Pauline Hafsia M'barek

Pauline Hafsia M'barek

Pauline Hafsia M'barek (born 1979 in Cologne, now lives in Cologne and Brussels) studied fine arts in Hamburg, Marseille and Cologne. In her artistic practice, the body and its systems of perception are both an instrument and an object of research. By moving as close as possible to her subject, she exposes herself to precarious and unstable moments between observation and experience. The videos, photographs, installations or performative lectures that emerge from this open, experimental approach are not to be seen as completed works, but as transitional stages of artistic research in motion.

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Museum Ludwig

With some 70,000 works, the Mu­se­um Lud­wig has an im­por­tant and ex­ten­sive col­lec­tion of pho­tog­ra­phy from the ear­ly days of the medi­um to the pre­sent, and is one of the first mu­se­ums of mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary art to de­vote a se­parate col­lec­tion to pho­tog­ra­phy in 1977.

The pho­tog­ra­phy col­lec­tion in­cludes ear­ly daguerreo­types, im­por­tant artis­tic pho­to­graphs rang­ing from the nine­teenth to the twen­ty-first cen­turies, al­bums, and port­fo­lios, as well as ex­ten­sive ma­te­rials on the cul­tu­r­al his­to­ry of the medi­um. Here, too, it was pri­vate col­lec­tors who laid the foun­da­tion for the pho­tog­ra­phy col­lec­tion in 1977 with purchas­es and do­na­tions from the col­lec­tion of L. Fritz and Re­nate Gru­ber, who main­tained close con­tacts with pho­to­g­ra­phers in Ger­many and abroad.

The col­lec­tion has been ex­pand­ed in re­cent years with purchas­es of works by VALIE EXPORT, Tarrah Krainak, Senga Nengudi and Carrie Mae Weems, to name just a few.

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