Cologne: International Photo Scene - Artist Meet Archive
The artists for the 4th edition of Artist Meets Archive 2024 have been announced
AMA artists 2024/25 - International Photo Scene Cologne (GERMAN)
Cologne. In the summer, at the invitation of the International Photo Scene Cologne and various institutions, the artists Marta Bogdanska, Elena Efeoglou, Andrés Galeano, Pauline Hafsia M'barek and Wing Ka Ho Jimmi will live in Cologne for several weeks for their research residencies. During this time, they will immerse themselves in the archives and collections of the Cathedral Building Archives, the Cologne City Museum, the Museum Ludwig, the Photographic Collection/SK Stiftung Kultur as well as the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum and thus into the diverse (photographic) history of the city of Cologne to develop new artistic positions from this. We briefly introduce the photo artists here:
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This five AMA artists 2024/25 were
selected from 550 applications by an expert jury
Andrés Galeano will be a guest at the Cologne Cathedral Building Archives
Galeano has degrees in philosophy, photography and fine arts and has already realized his photographs, video works and performances in group and solo exhibitions in Europe and America. The artist deals with amateur photography in his photographic work. He considers "the historical relationship of the medium with the firmament."
As a so-called post-photographer, Galeano recycles iconography and discovers in existing moments that photography creates a self-reflection of the medium and an unexpected meta-discourse.
- Andrés Galeano (born 1980 in Mataró, Spain, currently lives in Berlin)
During her residency, Elena Efeoglou will be working with the Photographic Collection/SK Foundation for Culture, where she will be a guest in summer 2024
She will get to know the institution's collection in Cologne in the summer of 2024. Efeoglu was born in 1978 and lives in Thessaloniki. She completed her studies with a master's degree - her subjects were photography as well as philosophical, educational and interdisciplinary anthropology.
The doctoral thesis fits in with the project in Cologne; it produced a “qualitative analysis of photographic representations during the Greek Civil War from 1946 to 1949”.
As an artist, the media of photography and video are the focus of her work. The question of “what role photography plays in private and public archives” is her topic.
In addition to the materiality of photography and its role, her work also addresses the meaning of the document in true and fictional stories.
Efeoglou is currently working on found photos in connection with artificial intelligence.
- Elena Efeoglou (born 1978 in the Greek city of Drama, now lives in Thessaloniki)
Marta Bogdanska will work as Artist in Residence at the Cologne City Museum
Marta Bogdanska is a visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and cultural manager. Bodanska has her master's degree in philosophy. She studied art as part of the Home Workspace program in Beirut and then studied photography.
Bogdanska himself led international art and culture projects and published the book “Shifters”, which won the PHotoEspaña Prize for the best international photography publication of 2022.
Bogdanska was nominated for the Kassel Dummy Award, the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles and the Mack First Book Award.
In 2023 she was Artist in Residence in Madrid at the Institute for Supernatural Studies and received a scholarship from the Culture & Animals Foundation in New York.
- Marta Bogdanska (born 1978 in Warsaw)
Pauline Hafsia M'barek will deal with the photographic collection at the Museum Ludwig
Pauline Hafsia M'barek studied fine arts in Hamburg, Marseille and Cologne. In her artistic practice, the body and its perceptual systems are both an instrument and a research object.
She moves close to her subject and exposes herself to precarious and unstable moments in terms of observation and experience. Her videos, photographs, installations or performative lectures that emerge from this open, experimental approach should not be seen as completed works, but rather as transitional stages of artistic research in motion.
- Pauline Hafsia M'barek (born 1979 in Cologne, now lives in Brussels)
Wing Ka Ho Jimmi will work as artist in residence with the photo collection in the RautenstrauchJoest Museum
Wing Ka Ho Jimmi is a visual artist and documentary photographer. He graduated from the Royal College of Art. His work has been exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery.
In 2021/22, Wing Ka Ho Jimmi received the Royal Photographic Society Postgraduate Scholarship and was nominated for the C/O Berlin Talent Award.
His series “So Close and Yet So Far Away” with photographs from 2019 to 2023 takes the viewer on a journey through Hong Kong’s colonial history, migration and archives.
- Wing Ka Ho Jimmi (born 1993 in Hong Kong, now lives in London)
The International Photo Scene Cologne
The International Photo Scene Cologne promotes artistic photography in the lively photography location of Cologne. The photography festival has been held in Cologne since 1984. In the city of Cologne, the scene is showing up to 110 exhibitions on photography and related visual media. Every year over 100,000 visitors come to the well-known photo exhibition.
The next Photoszene festival will open in May 2025.
The scholarship holders will present the results during the Photoszene Festival, which will next take place in May 2025.
Further information about "The International Photo Scene Cologne"
- www.photoszene.de
