FUTURES
TALENT CALL
2025
Organ Vida, as a FUTURES member organization, is launching an open call for artists to join the platform in 2025. The call is open to emerging and mid-career artists working in photography and video, as well as hybrid practices that explore the relationship between images and sound, sculpture, or spatial expansion, such as installations or performances.
FUTURES is a European Photography Platform that brings together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging and mid-career artists worldwide. Operating as an ever-growing international network of influential photography organizations, FUTURES unites a wealth of resources, expertise, and talent programs. Each year, these organizations nominate a group of artists to join the platform and co-host a series of events designed to enhance the artists’ capacity, mobility, and visibility.
The open call is open to citizens of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Slovenia, and Albania. Through this open call, five artists will be selected.
Selected participants will have the opportunity to engage in diverse online educational activities and apply to internal open calls for exhibitions and mentorship programs hosted by member organizations. In 2025, all selected artists will attend one live event (the Annual Event), where they will have the chance to connect with the FUTURES community in person. Additionally, all selected artists will be promoted through the FUTURES website, social media channels, and the printed annual publication.
Each selected artist is required to participate in all mandatory online activities and attend the final live event (Annual Event) in September 2025 (exact location and dates to be confirmed). Organ Vida will cover travel, accommodation, and daily allowances for participation in the final event, along with a gross honorarium of 500 euros for full participation in the project.
The artists will be selected by a professional jury comprising the Organ Vida curatorial team (Barbara Gregov, Lovro Japundžić, and Lea Vene), Hana Čeferin (curator and editor of ETC Magazine), Tena Starčević (curator, Office for Photography), and Vanja Žunić (curator, Eugster Gallery).
Application Process
Applications are submitted via an online form and must include basic information about the applicant and their previous work.The following materials should be prepared for submission:- Artistic Work: Select one project you wish to submit for the FUTURES platform, organized into a folder named after the project’s title, which includes:
– 15 high-resolution photographs: 300 dpi, TIFF format, 4500 px
– 15 low-resolution photographs: 72 dpi, JPG format, 1200 px
Photos must be named using the following format: firstname_lastname_projecttitle.jpg - Portfolio: A PDF or folder containing photographs of previous works.
- Your CV
- All Documentation: Compile the above materials into a single .zip or .rar file named with your first and last name. The zipped folder must be sent via WeTransfer to the email address info@organvida.com, and the WeTransfer link should be pasted in the designated field in the online form.
The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2025. All inquiries can be sent to
info@organvida.com.
Jurors
Barbara Gregov, Lovro Japundžić, and Lea Vene form a curatorial team that has been running the Organ Vida Festival since 2020. They focus on showcasing and researching image-based practices, particularly at the intersections of visual art and contemporary digital and popular culture. Their individual biographies can be found here.
Hana Čeferin is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of ETC. magazine (2021-) and head of the programme of Mala Galerija in Ljubljana (2024-). She was Head of the Design Biennial at the Museum of Architecture and Design (BIO) (2023-2024) and has previously collaborated with Galerija Fotografija in Ljubljana and Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. She also works as a freelance writer and curator, collaborating with, among others, Improper Walls Gallery in Vienna, Alt+1000 Photography Festival in Switzerland, KS Room and Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana. Since 2024 she has been an assistant at the Department of Theoretical Sciences at UL ALUO.
Tena Starčević (Zagreb, 1993), coordinator and head of the administration of the Photography Office and coordinator of the Creative Europe project Operation Nova: Re-imagining Cultural Spaces in a New European Context. She graduated in art history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. During her time at the university, she worked on numerous exhibitions, and then she began to develop her curatorial concepts and realized several solo and group exhibitions. The fundamental interests are researching photography and the potential of abandoned industrial heritage and art in public space. He regularly curates exhibitions at the Spot Gallery, writes forewords for exhibitions and texts for the portal Kulturpunkt, Vizkultura, and Contemporary Croatian Photography and the radio show Triptih. She is a member of the multidisciplinary art collective Arbajt Kolektiv, where she explores the relationship between art and work in a historical and contemporary context.
Vanja Žunić is an artist and curator based in Belgrade, Serbia. She has participated in numerous exhibitions, projects and collaborations in the region, including with Goethe Institut Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, nomad gallery Voždovačka galerija, U10, Belgrade, Museum of contemporary art Zagreb, and others. She is currently working as the gallery director of Eugster || Belgrade.
About FUTURES
Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, FUTURES Photography Platform is a platform focused on amplifying emerging talents in photography in Europe. Since 2017, the aim of FUTURES Photography Platform is to pool the resources and talent programmes of leading photography institutions across Europe in order to increase the capacity, mobility and visibility of its selected artists. The FUTURES Photography Platform has grown since 2017 into a collaborative network of art institutions across Europe including: CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia (IT), Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (FR), Copenhagen Photo Festival (DK), Triennial of Photography Hamburg (DE), Der Greif (DE), FOMU (BE), FOTODOK (NL), Fotofestiwal Lodz (PL), Fotogalleriet (NO), Fotograf Magazine (CZ), Organ Vida (HR), ISSP (LV), PhotoIreland (IE), Photo Romania Festival (RO), Bienal Fotografia do Porto (PT), Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center (HU), Void (GR), Photoforum Pasquart (CH), Photo Elysée (CH), and Centre de la photographie Genève (CH) and our research member, Eurokleis s.r.l. (IT)In total, FUTURES now supports around 550 artists. This number will grow in the next few years.
For further information on the platform and this year’s programme, please visit: futures-photography.com
Organ Vida has so far presented the works of Matej Jurčević, Ivan Buvinić, Lucija Bogunović, Lara Varat, Dea Botica, Sanja Bistričić, Filip Bojović, David Bakarić Mihaljević, Petra Slobodnjak, Lucija Rosc, Eva Bevec, Pavle Banović, and Fred Mungo.