Marta Bogdanska

Marta Bogdanska

Marta Bogdanska (born 1978 in Warsaw, where she currently lives) is a visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and cultural manager. She has a master's degree in philosophy, studied art as part of the Home Workspace Program in Beirut and then studied photography. Bogdanska has already led several international art and cultural projects and her book "Shifters" won the PHotoEspaña Award for the best international photo publication of 2022 and 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 at the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid and received a grant from the Culture & Animals Foundation in New York.

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Kölnisches Stadtmuseum

Since its foundation in 1888, the Kölnische Stadtmuseum has been collecting artefacts on the history of Cologne from the Middle Ages to the present day. In March 2024, the museum will open a new, modern and unconventional permanent exhibition at a new location, the former Franz Sauer fashion house in the Minoritenstraße. In the long term, the museum will find a new location in the Historical Centre of Cologne, which is to be built in the area directly surrounding the Cologne Cathedral.

Photography is being collected since the museum was founded. The museums’s collection of prints and drawings therefore includes an extensive selection of photographs (including around 20,000 picture postcards), which make up around 20 per cent of that collection. Photographs from the holdings of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne and the municipal building department were among the museum's first objects. Thus, the focus of the photographic collection is centred on cityscapes and architecture, including the Rhineland, at least until 1945.
However, it was quickly followed by portraits and pictures of traditional garments, i.e. pictures of unknown people of all genders and ages, which were collected because of their clothing. Another emphasis is on photographers from Cologne.

Until the middle of the 20th century, photography was mainly collected as a form of documentation. It was only with the purchase of August Sander's portfolio "Köln wie es war" ("Cologne as it was“) that artistic photography followed, naturally also in terms of the city's history, imagery, culture, architecture, etc. This continues to this day.

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