Dirk Braeckman (BE, °1958) has explored the medium of photography in sombre/dark and understated images, for over forty years.
By making the Gevaert archive - with more than 377 types of photographic paper and 1300 photo packaging - publicly accessible, FOMU keeps knowledge about analogue photography and photo paper alive.
Starting this month, you can access the information digitized by FOMU as part of the Gevaert Paper Project through a Wikibase database. This database aims to make the information accessible to a wide audience.
Op uitnodiging van FOMU verkent beeldend kunstenaar Katja Mater (NL° 1979) de museumcollectie en maakt een bijzondere selectie rond het thema ‘tijd’. In de tentoonstelling No Longer Not Yet kan je op uiteenlopende manieren ‘tijd’ ervaren: van zonnetijd en het ritme van je lichaam tot tijden van herinnering, asynchrone tijd, kosmische tijd en onzichtbare tijd.
FOMU presents the first retrospective in Belgium of the American photographer Cindy Sherman.
Every year FOMU selects ten promising phototographers, all living or working in Belgium. Discover the selected artists for .tiff 2024
Alison Rossiter (º1953, Jackson, Mississippi, US) lives and works in New York. Rossiter creates photographs without a camera, using vintage photographic paper. FOMU is proud to own the work Gevaert Gevaluxe Velours, by Alison Rossiter.
FOMU and creative agency Mutant™ again join forces for FOMUTATIONS, an experimental format of in depht talks by internationally renowned image makers. They challenge existing perspectives on visual culture and spark debate—an innovative format that encourages dialogue and new ways of seeing.