We announce the program of events!
You can finally fill up your hourly calendar or look at our schedule and find that the excuse not to go to Lodz is gone again this year. We announce the program of events of Fotofestiwal – the 24th International Festival of Photography in Lodz.
To start – an almost novelty. Tomorrow (3.06) is the opening of a sister brand of cultural events in Lodz – 2nd edition of SpinOFF.
More than twenty openings over the next twenty days, a total of twenty-five moments, which count with names such as: Jan Brykczynski, Tomek Albin, Magdalena Skotnicka, Jakub Nowaczyk, Olga Urbanek, Wojciech Bryndel, Mateusz Pecyna, Kalina Kazimierczak, Piotr Matkowski and Ewa Sad; and, among the curators, Katarzyna Sagatowska. On the map of events and non-traditional venues, for example, an exhibition at the intersection of art, photography and street art – will take over the concrete fence of the amphitheater in Baden-Powell Park; an experience in Park Źródliska that will combine a review of travel photography with a picnic and tasting and a big finale with a performative show in the unusual space of the abandoned YMCA swimming pool. We will see you tomorrow at the opening at MSK: Chojny. See the full program at: SPINOFF.
_ 11.06: Once warmed up with city life, you can also join some Fotofestiwal events even before the opening of the festival
We just published a full hourly program of the events and you can always check it online HERE
>> 11.06, 5:00PM at Art_inkubator: Lecture by Gabor Maté. Your interest in our event was enormous and thank you all for registrations. For all who can’t join us in person in Lodz – a treat! The whole lecture will be live streamed by University of Lodz. Follow their Youtube channel – as well as keep on track the Gabor Maté’s tour around Poland and meetings in other cities!
>> 11.06, 6:30PM at the Center for Comics and Interactive Narrative in Lodz: And if you prefer meeting in person and approach to the theme of identity via absolutely different lenses – but equally up to date – join Centre for Comics and Interactive Narrative for a meeting with Niccolò Rastrelli, where he will talk about his work on people changing personalities into fantasy heroes – in Japan, Nigeria, Italy and India.
_ 12.06 at Art_inkubator: Opening of the festival with Nuri and Bassa Nova
We open the festival floating on futuristic, electronic productions Nuri who grows his African roots far into the future. This will be the first opportunity to see eighteen exhibitions at the Art_inkubator festival center and to meet the winners of the Photo Publication of the Year competition. Here you can find the whole Exhibition Program and all the information on the opening of the festival.
_ 13.06 at Art_inkubator: The lucky friday 13
>> 13.06, 11:00AM at Art_inkubator: The best opportunity to see what is going on in the photography scene all over Europe and abroad – in only one morning. Join us for the public part of our industry event Photo-Match. The event gathers 20 artists with 20 experts that before meeting individually, will introduce themselves and their projects, as well as experts will talk about institutions and media they represent.
>> 13.06, 4:00PM at Art_inkubator: Later that day, we’ll host possibly one of the most crowded events of the weekend. Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek filmmaker whose documentaries have been acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, is joining Kuba Mikurda for a talk followed by a book signing. Starting from his exhibition in Lodz, to far beyond. Attendance only by registration. All the information here.
>> 13.06, 10:00PM at Stary Rynek: NIGHT OF PHOTOGRAPHY – slideshows in the Old Market and an afterparty at Niebostan.
After the opening of Dancing Your Dream Awake (Galeria Bałucka, Anita Andrzejewska) we will stay at Old Market Square in Lodz. On the big screen you will see, among other things, the projects of the Talent Futures 2025 (Martin, Mirowska, Sita, Starzec i Szymkowiak) and the finalist projects of the 13 edition of The PhMuseum Photography Grant, with a special focus on Aria Shahrokhshahi’s Wet Ground, the recipient of a dedicated prize assigned in collaboration with Fotofestiwal. We’ll end the night on the dance floor of Niebostan for 2 DJ sets.
_ 14.06 Saturday: Feels like breakfast and books, a swimming pool and RAVE
>> 14.06, 10:30AM at Art_inkubator We start the day with the best breakfast in town, the one that brings together photobooks and its authors, premieres and novelties: a meeting with the winners of the Photographic Publication of the Year, photobook premieres: El Gobierno Te Odia (The Government Hates You), Christopher Gregory-Rivera, ملثم (‘MOLATHAM’) by Scott Caruth and The Lines We Draw from Lavinia Parlamenti and Manfredi Pantanella, in addition Luciano Zucaccia will share more about the exhibition In Protest we Trust, and we will talk with Jason Fulford. Second part will be a meeting with Polish authors: Karol Szymkowiak, Karolina Gembara and the authors of NO 13 – a book published as part of the Sputnik Photos mentorship program; Marta Kiela-Czarnik, Joanna Szpak-Ostachowska, Anita Andrzejewska, Katerina Kouzmitcheva and Tomek Kudaszewicz, editors of One Billion ISO magazine.
>> 14.06, 7:00PM at YMCA swimming pool: During the afternoon, an unexpected opening. Fotofestiwal audience will have a unique opportunity to experience Jason Fulford’s site-specific installation in the historical YMCA swimming pool. Which might actually be one of the most memorable exhibitions in the festival’s history.
>> 14.06, 11:00PM at Ravekjavík: By the end of the night: 2 festivals, 1 evening, 0 reasons to stay home. If you still have energy after these long days, we invite you to the afterparty in our beloved festival brother. Ravekjavík ZEN this year not only provides us the dance floor, but also hosts our exhibition After Life. Seven artists in a multimedia language will reflect on the decay of conventional ways of imaging and seeing, as well as the blurring of boundaries between virtual, artificial, and organic elements of reality.
_ 16-22.06: Second week of the festival
After the vernissage rush of the first days of the festival, we are slowing down and squatting in the Art_inkubator for a moment of reflection about the realities of different photographic communities. A great panel of meetings is scheduled for this week at the festival centre.
>> “The Blue Flower in The Land of Technology”
We start on Tuesday 17 with “The Blue Flower in The Land of Technology“, a discussion during Fotofestiwal in Lodz hosted the Future Fragments project – an initiative dedicated to exploring the concept of intelligence and the impact of technology on our future.
>> “Sampler, or how to create from archives?”
Continuing on Friday 20, “Sampler, or how to create from archives?“ proposes to discuss the importance of photographic archives in contemporary creative activities.
We end on Saturday with the meeting “When it stopped being a war… situated testimony of Dr. Ghassan-Abu Sittah“, a film screening and lecture on Forensic Architecture practices, hosted by Natalia Sliwińska, member of the same research agency dedicated to developing and employing innovative methods for investigating state and corporate violence.
Of course, that’s not all, as there will still be film screenings in Art_inkubator (including the documentary I am Martin Parr, a celebration of Parr’s 50-year career on Sunday 22 at 6:00PM, and Viktor directed by Emmy®-winning war photographer and cinematographer Olivier Sarbil, on Thursday 19 at 7:00PM), and more music events (Disko Zakvas at Willa on Saturday 21 and Zaumne live for the big closing evening at Art_inkubator on Sunday 22) and lots of workshops for teens. A final note on the evening hosted by the University of Lodz at the Biedermann Palace on June 18, which will combine 2 group exhibitions – Works of Photosophy: Sampler and Community’s Histories (1945-2025) and end with the film screening of “Kotarbiński“. An animated story of Tadeusz Kotarbiński, first rector of the University of Lodz, that uses archival film and photographic materials to create an unconventional, moving portrait of a thinker whose worldview combined rigorous logic with deep humanism.
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