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The 8th edition of Getxophoto’s Open Call offers visual artists and photographers from all over the world the opportunity to exhibit their work at the 19th edition of the Festival, to be held ifrom May 29 to June 22, 2025. After pressing the Pause button and then the Play button, this year we’re hitting ~~REC~~.

The jury, made up of Verónica Fieiras, Carla Bacelar, María Wills and María Ptqk, four women from Buenos Aires, Bogota, Braga and Bilbao, has reviewed the works submitted and has shortlisted 12 projects and selected 3 winners. The latter will be part of the artistic program of Getxophoto 2025:

Winners Open Call 2025

● Rosa Lacavalla – La Festa dell’Equatore (Italia)

● Carlos Idun-Tawiah – Hero, Father, Friend (Ghana)

● Federico Vespignani – Short Term, but Long Term (Italia)

Shortlist Open Call 2025

* In alphabetical order

● André Ramos-Woodard – Black Snafu (USA)

● Carlos Idun-Tawiah – Hero, Father, Friend (Ghana)

● Daniel Stier – You May Also Like (Germany)

● Dina Kelberman – This Fan May Not Be Replaced You Just Don’t Know the Future (USA)

● Eleonora Calvelli – Making Love to G. Is Gonna Be Like the First Time I Tried a Cheeseburger (Italy)

● Federico Vespignani – Short Term, but Long Term (Italy)

● Makoto Oono – Contrast A (Japan)

● Mohammad Rakibul Hasan – The Blue Fig (Bangladesh)

● Nélia Dos Santos Azevedo – Marimbar (Portugal)

● Olo Project – Nocturnal Twins (Italy)

● Pierfrancesco Celada – Instagrampier (Italy)

● Rosa Lacavalla – La Festa dell’Equatore (Italy)

● Varvara Uhlik – Sonechko, Yak Ty? (Sunshine, How Are You?) (Ukraine)

● Yun Ping – 回家 (huí jiā) (Spain)

● Yuxing Chen – Two Kind of Imaginations (UK)

Jury

María Ptqk (Ramón Quanta), María Wills (Federico Botia), Carla Bacelar (Liza Alves), Verónica Fieiras (Nicolás Bondancia)

MARÍA PTQK
Independent curator, cultural researcher and curator of Getxophoto Festival (Bilbao)

She holds a PhD in artistic research, a degree in Law, Economics and a Master in Cultural Management. Her work is based on the intersections between art, technoscience and feminisms. She has worked with a number of leading institutions, among them Medialab Prado, Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso, CCCB, Jeu de Paume, La Gaité Lyrique or GenderArtNet. Some of the exhibitions she has curated are A propósito del Chthuluceno y sus especies compañeras (Espace virtuel du Jeu de Paume), Ciencia fricción. Vida entre especies compañeras (CCCB and Azkuna Zentroa), Extinción Remota Detectada (LABoral) or Máquinas de ingenio (Tabakalera). She is advisor to the Chaire Arts & Sciences (École polytechnique, l’École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso) and editorial coordinator of able journal.

MARÍA WILLS
Independent curator and researcher (Bogota)

María Wills is a curator and art historian. Her main projects are related to the instability of the contemporary image and the revision of official historical narratives in art. She was director of the Arts and Other Collections Unit of Museos Banco de la República (Bogotá) between 2019 and 2023, and in 2019 she was curator of the MOMENTA Image Biennial (Canada). In the same year, she won the Simón Bolívar Journalism Prize for her essay El centenario de la Bauhaus: de conveniencias y conexiones. Her curatorial projects have been exhibited in institutions such as the ICP New York, the Fondation Cartier and the Jeu de Paume in Paris, The Photographers Gallery in London, the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogotá or the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellín, among others. She is the author of the book Los cuatro evangelistas on the origins of curatorship in Colombia.

CARLA BACELAR
Vice-President of the Board and producer of Encontros da Imagem (Braga)

Carla Bacelar Ferreira has a degree in Photography from the School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and a master’s degree in Curatorial Studies from the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has collaborated with several art centres including Fotofestiwal in Lodz (Poland) and BoCA, Bienal de Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon). In 2015 she started working in the production and support of exhibitions at the Festival Encontros da Imagen (Braga) and later formally joined the Festival’s management team as well as the association that organises it. In 2021, she joined the Board of Directors of the Association and the Festival as Vice-President.

VERÓNICA FIEIRAS
Editor, founder of Chaco editorial and director of Escuela Migra (Buenos Aires)

Verónica Fieiras is a visual artist, editor, cultural manager, collaborator in creative projects, and also a member of the Migra Feria de Arte Impreso collective. In 2013, she founded RIOT Books, a publishing house through which she released her book The Disappeared, which was nominated for Best Photobook of the Year at the 2014 Kassel Festival. In 2015, she edited and designed You Haven’t Seen Their Faces by Daniel Mayrit, which won the Aperture-Paris Photo Award for Best Photobook of the Year. In 2016, Verónica founded the independent publishing house Chaco, which focuses on Latin American artists and has published 11 books to date. Several of the books she has edited and designed have been exhibited at the CCCB, the National Library of Spain, the Daegu Photo Biennale, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the MOMA, among others, and are part of public and private collections, including the MOMA and the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico.