BLIK! is a festival based in Aarhus (Denmark), dedicated to the photographic book as a medium of artistic creation and storytelling. The name comes from the Danish word for gaze — a fitting expression of our mission to look closely at photobooks, artist’s books, and other visual art publications.
Building on more than a decade of experience with Photobook Week Aarhus, BLIK! will launch in 2025 with a new focus and a global vision.
Starting on World Photobook Day, October 14, we’ll launch the pilot of the larger BLIK! concept with events taking place in Aarhus and around the world.
In 2025, we relaunch the project as BLIK!—with a new name, a broader scope, and a renewed focus on the photobook’s role today. The project still reflects a continuous study of the evolution and role of the medium and presents the photobook to the general public and to individuals who work professionally with photobooks and photography, be it from an artistic, communication-related or academic standpoint.
As in previous years, our focus is international, and we look into the past and the future, in order to position ourselves and the medium in the present time.
Photobook Week Aarhus (2014 – 2024).
Who are we? Our project is owned by those who make it happen.
Moritz Neumüller
Editor, writer
Moritz Neumüller is a curator, educator and writer in the feld of photography and new media. He has worked for institutions such as MoMA New York and PhotoIreland Festival in Dublin and co-founded Photobook Week Aarhus (Denmark) in 2014. Since 2010, he has run The Curator Ship, an online resource for visual artists. Apart from his curatorial practice, Neu-müller has been working for more than ten years at the forefront of making culture accessible for everybody, including disabled people. In 2009, he founded the project ArteConTacto and in 2011 the initiative MuseumForAll, with the mission to make museums open to all audiences.
Beate Cegielska
Director Galleri Image
Beate Cegielska has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions by Danish and international artists and has organised exhibitions in Europe, South Korea, China and India since 1990. For many years, she has also participated as a portfolio reviewer at different international festivals of photography around the globe. She has been invited to participate in different international award juries and advisory boards. Cegielska is the director of Galleri Image, a public gallery founded in 1977, which was also the initiator of Photobook Week Aarhus, a festival from 2014 untill 2024.
Jesper Rasmussen
Artist
Since the mid-1980s (after briefly attending The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) he has worked in sculpture, installation, graphics, photography, film, writing and publishing. Jesper Rasmussen has exhibited his own work in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is represented in several Danish museums, including ARoS, Arken and Statens Museum for Kunst. Since 1981, alongside his work as an artist, Jesper Rasmussen has published the journal Pist Protta in collaboration with Åse Eg Jørgensen and Jesper Fabricius. The journal experiments with the form, content, layout and expression of each new issue. The individual issues are designed by fellow artists and focus on various artistic themes and concerns in funny, off-beat ways. Rector at Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, Denmark 2007-15.
Asta Nyysönen
Galleri Image
At Galleri Image, Scandinavia's oldest public exhibition space for photographic art, Asta Nyyssönen collaborates closely with artists, curators and other partners to ensure the high quality of each exhibition, festival, and event. She holds an MA in English and Art & Visual Culture from Aarhus University and is primarily involved in fundraising, communication and translation. Previously, she has worked as the communication officer for the Danish Artists' Union and the Jutland Art Academy.