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Photo Festival Eyes on Main Street
Eyes on Wilson
Wilson, North Carolina, USA
31 May – 8 September 2025
The eleventh edition of Eyes on Main Street, Wilson Outdoor Photo Festival will launch on May 31, 2025 in historic downtown Wilson, NC. For 100 days, 100 photographs will be display on 100 storefront windows, walls and buildings, spanning nine city blocks. The outdoor exhibition, curated by Jerome De Perlinghi, features the work of 68 photographers from 18 countries who were all past resident photographers from 2017 to 2024. Among the artists included in this 11th edition are: Dave Jordano, Judith Rodriguez, Olivier Metzger, Andrea Torrei, Peter Bialobrzeski, Ximena Echague, Jérôme Bonnet, Meg Hewitt, Rodrigo Paredes, Martin Roemers, Grace Ekpu and Rémy Artiges.
Podium Zuidhaege and Gallery 22
Freedom in Dialogue
Assen, Netherlands
13 April – 22 June 2025
Bursa FotoFest
Bursa, Turkey
Works from Metropolis are part of the exhibition Urban Defiance
Ressam Şefik Bursalı Art Gallery
20 December 2024 – 20 January 2025
The Wende Museum
Los Angeles
Permanent exhibition of ‘Relics of the Cold War’ in the Museum Garden
2025
Museum Prinsenhof
Delft, Netherlands
‘Kunstparade’ / ‘Art Parade’, an exhibition including works from Willem van den Hoed, Theo Jansen, Wilma Keizer, Martin Roemers and Frank van der Salm.
18 October 2024 – 5 January 2025
Photo Festival Eyes on Main Street
Wilson, North Carolina
Festival Theme: ‘Main Street, a Crossroad of Cultures‘
The tenth edition of Eyes on Main Street, Wilson Outdoor Photo Festival opens June 1, 2024, in historic downtown Wilson, NC. Among the artists included in this years’ edition are William Klein, Bieke Depoorter, Bruce Gilden, Soon-Hwa Oh, Steve McCurry, Susan Meiselas, Martin Roemers, Maggie Steber, Martin Parr and Parisa Azadi.
1 June – 8 September 2024
German Historical Museum (DHM)
Berlin
The DHM acquires a baryta gelatin silver print “The fall of the Berlin Wall, January 1990. French soldiers, based in West Berlin, look at an East German Trabant in front of the Wall at Potsdamer Platz.”
April 2024
Studio Dare | 大胆
Shanghai
I give an artist talk in Studio Dare.
6PM at 207 Ping Liang Road, 4th Floor, Room 408.
23 September 2023
Daegu Photography Biennale
Daegu, South Korea
Exhibition of ‘Metropolis’
22 September – 5 November 2023
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
A work from ‘Relics of the Cold War’ is included in the exhibition ‘New Horizons’.
Recent decades have seen a merging of artistic and documentary photography, blurring the boundaries that once separated them. In 2023, the Rijksmuseum will explore this crucial development in the history of photography with a selection of 25 photographs from the collection. ‘New Horizons’ features the work of artists such as of Pieter Hugo, Viviane Sassen, Martin Roemers, Ruud van Empel, Michael Wolf and Erwin Olaf.
29 June – 3 September 2023
The Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles
The GRI acquires 32 prints from the series ‘Relics of the Cold War’, an exploration of the structural and topographic remnants of the Cold War in both the East and the West.
April 2023
Photo Festival Eyes on Main Street
Wilson, North Carolina
At Saturday, October 22, I give an artist talk at Photo Festival Eyes on Main Street.
10 AM in Imagination Station, Wilson
22 October 2022
The Wende Museum
Los Angeles
Solo exhibition ‘Relics of the Cold War’
10 April – 23 October 2022
MAST
Bologna, Italy
I give an artist talk in MAST at 6PM.
31 May 2022
MAST
Bologna, Italy
‘Trabant. The Final Days of Production’ is part of the exhibition ‘The MAST Collection. A visual alphabet of industry, work and technology’.
Curated by Urs Stahel.
10 February – 28 August 2022