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Started in 2015, mentormentor provides professional, one-on-one support for photographers in their artistic practice. Through reviews, mentorship programs, and masterclasses, mentormentor helps artists give direction to an exhibition, publication, or the start of a new project, and provides opportunities to showcase their work to an audience. As part of the Refuge program at Kunsthal Gent, the organization will celebrate its 10th anniversary, from 26 September to 7 November 2025.

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Pop-up bibliotheek

At Kunsthal Gent’s Old House, mentormentor will be installing a pop-up library. This will showcase all the publications arising from their programs and masterclasses. The importance of a photobook in a photographer’s career cannot be underestimated. It brings a series or body of work together and is the ultimate way to disseminate work. The production process is something that takes time and is often invisible: the concept phase, production, funding, and promotion. These are all things that mentormentor works on with photographers.

Let's talk Photobooks

Writer, researcher and photographer Stefan Vanthuyne has selected a few books from the pop-up library that he finds particularly intriguing. In the three-part series Let’s Talk Photobooks, he will be speaking with the creators. Together, they will exchange ideas about the importance of the photobook in their artistic practice and share their experiences, successes, and challenges in the creation process.

UNEX

To mark this anniversary, mentormentor is adding the photobook UNEX to the collection — a collaboration with Topo Copy, the Ghent reference for riso printing. This publication brings together fifty photos from Ghent-based photographers in 250 unique photobooks. The authorship is not individual, but a shared story. The UNEX book launch promises to be a true Ghent photo celebration!

Photobook market

The residency at Kunsthal Gent will conclude on November 7th with a festive transformation of the pop-up library into Photobook Market, where you can chat with the creators, with ongoing signing sessions, a talk between Stephan Vanthuyne and photobook enthusiasts Tine Guns, Joselito Verschaeve and Boris Snauwaert, food stalls and a bar.

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Refuge

Two or three times a year, Kunsthal Gent hands out the Old House (the second exhibition space) to emerging organisations and collectives from Ghent’s visual arts and its peripheries.We make space for initiatives that are in transition or could use the support of Kunsthal Gent at that specific moment. A working period in the Refuge offers complete carte blanche and a budget to make ambitious plans possible.

mentormentor

Mentormentor provides critical, one-on-one professional support to photographers. It acts as a sounding board for photographers who are building a personal body of work and want to advance their artistic career. Through a short or long program, either individually or in a group, they receive support to achieve their goals and are given opportunities to showcase their results publicly through an exhibition or publication.

Additionally, Mentormentor collaborates with various partners to create custom programs for diverse groups. Their home base is a Nucleo studio on the Coupure in Ghent.