G. Kühnhardt Alvarez (dey/deren)

Festivalorganisation & Diversity Team

G. Kühnhardt Alvarez
G. Kühnhardt Alvarez Eva Scholl

G. Kühnhardt Alvarez (dey/deren) arbeitet deutschlandweit organisatorisch, künstlerisch, kuratorisch und kollektiv in der bildenden Kunst und Kultur. Deren Forschungsfeld liegt auf dem hiesigen Kunstkontext und dessen Ausschlussmechanismen. Um eine Dezentralisierung von gewohnten Hierarchien zu veranlassen, arbeitet dey mit den Werkzeugen des Community Buildings, Zugänglichkeit, Sichtbarmachung und der Repräsentationskritik. Kühnhardt Alvarez hat neben der gestalterisch-künstlerischen Arbeit, Erfahrungen in Referaten, Projekten und Arbeitsgruppen gesammelt, welche sich dem Empowerment von marginalisierten Protagonist*innen widmen. Dey erhielt kollektiv sowie individuell u. a. das Solitude-Stipendium der Akademie Schloss Solitude (2023/24), den Mannheimer Demokratiepreis (2022), sowie das Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium (2015). Kühnhardt Alvarez studierte in Deutschland und in Japan Germanistik, Visuelle Kommunikation, Exhibition Design und Fotografie. Im Kontext des Photoszene Festivals kümmert dey sich um die Umsetzung von Formaten für nachhaltigere Teilhabe und Teilnahme des Publikums und von lokalen Gemeinschaften.

Our Team

Internationale Photoszene Cologne has been driven forward since the 1980s by the ideas and commitment of numerous people from the museum and gallery scene, politics and business. Heide Häusler has headed the institution as Artistic Director and Managing Director since 2013. Since 2017, an Artistic Board has defined the long-term programme concepts. Until 2023, the Artistic Board consisted of Heide Häusler, Inga Schneider and Damian Zimmermann. Since 2024, Heide Häusler, Lucia Halder and Damian Zimmermann form the Artistic Board. A whole host of great people from the fields of art history, art, journalism and the creative industries in general are involved in the programme and the direction of the Photoszene. With their impulses and approaches, they all contribute to the diversity of the programme.

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