Marilia Destot, Sédimentations from the series Memoryscapes, 2025
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Under the artistic direction of Anne Immelé, the exhibitions for the 2026 edition of the BPM - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse were conceived and organized by associate curators.
This diversity of perspectives allows the theme, Sedimentation(s), to be explored from multiple angles.
Discover their portraits!
Anne Immelé holds a PhD in art and is a photographer, photography professor at HEAR, and exhibition curator. Her work explores the interplay between memory, territory, and hospitality. Her work explores the links between memory, territory, and hospitality, and her images, which are both poetic and politically engaged, question the notions of refuge and displacement. Her images are regularly exhibited, as was in 2025 the case at the Madé gallery, as part of the FLOW festival, and at Le Cri des Lumières. She is the author of several books and articles, notably published in Art Press. She founded the BPM - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, for which she works as artistic director and curator of certain exhibitions. Her curatorial work is often based on a spatial understanding of places and the association of photographs with one another.
Magali Avezou is a curator specializing in photography. She is interested in the status of contemporary images and books as media, and designs hybrid curatorial and mediation projects. She has collaborated with Manifesta, Flowers Gallery, and Rencontres d’Arles, and contributes to editorial projects in terms of design and writing. She is an associate lecturer at IED (Milan) and Sciences Po (Aix-en-Provence) and regularly speaks at European schools and universities. Magali Avezou is a member of C.E.A.
Nigel Baldacchino is an artist and designer based in Malta (EU) whose practice spans photography, sound, text, and spatial design. With Anne Immelé and Bénédicte Blondeau, he co-founded the photography-centred itinerant exhibition project those eyes - these eyes - they fade, which exhibits photographers whose work tends to highlight the looking over the looked-at, and is often driven by personal reflections on witnessing and relating to one’s immediate & extended surroundings. After taking care of the exhibition & lighting design of the main pavilion at the first edition of the MaltaBiennale featuring more than 70 artists, Baldacchino co-founded DAMS together with Brian J. Farrugia - a design and manufacturing company specialising in custom furniture, fitouts & exhibition design. His photography has been exhibited in numerous collective shows internationally, and in 2025 he had his first solo photography exhibition Promise Litter at Datz Museum of Art.
Born in La Louvière, Belgium, Bénédicte Blondeau studied photography in Ghent and Lisbon, obtaining a master's degree in applied communication from IHECS in Brussels. She has participated in various exhibitions and conferences across Europe and her work has been published in numerous international magazines. In 2019, her first photo book, Ce qu’il reste, was published by Portuguese publisher XYZ Books. Her first solo exhibition was presented in 2021 at Photoforum Pasquart in Switzerland. XYZ Books then published Ondes, her second photo book, which was the subject of several exhibitions in Europe in 2024 and 2025. Alongside her photography, Bénédicte Blondeau has made documentary films and is now an exhibition curator at PEP - Photographic Exploration Project, which she founded in Berlin in 2019. Since its creation, PEP has held exhibitions in Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, Mulhouse, and the Ardennes, in collaboration with various partner institutions.
Ange-Frédéric Koffi was born in Korhogo, in northern Côte d’Ivoire. His work explores the complex articulations of movement, travel, and wandering in the history and practice of photography. He applies contemporary postcolonial reflections through various forms and devices in the public sphere to generate social impact. His practice freely crosses disciplines as diverse as political history, exhibition history, anthropology, and design. A graduate of the Sorbonne, the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR), the École Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL), and the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Ange-Frédéric was the winner of the FOAM 2022 prize (Amsterdam), a resident at Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town) in 2022, a resident at Black Rock Senegal in 2024, and a resident at the Zinsou Foundation (Ouidah) in 2025. In 2025, he curated FANON antinomies at Something Art Space (Abidjan). Ange-Frédéric Koffi has been involved with the BPM - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse since 2016, notably for the programming during the Photobook Days.
Camille Rey, born in Paris in 2000, is a young Franco-German curator who trained at the École du Louvre and Heidelberg University, where she obtained a master's degree in art history and museology. She currently works at the Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg im Breisgau. Specializing in marginal art, she is particularly interested in asylum art and so-called “naive” art. Committed to cultural dialogue between France and Germany, Camille Rey develops this link through her exhibitions (Berlin Bouillancourt Baroque: Christopher von Gruben, BPM - Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse in Freiburg in 2026), her research (thesis at the École du Louvre on German photographer Gisèle Freund), and her work (partnership between the Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg and the Musée international d'Art naïf Anatole Jakovsky in Nice).
Born in 2000, Eva Kallenberger works as a curatorial assistant at the Museum für Neue Kunst in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. She studied art history and cultural theories and practices in Karlsruhe and Tübingen, focusing on modern and contemporary art. Her interests and research are focused on practices of recycling and reworking in art history – adding new layers to found footage, or using materials from other artists, adding new textures and meanings to an already existing piece.