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G\u00e9opolis is a centre for photojournalism and education, created in 2017 by a small team of geopolitics enthusiasts. By combining photographic exhibitions, events and radio programmes, it aims to question current affairs. Based at the Ateliers des Tanneurs in a unique venue, the centre offers a new exhibition cycle every two months, dedicated to themes from current affairs or history. These exhibitions showcase the work of leading photojournalists as well as young talents. <\/p>

In addition to exhibitions, the centre has developed a rich programme of events to decode current affairs, as well as a whole range of educational activities for the general public, and especially young people (including radio workshops).<\/p>

G\u00e9opolis also offers a series of touring exhibitions and online educational platforms (see the Digital Exhibitions tab). Exhibitions are also enriched with archive images thanks to a partnership with Sonuma-RTBF. The centre also maintains long-term partnerships, notably with Cosmopolis, the international centre of the city of Nantes, with which many projects are organised jointly. <\/p>

Since 2020, these activities have been complemented by a radio dimension, with G\u00e9opolis being tasked with launching the Brussels branch of the local\/European media outlet Euradio. As part of this project, we invested in a second venue: L\u2019Ascenseur, which houses the editorial team as well as a caf\u00e9-concert open on Thursdays and Fridays. <\/p>

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, and given the experience of G\u00e9opolis\u2019 founders, who know the country well, the centre has also launched a series of educational activities on Ukraine, delivered in 2022 to more than 5,000 people.<\/p>

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\u00a9 Quentin Bruno<\/p>

The origin of the project<\/h3>

In the face of major geopolitical and climate upheavals, the explosion of inequalities worldwide, the rise of populism and Euroscepticism, and the flood of information sweeping the world, the major issues of our time must\u2014today more than ever\u2014be explained with perspective and with the time needed for analysis. <\/p>

In 2017, it was in response to this observation that, modestly, Ulrich Huygevelde and Thomas Kox, joined a few months later by Nadine Vermeulen, launched the project of a Brussels-based centre bringing together several media (photographic exhibitions, educational exhibitions, talks and debates, radio) to make it a resource centre on current affairs.<\/p>

Thanks to the support of various institutions and a great deal of goodwill, this project was able to take off quickly and continues to grow today, notably through a fruitful partnership with Euradio radio.<\/p>

G\u00e9opolis highlights<\/h3>

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25 JUNE 2018<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis welcomes Laurent Van der Stock, winner of the 2017 Visa d’Or at the “Visa pour l’image” festival, to inaugurate the “Martyr Cities of the Middle East” cycle. He becomes patron of the project. <\/p> <\/div>

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16 SEPTEMBER 2018<\/h4>

As part of Heritage Day, G\u00e9opolis welcomes a visit from the royal family to see the exhibition “The Jazz War”, dedicated to the arrival in Europe during the First World War of thousands of Black American soldiers.<\/p> <\/div>

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20 OCTOBER 2018<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis publishes the first issue of the magazine “G\u00e9opolis” (256 pages), in partnership with MAPS photographers.<\/p> <\/div>

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24 OCTOBER 2018<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis welcomes V\u00e9ronique de Viguerie, winner of the Visa d’Or at Visa pour l’image for her work in Yemen, and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Leroy, president of Visa pour l’image. At the same time, G\u00e9opolis launches its exhibition cycle on forgotten conflicts. <\/p> <\/div>

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4 DECEMBER 2018<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis welcomes Anne Nivat, senior reporter and winner of the Albert-Londres Grand Prize.<\/p> <\/div>

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MARCH – APRIL 2019<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis presents the exhibition \u201cMonsanto, a photographic investigation\u201d by Matthieu Asselin. Opening in the presence of the photographer. <\/p> <\/div>

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16 APRIL 2019<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis welcomes Olivier de Schutter, co-chair of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, to discuss the challenges of moving towards sustainable agriculture.<\/p> <\/div>

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MAY AND JUNE 2019<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis, in partnership with Halles St-G\u00e9ry, offers an exhibition cycle dedicated to women photojournalists, to present women\u2019s perspectives on several current-affairs themes. <\/p> <\/div>

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5 JUNE 2019<\/h4>

With Euradio, G\u00e9opolis sets up a radio studio in the space with the aim of hosting several public broadcasts each week.<\/p> <\/div>

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13 JUNE 2019<\/h4>

Meeting with three Belgian women photojournalists: Morgane Wirtz, Virginie Nguyen Hoang and M\u00e9lanie Wenger. A tour of current affairs that looks at the situation in Gaza, poaching in Zimbabwe and Cameroon, and the issue of prostitution in Niger. <\/p> <\/div>

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SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2019<\/h4>

Echoing current events (the uprising of the Algerian population against its government), G\u00e9opolis offers a cycle dedicated to Algeria and invites, among others, Akram Belka\u00efd, one of the leading specialists on contemporary Algeria, to speak about the events shaking the country since February 2019. <\/p> <\/div>

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19 SEPTEMBER 2019<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis dedicates an event to the ongoing disaster in the Amazon and invites Catherine Aubertin, environmental economist and research director at the Institute of Research for Development. <\/p> <\/div>

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17 OCTOBER 2019<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis invites Damien Car\u00eame, MEP and former mayor of Grande-Synthe, a town near Calais where he distinguished himself through unprecedented initiatives to try to offer a humane and dignified welcome to the many refugees in the region. <\/p> <\/div>

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6 NOVEMBER 2019<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis invites MEP and former journalist Bernard Guetta, Albert-Londres Prize winner and one of France Inter\u2019s best-known commentators, who becomes patron of G\u00e9opolis.<\/p> <\/div>

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7 NOVEMBER 2019<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis welcomes photographer Johnny Miller as part of the exhibition cycle \u201cInequalities, the future of the world?\u201d. He notably made the cover of the American magazine Time. <\/p> <\/div>

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12 DECEMBER 2019<\/h4>

Screening of the documentary film \u2018El silencio de otros\u2019, which won the Goya for Best Documentary and the Platino Award for Best Documentary. A documentary about the struggle of victims of the Franco dictatorship. <\/p> <\/div>

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17 DECEMBER 2019<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis welcomes Patrick Chauvel, journalist, war correspondent, photographer and award-winning filmmaker. His images have made the front pages of the world\u2019s most prestigious media: Paris Match, Time Magazine, Life, Newsweek; he has received the prestigious World Press. <\/p> <\/div>

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SEPTEMBER 2020<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis is entrusted by the Euradio network with coordinating Euradio\u2019s Brussels branch. To this end, G\u00e9opolis invests in a second venue, beneath the Ascenseur of the Palais de Justice, to set up the radio\u2019s Brussels newsroom; work begins a month later. <\/p> <\/div>

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6 JUNE – SEPTEMBER 2020<\/h4>

G\u00e9opolis offers a retrospective of the work of photographer Alain Keler. This outstanding photojournalist\u2019s work was honoured with a retrospective at the 2019 Visa pour l\u2019image festival. <\/p> <\/div>

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17 SEPTEMBER – 25 OCTOBER 2020<\/h4>

In connection with the European Space Agency, G\u00e9opolis presents the exhibition \u201cEarth(s) The planet through the eye of Thomas Pesquet\u201d. This cycle presents exceptional images taken by the famous astronaut from the Cupola, the observation window of the International Space Station, as well as satellite images that document and tell the story of some of the major ecological disruptions that humans inflict on the Earth. <\/p> <\/div>

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