Genti Korini's film Spider’s Envy.
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Chapter Two at etc. galerie (09.10–20.10.2024) presents Karol Radziszewski's Queer Archives Institute, focusing on queer histories in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Chapter Three at hunt kastner gallery (11.10–02.11.2024) showcases Soso Dumbadze's video installation A Yellow Bus and Furqat Palvan-Zade's film The Ball and the Polo Stick or the Book of Ecstasy.
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Chapter Four at MeetFactory (25.10.2024–06.01.2025) brings together works by artists including Yevgenia Belorusets, Alina Bliumis, Meiro Koizumi, and Marta Popivoda, exploring themes of identity and displacement.
Through exhibitions, discussions, and site-specific events, Fotograf Festival 2024 amplifies voices often marginalized in global art discourses.
- #Adam Vačkář
- #Alina Bliumis
- #Diana Cam Van Nguyen
- #Emília Rigová
- #etc. galerie
- #Fotograf Gallery
- #Furqat Palvan-Zade
- #Genti Korini
- #hunt kastner gallery
- #Jeanna Kolesova
- #Karol Radziszewski
- #Marta Popivoda
- #MeetFactory Gallery
- #Meiro Koizumi
- #Minh Thang Pham
- #Noemi Smolík
- #Paul Chaney
- #Ptuška & Keto Gorgadze
- #Soso Dumbadze
- #Sráč Sam
- #Yevgenia Belorusets