Ties that Bind
The exhibition Ties that Bind explores the shifting forms of relationality, belonging, and closeness.Through the works of Sheung Yiu, Dev Dhunsi, Luna Mahoux, Donja Nasseri, and Alexander Chaika, it examines the ways in which traditional notions of family, identity, and social structures can be re-evaluated and reshaped. Rather than fixed categories, it offers space for open-ended, often contradictory or temporary forms of bonds that form between people, places, and species.
The presented works navigate between personal experience and broader cultural and political contexts. Language, the body, memory, and imagination are presented through photography, installation, text, and performative elements as means of creating bonds as well as disrupting them.The exhibition thus raises questions about what new forms of closeness we can envision and whether it is possible to form relationships beyond established frameworks or at least momentarily challenge these boundaries.
The exhibition was created through an international open call within the European platform FUTURES Photography and is the result of a collaborative curatorial effort by the institutions Bienal Fotografia do Porto, Fotogalleriet, Fotograf Zone, and Organ Vida Festival, who collectively curated the selection for 2024.
Andrej Pešta – Baro frajeris
We’re opening an exhibition at the Fotograf Zone gallery dedicated to an extraordinary figure—not just in Roma culture, but also in the visual history of Central Europe: Andrej Pešta. His passion for documenting the world—and himself—has become a unique visual archive of Roma life during socialism. This archive has now been given a new frame by curator and visual artist Emília Rigová. The exhibition Andrej Pešta – Baro frajeris is part of this year’s Khamoro Festival of Roma Culture and will be on display at the gallery until September 18.
Maya Schweizer – The starfish
Video installation Starfish by the French-German artist Maya Schweizer is part of the Video Room curatorial programme, which has been running in the gallery's underground space since 2025. In form and content, it is designed to evoke the atmosphere of a small cinema. The aim of the project is to introduce the Prague audience to prominent personalities of the international and local film scene.
Opening of the 15th edition of Fotograf Zone Festival 2025 – TALK TOGETHER
We are pleased to invite you to the opening ceremony of the 15th edition of the Fotograf Zone Festival – an international showcase of contemporary photography and visual art.