Professionally
Krzysztof Candrowicz - interdisciplinary curator, sociologist, researcher, project facilitator and activist. Co-founder and member of Foundation of Visual Education and Fotofestiwal in Lodz, former director of the Art Factory and Lodz Art Center (Poland). During 2013-2018 worked as artistic director of the Triennial of Photography in Hamburg (Germany) and since 2018 as curator and collaborator of the Ci.CLO Porto Biennale (Portugal). Krzysztof works internationally as a guest curator and visiting lecturer in numerous organisations, museums, schools, and festivals in Europe.
He has been a member of the jury of various projects and art prizes, including the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award (Arles, France), the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, (London, UK), the Prix Pictet (London, UK), the Historical Book Award, and the Author Book Award (Arles, France), and the Robert Capa Award (Budapest, Hungary). Besides being active in visual arts, his interests are rooted in philosophy, social science, anthropology, ecology, astronomy and natural science.
Personally
Since professional portfolio is just a part of a practice, accordingly, if I could describe myself through processes and activities, rather than roles or job-titles it would stand for: empathising, learning, questioning, unlearning, facilitating, organising and celebrating.... furthermore, connecting with the non-human world. Here is a small tribute to all the minds and souls who influenced me in who I am, how I think, and what I do (alphabetically):
Rutger Bregman, Adrianne Maree Brown, Barry Commoner, T.J. Demos, Epicurus, Erich Fromm, Eduardo Galeano, Siddhartha Gautama, David Graeber, Marek Grondas, Donna Haraway, Sam Harris, Stephen Hawking, Aldous Huxley, Jehoshua from Nazareth, Carl Jung, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Laozi, Bruno Latour, Joanna Macy, Gabor Mate, Timothy Morton, Arne Naess, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joaquin Phoenix, Pythagoras, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Patti Smith, Thich Nhat Hanh, Henry David Thoreau, Greta Thunberg.