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Spotlights of the Week ⚡

Explore our weekly Spotlights across Europe, selected by PiE’s editorial team.

Recommendations for the week of Apr 13 – 19, 2026

Group Exhibition

“A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art”

Museum Rietberg, Zürich, CH
Apr 16 — Sep 6, 2026

Solo Exhibition

Bernhard Fuchs “Heustock”

Haus Esters, Krefeld, DE
Apr 19 — Sep 6, 2026

Group Exhibition

“The Photography Collection: Two Germanies circa 1980”

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
Feb 26 — May 24, 2026

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Recommendations for the week of Apr 6 – 12, 2026

Group Exhibition

“Under Water”

Westlicht, Vienna, AT
Mar 13 — May 17, 2026

Solo Exhibition

Fred Stein “Selected works”

noir blanche, Galerie für Fotografie, Düsseldorf, DE
Apr 10 — May 30, 2026

Solo Exhibition

Pérez Siquier

KBr Photography Center – Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona, ES
Feb 26 — May 24, 2026

Recommendations for the week of Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2026

Group exhibition

FOTOHAUS Bordeaux 2026
“Controversy & Paradoxes 3 or How to Re-enchant the World”

Hôtel de Ragueneau, Bordeaux, FR

Apr 1 — May 2, 2026

Saturday, Apr 4
3 pm Guided tour (de/fr), with the photographers and Karsten Kurowski in attendance
4 – 6 pm Franco-German quiz (de/fr)
6:30 – 10 pm Opening reception at 6:30 pm, and party from 8 pm with DJs Franky Fahrenheit / Moscha.

natural touch © Jef Bonifacino

Group exhibition

Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie
“3von19, 3von20”

Consulat République Fédérale d’Allemagne, Bordeaux, FR

Apr 4 — May 30, 2026

Friday, Apr 3
6 pm Artist talk (de/fr)
7 pm Opening reception

© Lukas Städler, VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn, DE, 2025. Courtesy DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin.

Photobook Festival

Exhibitions as part of the “LEIPZIG PHOTOBOOK FESTIVAL 2026”

HALLE 14, Leipzig, DE

Until Apr 2, 2026

© Loh Xiang Yun, Organised Scenery, photobook, 2019, Photo: Jenny Starick, on view in the Photobook Exhibition “Fragile Volumes – The photobook beyond paper”.

Recommendations for the week of Mar 23 – 29, 2026

Solo exhibition

Carrie Mae Weems “The Heart of the Matter”

FOMU – Fotomuseum Antwerpen, BE
Mar 20 – Aug 23, 2026
Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Man and mirror), 1990; from the Kitchen Table Series; from Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter (Aperture, 2025). © Carrie Mae Weems and reproduced courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.

Solo exhibition

Sophie Calle “Something Missing?”

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
Mar 26 – Sep 6, 2026
Sophie Calle, Honorable some fortune – Not poor (1895- 1905), 2017-2019, From the series: On the Hunt © Sophie Calle / VISDA, Paris, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.

Photography Fair

“UNSEEN PHOTO”

Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam, NL
Mar 27 – 29, 2026
© Thandiwe Muriu, The Space Between Love and Comfort, 2025, Photography – Fine Art print on paper, 150 x 100 cm 59 x 39 3/8 in, Courtesy of the artist and 193 Gallery

Recommendations for the week of Mar 16 – 22, 2026

Solo exhibition

Annegret Soltau “Uncensored. A Retrospective”

Francisco Carolinum, Linz, AT
Feb 1 – June 21, 2026
Annegret Soltau, Selbst #16 © Annegret Soltau / Galerie Anita Beckers

Photography Museum

Reopened: Nederlands Fotomuseum

Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
From Feb 7, 2026
Nederlands Photomuseum, Atrium. Photo: © Iwan Baan

Photography Festival

“Circulation(s) festival 2026”

CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Paris, FR
Mar 21 – May 17, 2026
Eruption © Olia Koval

Recommendations for the week of Mar 9 – 15, 2026

Group exhibition

“Living Environments – Contemporary Perspectives from North Rhine-Westphalia”

Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, DE
Mar 13 – July 12, 2026
Alexander Lackmann: Ulvi, 2022, aus der Serie Ganz ehrlich!, 2022 bis heute © Alexander Lackmann / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Solo exhibition

Salvatore Vitale
“Sabotage”

Photo Elysée, Lausanne, CH
Mar 6 – May 31, 2026
Salvatore Vitale, untitled, 2023, from the series Death by GPS, 2022 – 2026 © Salvatore Vitale

Solo exhibition

Susanne Kriemann “Lupin, fougère, genêt”

Goethe-Institut Lyon, FR
Jan 9 — Apr 28, 2026
© Susanne Kriemann

Recommendations for the week of Mar 2 – 8, 2026

Solo exhibition

Luc Delahaye
“The Echo of the World”

Photo Elysée, Lausanne, CH
Mar 6 – May 31, 2026
Luc Delahaye, “A Rally of the Opposition Candidate Alexander Milinkevich”, 2006 © Courtesy de Luc Delahaye et de la galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris / Bruxelles

Solo exhibition

Inuuteq Storch
“Rise of the Sunken Sun”

Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, SE
Feb 6 – May 3, 2026
Soon Will Summer be Over (2023) © Inuuteq Storch

Group exhibition

“X-RAY – The Power of Roentgen Vision”

Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, DE
Nov 9, 2025 — Aug 16, 2026
© Arie van ’t Riet, It’s All X-ray Scene 2, 2025, Detail

Recommendations for the week of Feb 23 – Mar 1, 2026

Solo exhibition

Agnès Varda
“Here and there, Paris-Rome”

Villa Medici, Rome, IT
Feb 25 – May 25, 2026
Agnès Varda, Autoportrait devant une peinture de Gentile Bellini, Venise, 1959. © Succession Agnès Varda

Group exhibition

“Remix: Photography – Fiction and Truth”

Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, DE
Feb 25, 2026 – Spring 2027
Thomas Ruff, Substrat 18 l, 2003, CPrint, Kunsthalle Bremen – Der Kunstverein in Bremen, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Foto: Thomas Ruff

Group exhibition

“Female. Focus. Photo Archives.”

Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, CH
Feb 28 – June 14, 2026
Elisabeth Brühlmann, Marie Ottomann-Rothacher bei der Arbeit im Atelier von Hans Peter Klauser, Zürich, 1960 © Elisabeth Brühlmann Sarlo / Fotostiftung Schweiz

Recommendations for the week of Feb 16 – 22, 2026

Group exhibition

“NO PLACE LIKE HOME. Italian photography since the 1980s”

SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, DE
Feb 02 – July 26, 2026
Gabriele Basilico, Via Aristotele, 1979, © ARCHIVIO GABRIELE BASILICO DI GIOVANNA CALVENZI

Solo exhibition

“Body as Resistance”
Yumna Al-Arashi

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, NL
Feb 14 – June 21, 2026
© Yumna Al-Arashi, I Am Whoever You Want Me To Be, 2018

Solo exhibition

“Über Land”
Hans-Christian Schink

Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, DE
Nov 27, 2025 – Mar 1, 2026
Hans-Christian Schink, Bei Bredenfelde, aus der Serie “Hinterland”, 2016, Privatbesitz © Hans-Christian Schink

Recommendations for the week of Feb 9 – 15, 2026

Solo exhibition

“Daido Moriyama – Retrospective”

FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, AT
Jan 31 – May 10, 2026
Daido Moriyama, Tokyo, 1967. From Japan, a Photo Theater. © Daido Moriyama/Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation.

Group exhibition

“AS IF”
Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney, David Donohoe

International Centre for the Image, Dublin, IE
Feb 6 – Apr 5, 2026
AS IF, 2026, Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney, David Donohoe, silver gelatin print montage

Group exhibition

 “Community. Photography and Belonging”

Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, DE
Viktoria Binschtok, Mayara Ferrão, Ludwig Schirmer, Clemens von Wedemeyer et al.
Feb 11 – May 25, 2026
Mayara Ferrão, Die Hochzeit VI, 2024, Tintenstrahldruck, 20 x 14,5 cm, Courtesy of the Artist & Verve Gallery

Recommendations for the week of Feb 2 – 8, 2026

Photography Festival

PhotoBrussels Festival 2026

PhotoBrussels @ 52 locations across Brussels, BE
Jan 22 – Feb 22, 2026

Solo exhibition

“Jessica Backhaus. Shadows might Dance”

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF), DE
Curated by Andrea Horvay and Celina Lunsford in close cooperation with the artist.
Jan 31 – Apr 26, 2026
Jessica Backhaus: Dorota, 2003. From the series »Jesus and the Cherries« © Jessica Backhaus, 2026, courtesy of Robert Morat Galerie

Group exhibition

PROJECT GROUNDSWELL

FOTOHOF Salzburg, AT
Gonçalo Fonseca, Yvette Monahan, Ingmar Björn Nolting, Maria Oliveira ua.

A collaboration between Photomuseum Ireland, FOTOHOF, Cortona On the Move and Imago Lisboa.
Feb 6 – Apr 4, 2026
Maria Oliveira, »Untitled«, aus: »Project Groundswell«, 2026

Recommendations for the week of Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2026

Solo exhibition

Martin Parr “Global Warning”

Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR
Jan 30 – May 24, 2026
Martin Parr, Venise, Italie, 2005 © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos

Solo exhibition

Lee Miller “Works 1930-1955”

CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Turin, IT
Oct 1, 2025 – Feb 1, 2026

Solo exhibition

Gregory Crewdson “Retrospective”

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE
Oct 9, 2025 – Feb 22, 2026

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