Head curator | Frits Gierstberg
Advisory board | Alexandra Athanasiadou, Vangelis Ioakimidis, Christophe De Jaeger, Gautier Platteau, Olga Sviblova
Coproduction/Co-organization | BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

This exhibition, which also includes 3 Greek photographers, brings together almost 200 works of 32 photographers and visual artists from 20 countries who have made photo portraits somewhere in Europe over the last 25 years, many of which are now part of the history of photography.
The selected works, by combining artistic with social development, stand in a long European tradition of the portrayal or imagination of an individual person or a group of individuals, while also posing open questions regarding identity and artistic practices. The exhibition presents the works in the following sections: The Face as a mask, Tabula Rasa, Tradition and Innovation, The pose and the human perspective, Culture and Location, Identity within the group, Private and Public, Formal and Informal.

Participants | Tina Barney, Sergey Bratkov, Koos Breukel, Clegg & Guttmann, Anton Corbijn, Christian Courrèges, Denis Darzacq, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Jitka Hanzlová, Konstantinos Ignatiadis, Alberto García-Alix, Stratos Kalafatis, Boris Mikhailov, Nikos Markou, Hellen van Meene, Jorge Molder, Lucia Nimcova, Adam Pańczuk, Dita Pepe, Anders Petersen, Paola De Pietri, Jorma Puranen, Thomas Ruff, Clare Strand, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Juergen Teller, Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek, Stephan Vanfleteren, Manfred Willmann

The exhibition is supported by NEON.