CONGRATULATIONS!
THE SELECTED ARTISTS 2025

The Wiesbaden Photo Days team is delighted to announce the winners of the Open Call 2025. Photographers, artists and photography students were invited to submit up to two photo and/or video projects on this year’s festival theme ‘Future? What future?!’ to apply. Submissions were possible from 1 December 2024 to 23 March 2025. We received a total of 551 photo and video projects from 25 countries worldwide.

After a long and intensive dialogue, the jury of Nicole Ahland, Andrea Diefenbach, Kim Engels, Marc Peschke, Daniel Oschatz and Jürgen Strasser has selected a total of 38 photo and video projects for the seven main exhibitions of the Wiesbaden Photo Days 2025. The names of the participants are:

Verdiana Albano (Berlin), Jürgen Altmann (Stuttgart), Eva Bachmann (London), Katerina Belkina (Werder), Jenny Bewer (Hamburg), Tobias Binder (München), Kai Brüninghaus (Hamburg), Eva Bystrianská (Jihlava), Serghei Duve, Sibylle Fendt (Berlin), Dasa Geiger (Herne), Arez Ghaderi (Hannover), Gosbert Gottmann (Frankfurt a.M.), Arne Grashoff (Berlin), Ulrike Hannemann (Berlin), Mohammad R. Hasan (Dhaka), Jan Richard Heinicke (Dortmund), Pia Hertel (Köln), Jan Hottmann (Stuttgart), Berit Jäger (Bodenheim), Seunggu Kim (Seoul), Elliott Kreyenberg (Berlin), Emile Krutulyte (Vilnius), Ziyi Le (Hangzhou), Melina Lehmacher (Düsseldorf), Maartje Martisan (Amersfoort), Laura Pannack (London), Ele Runge(Hamburg), Sofia Samoylova (Frankfurt a. M.), Julius Schien (Hannover), Falk von Traubenberg (Hamburg), Filippo Venturi (Forli), Gerd Waliszewski (Kiew/Berlin), Sven Weber (Stuttgart), Marcelina Wellmer (Berlin), Yana Wernicke (Hochheim), Lara Wilde (Berlin) und Paula Winkler (Berlin)

And we would like to encourage all artists who were not selected this year to apply again for the next edition of the Wiesbaden Photo Days.