Lucia Halder has been a curator and scientific researcher for the photographic collection at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum since 2015 and chair of the History & Archives section of the German Society for Photography. In her work, she deals with the history, semantics and memory-political significance of historical and contemporary photographs. Her work focuses on exploring decolonial spaces of action in photographic archives and collections. Lucia enriches the Photoszene Artistic Board with Heide Häusler and Damian Zimmermann, which develops the long-term planning and program concepts, with her many years of theoretical and practical museum experience.
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.