The events accompanying the exhibitions at Photomonth 2013 are an integral part of the Main Programme at this year’s festival. Throughout the month, workshops and meetings with artists will take place, including a new series this year.

 

The Masters Series meetings aim to present the festival audience with the personalities and experiences of the artists, their artistic accomplishments and an individual view of the art of photography. The meetings and presentations of visual materials (including film) will be an excellent opportunity for art enthusiasts to get to know, and perhaps even speak to, renowned artists. This is a chance for you to meet the artists who inspire you and listen to their stories – photography-related and otherwise. 

 

The Photomonth audience is invited to Masters Series meetings with Walter Pfeiffer, Simon Menner, F.C. Gundlach, Zbigniew Libera, Marie Schuller (SHOWstudio), Tadeusz Rolke and Oliver Chanarin.

 

Get ready for Krakow Photomonth!

 

 

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17.05, 4:30 p.m., Starmach Gallery, ul. Węgierska 5 (EN)

 

Walter Pfeiffer (born 1946, Zurich)

Photographer, illustrator and video artist. Has been producing artworks since the 1970s, publishing his pictures in many fashion magazines and albums. His photographs have recently been collected in two books: Walter Pfeiffer: In Love with Beauty (2009) and Walter Pfeiffer: Scrapbooks 1969–1985 (2012).

 

Picture Description: Walter Pfeiffer, Untitled, 2005 C-Print, 116 x 79 cm © Walter Pfeiffer / Pro Litteris (to see on the exhibition In Love with Beauty in Starmach Gallery 18.05 - 21.06)

 

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19.05, 1:30 p.m., Bunkier Sztuki, pl. Szczepański 3a (EN)

 

Simon Menner (born 1978, Emmendingen)

Graduated from Berlin University of the Arts, also receiving a Master Student Award. His work has been published in many German newspapers and magazines, as well as The New Yorker, NRC Handelsblad and Le Monde. His book The Uncanny Familiar. Images of Terror was published in 2011.

 

Picture Description: Simon Menner, Camouflage, 2010–2012 © Simon Menner (to see on the exhibition Limits of fashion in Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery 18.05 - 16.06)

 

 

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21.05, 6:00 p.m., National Museum in Krakow, al. 3 Maja 1 (DE/PL)

 

Franz Christian Gundlach
(born 1926, Heinbach


German photographer who shot many photo sessions for fashion magazines in West Germany. A long-time collector of photographic art, who in 2000 founded the F.C. Gundlach Foundation, which promotes art and research into photography. The main subject of his collection is the image of man in photography.

 

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25.05, 6:00 p.m., Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, ul. M. Konopniciej 26 (PL)

led by: Witek Orski

 

Zbigniew Libera (1959, Pabianice)

One of Poland’s most interesting and important artists. His works – photographs, video films, installations, objects and drawings – have an incisive and intellectually perverse way of playing with the stereotypes of contemporary culture. In recent years he has mostly been involved in photography, especially press photography and its unique character, and how the media shape our visual memory and manipulate the image of history (Positives and Masters series, 2003).

 

Picture Description: Zbigniew Libera, How to Train Little Girls, 1987. VHS, 16'46" © Zbigniew Libera. By courtesy of Museum of modern art in Warsaw (to see on the exhibition Limits of fashion in Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery 18.05 - 16.06)

 

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26.05, noon, Angel Wawel, ul. Koletek 12 (EN)

 

Studied film production at the National Film and Television School and photography at the University of the Arts in London. Her work creates often surrealist, alarming visions. Head of SHOWstudio’s fashion film department, she has worked on films for important clients including Walter Van Beirendonck, Hermes and Marni. Winner of many prizes, including “Best Director of Fashion”. 

 

Picture Description: Shots from video clip Nicka Knighta to song Born This Way Lady Gagi, 2011. By courtesy of Nicka Knight’a i SHOWstudio (to see on the exhibition SHOWstudio Fashion Film, Angel Wawel 17.05 - 16.06)   

 

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30.05, 6:00 p.m., MOCAK Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Krakowie, ul. Lipowa 4 (PL)

 

Tadeusz Rolke (born 1929, Warsaw)

A great of Polish journalism photography. During his decades-long career, he has worked for magazines including Ty i Ja, Przekrój, Stolica and Świat. In the 1970s, he emigrated to Germany, where he created the famous cycle “Fischmarkt” in Hamburg. After returning to Poland in the ‘80s, he published three albums. Today he lives and works in Warsaw. 

 

Picture Description: Tadeusz Rolke, Paris 1965 © Tadeusz Rolke (to see on the exhibition Studio Rolke in MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (Beta Gallery) 17.05 - 16.06)

 

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31.05, 6:00 p.m., Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, ul. Konopniciej 26 (EN)

 

Oliver Chanarin (born 1971, London)

Photographer who usually works together with Adam Broomberg. Together, the duo have published nine monographic photo books, showcased their work at a number of international exhibitions, and received many grants and prizes. In 2011 they appeared in Krakow at the 9th Photomonth as curators of the Alias project. 

 

 

 

 

Picture Description: Oliver Chanarin, Shirley, C-41 Photographic Print, 19 x 26 cm, 2012

 

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Get ready for Krakow Photomonth!