Each summer, Madrid becomes a major event for the world of visual arts and photography. With exhibitions in the main museums, halls and art galleries, as well as diverse activities related to the chosen theme each year, PHotoEspaña offers the possibility to discover the latest tendencies in photographic art as well as the latest projects by the most internationally renowned artists.
The last edition included 90 exhibitions and works by more than 53 artists in a program comprising activities for both professionals and the audience in 76 different venues.
The PHotoESPAÑA programme is divided into two sections: the Official and the Off Festival, and gives different awards in recognition of the work of some of the participating artists. Numerous museums and exhibition halls took part in this section in order to promote and develop the photographic market.
Within the program of exhibitions and activities of the festival, they have invited the British curator and writer Susan Bright to be the Guest Curator for the 2019 edition of the Festival. Bright will commission and curate a series of five exhibitions that reflect on traditions and contemporaneity within photographic and artistic practice. She says that for this selection she tried to return to the historical relationship that photography has with painting and also a shift in the way that certain photographs have once been considered but are now cast anew.
Susan Bright is a curator and writer based in Paris. She has curated exhibitions internationally at institutions including: Tate Britain, The National Portrait Gallery in London and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago amongst others. Her exhibition How we are: Photographing Britain was the first major exhibition of British photography at Tate.
