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100 open windows in Europe gives a change to bring by an artistic photo forward one of the levels of daily lives of people. How do people live in different parts of the common European home, what do they value? As a window is one of the first possibilities to contact outer world it becomes attractive from also a philosophical point of view and a miniature spreads in the dimenions of the universe.
Once again big contains in small. One can look in and out of a window, it is the spring of light for those inside and an eye of the house for those outside. A window reflects a house as home where people live their lives and what they are ready to share with outside world, their sense of beauty, nostalgy and entropy, a wish to show and to hide. Does a window pane also reflect the development and customs in the society, the features of the nation?

Most of the invited cities were selected on the basis of the former cultural contacts and twin cities of Kuressaare (Estonia) and Kuurne (Belgium).We have tried to select culturally and historically different places that energise and enrich the varied landscape of the joining up Europe. The exhibition will be displayed in part of the participating cities during 2004 - 2006.

32 photographers from 15 countries took photos from Kuressaare and Narva (Estonia), Roros and Trondheim (Norway), Tammisaari/Ekenäs (Finland), Mordva Republic (Russia), Visby (Sweden), Talsi (Latvia), Texel (Netherlands), Cracow (Poland), Hallein (Austria), Marcq en Baroeul (France), West Flanders (Belgium), Oldenburg (Germany), Transylvania (Romania), Gyumri (Armenia) and Kosova.

exhibition is supported by European Culture Foundation