Incontri al Corso 18 – with Radek Krolczyk

 

Rome – before, during and after Peter O. Chotjewitz

During his time in Rome, Radek Krolczyk follows in the footsteps of the German author, translator and lawyer Peter O. Chotjewitz, who spent time in Rome in various decades, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, then in the early 1990s, knowing various opposed German personalities, such as Andreas Baader and Ernst Jünger. In many literary works, Chotjewitz creates extraordinary portraits of the city and compares it with the previous decade. Now, 14 years after his death, Radek Krolczyk intends to update the image of his Rome.
The text will be published as a literary essay by Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, which is also in charge of Chotjewitz’s work.
The volume will be accompanied by a specifically produced photo series by Hannah Wolf (*1985).

Radek Krolczyk (*1978, Pyskowice, PL) is an author and gallery owner based in Bremen. He works on the political implications of aesthetics. He has been a lecturer at the HfK since 2014 and has taught art studies at the University of Bremen since 2019. In 2018, he was awarded the Art Criticism Prize of Art Cologne and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV). He is the owner of Galerie K’ in Bremen.