New Summer Exhibitions at Antwerp's FOMU Photo Museum Highlight Nightlife, Emerging Talents, and Community Resistance
From late June through late September 2025, FOMU | Photo Museum Antwerp is set to host three new temporary exhibitions. Running from 28 June 2025 to 28 September 2025, this trio of showcases presents visitors with a diverse array of contemporary visual storytelling, spanning the intersection of sound and imagery, emerging regional talent, and intimate documentary work from Palestine.
Planning Your Summer Visit to FOMU in Antwerp: Three Distinct Photographic Perspectives
For culture lovers visiting Antwerp this summer, these exhibitions offer a deep, multifaceted look at how modern photography functions as both an artistic canvas and a tool for social reflection.
Sound, Night, and Sanctuary: 'These Branching Moments'
This exhibition unites six visual artists and electronic music practitioners—Amari, Tosh Basco, Juliana Huxtable, Jim C. Nedd, Rebecca Salvadori, and Kajol Singh—to explore how community, self-expression, and safety are constructed in the modern world.
The presentation focuses on the night as a sanctuary for creative freedom, experimentation, and solidarity, highlighting alternative spaces that resist everyday societal pressures. Visitors will experience a highly sensory environment. The display features an immersive scenography designed by Espace Aygo with graphic presentation curated by Atelier Brenda.
Celebrating Tomorrow's Artists: '.tiff 2025'
Marking its thirteenth year, the annual .tiff showcase spotlights ten promising image-makers with connections to Belgium. This year's lineup includes Mohamed Almamoun, Veronika Breuer, Tim Theo Deceuninck, Alice Dooreman, Natalia Majchrzak, Camille Poitevin, Anna Safiatou Touré, Adel Setta, Jaka Teršek, and Bo Vloors.
Chosen by an expert panel of external jurors, the featured works illustrate the expansive possibilities of the photographic medium today. As part of the broader European photography platform FUTURES, this initiative provides young creators with vital international exposure. For those looking to take a piece of the showcase home, a companion publication can be found through the FOMU shop. Following its run in Antwerp, the exhibition will travel to Amsterdam in autumn 2025.
Daily Resistance Through the Lens: 'OM/Mother'
The third exhibition, 'OM/Mother, centers on a participatory photography project created by nearly fifty Palestinian women and girls living in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron. Captured in September 2023, these analogue images document the quiet resilience of everyday life under challenging conditions of military control.
The resulting visual archive showcases tender, personal moments within family homes, illustrating how maintaining routine and community serves as a quiet form of persistence. The collection has been compiled into a book by Barbara Debeuckelaere, offering a rare, intimate perspective on a community striving to preserve its daily existence.
Exploring Antwerp's Culture Scene
Whether you are interested in cutting-edge contemporary art or powerful documentary narratives, these upcoming displays provide a compelling reason to visit the city's lively southern museum quarter. When plotting your next cultural outing, you can use Musemap (musemap.art) to explore more museums in Antwerp or browse upcoming local exhibitions to make the most of your journey.
