Artist Meets Archive #4

Andrés Galeano

Meets Kölner Dombauarchiv

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Portrait of Andrés Galeano. He is wearing glasses, a cap and a blue jacket.
Andrés Galeano © Andrés Galeano

Andrés Galeano

Andrés Galeano (*1980, Mataró, Spain) has degrees in philosophy, photography and fine arts. His photographs, video works and performances have been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Europe and America. Galeano's photographic work deals with amateur photography and the medium's historical relationship with the firmament. As a post-photographer, he recycles iconographies and discovers moments in which photography reflects on itself and creates an unexpected metadiscourse.

  • A collage titled "Sfumato 4, 2021" by Andrés Galeano, featuring multiple photographs of cloudy skies. Each image fades at the edges, blending softly into the background, creating a dreamy, ethereal effect.

    Sfumato 4, 2021

    © Andrés Galeano

  • Many pictures of different, blue to yellowish shimmering cloudy sky views are arranged in a grid.

    Sky Studies 8, 2021

    © Andrés Galeano

  • Collage of many photos of different views of the sky, arranged in the shape of an infinity sign and overlapping. The result is a color gradient.

    Unknown Photographers 199, 2021-now

    © Andrés Galeano

  • Collage of many photos of different views of the sky and palm trees reaching into it, arranged in the shape of a circle and overlapping. The result is a color gradient.

    Unknown Photographers 214, 2021-now

    © Andrés Galeano

  • Abstract, digital collage of a black and white picture showing clouds. Purple, blue, yellow and red areas and lines are superimposed.

    FPn Cr 02, 2021

    © Andrés Galeano

    More about Andrés Galeano:
    Website
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    Dombauarchiv (Building Archive of the Cologne Cathedral)

    The Dombauarchiv documents the construction and restoration work carried out since the Middle Ages on one of the world's most important sacred buildings and a symbol of the city - the Cologne Cathedral. It comprises almost all the files relating to the Cathedral's construction since 1816 as well as around 20,000 plans and drawings, a comprehensive collection of historical and contemporary photographs and a large specialised library with around 25,000 volumes and 230 current publications. In addition, there is an art collection with paintings, prints and artefacts. An extensive collection of the Magi also offers pictorial evidence and scientific literature on the "Three Wise Men“. In the Cathedral's model chamber, hundreds of 19th and 20th century plaster models are kept, as well as original sculptures of the medieval St Peter's portal.

    The extensive image collection of the Dombauarchiv, with around 50,000 historical and recent photographs of Cologne Cathedral, its furnishings and the work of the Cologne Cathedral Building Workshop, as well as reproductions and scans of archival documents and plans from the Dombauarchiv, is available for academic research, but also for publications on Cologne Cathedral in general. The Dombauarchiv is a scientific institution that stimulates, supervises and publishes cathedral research in many areas.

    • Photograph of the unfinished cathedral on yellowed paper.

      View of the unfinished cathedral from the northwest, Gebr. Schönscheid, 1862

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte

    • Many plaster models are lined up on several shelves in a room in the cathedral.

      View into the model chamber on the 2nd floor of the northern cathedral tower

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte; Foto: M. Deml

    • Old photograph of the cathedral with unfinished tower. In front of it you can see a street and a tram.

      View of the recently completed cathedral from the east, Johann Heinrich Schönscheidt, 1880

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte

    • Old, yellowed book spines are lined up on a shelf.

      Shelf in the file depot of the cathedral building archive

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte; Foto: M. Unkelbach

    • View upwards in the cathedral to the perforated vaulted ceiling.

      Black and white image. View into the war-damaged vaults of the northern transept of the cathedral, 1943

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte

    • Black and white image. View inside the cathedral, you can see rubble on the floor and partially destroyed columns.

      View of the badly damaged north transept of Cologne Cathedral, 1943

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte

    • Faded architectural drawing of the cathedral.

      Medieval elevation of the east side of the second floor of the southern cathedral tower, so-called Riss E, 1st half of the 14th century

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte; Foto: Matz und Schenk

    • Black and white photo: Sandbags are stacked in the cathedral and the figures and organs on the pillars are covered for protection.

      War defense measures in the inner choir of Cologne Cathedral, August Kreyenkamp, 1940

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte

    • Black and white photo: Close-up of the stacked sandbags and protective coverings.

      War protection measures for the choir stalls, the choir screen paintings and the choir pillar figures of Cologne Cathedral, August Kreyenkamp , 1940

      © Hohe Domkirche Köln, Dombauhütte

      More about the Dombauarchiv:
      Website

      Portrait of Elena Efeoglou. She has long dark hair and is wearing a blouse with white dots. Elena Efeoglou © Elena Efeoglou

      Elena Efeoglou

      Meets
      die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur

      Portrait of Marta Bogdanska. She has long hair streaked with gray and is wearing a red and purple patterned sweater. © Yeva Karenina

      Marta Bogdanska

      Meets
      Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

      Portrait of Pauline M'Barek. Her dark hair is pinned up and she is wearing a woolen jacket. © Anna M

      Pauline Hafsia M'barek

      Meets
      Museum Ludwig

      Portrait of Jimmi Wing Ka Ho, black and white. He is looking down to the side and wearing a striped shirt.

      Jimmi Wing Ka Ho

      Meets
      Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

      Artist Meets Archive #4

      For the fourth edition of the Artist Meets Archive program, the Internationale Photoszene Köln and the institutions involved in the project are inviting a total of five artists from Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Poland and Spain to Cologne: Marta Bogdanska, Elena Efeoglou, Andrés Galeano, Pauline Hafsia M'barek and Wing Ka Ho Jimmi will be in Cologne for several weeks in the summer for their research residencies. During this time, they will immerse themselves in the archives and collections of the Dombauarchiv, the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, the Museum Ludwig, the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur and the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and thus in the diverse (photographic) history of the city of Cologne in order to develop new artistic positions. They will then present the results as usual during the Photoszene Festival, which will next take place in May 2025.

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