Overview public programme:

Friday, 12th May 4–6 p.m.: Opening Next! with the Open Photo Stage
Saturday, 13th May 6 p.m.: Screening Odesa Photo Days
Sundy, 14th May 11 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.: Workshops, Lecture & Maker Spaces

Programme details at the NEXT! Website

Workshops

All workshops are free of charge. Binding registration until 11 May.
All workshops will be held in German.

register for Workshops

Friday, 12th May, 4 – 6 p.m.

Open Photo Stage
The NEXT! Festival der Jungen Photoszene will be ceremoniously opened with the Open Photo Stage, hosted by Robin Thomas. The focus will be on the young producers, whose projects and works will be presented.

Open Photo Wall
The Open Photo Wall will grow steadily throughout the exhibition period. Young guests are invited to help design it and show their own projects here! You can bring your own series and become part of the exhibition, hang and design them yourself.

Maker Space
Here, the young audience can get creative themselves and create collages or contributions for the Open Photo Wall with the available material.

Saturday, 13th May, 1.45 – 6 p.m.

1.45 – 4 p.m.
Symposium FotoPlus (KJF/DJF in cooperation with the Akademie für Kulturelle Bildung) as a guest of NEXT! With students of the Holweide Comprehensive School and participants of Artist Meets Archive Jr, registration and further information: www.kulturellebildung.de/kurse/tagung-fotoplus/

6 p.m.
Screening Odesa Photo Days (if possible live via zoom from Odessa) Moderation and translation on site: Ella Schindler Kuratorium Deutsches Kinder- und Jugendfilmzentrum). The Odesa Photo Days will present their mentoring programme at the NEXT! Festival and show how Ukrainian young people aged 17 to 21 experience the war in their country and document it photographically.

Sunday 14th May 11 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.

Workshops:

11 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
#We Xperiment: Dive into a sea of colour!
With Nadine Preiß. What happens when we mix water, oil and paint? In small groups we experiment with the elements and make our own creations.
For children between 8 and 12 years, an offer of the Kamerakinder (jfc Medienzentrum).

11.30 – 12.30 a.m.
Next! Atelier Kea Gröne: About Grooves and Movement / Dance photography
A workshop with Kea Gröne on her own work in the exhibition.
For young adults aged 16 and over, an offer of the SK Stiftung Kultur.

12.30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Next! Atelier Felix Beuter: Documentation of the built environment
A workshop with Felix Beuter on his work in the exhibition.
For young adults aged 16 and over, an offer of the SK Stiftung Kultur.

2 – 5 pm.
#We Xperiment: Scary Face instead of Beauty Queen/King
With Nadine Preiß. By bending, folding or with the help of needle and thread, you create a new 'I' from the portraits of your faces.
For young people aged 13 and over, offered by Kulturcaster (jfc Medienzentrum).

3 – 6 p.m.
Staged future. How do you see yourselves in 30 years?
With Melina Hempelmann and Shio Gogichaishvili. We want to travel photographically into the future with style and fashion.
For young people between 14 and 18 years, an offer from the photo scene.

5 – 6.30 p.m.
Jetsons or yet Terminator Matrix? A critical examination of artificial intelligence.
Lecture/Workshop
Speaker: Stefan Müller, DaVinci Kollektive
Open to everyone aged 14 and over, an Artist Meets Archive Jr. offer in cooperation with the Rheinisches Bildarchiv.

Offers for school classes 15 - 17 May

School classes can book individual tours of the NEXT! exhibitions at the Altes Pfandhaus between 15 and 17 May.NEXT! exhibitions at the Altes Pfandhaus. Afterwards, the school class can create collages and their own contributions for the Open Photo Wall in the Maker Space. Duration: 1-1.5 hours, contribution towards costs for materials, if possible 15€ for the group.
With: Birgit Hauska, Simon Rupieper or Inga Schneider - please book in advance and make an appointment.

request individual school classes Tour

More information about NEXT!

https://next-festival.photoszene.de/
next@photoszene.de