| | | | | | | | | | | | | PHOTOSZENE FESTIVAL Cologne 2023 | | | | 12 – 21 May 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | THE PROGRAMME OF THE 2023 PHOTOSZENE FESTIVAL
The renowned Photoszene Festival will take place in Cologne from May 12 to 21, 2023.
Seven exhibitions at ten locations in Cologne will form the core programme of the Photoszene Festival 2023: they include a show of current photographic positions in the Photoszene Co-Labs! and the residency project Artist Meets Archive #3.
In addition, more than 70 museums, galleries and art spaces in Cologne are participating with their photographic exhibition programs in the festival's large citywide participatory exhibition format. The NEXT! Festival der Jungen Photoszene is also aimed at young photographers and visitors with an extensive program.
Also new this year is the Thousandfold Photobook Fair, an international photobook market inviting visitors to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum on the opening weekend of May 13-14. It will be held in conjunction with the Portfolio Review SICHTBAR, which is now open for registrations! The opening weekend also offers an extensive program of events including a symposium, guided tours, and artist talks. | | |
| | | | | | | | | | Photoszene Co-Labs!
The Photoszene Festival 2023 has expanded its central curatorial programme with the Photoszene Co-Labs! Topics that were also at the focus of the major symposium We Do/Are Photography in October 2022, which include the climate catastrophe, postcolonialism and body politics, the development of photography as a medium, and the handling of photographic archives, will be taken up. | | | | | | | | | TYPE.1.5.11.5 © Maxim Zmeyev | | | "Photography in Progress: Fragile Infrastrukturen"
Exhibition based on our Open Call
Thomas Albdorf, Leo Blessmann, Darktaxa, Kati Faber, Maximilian Glas, Jon Gorospe, Alex Grein, Johan Husser, Anna Jocham, Kristina Lenz and Alex Simon Klug, Sophie Meuresch, Daniel Poller, Martin Ruckert, Michael Schmid, Berit Schneidereit, Tanaka Soushi, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber, Maxim Zmeyev.
12 May – 11 June 2023
At the Michael Horbach Stiftung
Thematically, the group show will shed light on how constantly changing, digital visual practices and technical innovations influence artistic day-to-day experience and how artists operate in the field of the post-photographic. Alongside artistic strategies that survey both technical progress and media-specific conditions and usages, Photography in Progress will highlight a host of presentation options and pictorial languages that, due to digitization or Al, are undergoing constant boundary extensions and yield seemingly inexhaustible potential in the way of scopes, possibilities and ways of seeing.
In total, 572 artists responded to the first advertised international open call for the exhibition Photography in Progress. The jury, comprised of photography specialists from NRW institutions, selected 18 positions all in all, which will be on show in an exhibition at the Michael Horbach Stiftung. The presentation will provide a platform to international and regional current photography positions: in accordance with the advertised open call, 50% of the selected works come from NRW.
Curated by Dana Bergmann and Alexander Hagmann | | | | | | | | | Lito Kattou, San, Point Centre for Contemporary Art 2018. Skins & Feathers VIII, 2018. Detail
Photo: Nikos Alexopoulos | | | "Vibrant Waters"
Seba Calfuqueo, Carolina Caycedo, Beate Gütschow, Mitsutoshi Hanaga, Olga Holzschuh, SU Yu Hsin, Lito Kattou, Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio (Lauren Bon, Tristan Duke, and Richard Nielsen), Lara Tabet ...
12 May until 11 June 2023
at the Temporary Gallery
The exhibition "Vibrant Waters" places the element water at the focus and questions its use for photographic image production. Historically and currently, water is used in large quantities for photography-related purposes, which include the mining of precious metals and rare earths, the making of semiconductors, or the cooling of server farms. On view are artistic positions that question the utilitarian understanding of the element as a raw material.
The exhibition simultaneously includes a decolonial look at the element water. In non-western cosmologies, the vitality of all matter is fundamental to understanding a mutual connectedness. In this context, bodies of water are living beings with which humans interchange, bearing responsibility for their balance. The works showcased in the exhibition present water as a living, social and aesthetic force. They document the way it brings together communities in resistance against the loss of life’s foundations, examine the methods of image production that builds on the more-than-human collaboration with rivers, or speculate on post-human beings who watch over toxic waters.
Curated by Nada Rosa Schroer | | | | | | | | | | Soft Touch © Moshtari Hilal | | | "The Loneliness One Dare Not Sound"
Poliana Baumgarten, Gago Gagoshidze, James Bantone, Jihye Lee, Lisa Röing Baer, Moshtari Hilal, Arisa Purkpong, Jana Buch ...
12 to 21 May 2023
in the art spaces on Ebertplatz: die gemeinde Köln, Gold + Beton, Mouches Volantes, Labor
In cross-genre formats, the exhibition in four art spaces in the Ebertplatz Passage is devoted to the body as a mouthpiece of resistance. The exhibition space die gemeinde Köln is turned into an experimental pinboard, in which the artists Jihye Lee, Arisa Purkpong and Lisa Röing Baer collaborate in a laboratory situation. The adjacent art spaces Mouches Volantes, Gold + Beton and Labor serve as a display for short films, literature and artistic positions that examine prejudices towards marginalized people. Donja Nasseri, artist and the exhibition’s curator: "The output of all spaces is our speech and word in their concentrated substance, which will carry on a political, anti-racist discourse. Photography is expanded in this context, as a medium of the 'mental image', of the invisible elements of occurrences and experiences, as a supporter of memory and as a vision of the future."
Curated by Donja Nasseri | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lebohang Kganye in Cameroon © Lerato Ntombela | | | Artist Meets Archive #3
Naoya Hatakeyama » Lebohang Kganye » Pablo Lerma » Lilly Lulay »
12 May – 11 June 2023
At the NS-Dokumentationszentrum // Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst // Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum // Handwerkskammer/Rheinisches Bildarchiv | | | | | | | © Pablo Lerma, Maurice Kohl | | | For the third time since 2019 – from 12 May until 11 June 2023 – Internationale Photoszene Köln, in partnership with four Cologne institutions, will present exhibitions on the residency and co-operation project Artist Meets Archive #3. The programme brings the photographic stocks of Cologne’s archives and collections into the focus and invites internationally active artists to exchange views.
The four artists in 2023 are united by examination of the different variants of visibility in the medium of photography. From a feminine perspective (#femalegaze) on colonial contexts, it extends across the tourist view (#touristgaze) to artificial seeing (#algorithmicgaze) through to power viewpoints (#gazeofpower). | | | | | | | Hudo-zaka, Negishi "Mississipi Bay" © Naoya Hatakeyama | | | Symposium "Research Meets Artist"
A public symposium entitled Research Meets Artist on May 13, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Rheinisches Bildarchiv in the Historical Archive will accompany the exhibition program of Artist Meets Archive #3. Scholars from art, image, and media studies, among others, will meet the artists of the residency and cooperation project on the opening weekend of the Photoszene Festival 2023.
The symposium in English consists of scientific lectures and subsequent dialogues with the artists participating in Artist Meets Archive #3: Dr. Roland Meyer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) meets Lilly Lulay » , Dr. Friederike Wappler (Ruhr- Universität Bochum) meets Pablo Lerma » , Marc Feustel (freelance writer/curator, Paris) meets Naoya Hatakeyama » , and Marissa Petrou (KWI Essen) meets Lebohang Kganye » . The symposium will begin with an introductory lecture by Dr. Franziska Brons (University of Cologne) and will be moderated by Lucia Halder and Miriam Zlobinski (DGPh / Board Section History and Archives).
Tickets to attend the symposium cost 10€ (reduced 5€) and are available here | | | | | | | Ghost work © Lilly Lulay | | | | The symposium takes place in cooperation of the International Photoszene Köln with the DGPh / Section History and Archives and the Rheinisches Bildarchiv. The Artist Meets Archive program is supported by the City of Cologne, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW and the Embassy of the Netherlands. | | | | |
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| | NEXT! Das Festival der Jungen Photoszene
12 - 21 May 2023 at the Altes Pfandhaus
Together with its partners – Deutsches Kinder- und Jugendfilmzentrum, SK Stiftung Kultur and jfc Medienzentrum – Internationale Photoszene Köln is holding a festival by, for, and featuring children, teenagers, and young adults. NEXT! supports and initiates projects and workshops with participating photo enthusiasts aged up to 25. The results are presented during the NEXT! Festival.
Thousandfold Photobook Fair & Portfolio Review SICHTBAR
13 & 14 May 2023
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
For the first time, the Photoszene Festival, together with Thousandfold Photobook Fair, will host an International Photobook Market at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum on the opening weekend of May 13-14, with the Portfolio Review attached.
Portfolio Review & Walk and Talk
SICHTBAR X Thousandfold Photobook Fair
Saturday, 13.05.2023 & Sunday, 14.05.2023, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Photoszene Festivalzentrum @ Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cäcilienstraße 29-33, 50676 Köln
[email protected]
This year's Portfolio Review SICHTBAR as part of the Photoszene Festival is a combination of expert talks and a Portfolio Walk!
>> INFORMATION & REGISTRATION until May 1st >> "Rausgegangen"
Reviewers: Publishers // Curators // Photo festival directors // Photo book experts
Barbara J. Scheuermann // Kunstmuseum Bonn
Bas Fontein // Dutch Independent Art Book Publishers
Calin Kruse // die Nacht publishing
Gabriele Conrath-Scholl // SK Stiftung Köln
Gösta Flemming // Journal Photobooks
Helena Melikov // Shiftbooks
Katrin Kamrau / Malenki
Maria Teresa Salvati // Everything is Connected
Mark Feustel // unabhängiger Kurator
Florian Genz & Lea Szramek // Verlag Kettler
Become SICHTBAR X Thousandfold Photobook Fair and purchase a day of visibility at the festival center of the Photoszene Festival in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. You buy yourself a 30-minute date with a reviewer of your choice and your presentation table for the whole day, where you can present yourself and your work not only to the reviewer, but also to the visitors of the Photoszene Festival, as well as the professionals we invited for you in the Walk & Talk - right in the middle of the festival center. The Walk & Talk is new to the SICHTBAR program this year and takes place throughout the day, alongside your 30-minute date.
The portfolio review is aimed at photographers and visual media artists who have graduated or are currently studying in this field, or who can demonstrate several years of practical experience.
More information about the festival and the program can be found here.
The Internationale Photoszene Köln exists to promote artistic photography and is the exemplary embodiment of Cologne as a vibrant photography location. Since its first edition in 1984, in continuation of the picture shows organized by L. Fritz Gruber to accompany the trade show photokina, the participatory festival has become a firm part of the city’s profile and every year, today, presents numerous exhibitions on photography and related visual media that draw up to 100,000 visitors. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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