Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation presents its 2025 annual programme

EXHIBITIONS

Collection exhibition „Look at Us. 25 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse”
Until 9 March 2025 in The Cube, Frankfurt/Eschborn

The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation presents the comprehensive group exhibition “Look at Us” until 9 March 2025. It comprises new acquisitions for the Art Collection Deutsche Börse of the past two years, showing how they enrich the body of the collection and create a dialogue with previously acquired groups of works. On view are works by Sabiha Çimen, Lynne Cohen, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Mitch Epstein, Lucas Foglia, Samuel Fosso, Paul Graham, Marvel Harris, Candida Höfer, Lebohang Kganye, Hsu-Pin Lee, Helen Levitt, Dana Lixenberg, Daniel Jack Lyons, Sabelo Mlangeni, Gordon Parks, Inge Rambow, Thomas Ruff, Aida Silvestri, Sim Chi Yin Vanessa Winship and Tobias Zielony. The exhibition brings together multifaceted visual languages and narratives and enables new perspectives on the existing body of the collection. The presentation is curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Photography Foundation, in collaboration with British curator Mariama Attah, who has advised the Photography Foundation as Associate Curator on acquisitions for its collection for the past two years.

„Foam Talent 2024“
28 March to 17 August 2025 in The Cube, Frankfurt/Eschborn
Press preview: Thursday, 27 March 2025, 11.00 a.m. 

With the group exhibition “Foam Talent 2024”, the Photography Foundation focuses on new talent and presents works by 20 young international artists. They were selected through the “Foam Talent” programme of the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam to promote up-and-coming artists. The exhibition provides fascinating insights into the current issues and discourse engaging the new generation of artists worldwide. They tackle a range of complex themes in their works, such as the invisible dangers of Internet algorithms, the deconstruction of gender stereotypes, and the enduring impact of colonialism. The artists deliberately challenge traditional formats of photography and familiar points of view. Every other year, the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam invites young photographers from around the world to submit their portfolios. The selected artists are promoted through a comprehensive support programme, which includes a publication, exhibitions, and networking and mentoring events. Furthermore, one artistic position is acquired for the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has been supporting the programme since 2017. The exhibition will display works by Eleonora Agostini, Cristóbal Ascencio, Florian Braakman, Sander Coers, Rehab Eldalil, Issam Larkat, Xin Li, Akshay Mahajan, Thero Makepe, Marisol Mendez, Ricardo Nagaoka, Andrea Orejarena & Caleb Stein, André Ramos-Woodard, Aaryan Sinha, Maryam Touzani, Jaclyn Wright, Shwe Wutt Hmon, Cansu Yıldıran, Sheung Yiu and Amin Yousefi.

„Harry Gruyaert. A World in Colour“
5 September 2025 to 18 January 2026 in The Cube, Frankfurt/Eschborn
Press preview: Thursday, 4 September 2025, 11.00 a.m.

The Photography Foundation presents an extensive exhibition of Belgian photographer Harry Gruyaert, one of the most influential European pioneers of colour photography. This is the most comprehensive presentation of Gruyaert’s work in Germany to date, offering a unique insight into his decades of artistic work. The retrospective combines around 100 images from the 1970s to the early 2000s, showcasing Gruyaert’s extraordinary sense for composing colour, light and space. He uses his camera to capture landscapes and urban scenes with a unique perspective that particularly highlights colour and contrast. The saturated hues give his images an intense atmosphere that goes beyond mere documentation, characterised by an almost cinematic view of the world. Gruyaert, who has been a member of the renowned Magnum Photos cooperative since 1982, never seeks the spectacular. Instead, his photographs are shaped by scenes of everyday life – a crossroads, an airport terminal, a filling station or an industrial plant. The exhibition comprises well-known images from his travels to Morocco and France, along with pictures of Belgium and early black and white photographic works.

Photography festival “Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles” 
7 July to 5 October 2025 at the Foundation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Arles, France

Every summer, “Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles”, the largest photography festival in the world, is held in the south of France. It showcases works by well-known photographers and offers opportunities for new discoveries at various indoor and outdoor exhibition venues across the city. In 2025, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation will take part in the renowned festival for the sixth time and present the new project “Enclyclopaedia” by Polish artist Weronika Gęsicka in cooperation with Fotohaus ParisBerlin at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation. In a humorous and intelligent way, Gęsicka uses errors from encyclopaedias, dictionaries and lexicons and visualizes them with the help of manipulated stock and archive photos or AI-generated pictures. She creates visual riddles whose disruptions only reveal themselves on closer inspection. The images are displayed alongside the corresponding entries and playfully invite viewers to reflect upon the reliability of facts and information sources in a time of fake news and artificial intelligence.

Exhibition series "La jeune photographie allemande“
12 November to 5 December 2025 at the Goethe-Institut Paris, France

With the exhibition series “La jeune photographie allemande”, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has been supporting photography students at German universities together with the Goethe-Institut Paris since 2018. The annual collaboration offers a selected photography class the opportunity to present their work to an international audience in an exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Paris. “La jeune photographie allemande” provides a platform for young artists and brings together current trends, innovative approaches and central themes in contemporary photography. In the spring of 2025, it will be announced who will follow the previous classes at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (2024), the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin (2023) and the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (2022).

FUNDING ACTIVITIES, EVENTS AND FURTHER COOPERATIONS

The core objective of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is its commitment to developing contemporary photography. The Foundation works with an international network of museums, universities and other institutions to realise this in the best way possible. It also supports programmes to promote new photographic talent and academic dialogue. The Foundation will be launching cooperations with two new partners this year. One of these is FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Austria’s new centre for photography and lens-based media, which will be opening its new exhibition space in March 2025, thereby making a key contribution to dissemination of and research in contemporary photography and media art. The Foundation is funding the extensive opening exhibition “Magnum. A World of Photography”, which deals with distribution and archiving strategies through the example of the globally renowned Magnum Photos cooperative. The Photography Foundation is also supporting the exhibition and event series “Viral Hallucinations” of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, which combines artistic, photographic and journalistic perspectives to address the mechanisms of today’s image culture in the construction of conspiracy theories and the proliferation of disinformation. 

The renowned Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize will be awarded again this year in cooperation with the Photographers’ Gallery in London to highlight outstanding and innovative photographic work. The selected projects of the four finalists for 2025, Cristina De Middel, Rahim Fortune, Tarrah Krajnak and Lindokuhle Sobewka, will be displayed at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, from 7 March 2025. The winner will be announced on 15 May 2025. With a view to promoting new photographic talent, the Photography Foundation is also continuing its support of the “Foam Talent” programme of the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam. To support the academic dialogue on photography, it will once again cooperate with the German Photographic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie, DGPh), with which it will award the two prizes for research and journalism in the field of photography, called “Thinking Photography. DGPh Research Prize” and “Writing Photography. DGPh Prize for Innovative Journalism”.

On a regional level, the Foundation organises the “HfG Rundgang Award” for young students together with the Offenbach University of Art and Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, HfG) and contributes to the funding of scholarships for local artists through the Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe.

The 2025 annual programme is subject to changes without notice.

Notes to Editors:

Here you can find an overview of the press images for the annual programme 2025.
We will be happy to send you the press images in print quality upon request.

Information for Visitors:

The exhibitions in The Cube, the headquarters of Deutsche Börse in Eschborn, can be visited as part of a guided tour with prior registration at www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org or on the “Open Saturdays” without prior registration. Admission is free. Special appointments for individual groups (up to 25 persons) can be arranged by e-mail: foundation@deutsche-boerse.com.

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Media Contact: 
Isabelle Hammer
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About the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation

The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Frankfurt/ Main, dedicated to collecting, exhibiting and promoting contemporary photography. The Foundation is responsible for the development and presentation of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, which now comprises over 2,400 photographic works by around 170 artists from 38 nations. The Foundation shows several public exhibitions a year in its exhibition space in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main. It supports young artists through awards, scholarships or the annual talent programme of the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam. Together with the Photographers' Gallery in London, it awards the renowned Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize every year. The Foundation also works on exhibitions with international museums and institutions, as well as creating platforms for academic dialogue and research on photography.
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About the Art Collection Deutsche Börse

The Art Collection Deutsche Börse is among the most important collections of international contemporary photography. Established in 1999, the collection now comprises more than 2,400 works by around 170 artists from 38 countries. The Art Collection is dedicated to the central themes of photography since the Mid-20th century. The visual languages and photographic approaches represented in the collection are as diverse as the background, age, or artistic method of the photographers, ranging from documentary to conceptual approaches. Each position offers its own perspective on the collection’s central theme, the “conditio humana”, the exploration of the conditions of human existence and its position in the world.