Welcome to Photobook Week Aarhus!

We are a small festival dedicated for a decade to the photographic book as a medium of artistic production. This year, we will publish a book that draws on the experiences and learnings of these the last ten years. The contributions are based on artist talks, panels, keynote speeches and presentations in the framework of the festival, edited and revisited to reflect the main aspects of the photobook.

The book is structured in five chapters, which are introduced by the editors and build up the framework of the content. Important aspects to be treated include the histories of the photobook medium, its relation to Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, and the many roles of the photobook in art and society, in the center and the periphery. It will also cover practical issues such as how to research, collect, distribute and showcase photobooks. The book concludes with a reflection on what the next ten years will bring for the makers, collectors, scholars and lovers of photographic publications.

Please read more about the book in our publications section.

From the left: Asta Nyyssonen, Triin Kerge, Olle Essvik, Nanna Lykke Larsen, Jose Luis Neves, Emily Beresford, Jesper Rasmussen, Frédérique Deschamps, Silvia Schiermacher, Gerry Badger, Sonia Lenzi, Moritz Neumüller, Vreni Hockenjos, Anna Brix Nielsen, Anne Elisabeth Toft, Thomas Wiegand, Martin Dannesboe Singh, Jens Friis, Rolf Sachsse

From the left:
Asta Nyyssonen, Triin Kerge, Olle Essvik, Nanna Lykke Larsen, Jose Luis Neves, Emily Beresford, Jesper Rasmussen, Frédérique Deschamps, Silvia Schiermacher, Gerry Badger, Sonia Lenzi, Moritz Neumüller, Vreni Hockenjos, Anna Brix Nielsen, Anne Elisabeth Toft, Thomas Wiegand, Martin Dannesboe Singh, Jens Friis, Rolf Sachsse

Photobook Week Aarhus 2023, Future Revisited: Capturing Hope Amid Challenges, is over.
A big THANK YOU to our guests, vendors, artists, curators and sponsors! Please find the Programme here.

We payed homage to Albert Renger Patzsch’s book “Die Welt ist schön” (The World is Beautiful), published 95 years ago, and proposed a new wave of optimism. This search for the joy of our existence included a look into the future, and other things that make us happy.

This edition’s side-themes included Photonovels and Children’s Books, while on the geographical axis we looked at Estonia and Lebanon.

This year, the festival also had a special focus on Artificial Intelligence as an image-making technique and a tool for creating new narratives. This included a Call for artists, seminars, and online workshops PWA AI Workshop Programme (book your place in the workshop programme here!).

The 10th anniversary of Photobook Week Aarhus will be duly celebrated with a compendium co-published with Fw:books that explores some of the most important moments in the history of the medium, and our small contribution to it.

As always, the festival closed with the yearly Sunday photobook market, where the public had the opportunity to buy photobooks from all over the world, both from second-hand dealers and from the publishers and artists themselves.

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Vreni holding a photobook

Interview with Vreni Hockenjos

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"The Photobook Week in Aarhus, Denmark,…

This was PWA 2023

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AI OPEN CALL CONTEST WINNER(S)

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On Saturday 4 November at ARoS,…

Lecture by Gerry Badger “Erich Mendelsohn: Modernist Urban Landscape Photography”

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Open Book Market at Godsbanen 5 November

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Exhibition: Candida Höfer: Photobooks

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Opening Event! Performance by Olle Essvik: The Atlas of Death

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Exhibition and talk: The Library within the Library

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Exhibition: Amerika: Bilderbuch eines Architekten

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Shortlist of AI Contest

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Exhibition on photo and artistic books from Estonia

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Your Time is My Time Curated…

Talk: Daria Tuminas on Growing Pains’ “In Pieces”

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Exhibition: Architecture & Photobooks by Rolf Sachsse

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Photobooks on Architecture or Architecture Books…

Open Book Call for Publishers

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Exhibition: Photonovels

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PWA AI Workshop Program

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This year, we will complement our…

Photobook Week Aarhus, our yearly festival exploring the wonderful world of the photobook, turns ten this year! Join us, when we celebrate our anniversary with one of our most ambitious programmes to date.

Under the theme Future Revisited, Photobook Week 2023 will be a celebration of what is worth saving in times of trouble. We do not deny that our planet is suffering from our actions and things are getting worse every day. Still, we propose a fresh look and a new wave of optimism to encourage artists to shape a new discourse around things such as Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence.

Multiple Local Venues

Galleri Image, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus School of Architecture, DOKK1, and HEART – Herning Museum of Contemporary Art will once again house a wide variety of curious, creative, and thought-provoking exhibitions, talks and workshops.

Open Call and Workshops – AI at the Heart of Art

Find the shortlist of our Open Call for artists working with AI and check out our workshop programme, organized in collaboration with The Curator Ship Academy. Artists and renowned public speakers Boris Eldagsen and paula roush will give insights into how to use AI in image making and photobook publishing (Application closing soon!).

Thank You!

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our sponsors. This year PWA is made possible by the City of Aarhus (Kulturudviklingspuljen), Dreyers Fond, Politiken-Fonden, Instituto Camões, Portugal’s Embassy in Denmark, Nordea-fonden and Institut Français Danemark.

Find the curatorial statement and preliminary programme 2023 of Photobook Week Arhus 2023 to dive deeper.

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