MuseoMag: MuseoMag 2025_02

MuseoMag 2025_02

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Title:: From cursed algae to painting with light: Our exhibition for the European Month of Photography

6 MuseoMag N°II 2025 Marta Djourina’s works on view in the exhibition Recently Seen and Admired (2021), at the gallery FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (Berlin) FROM CURSED ALGAE TO PAINTING WITH LIGHT Our exhibition for the European Month of Photography In this year’s edition of the European Month of Photography in Luxembourg (EMOPLUX), our museum has taken on a more active role, with the Head of our Fine Arts Department, Ruud Priem, co-curating the festival. Initiated in 2006 by Café-Crème asbl in partnership with leading photo institutions in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, the festival is now a major inter- national event dedicated to photography and visual culture. It brings together both emerging and esta- blished artists and photographers with the aim of reflecting the diversity of photography in our time. Following the themes of the past two editions, where “rethinking” already served as a lens to challenge conventional ideas, the 10th edition of the festival continues with Rethinking Photography, exploring the evolving nature of photography itself – as both a medium and an art form. The festival in- vites artists and audiences to reconsider the role of photography in modern society, reflecting on how technological advancements and changing cultural contexts are reshaping our perception of images. The event will engage with contemporary debates surrounding digital images, the manipulation of photographs and the role of visual media in the age of mass communication. SEVEN ARTISTS FROM SEVEN COUNTRIES The Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart is presenting seven artists from various countries, each working with and around the photographic medium in ways that explore its limits and possibilities across an array of contemporary topics and contexts. Based in Brussels, the French photographer Alice Pallot uses a semi-fictional narrative to address a very real and ongoing issue; her project Algues Maudites investigates the green algae problem on the Breton coast. These “cursed algae,” a result of intensive agriculture and other human activities, now pose a serious threat to both human health and the local environment. In collaboration with an environ- mental association and a scientific research insti- © marta djourina / photo: gunter lepkowski

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