About The Censored Exhibition

The Censored Exhibition has existed since 2012 with the ambition to present a contemporary selection of international fine art photography based on an open call. An international group of curators selects the photographers and the exhibition will consist of approximately 50 works. In 2017 Copenhagen Photo Festival received a record number of applications from photographers all over the world.

What winners receive

The Censored Exhibition (Den Censurerede Udstilling) has existed since 2012 with the aim to present a contemporary selection of international fine art photography based on an open call. An international jury selects 50 works for The Censored Exhibition. In 2017 Copenhagen Photo Festival received a record number of applications from photographers all over the world.

As selected photographer for The Censored Exhibition your work will be exhibited at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2018 (7-17 June). The exhibition is located in Photo City – which is the festival’s main center that hosts ten international solo and group exhibitions in a unique former industrial area. Many of the photographers who have been selected previously are recognized today, and it is a great opportunity for being promoted to a broad, dedicated audience, critics and curators at the largest photo festival in Scandinavia.

The selected photographers also get the chance to get their work sold at a special auction event. Copenhagen Photo Festival collaborates with the recognized Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers about an auction event in The Censored Exhibition on the last day of the festival period. The auction is open online at bruun-rasmussen.dk throughout the festival period (7-17 June).The online bids will then be transferred from the homepage to the live auction at the exhibition, where Bruun Rasmussen will auction off the selected works. The idea with ​​the event is to focus on the many qualities of photographic art, give old and new art collectors the opportunity to acquire new handpicked photographic art and not least shed light on new emerging art photography.

Jurors

Balder Olrik
Visual artist and art photographer
Balder Olrik was born into a family of scientists in Copenhagen. He entered the Royal Academy of Art, age 16 in 1982 and worked as painter for 16 years, exhibiting numerous times, in both Europe and USA. Then followed by a break of 16 years where he mainly investigated the human behaviour and psychology in online environments and made several companies, working in this field. Balder Olrik now works as an art photographer and art critic.

Markus Hartmann
Publisher, Curator, Agent
Markus Hartmann was born into a family of printers & publishers in Berlin. After a brief involvement with photography he returned to the family profession and helped to built first Edition Cantz then Hatje Cantz into one of the better art book publishers in Europe. In 2013 he left to start his own company with his wife Angelika Hartmann and have since 2014 been realizing and curating exhibitions. „Hartmann Books“ was started in 2016 and helps to spreads knowledge about artists and their work. Hartmann is a regular juror at photo festivals always searching for the new, unseen and noteworthy.

Johan Vikner
Exhibition Manager, Fotografiska International
Johan Vikner is born in Sundsvall, Sweden and studied art history and linguistics at the universities of Stockholm and Uppsala. He is the Exhibition Manager at Fotografiska International, working with photographers and artists such as Patrick Demarchelier, Chen Man, Andres Serrano and Sarah Moon.