Yann Mingard | 15.05.2016

Yann Mingard, In vitro cultivation of banana plants, Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 2010, from  the Deposit series © Yann Mingard

MASTERS SERIES meeting (EN)

Yann Mingard (1973) lives in Colombier, Switzerland. He worked as a horticulturist and gardener before studying photography at the Universities of Geneva and Vevey. Mingard has exhibited his work widely in Europe and published the following books: Ligne de Fonds (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2015); Deposit (Steidl, 2014); and Repaires (Hatje Cantz, 2012). He also co-realized a photographic survey of the EU’s Eastern European external borders with Alban Kakulya, culminating in the book East of a New Eden (Lars Müller Publishers, 2010).

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Witek Orski (1985) lives and works in Warsaw. He is a visual artist and photography theorist. His work has been presented at individual exhibitions—Vulgar (2012) and Exercise (2014), both at the Czułość Gallery in Warsaw—and at group exhibitions in Tokyo, Paris, and Budapest, as well as in Poland, at the As You Can See: Polish Art Today exhibition held by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. He took his PhD at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw and at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication of the University of Arts in Poznań. He lectures at the Academy of Photography.

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (Main Hall)

pl. Matejki 13

15.05.2016, 5 p.m.