The continuing programme includes Projections and Sculpture Park, providing different conditions for moving-image and three-dimensional work. These formats can make an artist’s practice more legible than a quick view inside a conventional stand, although the final 2027 projects should determine the detailed route.
The Unseen connection adds a substantial photographic perspective. For 2027, the announced book market moves onto the fair floor and makes space for forty publishers. That places the photobook within the main encounter rather than leaving it as an optional addition after the gallery visit.
A book is a particularly useful counterpoint to a single framed photograph. Sequence, scale, paper and binding influence what the images communicate. The same artist may appear differently through a wall presentation and a publication. Comparing the two can reveal whether the book records a project or gives it an independent form.
Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu is announced as Head Curator of Art Rotterdam, with Domenico de Chirico taking the corresponding role at Unseen Photo. Their appointment provides a further reason to follow how the coming presentation is organised. Curatorial direction matters where it makes an artist’s context more legible without treating every work as an illustration of a shared theme. The renewed place of the book market is one concrete change against which that ambition can be considered. It creates a relationship a visitor can actually test by moving between a publication and the surrounding photographic displays.
