Georgian artists feature in Europe’s leading photo festival

Two Georgian contemporary artists are part of Europe's leading photography festival in Krakow, Poland.

For one month starting May 12, works by Lado Lomitashvili and Atu Gelovani of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts will be on display within the 14th annual Krakow Photomonth Festival 2016.

The Europe-wide festival, named Crisis? What Crisis?, features three sections this year.

The young Georgian students will present their work in the Experimental Section of the photo display.

Artist Lado Lomitashvili's 2015 work '5x9', presented within the photography festival. Photo from Der Greif/A Process 2.0.

This section will present a display titled A Process 2.0 by Der Greif, a German project for contemporary photography and literature. The display was prepared after Lars Willumeit, curator of the Krakow Photomonth 2016 Main Program, invited Der Greif to present its content at the Polish event.

Following an open call for entries, artistic directors of the German project picked 260 photographs by contributing artists, including those by Lomitashvili and Gelovani.

Curators of A Process 2.0 said the project "questions photography in its digital form as a distinct medium, its handling with the use of the Internet as well as photography’s haptic stimuli and common perception of authorship."

Atu Gelovani's 2015 work 'Dotted', featured at the Polish festival. Photo from Der Greif/A Process 2.0.

A Process 2.0 unites photographers from across the world, who are free to submit their works for the project.

In addition to the Experimental Section, the Krakow Photomonth Festival involves the Main Program of the event with 10 exhibitions by artists and media projects including British fine art and documentary photographer Paul Graham and Polish multimedia artist Aneta Grzeszykowska.

The third section of the month-long exhibition, named ShowOFF, will display "premiere projects by young artists selected through an open competition". Eight projects will be represented in this category.

Lomitashvili and Gelovani are both students of the Department of Architecture of the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and have featured in personal and group exhibitions in Georgia and abroad in recent years.

The Krakow Photomonth Festival 2016 will be held in the Polish city until June 12. Details and exhibitions of the occasion can be viewed on the official website here.