Bye-bye 2025! HELLO 2026!
Grateful, tired, happy. In that order.
💥 Places I passed through (or that passed through me):
New York (beginning with noise), Lisbon (light pretending to be slow), Linz (future rehearsing itself), Prague (twice, because once wasn’t enough), Arles (photography arguing with its own shadow), Shanghai (speed as philosophy), Johannesburg (gravity, finally), Paris (ideas overdressed), Strasbourg (daring institutions), and—like background radiation—all over Germany.
💥 Group shows scattered generously across:
New York, Porto, Darmstadt, Shanghai, Hamburg, Beijing, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Basel, Milan, Jambes, Frankfurt, Berlin, Pilsen, Taichung, Miami.
A reminder that art travels better than artists.
💥 AI Film festivals where images learned to breathe differently:
Mexico City, Phoenix, Tokyo, Paris, Trento.
💥 Solo exhibitions that demanded commitment, not scrolling:
Montréal (Elektra Gallery),
Strasbourg (La Chambre & La Cryogénie)
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💥 Interventions as a curator:
Berlin | RIVALS, Photography vs. Promptography.
Johannesburg, Roger Ballen Centre for Photography | PSYCHOPOMP!, AI-generated images with a psychological approach.
💥 Between all this:
✨️ building an AI podcast for the Deutscher Fotorat with Jürgen Scriba,
✨️ joining UNESCO’s Memory of the World working group (to figure out how AI affects the world’s documentary heritage programme),
✨️ teaching the online master “AI for Creatives” for LABASAD School of Art & Design Barcelona
✨️ and running workshops across Europe (EMOP Berlin, Fotografiska Berlin, Universität Köln, Universidade Lusofona Lisbon, University Strasbourg, objkt LABS, MFG Baden-Württemberg, Creative Region Oberösterreich
✨️ speaking at places where art, tech, fear, hope, and funding collide: Ars Electronica Linz, Creative Edge Prague, VACAT Shenzhen, La Biennale di Venezia, The Pioneer Bootcamp, World Ai Conference Shanghai, C/FRA and others.
Big thanks to all of you who helped, opened doors, gave advice, inspired and were just fun to hang out with!
♥️ And to my wife Jacqueline – without her, none of this would have been possible.