23rd Krakow Photomonth 

May 14 – June 14, 2026
Admission to all events is free unless otherwise stated.

Festival Center

Potocki Palace, ul. Bracka 2, Open: 14–17.05: 12:00–18:00 

OPENING WEEKEND

THURSDAY, MAY 14

6.00 PM | Inaugural Debate Memory and its Images: Where do Central Europeans come from? Participants: Felix Ackermann, Joanna Czudec, Anna Kwiatkowska, Adam Leszczyński. Moderator: Bartosz Sadulski International Cultural Centre (MCK), Rynek Główny 25

Event in Polish with simultaneous English translation.

7.30 PM | ShowOFF Section Opening The Last Efendi | Ostatni Efendi Abdalsalam Alhaj Curator: Yulia Krivich Szara Kamienica Gallery, Rynek Główny 6

8.00 PM | Festival Opening & Exhibition Opening Unreal Estate, Chapter III: Shifting Strata | Uwarstwienia Jonas Höschl, Jadwiga Janowska, Susanne Keichel, Susanne Kriemann, Anna Orłowska, Wojciech Wilczyk, Tobias Zielony Curatorial team: Krzysztof Pijarski, Anna Voswinckel Potocki Palace Gallery, Rynek Główny 20 / Bracka 2

FRIDAY, MAY 15

11.00 AM | Artist & Curator Talk Portraits of Books, Views of Ruins A conversation on photography as a historical research tool: Annette Kelm, Anna Voswinckel. Coffee & library meeting. MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, ul. Lipowa 4 Tickets: 5 PLN

11.00 AM – 3.00 PM | Portfolio Review MuFo Invites: Portfolio Review with the Sputnik Photos collective MuFo, ul. Józefitów 16 Registration: bilety.mufo.krakow.pl

4.00 PM | Curatorial Tours Sneak prev vol. 1 Led by: Krzysztof Pijarski, Anna Voswinckel Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, pl. Szczepański 3a Tickets: 11 / 6 PLN (Regular / Reduced) Event in English.

6.00 PM | Exhibition Opening Unreal Estate, Chapter II: A possible arrangement | Możliwy układ Bownik, Fungi (Phuong Tran Minh), Karolina Gembara, Eiko Grimberg, Jonas Höschl, Arwed Messmer, Ines Schaber, Arne Schmitt, Paweł Starzec, Andrzej Steinbach, Tytus Szabelski-Różniak Curatorial team: Krzysztof Pijarski, Anna Voswinckel Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, pl. Szczepański 3a Free admission; from 7.00 PM: 5 PLN (as part of the Night of Museums).

7.30 PM | ShowOFF Section Opening If | Jeśli Monika Libera Curator: Aneta Grzeszykowska “W Przyziemiu” Art Gallery, ul. Starowiślna 36

8.30 PM | FRINGE Section Opening Wonders ASP Kraków, ASP Łódź, AS Szczecin, Łódź Film School, HFBK Hamburg, UAP Poznań, UKEN Kraków. Former University Hospital Building, ul. Kopernika 15

10.00 PM | Afterparty Tańczymy vol. 1 — DJs: Kaj’t & Puszkin Wesoła Immersive, ul. Mikołaja Kopernika 17a

SATURDAY, MAY 16

11.00 AM – 6.00 PM | Art Fair FRINGE × Przetargi Works by FRINGE Section participants at the “Przetargi” art fair. Klub Poczta Główna, ul. Wielopole 2

12.00 PM | Presentations and discussion
Exchange — Image-based practices in Central and Eastern Europe
Jeanette Brabenetz, Markéta Kinterová, Christin Müller, Lili Rebeka Tóth, Karolina Ziębińska
Moderators: Krzysztof Pijarski, Anna Voswinckel Potocki Palace, Rynek Główny 20 / Bracka 2 (courtyard) or MCK, Rynek Główny 25 (in case of bad weather) Event in English.

12.00 PM | meeting Around the Table with Archives | A Meeting with Agnieszka Rayss MuFo Józefitów, 22A Rakowicka Street

2.00 PM – 5.00 PM | Workshop Screen Printing in the Courtyard Bring your own T-shirt or bag! Potocki Palace, Rynek Główny 20 / Bracka 2

 

3.00 PM | Guided tour of In Common exhibition with members of Sputnik Photos Collective

► 13A MuFo Rakowicka, ul. Rakowicka 22A

Tickets: 14 / 20 PLN (conc. / full)

2.30 PM | ShowOFF Section Artist Talk A Little Memory of “The Beginning” | Małe wspomnienie z «Początków» The Archive as Personal Memory: A meeting with Maite Vanhellemont and the project’s protagonist. Moderators: Witek Orski, Agnieszka Tarasiuk Archive of Science of the PAN and PAU, ul. św. Jana 26

3.00 PM | Curatorial Tour MuFo Invites: Exhibition tour with members of the Sputnik Photos collective MuFo, ul. Rakowicka 22a Tickets: 20 / 14 PLN (Regular / Reduced)

3.30 PM | ShowOFF Section Opening A Little Memory of “The Beginning” | Małe wspomnienie z «Początków» Maite Vanhellemont Curator: Agnieszka Tarasiuk Archive of Science of the PAN and PAU, ul. św. Jana 26

4.00 PM | Conversation Ewa Dyszlewicz (MINT Magazine) in conversation with Tobias Zielony Potocki Palace, Rynek Główny 20, 1st floor Event in English.

6.00 PM | ShowOFF Section Opening Heat Signatures | Ślady ciepła Vitaliy Gerasymenko Curator: Tobias Zielony Piana Gallery, ul. Długa 15

7.30 PM | ShowOFF Section Opening Guest Room | Pokój gościnny Andrzej Frydrych Curators: Turnus — Kamila Falęcka, Marcelina Gorczyńska Szaber Gallery, ul. Wrocławska 56

9.00 PM | Afterparty Tańczymy vol. 2 Betel, plac Szczepański 3,

music: Rusałka, Semprey

SUNDAY, MAY 17

1.00 PM – 3.00 PM | Curatorial Tours Sneak prev vol. 2 Led by: Krzysztof Pijarski, Anna Voswinckel Potocki Palace Gallery, Rynek Główny 20 Event in Polish and English.

4.oo PM Artist talk | Sudan—Memory under conflict

Conversation with Abdalsalam Alhaj, Hosted by: Yulia Krivich, Witek Orski
Galeria Szara Kamienica, Rynek Główny 6

 

6.00 PM | ShowOFF Section Opening Family Album | Album rodzinny Sonia Góral Curator: Dorota Szulc APTEKA Janicki Gallery, ul. Józefińska 43

 

TUESDAY, 19.05

17:30 Talk

Who Controls the Image? On Visual Culture, Power and Invisible Structures

From the series Constellations, Stories: Images and Ideologies

Hosted by: Agata Pyzik

► 7 Bunkier Sztuki, plac Szczepański 3a

Tickets: 5 PLN

 

THURSDAY, 21.05

18:00 Talk

A meeting with OUTER SPACE PRESS

From the series: Photobook Talks

► 2 Pałac Potockich, Rynek Główny 20 (1st floor)

 

SATURDAY, 23.05

12:00 Workshops

Family Album

A photography and painting adventure for young and old.

Led by: Sonia Góral

► 16 APTEKA Janicki Gallery, ul. Józefińska 43

 

FRIDAY, 29.05

18:00 Talk 

RUST Publishing: Photobook premieres: Daria Izworska — God’s Children, Dominik Wojciechowski — Svijet, Jakub Szachnowski — The Hawk

From the series: Photobook Talks

► 2 Pałac Potockich, Rynek Główny 20 (1st floor)

 

SATURDAY, 30.05

19:00 Vernissage 

Common Ground

Photobook Exhibition

Curators: RUST Publishing

►18 Galeria Podbrzezie, ul. Podbrzezie 3

 

SUNDAY, 31.05

16:00 Vernissage

Fischmarkt (1978)

Tadeusz Rolke

► 5 Galeria ZPAF, ul. św. Tomasza 24

With Krakow Film Festival

 

TUESDAY, 2.06 ATTENTION! THE MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED. WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE NEW DATE SOON

17:30 Talk

Central Europe—Visible and Invisible

From the series Constellations, Stories: Images and Ideologies

Hosted by: Łukasz Galusek

► 7 Bunkier Sztuki, plac Szczepański 3a

Tickets: 5 PLN

Event in Polish

 

TUESDAY, 9.06

17:30 Talk

Between Myth and Reality—How Is the Story of Central Europe Constructed?

Conversation with Ziemowit Szczerek

From the series Constellations, Stories: Images and Ideologies 

► 7 Bunkier Sztuki, plac Szczepański 3a

Tickets: 5 PLN

 

WEDNESDAY, 10.06

17:00 Talk

Images of Absence. Photography, Memory, Exclusion

Remigiusz Ryziński in conversation with prof. Monika Płatek

► 15 MOCAK, ul. Lipowa 4 (audiovisual room)

Tickets: 5 PLN

CLOSING EVENTS

TBA