RECOMMENDED: Copenhagen Photo Festival - Copenhagen open calls! / 2026.07.11. - 2026.07.21. 📷 🇩🇰
About the festival
Copenhagen Photo Festival 2026 is showcasing an artistically and conceptually ambitious programme that celebrates creativity and experimentation within photography and lens-based art, and aims to build bridges between fine art and documentary photography.
The festival takes place in the center of Copenhagen as well as at collaborating galleries, museums and cultural institutions in Copenhagen and southern Sweden. Throughout the festival, photography is on the agenda through exhibitions, networking programs, workshops, talks, photobook market and more. In 2026 we will consolidate our presence at The Royal Danish Theatre as our new festival centre in the city center of Copenhagen.
11-21 JUNE 2026
The open call 1
OPEN CALL · FUTURES NORDIC TALENTS
Photo Festival’s call 2025.11.01. !!!
Gives photographers and lens based artist in the Nordic countries a chance to progress in their career, network and meet experts within their field from all over Europe.
Copenhagen Photo Festival is part of FUTURES Photography Platform and every year CPF invites new talents to become part of the community. In 2026 we invite four new talents.
This is not a traditional open call for an exhibition, this is a chance to join FUTURES, a European photography platform for new talents. CPF will promote the selected artists during the 2026 festival.
Do you want to get challenged professionally and get international response to your practice? Do you need inspiration and want to meet peers from other countries? Do you want to be part of an influential photography platform that works only to strengthen the path for new talents?
In the fall of 2025 Copenhagen Photo Festival is calling for Nordic* talents, who want to be part of the European FUTURES platform, which works to strengthen photographic talents across Europe.
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The open call 2
The open call is for artists and photographers who want to break new ground and challenge the idea of what photography is and can be, now and in the future. The winners of the open call will get the opportunity to present a solo exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2026.
Copenhagen Photo Festival’s featured solo exhibitions aims to expand the boundaries of exhibiting photography and focus on sustainable development, not least in relation to the specific place the festival is situated, but also with regards to the materiality of displaying photography, as well as presenting new perspectives and emerging talents.
As a solo artist you will work in close collaboration with the curatorial team about the planning of the exhibition. If you are selected as one of the shortlisted artists, you are invited for an interview with the CPF curatorial team in the fall of 2025 before the final selection of the headliners for 2026.
If you are selected we have a sharp focus on promoting your work and exhibition on all our platforms and social media channels. But we also aim to create an on site activity program that revolves around your work through relevant activities, e.g. workshops, guided tours and/or talks. As a selected artist we expect you to participate in the activities program created around you and your work.
Your exhibition will be placed indoors at the festival centre or outdoors in the surrounding area depending on the project and the overall curatorial strategy. In line with festival values the artist should be prepared to think creatively and experimentally in terms of the hangings and/or installations of the works, as it is a core value for the festival to create exhibitions that are true to the festival format and interact engagingly or even surprisingly or contrastfully with the theme, the project itself and the surroundings it will be presented within.
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