We are proud to extend an open invitation to collaborate with us in creating the exhibitions for the upcoming edition of Fotofestival Lenzburg 2026. Photographers from around the world—both emerging and established—are invited to submit their projects and single images.

As part of our “Bold and Talented” funding program, we are looking for four dedicated young curators to develop an exhibition on the festival theme “Forever Happy” together with up-and-coming artists. Accompanied by the festival’s curatorial team, the program offers a unique opportunity to turn creative visions into reality. Become part of the Lenzburg 2026 photo festival now!

We are delighted to announce the theme of the upcoming edition of Fotofestival Lenzburg 2026! It is a theme that we encounter every day – in small moments and big decisions, sometimes even unexpectedly. A theme that connects us, drives us, and sometimes challenges us.

The digital exhibition guides you through Lenzburg’s past – 28 red dots in the town mark places full of history and change. Discover buildings that have disappeared, streets that have been moved and the heritage that remains. Experience the exhibition on site or on a smaller scale in the Burghalde Museum.

With 20 exhibitions, 13 locations, 3 group exhibitions, authors from 3 continents, the 2024 photo festival is the richest and most extensive edition in the history of our project. Under the theme “Synthesis,” the exhibitions prompt to reflect on the rapid development of technological possibilities, the continuous flow of impressions, the search for identity, while striving to synthesize externally and internally what we experience.

In a deeply polarized, multi-layered, sometimes chaotic world, the need for unity, for understanding, for synthesis does indeed deserve attention and consideration.

We understand synthesis as a process in which something is improved by combining several elements.