Fotoausstellung: I <3 Moldova

In the exhibition ‘I <3 Moldova’, students from the University of the Arts Bremen explore different realities of life in one of Europe's least visited countries. During a two-week excursion to the Republic of Moldova, thirteen independent photographic series were created, which enter into dialogue with each other in this exhibition.
 
The title deliberately quotes the language of global tourism advertising – a symbol of the standardisation and marketing of places – and transfers it into a new context. Instead of iconic sights or idealised landscapes, the works focus on the unspectacular, the everyday: on encounters, realities of work and life, on urban and rural spaces that are barely visible in the global flood of images. In doing so, they raise questions about representation and perception: which images of a country shape our thinking – and which are missing when a place largely disappears from the visual map of Europe?
 
The result is a polyphonic collection of subjective perspectives that neither romanticises nor exoticises Moldova, but takes it seriously as a social, cultural and political space of experience. Despite different approaches, all the series share a common experience: the hospitality that the students encountered on their journey – and which is reflected in many of the images as a quiet, connecting undertone.

The exhibition ‘I <3 Molvoda’ runs from 11 December 2025 to 27 February 2026 in the gallery in the foyer of the Bremen Chamber of Employees. 
It´s a collaboration between the University of the Arts Bremen, the Bremen Chamber of Employees and Freelens, supported by the West-East Encounters Foundation.