Wing Ka Ho Jimmi
Wing Ka Ho Jimmi (born 1993 in Hong Kong, he currently lives in London) is a visual artist and documentary photographer from Hong Kong, now based in the UK. He graduated from the Royal College of Art and his work has been exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery. In 2021/22 he received the Royal Photographic Society Postgraduate Fellowship and was nominated for the C/O Berlin Talent Award. His series "So Close and Yet So Far Away" with photographs from 2019 to 2023 takes the viewer on a journey through Hong Kong's colonial history, migration and archives.
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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt
The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne is a museum in transition, searching for new ways to transform itself into an interdisciplinary forum for a post-migrant society. It was founded in the Colonial Era and an important part of the collection dates back to the time before the First World War. The collection comprises around 70,000 everyday and ritual objects and around 100,000 historical photographs from Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. Based on this historical collection, it focuses on the colonial legacy, the exploration of new curatorial methods of collaboration and seeks new approaches for communicating current issues.
The photographic archive has long been at the centre of attention. Photographs from the late 19th century to 1945 form the core of the collection, which is closely linked geographically and chronologically to German colonial rule. It reflects the widespread striving towards encyclopaedic recording in the 19th century - the documentation, categorisation and classification of the world and its inhabitants. The opening of the archive in search of new forms of expression and decolonial spaces for action in the museum characterise the work with the photographs.
Andrés Galeano
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Kölner Dombauarchiv
Elena Efeoglou
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die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
Marta Bogdanska
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Kölnisches Stadtmuseum
Pauline Hafsia M'barek
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Museum Ludwig
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.