De fotoroman was een van de meest populaire massamedia uit de jaren ’50, vergelijkbaar met het succes van Netflix vandaag de dag. Maar wat is het exact? En hoe werd het geconsumeerd?

Het FOMU heeft heel wat interessante stukken in huis. We lenen bijgevolg regelmatig een stuk uit te lenen.

In Santa Barbara verkent Markosian haar persoonlijke geschiedenis. Diana Markosian en het FOMU nodigen bezoekers van de tentoonstelling uit om een video op te nemen waarin ze hun verhaal vertellen.

Four recent publications show that women are just as capable of producing great photographs as men, and always have been.

De selectie kunstaankopen voor de Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap werd gemaakt door een commissie van onafhankelijke curatoren en 6 Vlaamse musea voor Hedendaagse kunst waaronder het FOMU.

Samen met Vice nodigt het FOMU vier vrouwen uit om het te hebben over mannelijkheid. Alle vier identificeren ze zich in meer of mindere mate met butchness.

No other medium but photography would work for Willy Kessels (BE, 1898–1974) and define his entire philosophy, on which he imposed a new and recognizable trademark with superimpositions and photomontages.

Self-care is 'a bit of a catch-all term', thus opens writer and poet Anna Lounguine her essay on a concept that culturally speaking seems to have lost its ethical and political potentials.

N.a.v. de tentoonstelling van Max Pinckers in het FOMU toont VRT de documentaire Max Pinckers - Margins of Excess. Bekijk hoe Pinckers doorheen de VS reist en onderzoek doet naar de vage grens tussen fictie en realiteit in de Amerikaanse media.

The Kaiserpanorama is one of the most remarkable items of the FOMU collection. It is a "modern machine", intended to bring photography to a wide audience. 25 people can simultaneously sit around the Kaiserpanorama and view three-dimensional images.

The project 'Le Fusée de la Motographie' consists of more than 100 boxes. In each box you can find one or more photographs.

In your imagination, what do you expect to see in a collection of photography from different scientific archives?

The photography of William Egglestone and Stephen Shore, part of the new color photography movement, is not often associated with ‘politics’, or utopian potentials. Young critic, Taylor Dorrell, thinks its worthwhile to reconsider this.

During a residency Dutch artist Inge Meijer came across a massive archive of pre-wedding photography at a bankrupt wedding hall in Gwangju, South Korea. Meijer started working on the archive, which resulted in her ongoing installation project

A practice of care for a neighbourhood and its inhabitants flourishes at KENE in Bamako, Mali, a permanent photography lab for young adults, a place for education, relations, care for the neighbour and its collective memory construction.

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Bieke Depoorter’s artistic practice is based on her relationships with the people she photographs. In recent years, she has been searching for ways to further close the gap.

Vincent Delbrouck creates memorable impressions of the places he explores by integrating personal and fictional perspectives into single works.

The Brussels photographer Anne De Gelas creates highly personal work. Often self-portraiture, her images can be intimately revealing. She combines handwritten and typed texts, drawings, clippings and photographs to create a form of diary.

David Claerbout modelled Elvis’ body using hundreds of photographic fragments of his skin and facial features. He challenges the two-dimensional nature of the photograph by adding virtual time and space.