Helena Weber is a historian, curator and author who works in the field of photography and archives. She worked as a research assistant in the Department of Theory and History of Photography at the University of Cologne and was involved in several digitization projects of photo-historical materials. As a curator, she conceived photo-historical and media-historical exhibitions at the Leipzig and Dresden City Museums, and most recently at the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn. From 2022, she worked together with Inga Schneider on the Artist Meets Archive program, which she took over in 2024. Since March 2024, she has also been working as a scientific documentalist at the Historical Archive with Rhenish Image Archive.
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.