With a focus on gender equality and supporting emerging artists, PhMuseum Lab will offer an exhibition program to present some of the best photographic exhibitions in Bologna. Selecting among the most interesting artists on the national and international photographic scene, the photographic exhibitions will be hosted in the new 120sqm creative hub, based in Cirenaica. Some initiatives will be linked to the Grants program that has distinguished phmuseum.com for several years and this will allow some of the most innovative contemporary projects to be exhibited in Bologna.
05 December 2024 - 23 January 2025
Bringing together El Rey Blanco by Maximiliano Tineo and Yo bebo leche y agua by Sarah Schneider & Stella Meyer, Open Veins explores Latin America’s resource exploitation, colonial legacies, and their ongoing impact on nature and society.
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12 June - 15 September 2024
Mother-of-pearl, which will in time become the pearl, begins to form when a foreign element is introduced into the oyster. Starting from this metaphor, Catalan artist Rita Puig-Serra traces her childhood in an effort to process the abuses she suffered in her family as a child. It is an attempt to tell what needs to be told; a way of telling what could never be revealed to a now absent mother. And, at the same time, a way of telling it to herself.
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14 December 2023 - 04 February 2024
The exhibition brings together the works of nine photographers who explore themes related to family, memory and trauma developed during Criticae 2022/23 - the PhMuseum Masterclass dedicated to documentary photography.
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18 May - 01 October 2023
RAM_4.0 is a collaborative project between Sara Bastai and Artificial Intelligence (AI). An exchange between humans and machines exploring the notion of memory through the eyes of technology. The show is part of the PhMuseum Days 2023 main exhibition program
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26 January - 06 April 2023
Combining psychogeography and cymatic imaging techniques, Augmented Rome underlines the ambiguity of the artist's movement between the visible and invisible layers of her city. The project offers a complex portrait of a parallel vision and interpretation of the Eternal City, through sound resonances and materialisation of acoustic weight.
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24 November 2022 - 12 January 2023
The works proposed in the exhibition by the artist Airo and the duo Marrese and Chiapparini are speculation that serves as premises for a reflection on the severe precision of fate. Each investigation is tied to the current questions about the ontological and epistemological nature of photography.
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11 May - 07 July 2022
Sayuri Ichida investigates the depths of her trauma to stimulate a contemporary debate on concepts such as destiny and memory. Juxtaposing her family archive with newly made images in response to it, Ichida creates a sophisticated narrative that offers a collective reflection on the difficult process of accepting death.
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24 March - 07 April 2022
Featuring images from the PhMuseum 2021 Mobile Photography Prize, the group show Presence challenges the traditional understanding of a portrait and examines its concern with the human presence in its wider sense and how it´s rendered into reality; whether that is online or offline.
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18 November - 19 December 2021
With ‘Slightly Altered’ the Ukrainian artistic duo Synchrodogs aims to challenge the bond between the natural world and humans who inhabit it. This symbiosis is questioned by proposing a body of work that combines photography with performative and installation intuitions. A visual message upon how much we, like all living beings, both transform our environment and are altered by it.
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18 November - 19 December 2021
In a moment where instability and fake news are part of our everyday life, Maria Lax's project on UFO sightings in Northern Finland represents an important metaphor of the insecurity intrinsic in human nature.
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16 April - 18 June 2021
Shot over the first months of the pandemic solely with mobile devices, the images of this show represent a tangible document of the first wave of the pandemic and a source of inspiration to stimulate a constructive debate around the urgent answers we need to provide in the decade that just started.
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03 September 2020 - 29 January 2021
Güle Güle is the exhibition with which the PhMuseum Lab will inaugurate its brand new space in Bologna, Italy. The Lab will also host a presentation of the Güle Güle’s photobook and a workshop conducted by the celebrated duo.
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