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Artists

Discover a first selection of artists from the programme

BredaPhoto 2026 brings together the work of over forty photographers and artists, many of whom are showing in the Netherlands for the first time, with some installations created especially for the festival.

Full Line-Up

Aline Papenheim / Amera Elnaal / Annaleen Louwes / Awoiska van der Molen / Aya Musa / Çiğdem Yüksel / Emilia Yang / Eva Roefs / Fatima Joumaa / Fouad Hallak / Frida Lisa Carstensen Jersø / Hanna Tuulikki / Hetty van Bommel & Thierry van Raaij / Huda Abdulmughni / Kali Spitzer / Judit Gyuricza Osváth / Keiken / Lara Rau / Majd Arandas (1994-2023) / Marcel Top / Noor Abed / Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine / Olivia Arthur / Prin Rodriguez / Puck Verkade / Rafael Soldi / Shannon Taggart / Simone Engelen / Ties van de Water / Varvara Uhlik / Yuki Kihara / Yvela Jessica

Collaborations

In collaboration with Sudanese photographer and curator Ala Kheir, work by six Sudanese photographers will be on display throughout the festival: Wala Yassin / Ammar Abdalla Osman / Ammar Yassir / Hashim Nasr / Musab Abushama / Fatima Alam

At BredaPhoto’s invitation, FOTODOK presents the group exhibition A Spell Bundle – Manifesting Queer Futurity at the festival. The exhibition is curated by Daria Tuminas and co-curator Nayara Leite features work by: Donja Nasseri / Ebun Sodipo / Julius Thissen / Nayara Leite / S*an D. Henry-Smith

Collaborations

Partners

A city-wide programme has also been developed together with Breda partners such as Stedelijk Museum Breda, Chassé Theatre, and De Nieuwe Veste.

Partners

Featured Artists

Noor Abed

Palestinian artist Noor Abed is creating the video installation we walk in our sleep especially for BredaPhoto Festival 2026. Together with the community around her — family, friends, and neighbours — she connects ancient traditions with contemporary life in Palestine. Through movement and choreography, she poetically explores a spatial and political vision of her homeland. The project is commissioned by BredaPhoto and Matter of Art, with support from the Mondriaan Fonds and the Han Nefkens Foundation

Noor abed

Noor Abed we walk in our sleep 2026

Awoiska van der Molen

The monochrome landscape photographs of Awoiska van der Molen emerge from a desire to penetrate deep into the essence of the isolated natural world. For The Living Mountain, she collaborated with composer Thomas Larcher to translate the experience of Larcher’s birthplace — the mountains of Tyrol — into a composition of music and imagery.

Awoiska van der Molen

Awoiska van der Molen The Living Mountain 2022

Huda Abdulmughni

Huda Abdulmughni documents the celebration of Nowruz Sayadeen, the Iranian New Year, on the island of Qeshm. She reveals how the residents of this fishing community find solidarity, comfort, and resilience through tradition, community, and nature.

Huda Abdulmughni

Huda Abdulmughni Nowruz Sayadeen 2018

Kali Spitzer

An Exploration of Resilience and Resistance by Kali Spitzer is an ongoing project that began in 2014. Through the timeless lens of tintype photography, she portrays her community of Indigenous and mixed-heritage people in Canada, aiming to create greater visibility for their stories.

Kali Spitzer

Kali Spitzer Toonasa 2021

Puck Verkade

In Uprooted, Puck Verkade takes the audience into a dreamlike installation in which human destruction ultimately gives way to new life and a caring coexistence with plants and animals.

Puck Verkade

Puck Verkade Uprooted (video still) 2023-ongoing.

More information about all participating artists and projects will be available on our website soon.

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Huda Abdulmughni Nowruz Sayadeen 2018