The organizers of Cracow Art Week KRAKERS have presented on their website the full program of the 14th edition, which will take place April 24-30, 2025, with the theme "At times I think I am dreaming”. The celebration of visual arts will be inaugurated by the opening of “Y”, on April 24 at 7 pm at the Palace of Art, it will be an artistic intervention in the exhibition of Franciszek Starowieyski's studio. A detailed schedule of exhibitions, as well as accompanying events is now available at www.cracowartweek.pl
The Main Program includes as many as dozens of diverse events. Established galleries and venues with long-standing traditions will be present in the Miasto (City) Section. In the building at Na Zjeździe 8 alone, the CCA Squirrel, the Skład Solny Gallery, as well as four Studios (Gaya Barcikowska, Peter Bogatka, Anna Chmiel and the Photographic Studio) will present themselves. In cooperation with the University of National Education Commission in Krakow, four exhibitions will be opened, presenting not only art, but also applied graphics, design and spatial design - by university staff, students and invited artists. LETO Gallery from Warsaw and AOKZ from Łódź will present as guests in temporary locations. New venues will also make their debut, such as MAS Modular Art Studio (which also hosts the Critical Workshop) and the SYROKOMLI 21 Gallery belonging to the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In addition, the Academy of Fine Arts has prepared exhibitions in five other galleries belonging to it. Art Agenda Nova will host a group exhibition, “Never fear shadows,” inspired by the thought of Carl Gustav Jung and the works of Oscar Wilde, and dedicated to David Lynch, who died this year. Especially on Sunday, it's worth venturing into the farther districts of Krakow to visit such unusual places as C U AT SADKA, Drożdżownia Atelier, Cobra and ARTzona. The flagship of KRAKERS is the competition's Laboratory Section, which promotes 10 selected initiatives, often with no fixed location and annexing unusual spaces.
An Accompanying Program has been prepared for those eager for an expanded experience of Krakow's world of visual arts. Art week participants will be able to attend dedicated guided tours of cultural institutions, walks along Krakow's galleries and districts as part of the Kultour series, author meetings, workshops, film screenings and even conferences. Events by MOCAK, Cricoteka, Bunkier Sztuki and Wawel Royal Castle, are offered among others.
This year's theme is inspired by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's ,,622 Downfalls of Bungo,” a novel on the border of autobiography and autofiction. Borrowing a quote from this work, the organizers want to pay tribute to Witkacy on the 140th anniversary of his birth and enter into a dialogue with his work, reflecting on the value of various self-narratives in contemporary art. New sincerity, autoethnography, intimacy, transgression and self-creation are just a few examples of the directions that will be explored this year.
