From 840 applications all around the world, the jury selected 24 projects. Backlight ´14 Open Call artists are:

A.M. Ahad (Bangladesh),
Manuel Alvarez Diestro (Spain/UK)
Jasper Bastian (Germany),
Kristin Capp (Namibia),
Annika Dahlsten & Markku Laakso (Finland),
Natan Dvir (Israel/USA),
Saladin Ebrahimi (Iran),
Alinka Echeverria (UK),
Federico Estol (Uruguay),
Anna Fabricius (Hungary),
Matilde Gattoni (Italy),
Pak Green (Korea),
Corinna Kern (UK),
Lek Kiatsirikajorn (Thailand),
Andreas Meishner (Germany),
Katerina Mistal (Sweden),
Nadia Mounier (Egypt),
Pekka Niittyvirta (Finland),
Georges Pacheco (France),
Alessandro Penso (Italy),
Aino Salmi (Finland),
Oriol Segon Torra (Spain),
Reginald Van de Velde (Belgium),
Piotr Zbierski (Poland).

Tampere Art Museum organizes exhibition curated by Tuula Alajoki from Backlight ´14. Invited artists are:

*Lalla Essaydi (Morocco/USA)
with series:
Converging Territories.
Les Femmes du Maroc.

*Gohar Dashti (Iran)
with series:
Iran, untitled.
Todays´Life and War.

*Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan/Palestine)
with serie:
Occupied Pleasures.

*Laura El-Tantawy (Egypt/UK)
with serie:
In the Shadow of the Pyramids.

* Pavel Wolberg (Russia/Israel)

* Portfolio Review 6th Sept. (artist submissions 4-10th August!)
* Screenings, artist talks etc. 6-7th Sept.
* Seminar and workshops 8-10th Sept.
* More openings on 12th Sept.

NOTE: Next Newsletter with full program during August.

Symposium and other exhibitions are organized in co-operation e.g. with univesities and academies in Tampere, Belfast and Budapest.

Please visit www.backlight.fi for more detailed information!



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