FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2025 – TALK TOGETHER
#2 min Fotograf Zone
31. 7. 2025
The fifteenth edition of the international Fotograf Zone Festival, titled TALK TOGETHER, focuses on language and interpersonal communication in its many forms. This year’s festival will be presented in a condensed ten-day format, running from 3 to 12 October 2025, and will offer audiences new perspectives on how language shapes our relationships, understanding, and conflicts.
The festival centre will be located in Hall 13 of the Holešovice Market Hall, with the programme expanding to several other cultural venues across Prague, such as Fotograf Zone Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv, Tempo, and various public spaces. The audience can look forward to five curatorial exhibition projects prepared especially for this year's edition by an international team of curators: Natálie Kubíková, Judit Szalipszki, Flóra Gadó, the ETC. Magazine collective (Hana Čeferin, Lara Mejač, Ajda Kocutar), and Světlana Malina.
The TALK TOGETHER edition looks at language not only as a means of sharing information, but also as a space for intimacy, silence, and misunderstanding. The programme will present various approaches to the theme – from visual artworks and experimental installations to collective performative events and discussions that invite the audience to actively participate in a shared dialogue.
The exhibition programme will be complemented by performances and a diverse accompanying programme, featuring both events directly related to the exhibitions, as well as independent performative and discursive events that open up broader questions connected to the festival’s theme.
For the first time, this year’s festival will also include the FUTURES Annual Meeting, welcoming dozens of members from the international FUTURES Photography platform, which supports and connects emerging photography talents. The event includes presentations of two group exhibition projects developed by the FUTURES platform.
This year, the festival will also present the project GROTESK, supported by the International Visegrad Fund, which brings together artists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland through an exhibition that explores Eastern European aesthetics via the motifs of the grotesque and the absurd.
As in previous years, Fotograf Zone Festival will connect local and international art scenes, presenting current artistic and theoretical tendencies in Prague that reflect the urgent issues of today’s world.
SAVE THE DATE → 3–12 October 2025
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