Join us for the Grand Opening 1 June!
Image credit: Kristina Knipe, solo artist 2023
We have been looking so much forward to this! Finally we can invite you to the Grand Opening of Copenhagen Photo Festival 2023 and unveil an amazing programme for a lovely afternoon in great company on 1 June – we look forward to celebrating contemporary photography in the Danish capital for the 13th time with you!
The Grand Opening 2023 of Copenhagen Photo Festival is celebrated with happy hour, DJ, a ‘rewilded’ photo performance and guided tours by the exhibiting artists and curators in our venue FRAME and the surrounding exhibition park.
A rewildet festival experience
The 2023 edition has a particular focus on the overarching theme, ‘rewilding’, and Copenhagen as UNESCO’s World Capital of Architecture in 2023. From 1 to 11 June the festival center and the surrounding wilderness will host no less than 13 exhibitions with around 60 artists and numerous performances, talks, workshops and family activities full of creativity and experimentation.
Exhibitions opening at the festival center
Hiding from Baba Yaga // Nanna Heitmann · Photographs of British Algae - AI Impressions // Craig Ames · Talisman // Kristina Knipe · Almost all the flowers in my mothers garden // Hilla Kurki · The Sunshiners; Code Red in Green China // Daniel Hinks · The bird project // Erik Berglin · On the Verge // FUTURES group exhibition · 2022 Paris Photo – Aperture Photo Book Awards · IMPACT // Atla · DMJX · KBH Film&Fotoskole · Oslo Met · VERA skole for kunst og design
The opening event is free and open for all from 4 to 7 pm
We look forward to seeing you!
Best wishes
Copenhagen Photo Festival
Check out all exhibitions and activities at the festival center
FUTURES Talents 2023
Image credit: Mikkel Hørlyck
The festival is proud to be able to finally present this year's five FUTURES Talents: Giulia Mangione, Jonas Yang Tislevoll, Mikkel Hørlyck, Sofie Flinth and Susanne Fagerlund. They will each present a screening at the festival center on Refshaleøen.
As part of the European platform FUTURES Photography, Copenhagen Photo Festival each year gets to select five talents from our region. This year the FUTURES talents appointed by Copenhagen Photo Festival were selected among nearly 100 applicants seeking the open call from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
Copenhagen Photo Festival selection
Their Scandinavian background and their photo related education is maybe one of the few things the five talents have in common, besides joining the FUTURES platform for 2023.
Based on an open call, the festival’s programme committee has aimed for talents at a state in their career where FUTURES’ international connections, professional feedback and the networking can boost or push the boundaries of the talents’ individual position.
From photojournalism or (very) personal stories to the use of Artificial Intelligence with an environmental focus, they present the crème de la crème of what photography can be in Scandinavia.
FUTURES 2023 Talents at the festival
Each artist will have a screening at the festival to present their project:
- "The Fall" - Giulia Mangione
- "Take care of yourself son, your mom loves you" - Jonas Yang Tislevoll
- "Jørgen, a Mystery" - Mikkel Hørlyck
- "A Million Dollar View" - Sofie Flinth
- "The Doppelgänger Series – Mourning for what is being lost" - Susanne Fagerlund
Read more about the FUTURES Talents here.
