Looking Forward

The panel focuses on the future of photography and explores how AI, networked images, and digital visual cultures are transforming our understanding of images, reality, and photographic practice.

With 
Florian Ebner . Chief Curator of Centre Pompidou's Cabinet of Photography / Annekathrin Kohout . Freelance Writer and Cultural Scientist / Armin Linke . Artist

Moderation 
Anika Meier . Writer and Curator 
Followed by a Q&A session.


Florian Ebner, a photographer and art historian, has been Head of the Photography Collection at the Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou since mid-2017; prior to that, he was curator of the photography collection at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. In 2015, he curated the German Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. His work encompasses modern photography, photography from the 1970s onward, and contemporary photography. Most recently, he curated, together with Marcella Lista, Hito Steyerl. I Will Survive: Physical and Virtual Spaces (2021), and, with Angela Lampe, Germany / 1920s / New Objectivity / August Sander (2022) as well as Wolfgang Tillmans, Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us (2025).

Annekathrin Kohout is a freelance writer and cultural scientist. She is currently a visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. She co-edits the book series “Digitale Bildkulturen” and the magazine "POP. Culture and Criticism". As a non-fiction author, she has written books on net feminism, nerds and K-Pop. In her TAZ column “Feed Interrupted”, she writes about current and emotionalized phenomena and developments in social media.

Armin Linke is an artist working with photography and film by setting up processes that question the medium, its technologies, narrative structures, and complicities within wider socio-political structures. His exhibiting practice sets up performative scripts in which different voices and methods come together. In a collective approach with other creatives, researchers and scientists, the narratives of his works expand on the level of multiple discourses, centring the questions of installation and display. Linke’s work has been exhibited worldwide. He is currently a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and a guest professor at ISIA Urbino.

Anika Meier is a Berlin-based writer, moderator, curator, and lecturer specializing in art, technology, and digital culture. She teaches at the Department of Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, is the co-founder of the curatorial collective The Second-Guess, and is the curator and program lead of the objkt labs Residency. She regularly contributes to Monopol, Kunstforum, Spike, SLEEK, Numéro Berlin, and The AI Art Magazine, and has moderated conversations and spoken at events including Art Basel, re:publica, and Ars Electronica.