European Month of photography 2025

After Rethinking Nature and Rethinking Identity (the 2021 and 2023 themes), the curators of the 10th edition of the European Month of Photography Luxembourg (emoplux 2025) have chosen the theme Rethinking Photography. This third edition of the Rethinking… trilogy highlights a timely issue within the context of emerging contemporary photography.

Challenged on multiple fronts—by AI, the woke movement, and the far right—photography must confront the demand for truth, authenticity, and originality.

European Month of photography Luxembourg ( emoplux )

The European Month of photography Festival in Luxembourg (emoplux) is a major international festival dedicated to photography and visual culture. Initiated in 2006 by Café-Crème asbl in partnership with the leading photo institutions in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and thanks to the participation of near all art institutions in Luxembourg, the Festival is able to offer a diversified and international platform for the exchange of ideas, artistic expression and engagement with photography in all its forms.

The Festival brings together emerging as well as established artists and photographers mainly from Europe with the aim to reflect the diversity of photography of our time.
Exploring a variety of cultural, artistic, social, and political perspectives, the Festival considers a spectrum of photographic media, ranging from fine art, conceptual up to other media, including video and installations and to a lesser extend on documentary photography . Of the 26 exhibitions in 2023, six in particular were under the artistic direction or co-direction of the association, namely at the Nationalmusée, Casino Luxembourg, Musée Vauban, Cercle Cité, neïmënster and Arendt House. Since 2015, we have been working hard to set up a portfolio review for local residents and artists from German, Belgium and French border regions, allowing for exchange between artists, critics and curators. The festival also provides an opportunity for up-and-coming artists to showcase their work to museum curators and festival directors. Furthermore, every two years, Arendt & Medernach law firm bestows an award (European Month of Photography Arendt Award) upon a talented young artist, granting them entry into one of Luxembourg’s most esteemed photographic collections.”
Main events of the 10th edition of the festival in 2025 ( main topic: rethinking Photograohy ) will take place from May 13th to 16th, called Emop Days with the lineup of major openings, including an open to the public portfolio review, the Emop Arend award ceremony and opportunities to meet with the artists.

Emoplux 2021 and covid

Despite the Covid restrictions,the openings of the 8th edition of the festival started end of April as planned. 26 exhibitions were scheduled, a record number of events. However, due to the Covid restrictions still in progress, only a small number of guests were allowed within defined the time slot. The official opening week with our European partners was postponed to the first week of June. Some openings were still subject to the current restrictions.

7th Month of photography

What kind of story or fiction is conveyed today by a photographic image?
Entitled BodyFiction(s), the seventh edition of the European Month of Photography festival in Luxembourg featured works by some twenty emerging artists-photographers interested in new representations of the body and the human figure.
The artistic positionings of this new generation of photographers – most of them women – diverges from classical models by a approach and an often worried and even disturbing questioning of traditional models.
Fragmentation and dislocation of the body are the characteristics of this type of photography in a context of aesthetic changes marked by an interrogation on gender specifications and generally by a questioning of the roles and characteristics of the sexes.

Since 2012, the Luxembourg-based law firm Arendt & Medernach, with offices in Hong Kong, New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt has been lending its support to our association. They’ve made a significant impact in promoting an appreciation for photography and contemporary art as a whole.
The law firm Arendt & Medernach rewards every two years a visual artist who is part of the joint exhibitions that the EMOP network manages across Europe.
Arendt & Medernach have a real passion for modern art. Over the years, the company has become involved in the world of photography by showcasing artists from around the globe at their Kirchberg, Luxembourg premises. Works by well-known names like David La Chapelle, Beat Streuli, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Candida Höfer, Günther Förg, and Valérie Belin have been displayed alongside emerging talents. Slowly but surely, Arendt & Medernach have put together their own art collection, which showcases the key trends in contemporary photography.
In keeping with their passion, Arendt & Medernach aim to promote open-mindedness, diversity, and the sharing of emotions. As such, we particularly appreciate to have them support the “European Month of Photography” in Luxembourg.

arendt award 2025

The five nominees for the EMoP Arendt Award in relation to the topic of Rethinking Photography are: Sylvie Bonnot (Paris), Marta Djourina (Berlin), Raisan Hameed (Leibzig),  Simon Lehner (Vienne), Paulo Simāo (Lisbonne). The winner of the 2025 edition is Marta Djourina.
EMoP jury members of 2025 edition: Paul di Felice (president/Luxbg.), Rui Prata (Imago Lisboa), Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Kulturprojekte Berlin), Delphine Dumont / Paul de la Marandais (PhotoBrussels / Hangar), Mona Schubert  / Felix Hoffmann (Foto Arsenal, FotoWien)

arendt award 2023

The five nominees for the EMoP Arendt Award in relation to the topic of Rethinking Identity have different ways of re-considering the classic clichés of identity.
Out of a more individual vision, Cihan Cakmak addresses the reminiscences of a Kurdish identity fracture by creating personal dreamlike situations challenging the social fragmentation and isolation she has undergone. By using the female body as an instrument of power, Ulla Deventer, throughout a particular aesthetic that draws on both photo documentation and contemporary art installation, deconstructs stereotypes about prostitution. Karolina Wojtas’ deconstructed self-representations and fragmentary perceptions of the body create new fictions that question the concepts of time and space from a social and relational perspective. In another register, Livia Melzi’s work confronts the archive and representations around identity through her research on the Tupinambá capes, from the Tupi warrior tribes of the Brazilian coast and originally used for anthropophagic rituals. The cultural identity issue is mixed with autobiographical elements in Jojo Gronostay’s (born in Germany with Ghanaian roots) multimedia work. Objects and images of objects and fragments of bodies are decontextualized and presented in unusual scales playing with the interrelations between colonialism and capitalism. These emerging artistic positions express different types of identity, whether individual, family, cultural or territorial.

EMoP jury members in 2022: Paul di Felice (president/Luxb), Emmanuelle Halkin (Paris, Fet’Art-Circulations), Verena Kaspar-Eisert (FotoWien), Rui Prata (Imago Lisboa), Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Kulturprojekte Berlin), Delphine Dumont (PhotoBrussels / Hangar).

arendt award 2021

The five artists selected display a deep interest in the complexities of the relationship between Man and nature, each one reconsidering in his or her own way the modes of representation and fictions related to nature and landscape.

Vanja Bucan‘s photographs plunge the viewer into a dreamlike, phantasmagorical universe with curiously arranged ecosystems. Inka&Niclas presents disturbed visions of landscapes that are both strange and sublime, while Danila Tkachenko‘s photographs of ruined Russian rural villages bear witness to an historical era that has vanished. Anastasia Mityukova’s and Maria-Magdalena Ianchis representations of Greenland’s icebergs and icescapes employ different forms of mental and real imagery to create installations of archives and memory which attempt to embody the “stigmata” of the Anthropocene and to fill the void left by photography’s failure to represent the complexity of nature.

EMoP jury members included Paul di Felice (president / Luxb)), Bettina Leidl (vice-president / Vienna) and committee members Emmanuelle Halkin (Paris), Verena Kaspar- Eisert (Vienna) and Rui Prata (Lisbon).

arendt award 2019

The nominees for the Arendt & Medernach European Month of Photography Award were: Carina Brandes (Germany), Matthieu Gafsou (Switzerland), Weronika Gesicka (Poland) Alix Marie (France), SMITH (France). The winner of the 2019 edition is Weronika Gesicka.

This year’s jury was composed of five members of the European Month of Photography curators, namely Paul di Felice (Luxembourg), Verena Kaspar-Eisert (Kunst Haus Vienna), Jean-Luc Soret (Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris), Branislav Stepanek ( Central European House of Photography,Bratislava), Balázs Zoltán Tóth (Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemet).

The 2019 edition of the Arendt European Month of Photography Award showcased the works of five young artists exploring the concepts of body and fiction, under the theme of Bodyfiction(s). SMITH (who goes by Bogdan or Dorothée at different times) creates a unique world for the viewer through their black and white photographs that intentionally blur gender. German artist Carina Brandes‘ photographs in black and white capture strange moments in everyday life, featuring self-portraits alongside figures from photography and art history, as well as animals in unexpected places. The young Polish artist Weronika Gesicka builds her imagination through research and exploring the mechanisms of memory and family representations from different eras. French artist Alix Marie‘s photography goes beyond the two-dimensional format, becoming sculptures, reliefs, objects, and installations. Her work focuses on our relationship with our own bodies and our attitudes towards their representation through objectification, magnification, and accumulation. On the other hand, Swiss photographer Mathieu Gafsou‘s photographs examine the worrying developments in our society from the perspective of “transhumanism.”

arendt award 2017

Shortlisted for the 2017 Arendt Month of photography award were: Samuel Gratacap ( first laureate ), Jure Kastelic, Aida Silvestri, Daniel Mayrit, Panos Tsagaris. The price ceremony was held on April 26th at the Arendt & Medernach premises / headquarters in Luxembourg-Kirchberg.
Each of these has investigated the political undertones of this years theme “Looking for the Clouds – Contemporary Photography in Times of Conflicts”.

The young French Samuel Gratacap is interested in problems related to migration and places of transit. His work, which is both sensitive and objective, stands at the crossroads of photojournalism and contemporary art.
The Slovenian artist Jure Kastelic also deals with the image in relation to time. The photographs of his series “Death Reporters” are taken from television stills who concentrate on the very moment the presenter announces the number of victims during catastrophic events worldwide. In this way, he deconstructs media communications strategies This is also the case in the work of Daniel Mayrit, whose hazy portraits (taken by surveillance cameras) are images of some of the most influential people in London. They contradict the “glamorous” image of these personalities, who are suddenly the target of surveillance cameras, exactly like criminals.
In the series of magazine covers entitled “For Between Light and Darkness We Stand”, the Greek artist Panos Tsagaris interrupts the flow of news by replacing it with a symbolic work reflecting what he calls “the gradual disconnection from materiality and the slow awakening of higher consciousness.”
In a completely different way, the work of Aida Silvestri, originally from Eritrea, is part of a personal and altruistic quest focused on the fate of African refugees, which she presents in the form of blurred portraits and with the traces of their routes embroidered directly onto the photographs.

Discover the 5 artists selected by Arendt for the EMOP exhibition “Looking for the Clouds” at Arendt House, and listen to them explaining their work

arendt award 2015

The 2015 laureate is Tatiana Lecomte: she will receive the “European Month of photography award”, an amount of 5,000 EUR. Her works together with the works of the other artists from the shortlist will be exhibited in the exhibition space of Arendt & Medernach’s headquarters in Luxembourg from April 22nd 2015 until September 13th.

Jury members and artists of the 2015 edition

The Jury of the “European Month of photography award 2015 ” consisted of Miha Colner (Ljubljana), Paul di Felice (Luxembourg), Gabriella Uhl (Budapest) and Frank Wagner (Berlin). Names of the preselected artists are : Marcell Esterházy, Tatiana Lecomte, Andreas Muehe, Borut Peterlin and Lina Scheynius. These 5 artists have been selected among the emerging artists of the exhibition project “Memory Lab – Photography Challenges History” curated by the eight partner cities of the “European Month of Photography“: Athens, Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Paris and Vienna.

2017 @ B. Loder

portfolio-platform: revelation(s)

is a unique opportunity for local artists and residents of the neighbouring regions ( Germany, Belgium, France ) to introduce themselves to an international jury of experts. Unlike the classic “portfolios reviews”, a restricted number of artist – chosen by a jury – is invited to present and comment on their work in public through a Powerpoint presentation. At the end of all the presentations, the artist will take the individual opinion of each expert present who will comment on his work one-on-one.
The concept was developed by Café-Crème Asbl and the University of Luxemburg and initially managed by Cristina Dias de Magalhães within the framework of the European Month of Photography festival in 2015.
The 6th edition of the “Portfolio review” will be held on Mai 14th at the Neumunster Abbey.

Portfolio review archive

portfolio review 2025

The sixth edition of Révélation(s) / Portfolio – Plateforme – Luxembourg took place as part of the 10th European Month of Photography in Luxembourg on May 14, 2025 at the Abbaye de Neumünster Cultural Center.

The selected artists were: Liz Lambert, Birgit Ludwig, Letizia Romanini, Olivier Schillen, Luisa Maria Stagno, Giulia Thinnes, and Julia Vogelweith.

The expert panel for the 2025 edition included: Delphine Dumont (Director of Hangar, Brussels, and the Photo Brussels Festival), Christian Gattinoni (Art critic and editor-in-chief of the online magazine lacritique.org), Martina Schubert (Curator at Foto Arsenal Wien), Rui Prata (Director of Imago Lisboa), Elina Heikka (Former Director of the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki)

The selected candidates’ work were published in the European Month of Photography Luxembourg 2025 (emoplux 2025) catalogue.

portfolio review 2023

Portfolio review 2023 CCR Neumunster

The fifth edition of Révélation(s)/ Portfolio – Plateforme – Luxembourg took place within the framework of the 9th European Month of Photography in Luxembourg on May 10 at the Centre de rencontres Abbaye de Neumunster.
The following artists commented on their work:
Bruno Oliveira, Diederich Manon, Reding Pit, Pol Trierweiler, Speltz Anne, Krieps Anna, Cruz Steven
Experts invited were : Delphine Dumont ( director of Hangar art space, Brussels et of Photo Brussels Festival ), Christian Gattinoni ( art critic and and publisher of  the online review www.lacritique.org, Emmanuelle Halkin ( curator and manager of the festival Circulations in Paris ), Felix Hoffmann ( director de Foto Wien , Rui Prata (director of Imagao Lisboa), Gabrielle Uhl (professor at the University of Budapest ) as well as Clelia Baldo  (Venise ) and Elina Heikka (former director of the Helsinki photo Museum.
Look up the catalogue of the festival for more information.

video interviews
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portfolio review 2021

Portfolio review 2021 Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain

The fourth edition of Révélation (s) / Portfolio – Plateforme – Luxembourg took place as part of the 8th European Month of Photography in Luxembourg on June 2nd, 2021 at Casino Luxembourg, contemporary art forum.
Selected artists were:Bruno Baltzer & Leonora Bisagno, Justine Blau, Marie Capesius, Lisa Kohl, Lucas Leffler, Elshan Rozafa, Caecilia Tripp, Silja Yvette.
The experts invited for this 2021 edition are: Delphine Dumont (director of Hangar, Bruxelles and Photo Brussels Festival), Christian Gattinoni (art critic and editor-in-chief of the online review www.lacritique.org), Emmanuelle Halkin (exhibition curator and head of the Circulations festival; Paris), Verena Kaspar-Eisert (curator at the KunstHaus in Vienna), Bettina Leidl ( director of Kunst Haus Vienne ), Rui Prata (director of Imagao Lisboa), Claartje van Dijk (head curator at Foam Amsterdam) as well as Anouk Wies (chief manager at Cercle Cité and exhibition curator).
Streaming available: https://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/fr/Agenda/Revelation-s-Portfolio-Plateforme
Works of the 2021 participants are to be published in the catalogue of the European Month of Photography Luxembourg in 2023 ( emoplux 2023 ).

portfolio review 2019

Auditorium du Cercle Cité 2019

The third portfolio review ( 2019 edition of the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg ) Révélation(s) / Portfolio – Platform – took place on May 15th 2019 from 2-5 pm at Cercle Cité in Luxembourg.
2019 participants were:Patrick Galbats, Keven Erickson, Carole Melchior, Martine Pinnel, Véronique Kolber, Jana Hartmann, Séverine Peiffer

The following experts accepted our invitation for the 2019 edition: Thomas Licek (former director of Eyes On – Month of Photography Vienna), Verena Kaspar-Eisert (curator at Kunst Haus Vienna), Christian Gattinoni (professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie, Arles and art critic), Branislav Stepanek (curator at Central European House of Photography, Bratislava), Gabriela Uhl (curator and professor at the University of Budapest), Angela Ferreira (artist, curator, former director & curator of the Portuguese PhotoFestival Encontros da Imagem, Braga), Audrey Hoareau (curator, co-founder an co-director of The Red Eye) and Anouk Wies (curator, Cercle Cité).

Works of the 2019 participants were published in the catalogue of the European Month of Photography Luxembourg in 2021 ( emoplux 2021 ).

Portfolio review 2017

The 6th European Photography Month in Luxembourg hosted the second edition of Révélation (s) / Portfolio – Platform – Luxembourg. It took place on April 26th 2017 at Cercle Cité City of Luxembourg / Auditorium.

The 10 selected candidates were :
Becker Sven, Dul Krystyna, Frankle Robert, Guillaume Sylvie, Lejona Andrés, Lindström Ann Sophie, Loder Boris, Ries Raoul, Wagener Daniel
The following experts were invited for the 2017 edition: Thomas Licek, directeur de Eyes On – Monat der Fotografie Wien ; Jean-Luc Soret, curator at Maison européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Christian Gattinoni, professor at Ecole nationale supérieure de photographie, Arles art critic ; Alessandra Capodacqua, Florence, curator ; Nathalie Herschdorfer ( director of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lelocle, Switzerland ) ; Mario Hislen, director of the Foto festival Circulation(s), Paris ; Gabriella Uhl ( Budapest ) curator and professor ( University of Budapest ).

Works of the candidates were published in the atalogue of the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg 2019 (emoplux 2019)

portfolio review 2015

Experts in 2015 were Thomas Licek, director of Eyes On and Monat der Fotografie Vienna; Frank Wagner, curator of Monat der Fotografie Berlin; Michaela Bosáková, curator at the Central European House of Photography à Bratislava; Gabriella Uhl, independent curator, University professor in Budapest and member of the advisory board of Fotohonap – Hungarian Month of Photography; Jean-Luc Soret, curator at la Maison européenne de la photographie Paris; Christian Gattinoni, professor at ENSP ( National School of Photography Arles ) and editor of lacritique.org; Rui Prata, founder and former director of Museu da Imagem, Porto.

Invited artists in 2015
Bruno Baltzer & Leonora Bisagno , Justine Blau, Laurianne Bixhain, Eric Chenal, Sebastien Cuvelier,Serge Ecker, Paul Gaffney, Carine & Elisabeth Krecké, Anna Krieps , Neckel Scholtus
The artists had their work published in the 2017 catalogue of the European Month of photography Luxembourg (emoplux 2017)

The European Month of Photography Luxembourg (Biennale) is an international festival of Photography and visual culture organized by Café-Crème asbl since 2007 in partnership with members of EMOP asbl (European Month of Photography asbl). Directors and editors are Paul di Felice and Pierre Stiwer since 1984, main assistant is Krystyna Dul (contact: bureau@cafecreme-artlu)

Although the festival initially started with the idea of federating a few key institutions in Luxembourg around the promotion of contemporary photography, it has grown in the meantime to such extent that it encompass almost all the institutions in the country. Luxembourg’s state and city institutions like the Museum of Modern Art Grand-Duc Jean (Mudam), the National Museum of History and Art (MNHA), Casino Luxembourg – Forum of contemporary art, Neumünster Abbey (Centre de rencontre Neimënster), Cercle-Cité exhibition space, the Villa Vauban are regular partners.  Private art galleries (Nosbaum & Reding, Reuter-Bausch and Ceysson-Bénétière ) are also more or less regular participants. Outside the capital, the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) in Dudelange, the town gallery Nei Liicht regularly hold exhibitions during the European Month of Photography. The city of Clervaux – hosting Edward Steichen’s Family of Man exhibition – participates with a programm of its own through its association Clervaux, Cité de l’Image.  The art center of the city of Ettelbruck ( CAP ) as well as the new Konschthal Esch and elektron in the city of Esch are occasional participants.
The European Month of Photography also periodically joins with the Arsenal exhibition space in Metz (France / Lorraine) , Beda art space of Bitburg (Germany) and most recently the Europäische Kunstakademie Trier ( Germany ).

café-Crème: history

1984-1992:
Café-Crème asbl – founding members are Pierre Stiwer, Paul Bretz and Paul di Felice, later joined by Robert Theisen – starts as a non-profit association publishing an experimental magazine with the aim to promote young emerging talents from Luxembourg ( designers, photographers, painters, architects ) and open up to a broader international art scene and its major players in the field of contemporary art.
Taking advantage of the then emerging desktop publishing possibilities, the association publishes a coffee-table magazine which develops into a contemporary art magazine with a particular focus on photography after a couple of issues. It was distributed internationally in Museum shops and selected libraries in Europe as well as in the United States for a short period of time. It is the very first desktop published magazine in Luxembourg.

1993-1997:
Café-Crème asbl is curator of a series of exhibitions at the town gallery of Dudelange ( Nei Liicht gallery ) introducing new trends in contemporary photography of Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. As a participant of Luxembourg European Capital of Culture event (1995) the association manages a major exhibition called “Landscape : about places and non-places” in collaboration with the Art Center Nei Liicht and the CNA ( Centre national de l’audiovisuel ) in Dudelange. Café-Crème will later continue the Nei Liicht partnership with individual exhibitions such as “Tempi in scena ( 2001) “ and “Tempi osceni ( 2009 ) “ (co curated with Alessandra Capodacqua, Studio Marangoni, Florence).
The town gallery of the city of Dudelange plays a major role in promoting contemporary art in Luxembourg and is a leading institution in the country for contemporary photography.

The association is among the very first to set up a website in Luxembourg (1994) as a partner of the European Capital of Culture event.

Exhibition catalogue and the classic Family of Man catalogue

The exhibition space Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain (created in 1995) – hosts in 1997 the first international show on contemporary photography in Luxembourg “The 90s – A Family of Man?” curated by Paul di Felice and Pierre Stiwer. The exhibition is to be a milestone in Luxembourg by drawing attention to the possible connections to be made between the admired Edward Steichen ( a country native ) and his Family of Man exhibition – donated to his native country by the artist – and contemporary views on the same topic.
Rineke Dijkstra, Nan Goldin, John Coplans, Christian Boltanski, Thomas Struth, Beat Streuli are part of this show among many other international artists. The previous year the association published the last issue of its magazine. Main topic is Photography after photography inspired by the text of Hubertus von Amelunxen who foresees the end of photography as we know it. Digital technology and post-modern philosophy radically change our approach to truth and the notion of avant-garde art.

1998-2006:
During this period the Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat ( BCEE ) is promoting actively photography and starts a collection concentrating on works of Edward Steichen as well as on contemporary photography. The association is invited to design and conceive two books: one on contemporary photographers in Luxembourg and one catalogue for the growing collection. The art space of the bank “Am Tunnel” provides an opportunity to exhibit the collection – works range from Cindy Sherman to Helmut Newton – as well as the more contemporary artist from Luxembourg.

Publication on contemporary photography in Luxembourg; publisher BCEE

During this period the association publishes three volumes on contemporary photography in Europe: Les Trahisons du modèle, Le Bâti et le Vivant, Apparemment léger.

The Ministry of culture provides for several years ( 2000 – 2006 ) an exhibition space to the association, the Chapelle du Rham. During this period, the association is able to develop large scale exhibitions although we rely on external staff for the handling of the works – aid is provided by neighbouring art institutions who are willing to help.
There is some hope to develop into a full scale exhibition space for contemporary art, but a scheduled renovation of the historical building within the neighbouring protected Rham area stops the process.
It nevertheless proves to be an incentive to initiate a festival called Les Semaines européennes de l’image then supported by the French cultural Institute in Luxembourg and associating Christian Gattinoni who is teaching photography at the ENSP Arles (France).

Volume 3 Apparemment léger, 2004

2007-2010:
The Chapelle du Rham is home to three major international exhibitions with a focus on Scandinavian, Italian and French artists mainly and hosts – together with Casino art forum – the first Emop (European Month of Photography network) exhibition, Mutations 1.
The association starts a long term curatorial project within the newly created European Month of Photography (emop) network ( a joint venture of European photography festivals in Berlin, Rome, Vienna, Moscow, later joined by Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana and Athens ) on different topics related to recent development in photography. Founding members are the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris, Kulturprojekte Berlin and Musa ( Museum auf Abruf, City of Vienna. Exhibitions labeled Mutations 1, 2, 3 are showcases in the hybridization of photography and video art as well as the migration to the internet.

Mutation 1 European Month of Photography 2006

Building on former good relationships with local museums and institutions in Luxembourg such as Casino Art Forum, the Mudam ( Musée d’art moderne ) or Carré-Rotondes the works of major artists/photographers (Philippe Ramette, Ori Gersht, David Claerbout, Edmund Clark, Rob Hornstra …) are shown in these art spaces.

Café Crème curates in 2007 “Différences partagées” (in collaboration with Nei Liicht) within the second edition of “Luxembourg and Grande Région European Capital of Culture“ and presents, among others, in situ works by the Luxembourg based artist Marco Godinho.
The Musée national d’Art et d’Histoire and the city of Luxembourg art space ( Cercle ) becomes a major partner with exhibitions focusing on portrait and landscape photography. An exhibition such as “Modèles modèles”  (Ideal models)  is a milestone in a still lasting relationship on curatorial exchange on photography in relation to the arts in Luxembourg New innovative art spaces such as the Abbaye de Neumunster provide opportunities to develop outdoor exhibition projects.

2011 – 2013:
The Casino Luxembourg continues to host thematic exhibitions such as Great Expectations – Contemporary Photography looks at today’s Bitter Years (2009 ) or Second Lives : Jeux Masqués et autres Je (2011).
During these years, the association curates as well several exhibitions for private enterprises or assists them with the necessary expertise to host exhibitions dedicated to photography or visual arts on their premises (Arendt & Medernach, BGL-Fortis, Banque de Luxembourg).
The Law firm Arendt & Medernach becomes a main partner of the association’s activities and develops a new dynamics around the Emoplux festival by suggesting the idea of a European photography award.

2014 – 2019:
The association is proud of its thirty years of regular activity and publishes an A3 magazine inspired by its first publication and text of international photo experts that have been long time companions.

Anniversary issue 2014

Emop decides in 2015 to become a legal structure hosted in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Although the eight member cities of the emop network are experiencing the impact of a changing cultural and political environment in a tougher economic environment the eight institutions in Athens, Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Luxembourg, Paris and Vienna pledge to continue and develop their relationship around common projects. Nevertheless Athens, Budapest, Bratislava and Ljubljana will leave the network to be replaced later by Brussels Foto Festival and Imago Lisboa of Portugal.
The city of Luxembourg becomes a main sponsor of the festival and its city exhibitions spaces such as Cercle Cité, Musée de la ville, Villa Vauban become regular participants of the photo festival Emoplux.
The association also extends its collaboration to neighbouring institutions such as the Arsenal Art center of Metz (Lorraine / France ), Haus Beda in Bitburg ( Germany ) during festival time.
The Cercle Cité premises are now hosting the portfolio review which is a public event during the photo festival. It is meant to provide to local or regional artists the opportunity to meet international experts of photography and curators of major festivals.
Taking advantage of its European connections, the association is providing exhibition opportunities for Luxembourg photographers abroad.

2020-2025:
The association presently manages its 10th photo festivall with nearly all institutional partners of the country ( MNAHA; Mudam, Casino art forum, Neimenster, CNA … ) and close collaboration with the Foto festivals in Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, Paris and Vienna. Leading topics in 2019, 2021 and 2032 were related to nature and identity in photography.

Catalogue Emop 2021

The festival includes for the 2023 edition the “Europäische Kunstakademie in the neighbouring German Town of Trier