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Founded in Mulhouse in November 2010 by Jean-Yves Guénier and Anne Immelé, l'Agrandisseur organizes exhibitions, meetings, residencies and workshops with photographers and image professionals. The association encourages reflection on the photographic medium, its transformations and its uses in the field of contemporary art. Its main activity is the organization of the BPM - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse.
L'Agrandisseur is a member of the Réseau L U X and the Plan d'Est networks.
By joining L'Agrandisseur, you are showing your support for its activities, such as organizing the BPM - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse.
Membership in the association also gives you the opportunity to become actively involved in its projects.
Artistic direction of the BPM is entrusted to Anne Immelé, photographer and Doctor of Art. Her curatorial work is often based on a spatial understanding of places and on the association of photographs with one another, as demonstrated by the exhibition those eyes, these eyes, they fade (Galerie Valetta Contemporary, Malta, 2022). Her curatorial research stems from a doctoral thesis entitled Constellations photographiques, defended in 2007 at the University of Strasbourg and published by Médiapop Éditions in 2015. Her interest in the field of contemporary photography is also reflected in articles published in Art Press magazine.
A photographer, she is the author of several books, including WIR with philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy (Éditions Filigranes), Oublie Oublie, and Jardins du Riesthal, published by Médiapop in 2020 and 2022. Her photographic work is regularly exhibited, as in 2019 at Fondation Fernet-Branca (Saint-Louis) for a solo show, in 2022 at Galerie Madé (Parcours Paris Photo x Elles). Her recent project Melita , מלט -mlṭ, Refuge explores the contemporary migratory condition in the Mediterranean, linking it to the ancestral quest for refuge. Supported by the CNAP's aid to documentary photography, this project took shape in 2024, with various exhibitions during the Malta Biennial of Contemporary Art, in Palermo (CNAP's SUITES program), during the Jaou festival in Tunis, and at Stimultania, the project's supporting structure in Strasbourg. In 2025, she took part in the URNA project, the Maltese pavilion at the London Design Biennale, and was invited to take up a residency at the DATZ Museum (South Korea).
A teacher at HEAR, Haute école des arts du Rhin, she lives and works in Mulhouse.
Festival's team
President : François Diserens
Vice-President : Jean-Yves Guénier
Secretary : Nathalie Fabian
Treasurer and Technical Coordinator : Pierre Soignon
Artistic director : Anne Immelé
Scenographer : Nigel Baldacchino
Project Officer, communication and coordination : Maïta Stébé
Mediator : Nicolas Bézard
Graphic Designer : Mei Yang
Interns : Émilie Barral, Clémence Picard, Élie Regazzoni
Printers : Laurent et Sophie Weigel (Le Réverbère Motoco), Prével
Associated curators
Magali Avezou, Nigel Baldacchino, Bénédicte Blondeau, Ange-Frédéric Koffi, Eva Kallenberger and Camille Rey
Exhibition venues and associated structures teams
Fine Arts Museum, Mulhouse
Director : Isabelle Dubois-Brinkmann
Administrative Officer : Sabine Malmasson
Responsible for conservation, exhibitions, and communications : Cécilia Lodato
Location Managers: Lionel Pinero, Francis George
Head of Audience Development: Edith Saurel
Mediator : Émilie George
Grand'Rue Library
Director: Julien Barthe
Head of collections: Michaël Guggenbuhl
Adjointe du patrimoine : Catherine Stoltz
Location Manager: Sylvain Flory
Communications Officer : Régine Heintz
La Filature, Scène Nationale
Director: Benoît André
Secretary General : Elisa Beardmore
Production Manager : Emmanuelle Biehler
Gallery Officer : Emmanuelle Walter
Press Relations Officer : Émilie Gagneur
La KunstTurm
Owners: Svenja et Mark Lüdemann
Le Séchoir
President, administrator, and communications officer : Sandrine Stahl
Treasurer and administrator: Matthieu Stahl
Mulhouse Art Contemporain
President : Dominique Bannwarth
Centre Culturel Français Freiburg
Director : Florence Dancoisne
Cultural assistant : Clara Dierks
Ville de Fribourg-en-Brisgau
Curatorial assistants: Eva Kallenberger et Camille Rey
And the many partners involved in each project!