Bertien van Manen, Vasja, Lena and their son Styopya, from the series A hundrerd summers, a hundred winters, 1992, Collection FOMU, P/1995/41/4 © Bertien van Manen
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Families
20/03/2026 - 23/05/2027
FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerp
Waalsekaai 47
2000 Antwerp
fomu.be/en
Who do you consider to be your family? And how do you record your personal history? We all use photography to sketch an image of our family and pass on stories to future generations. For the exhibition ‘Families’ we're diving into the FOMU collection in search of family photos.
We invite you to discover historical photo albums as well as photos by contemporary artists with a critical take on the traditional family portrait. These artists and photographers explore the complexity, and sometimes discomfort, of family relationships. They rewrite history with intimate photos, the likes of which you won’t often find in typical photo albums. A dialogue thus emerges between now and the past, between what we cherish and what we dare to question.
With more than 200 photographs from the FOMU collection by, among others:
Hélène Amouzou, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Becker, Henri Beng, Livinius Jacobus Beniest & Zoon, Léon Bovier, Camille Orso Caël, Tom Callemin, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lynn Cohen, Bieke Depoorter, Omar Viktor Diop & Lee Shulman, Mike Disfarmer, Robert Doisneau, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mayara Ferrão, Charles Froelich, Seiichi Furuya & Christine Furuya-Gössler, Henri Geirland, Gustave Ghuys, Victor Guidalevitch, René Guiette, Sunil Gupta, Jitka Hanzlová, Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Hujar, Bernard Jacobs & Cie, Lebohang Kganye, William Klein, Mous Lamrabat, Youqine Lefèvre, Vuyo Mabheka, Diana Markosian, Amatus Harry Nevejans, Giulia Niccolai, Bernard Plossu, Emile Pochet, Jacques Joseph Prévot, Marc Riboud, Paul Sano, Jacob van Crewel (Jeune), Bertien van Manen, Léopold Vanderstraeten, Edward Walton (Fils), Edouard Wettstein, Carmen Winant, Ugo Woatzi … alongside a host of anonymous photographers and their families.
20/03/2026 - 23/05/2027
FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerp
Waalsekaai 47
2000 Antwerp
fomu.be/en
Who do you consider to be your family? And how do you record your personal history? We all use photography to sketch an image of our family and pass on stories to future generations. For the exhibition ‘Families’ we're diving into the FOMU collection in search of family photos.
We invite you to discover historical photo albums as well as photos by contemporary artists with a critical take on the traditional family portrait. These artists and photographers explore the complexity, and sometimes discomfort, of family relationships. They rewrite history with intimate photos, the likes of which you won’t often find in typical photo albums. A dialogue thus emerges between now and the past, between what we cherish and what we dare to question.
With more than 200 photographs from the FOMU collection by, among others:
Hélène Amouzou, Emmy Andriesse, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Becker, Henri Beng, Livinius Jacobus Beniest & Zoon, Léon Bovier, Camille Orso Caël, Tom Callemin, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lynn Cohen, Bieke Depoorter, Omar Viktor Diop & Lee Shulman, Mike Disfarmer, Robert Doisneau, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mayara Ferrão, Charles Froelich, Seiichi Furuya & Christine Furuya-Gössler, Henri Geirland, Gustave Ghuys, Victor Guidalevitch, René Guiette, Sunil Gupta, Jitka Hanzlová, Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Hujar, Bernard Jacobs & Cie, Lebohang Kganye, William Klein, Mous Lamrabat, Youqine Lefèvre, Vuyo Mabheka, Diana Markosian, Amatus Harry Nevejans, Giulia Niccolai, Bernard Plossu, Emile Pochet, Jacques Joseph Prévot, Marc Riboud, Paul Sano, Jacob van Crewel (Jeune), Bertien van Manen, Léopold Vanderstraeten, Edward Walton (Fils), Edouard Wettstein, Carmen Winant, Ugo Woatzi … alongside a host of anonymous photographers and their families.