Arty Party: Photography Graduates 2025

At Melkweg Expo, photography is the driving force in the arts. This year, ARTY PARTY returns in the form of a group exhibition highlighting new talent in photography. From 13 September until 12 October 2025, Arty Party: Photography Graduates 2025 will take over Melkweg Expo with a selection of new work.

For this edition, we invited international scouts, art professionals from the photography and contemporary art world, to handpick each participating photographer from a pool of talented art graduates across the Netherlands. So if you didn’t make it to the graduation shows, no worries! Come and visit the ‘Photography Graduates 2025’ exhibition and discover fresh photographic work.

The participating photographers – Jasmijn Vermeeren, Yvela Jessica, Malika Badloe, Tyler Chan, Anastasios Vlachos, Đăng-Vũ Đăng, Andrés Sanjuan, Iyanla Etnel, and Tim Ross – were selected by an international team of scouts: Francesco Rombaldi (1981, Reggio Emilia), curator, editor, and art director, founder of Yogurt Magazine and co-initiator of the photobook store Paper Room and the Charta festival in Rome; Francesca Hummler (1997), German-American artist, researcher, and curator at Der Greif, focusing on themes such as identity and intergenerational trauma in photography; Lisanne van Happen, freelance curator, fundraiser, and editor at The Eriskay Connection, specializing in documentary photography and social issues; and Zineb Seghrouchni, founder and director of DAR Cultural Agency, which collaborates internationally to stimulate new perspectives in art, design, and architecture.

This exhibition is supported by the Mondriaan Fund and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.

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