The ninth Krakow Photomonth Festival will be guest-curated by the artist duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.


For this year’s event, there is no theme, but rather, a guiding logic and strategy. Real artists and real writers will collaborate in pairs to create fictive third personas–artists whose work, in turn, will be exhibited across the city of Krakow for the month of May.


“It’s an experiment,” explain Chanarin and Broomberg, “that is designed to be liberating, politically and psychologically. We hope to confront the idea of the artist as a brand. And to simply offer a moment of respite from the job of being oneself.”

Broomberg and Chanarin have commissioned 22 new bodies of work.

The list of participating artists includes:

Gabriel Orozco, David Goldblatt, Alec Soth, Johan
Grimonprez, Jeremy Deller, Marine Hugonnier, Andro Wekua, Ketuta
Alexi-Meskhishvili, Lisa Brice, Roe Etheridge, Celine Condorelli, Beatrice
Gibson, Polly Braden, Elizabeth McAlpine, Godfried Donkor, Clare Strand and Gordon MacDonald, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Jan Simon, Michael Chanarin.

Collaborating with the writers:
 

Siddhartha Mukherjee, Lynne Tillman, Ivan Vladislavic, Brad Zellar, Fernando

Pessoa, Jennifer Higgie, Clare Carolin, Sean O'Toole, John Haskell, Avery

Gordon, Brian Dillon, David Campany, Helen Dewitt, Ekow Eshun, Alexander

Düttman, Chris Mullen, Brown and Bri, Gemma Sieff, Łukasz Gorczyca, Łukasz Ronduda.

Broomberg and Chanarin will also be curating a major, yet very possibly unreliable, survey of the place of the fictive artist in contemporary art at the Bunkier Sztuki Museum of Contemporary Art.

The survey show includes work by:

Marcel Duchamp (as Rrose Selavey), Walid Raad (as The Atlas Group),  Brian O'Doherty (as Patrick Ireland), Renzo Martens (as Renzo Martens), Simon Fujiwara (as his father), William Kentridge (as Kentridge vs Kentridge), Joe Scanlon (as Donnell Woolford).



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