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This year, we once again invited BIPOC voices to moderate film discussions and lead audience Q&As at 2026 in Graz.

One of our moderators this year was , and we’d love to shine a bit of light on her on our page 🤍

İklim Doğan (*TR, 1994) is an artist, architect and researcher based in Vienna. Her work delves into historiography and historical materialism; juxtaposing different disciplines and discourses across mediums such as fabric, text, video, installation, and film.

Photographs by .films 💐

A selection of moments from Weltmuseum Wien × CEU SYMPOSIUM with contributions by Gewächshaus: Critical Fabulation and Anonymity in the Weltmuseum Wien’s Photography Collection.

We left this symposium and peer exchange feeling deeply inspired by the engagement with sensitive and often overlooked photographic archives. We are sincerely grateful for the contributions of GW community members and students 🤍

Featured Projects:

Aj xíinbal by Marlene Galaz & Klara Maass (Image 6 & 10)
The Book of Oil: A Traveller’s Guide by Giunel Mamedova, Astghik Aslanyan (Image 1, 8, 11 & 12)
Next stop: Vienna by Lili Katai (Image 9)
Those Who Dream, See the Hidden History by Elene Kajaia (Image 13)

Intervening Silenced Histories by Tayla Myree (Image 3)
A Simulated Life is as Real as it Gets: Autofiction and the Re-sensing Colonial Monuments by Melanie Sien Min Lyn (Image 2)
From Archive to Terrain: Speculative Methods for Re-Sensing Colonial Monuments by Mara Chavez (Image 7)
Pfeifferia: From Absence to Island by Maeva Ranaivojaona (Image 4)

Developed in the context of the x course on “Photographer Unknown,” the event reflects on anonymity, power, and archival gaps - opening space for speculative approaches that re-read, re-imagine, and expand access to museum collections.

Photographs: Elene Kajaia