Ann-Christin Bertrand
Guest-Room
Guest Room is a monthly online exhibition with open submissions curated in real-time by personalities from the international photography scene.
Lars Willumeit
Curator - April 2016
Lars Willumeit (b. 1974, Germany) is a social anthropologist based in Zurich, Switzerland. As an independent curator, author, and photo editor, he has been working with the medium of photography in different modes since 1993. His interests lie in photography, documentarisms, regimes of representation, and visual cultures.
In addition to having been trained as a photographer, Lars has, since the early 2000s, served in the capacity of photo editor for numerous magazines, most notably for GEO magazine, in Hamburg and New York, and as photo director, from 2008–2013, for the Zurich-based Du: Die Zeitschrift der Kultur.
Between 2013 and 2015, he curated exhibitions and presentations for East Wing and the FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby. As author he was a contributing author to the photobook Deposit by Yann Mingard, as well as to a dictionary entitled Factory Tools, which was published within Fabrik, the catalogue of the German Pavilion (curated by Florian Ebner) at the 2015 Venice Biennale.
Selection by Lars Willumeit
William Minke End Of Crisis, 2013
Felicia Honkasalo Sketch No.1, Finland, 2016
Joseph R Webb Studio Plant (After Christopher Williams), Oregon, Usa, 2013
1/2 Felicia Honkasalo Sketch No.1, Finland, 2016
2/2 Joseph R Webb Studio Plant (After Christopher Williams), Oregon, Usa, 2013
Victoria Crayhon Untitled Howell MI, 2015, Howell, Michigan, Usa, 2015
Nicola Nunziata Das Kapital Variations - Untitled#17, Studio, 2016
Tytus Szabelski The Gap #1, Toruń, 2016
1/2 Nicola Nunziata Das Kapital Variations - Untitled#17, Studio, 2016
2/2 Tytus Szabelski The Gap #1, Toruń, 2016
Birthe Piontek Mimesis 03, Vancouver, Bc, 2013
Jessica Thalmann Pleats of Matter (Medical Sciences Building), Toronto, 2016
Safia Delta Memory, Genova, Italy, 2016
Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup Blank II, Lausanne, 2014
1/3 Jessica Thalmann Pleats of Matter (Medical Sciences Building), Toronto, 2016
2/3 Safia Delta Memory, Genova, Italy, 2016
3/3 Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup Blank II, Lausanne, 2014
Michał Skrętkowicz 2, Nyc, 2015
Niñorojo Project Nature Citizens, Romania, 2015
1/2 Michał Skrętkowicz 2, Nyc, 2015
2/2 Niñorojo Project Nature Citizens, Romania, 2015
Swen Renault "Anonymous Sculpture - 4", New York City, 2015
Maria Mavropoulou The desire for consciousness, Athens, Greece, 2014
Guilherme Gerais Intergalático #1, Brasil, 2014
1/3 Swen Renault "Anonymous Sculpture - 4", New York City, 2015
2/3 Maria Mavropoulou The desire for consciousness, Athens, Greece, 2014
3/3 Guilherme Gerais Intergalático #1, Brasil, 2014
Grzegorz Kielawski Zielgruppe, Warszawa, Polen, 2015
Grzegorz Kielawski Outsourcing, Wien, Österreich, 2015
1/2 Grzegorz Kielawski Zielgruppe, Warszawa, Polen, 2015
2/2 Grzegorz Kielawski Outsourcing, Wien, Österreich, 2015
Jennifer Hofer Untitled, Wien
Kasia M. Sosnowska Identity, Lodz, 2015
Monika Dluska Las hermanas, Valencia, Spain, 2014
1/2 Kasia M. Sosnowska Identity, Lodz, 2015
2/2 Monika Dluska Las hermanas, Valencia, Spain, 2014
Andrea Diefenbach Kirschen, Moldova, 2014
Antonina Konopelska The Wax of Poland - Anna, Warsaw, 2014
Kasia M. Sosnowska Magic Hour, Lodz, 2012
1/2 Antonina Konopelska The Wax of Poland - Anna, Warsaw, 2014
2/2 Kasia M. Sosnowska Magic Hour, Lodz, 2012
Paulius Butkus Florida, USA, Florida , Usa, 2015
Julia Bauer It's me, Julia., Hamburg, 2016
1/2 Paulius Butkus Florida, USA, Florida , Usa, 2015
2/2 Julia Bauer It's me, Julia., Hamburg, 2016
Tracie Williams Half Truths, Artesia, New Mexico, 2015
»Crisis? What Crisis?!« is the main theme of the 14th edition of Krakow Photomonth of which I am the chief curator for this year’s edition. It takes place from 12 May to 12 June 2016 and this opening post of my Guest Room also serves as an invitation to all readers to join us in Krakow to explore and participate in the festival. The posts over the next two weeks will attempt to loosly trace and relate to some of the concepts pointed out below through a selection from the 4182 entries of the open call.
The point of departure for this year’s Photomonth festival program was the conviction that a crisis is not a transitional phase or an anomaly, but a characteristic trait of everyday life, a permanent state with which we must cope in practically all spheres of our lives: private, public, and global. Political, economic, environmental, and migration crises concern us to the same degree as crises of identity, trust, and »individuality« in a globalized world.
I am also very happy that the team of DER GREIF are joining in with a new installment of their experimental exhibition project A Process 2.0 as part of the festival!
For a complete listing of the exhibitions and events: photomonth.com