JURY
HANIN HANNOUCH
Hanin Hannouch is Curator for Analog and Digital Media at the Weltmuseum Wien, where she is responsible for the collections of photography, film, and sound. Since November 2022, she has been a member of the advisory board of the European Society for the History of Photography (ESHPh). She is the editor of the first volume on interferential color photography titled “Gabriel Lippmann’s Colour Photography: Science, Media, Museums” (Amsterdam University Press, 2022) and has guest-curated the exhibition “Slow Colour Photography” about it at Preus Museum: National Museum of Photography (Norway). Currently, she is writing her monograph on the history of color photography in Imperial Germany, as well as another book on the history of the photography collection at the Weltmuseum Wien.
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AINDREAS SCHOLZ
Born to an Irish mother in Germany, Scholz was raised in a bilingual environment, splitting his time between Ireland and Germany and immersing himself in diverse cultural influences from an early age. Embarking on his artistic journey, Scholz pursued photography at TU Dublin, under the mentorship of Dr. Anthony Haughey. It was Haughey’s guidance that ignited Scholz’s fervour for visual storytelling. Seeking to deepen his artistic insight, he pursued postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths College, London. Under the mentorship of Turner Prize-winning artists, Scholz delved into critical and contemporary art-making theories, refining his unique creative voice.
FLORENCE DROUHET
Florence Drouhet is president of La Gacilly Festival, artistic director of the Photo Festival LaGacilly-Baden (Austria) and independent curator specialized in environmental topics. She is currently the artistic advisor and associated curator of the Albert-Kahn Museum Festival (Paris), the PHOTOCLIMAT Biennale (Paris), the Photo Festival INPAKT (Basque country, France), and Higashikawa Youth Photo Festival (Japan). Florence collaborates with the Gobelins School (Paris), the Jeu de Paume Gallery (Paris), the Orchestre National de Bretagne (Brittany, France).
IVANA TOMANOVIĆ
Ivana Tomanović was born in 1971 in Novi Sad. She has a master’s degree in photography from the Academy of Film and Television (FAMU) in Prague. She is currently pursuing her doctoral studies in the field of fine arts at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. From 2001 to 2015, she worked as an editor in the magazine for the culture of photography – ReFoto (Belgrade). As a full professor, she teaches photography at the Academy of Arts, University of Novi Sad. Her photographic work is dedicated to subjective research through the fields of documentary photography and staging, and she is particularly interested in the possibilities of installing artistic work in space.
ANDREA JÜNGER
Art historian and gallery owner. The “Galerie Jünger” presents a stylistically diverse spectrum of contemporary Austrian art from the fields of painting, graphic art, photography and sculpture. Ms. Jünger is also involved in curatorial activities (including for cultural institutes in Milan and Belgrade, NÖArt, NÖ Landesgalerie, kunsthaus muerz), advising collections, looking after artists’ estates and writing texts for catalogs.
SABINA SALAMON
curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Sabina graduated Philosophy and History of Art at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In the nineties, she became a member of The Club of Young Artists of Rijeka which represented Rijeka’s visual art scene. From 2002 till 2005 was appointed the position of acting director of the Mediterranean Sculpture Symposium of Labin (Istria region). Between 2006 – 2010 she ran the program of the City Gallery in Labin. Since 2010 she has been working as a curator at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka and is responsible for the Photography and New Media collections. As a curator, she puts efforts into interdisciplinary approach in art and presentation of the Croatian artists internationally, in collaboration with institutions that share similar goals.
FLORENCE DROUHET
Artistic director of the Photo Festival LaGacilly-Baden (Austria).
Independent curator specialized in environmental topics.
Florence Drouhet is currently the artistic advisor and associated curator of the Albert-Kahn Museum Festival (Paris), the PHOTOCLIMAT Biennale (Paris), the Photo Festival INPAKT (Basque country, France), and Higashikawa Youth Photo Festival (Japan).
She collaborates with the Gobelins school (Paris), the Jeu de Paume Gallery (Paris), the Orchestre National de Bretagne (Brittany, France)
Florence is La Gacilly Festival president, and Baden festival Direktor.
