We cordially invite all interested parties to learn more about the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie with digital artist talks, symposia and other events. We record our online events and then make the recordings available on our YouTube channel.

For upcoming dates, please see our calender.

Further down you can go directly to the respective recordings of past events:

Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2024

Artist talk with Arja Hop & Peter Svenson on 19 January 2023: Artist duo Arja Hop & Peter Svenson presented their work Rhine Ecologies - Mannheim - a biochromatic research, which was created in Mannheim. (in English)

Online Talk "Towards a more inclusive Biennale" on 27 July 2022: Shahidul Alam, Tanzim Wahab, and Munem Wasif, the three curators of the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2024, talked about “inclusivity” with advisors N'Goné Fall and Tanvi Mishra. (in English)

Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2022

Online Talk "Sustainability in applied photography" on 9 May 2022: Emanuele Farneti, former editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue, and photographer Simon Veith talk with Prof. Dr. Henry Keazor from the Institute for European Art History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg about the possibilities and challenges of sustainable image production in fashion and advertising photography. (in English)

Online Talk "Sustainability in artistic photography and exhibition practices" on 9 May 2022: Iris Sikking, curator of the Biennale 2022, talks with Biennale artists Silvy Crespo and Małgorzata Stankiewicz about the possibilities, visions and challenges of sustainable photography and exhibition practices. (in English)

Instagram Live Talk – Photography, Festivals and the Art Market on 2 Mai 2022: Boris Eldagsen and Alexander Hagmann (Deutsche Fotografische Akademie), Elias Redstone (Artistic Director, PHOTO 2022/Melbourne) and Yasmin Meinicke (Managing Director, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie) will discuss how festivals support artists. (in English)

Artist Talk – Yufan Lu in conversation with Iris Sikking on 25 April 2022: Iris Sikking and artist Yufan Lu talk about Yufan Lu's series Make Me Beautiful, which is on view in the Biennale exhibition Shaping Data at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. (in English)

Artist Talk – Yan Wang Preston in conversation with Iris Sikking on 5 April 2022: The artist Yan Wang Preston talks to Iris Sikking about her series of works entitled Forest, which will be shown in the Biennale exhibition Contested Landscapes at the Kunsthalle Mannheim (in English)

Digital Dialogue Day on 1 April 2022: Online conversations between curator Iris Sikking and selected artists of the Biennale 2022 based on the virtual exhibitions (in English)

Artist Talk – Misha Vallejo Prut in conversation with Iris Sikking on 30 März 2022: The artist Misha Vallejo Prut talks to curator Iris Sikking about his series of works Secret Sarayaku at the Kunsthalle Mannheim (in English, with Spanish subtitles)

Artist talk with Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber on 16 November 2021: presentation of their long-term project La Cartographie Dynamique, which they are expanding for the Biennale 2022 (in German)

Biennale Insights on 3 November 2021: first insights into the concept of the Biennale 2022 with curator Iris Sikking and artists Michał Iwanowski, Mashid Mohadjerin and Rune Peitersen (in English)