Photoszene-Festival

12. - 21. Mai 2023

Festival
Heide Häusler is standing at a lectern. Behind her, a sticker reads “Internationale Photoszene Köln Festival”
© Silviu Guiman

The Festival 2023

May belongs to photography! Seven exhibitions at ten locations in Cologne form the core programme of the Photoszene Festival from May 12 - 21 2023 in Cologne, including current photographic positions in the Photoszene Co-Labs! and the residency project Artist Meets Archive #3. In addition, over 70 museums, galleries and art spaces in Cologne are participating in the programme with diverse exhibitions. Also taking part: the NEXT! Festival of the Young Photo Scene, the Thousandfold Photobook Fair, our Portfolio Review and the symposium Research Meets Artist. Tune in!

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Pablo Lerma besucht das NS-Dokumentationszentrum, 2022 © Silviu Guiman

Artist Meets Archive #3

For the third time, the International Photoscene Cologne is organising the Artist Meets Archive programme together with four Cologne institutions. As a result, Lebohang…

 Maxim Zmeyev, Type 1.5.11.5, 2021, Courtesy the artist

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Co-Labs!

The Photoszene is expanding its curatorial program and is pleased to announce collaborations with the Temporary Gallery and the municipality of Cologne, GOLD+BETON, Labor…

Research Meets Artist

As part of Artist Meets Archive #3, a dialogical symposium entitled Research Meets Artist will take place on 13 May 2023, in which Artist Meets Archive artists will meet…

 NEXT! Festival, 2022 © Thekla Ehling

NEXT! Festival

Together with its partners, the Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendfilmzentrum, the SK Stiftung Kultur and the jfc Medienzentrum, the International Photoscene Cologne organises NEXT!

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Portfolio Review Sichtbar

This year's Portfolio Review SICHTBAR as part of the Photoszene Festival is a combination of booked one-on-one talks with an expert of your choice and a Portfolio Walk.

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Thousandfold Photobook Fair

For the first time, the festival is collaborating with the Thousandfold Photobook Fair to host an international photobook market at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum on the…

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Walk! Talk! Discover!

During the festival, Photoszene offered an extensive range of guided tours and mediation services for the exhibitions.

Ausstellungen

Museums

YOKOHAMA SOUVENIRS - Naoya Hatakeyama - Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Köln | The Opening. An Institution, A Depot, The Boxes - Pablo Lerma - NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln | Ghosts@Work - Lilly Lulay - Rheinisches Bildarchiv zu Gast in der Handwerkskammer zu Köln | Shall You Return Everything, But The Burden - Lebohang Kganye - Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum | Photography in Progress: Fragile Infrastrukturen - Kunsträume der Michael Horbach Stiftung | Vibrant Waters - Temporary Gallery – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst e.V. | The Loneliness One Dare Not Sound Part One - Gemeinde Köln; Part Two - Gold+Beton; Part Three - Labor; Part Four - Mouches Volantes | Check Your Habitus - Ebertplatz Ausseninstallation | Next!08 - Next! Festival der Jungen Photoszene - Altes Pfandhaus | Lucinda Devlin: Operating Room #8, Forrest General Hospital, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1998, aus der Serie „Corporal Arenas” - Frames of Reference - Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur | Uwe Steinberg: Mittendrin Concerned Photography 1963 bis 1983 - Forum für Fotografie | Odessa - Fuhrwerkswaage / Mountainview Gallery | Archipelago - Italienisches Kulturinstitut | Spectres - Japanisches Kulturinstitut (The Japan Foundation) | Turm Raum Kunst - Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln | Bild/Gegenbild - Museum Ludwig | First Pages - Counter Images I Gegenbilder - Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum | Dummy Award Shortlist '23 & Winners '22 The Photobookmuseum - K18 und Atelier Colonia | One of Yours - The Photobookmuseum - The Box | Dance Floor - Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

Galleries

LOOM UP - Galerie Anja Knoess | FLESH LIFE: SEX IN MEXICO CITY - Joseph Rodriguez - Galerie Bene Taschen | FEINE LEUTE - Herlinde Koelbl - Galerie Grevy | PETER KEETMAN. Vintage Fotografien aus der Sammlung Gerd Sander - Galerie Julian Sander | SCHAU HIN, WIE SCHÖN ICH BIN. Sexy, ästhetisch oder sexistisch? - Galerie Koppelman | DECIPHERING PHOTOGRAPHY - Galerie R8M | KREUZ & QUEER (JÜRGEN KLAUKE) - NO BORDERS. NO CLOCKS. NO DEADLINES. (MAX REGENBERG) - Galerie Thomas Zander | PERPETUAL - Kaune Contemporary Gallery | DAS FEST - Parrotta Contemporary Art Cologne | SHAPE. - Showroom Simone Klein

Art Spaces

Warten auf etwas, das Sinn ergibt - photo con text#2 - 68ELF STUDIO - Sehin Tewabe | Ethiopia in Focus - Art of Buna E.V. Galerie - Tamara Lorenz | Voice Over Sync - Artbooks Store - Anna E. Stärk | Das Lied der Strass - Atelier Anna E. Stärk - Claudia Mewaldt | Entschleunigung - Atelier Claudia Mewaldt - Michael Wagener | Analog Past - Atelier Keupstrasse 1 - Kevin Wolf | Street Photography Mixtape - Atelierzentrum Ehrenfeld (AZE) - Marcel Geitmann | Baumeisterliches:Köln - BDB Bund Deutscher Baumeister, Architekten und Ingenieure e.V. / Bezirksgruppe Köln - Philipp Gabriel | Strategic Fit - Beiste Kunstraum - Mathias Lorenz | Concrete Vein - Beiste_Satellite - Pinar Yildirim | Channeling a Certain Amount of Light - Beiste_Satellite - János Buck | Au Contraire #5 - Beiste_Satellite - Max Dauven | Pulsar - Beiste_Satellite - Antonia Gruber & Sebastian Klug | Materealities - Beiste_Satellite - Kätzl//Veit | Telescope - Beiste_Satellite - Caroline Geerst | Revolte - BFF Berufsverband Freie Fotografen und Filmgestalter / Region Köln-Düsseldorf - Frauke Stärk | Chaussée d'Amour - Bohde Fenster & Atelier - Philipp Treudt | 'Zwischen allein und einsam' & 'Wasserstress' - Bunker K101 - Annette Wesseling, Karsten Rohrbeck | Night Pieces - Büro Gestalten - Juan Francisco Rodriguez | Double Presence - Case – Projektraum der Fotografie / KHM Köln - Philipp Treudt | Moosh Bokhoratet - CO³ Cologne Contemporary Concept - Laura Westerhoff | Ich bin! Du auch! Identität in der Gesellschaft - Fotoatelier Sued - Tamara Eckhardt | Of Suddenly Growing Up – Vom Plötzlichen Erwachsenwerden - Fotoruum Köln e.V. - Michael Hooymann | Mit Photographischen Techniken. Gesichter und Körper in Szenen - Galerie Smend - Uwe Schwarzkamp | Best of 8 - Galerie Wichelmann - Markus Bollen | Historische Fotografien - gemischtwaren.com - Stefanie Pluta | Temporary Palaces - Glasmoog – Raum für Kunst & Diskurs / KHM Köln - Kamli Rachwal | Alaaf auf Abstand - Gulliver Überlebensstation für Obdachlose - Martin Streit | Koblenz Analog #10 - Hallmackenreuther - Stephen Petrat | Werkschau - Hundert45 – Atelier für Fotografie - Marianne Brandt | 'Spiegelbilder' 20er/30er Jahre. Fotografien aus den Portfolios - Jens Scholz Kunstauktionen in Köln - 2022 Pi Heinz | Der Kölner Grossmarkt. Eine Fotografische Spurensicherung - K49 – Raum für Kreative - Emma Grau | Trust — Distance — Intimacy - KISD / Raum 11 - Clara Kulemeyer | The End / Not the End? - Kunsthafen im Rhenania - Manfred Willmann | Balance - Kunstwerk Köln e.V. - Astrid Piethan | Normalität. - Kunstwerk Köln e.V. - Elias Müller | No Room to Move - Labor für Kunst und Forschung - Sigrid Ortwein | The Pop (You Up) - Foto Club - N.N. Aquino - Freya Hattenberger | Mondsprung - Offene Kunstwerkstatt Köln Süd e.V. - Reinhard Matz | Draußen im Westen muss die Freiheit wohl grenzenlos sein - Petershof - Cathy Guilleux | Frisches Nass - PPERFEKT - Rocio Madrid | Emotional Journeys - Richas Digest - Tobias D. Kern | Der Kopf - Bilder zu Gedichten von August Stramm - Schaelpic Photokunstbar / im Atelier für Mediengestaltung - Marc Hillesheim, Olaf Kaul | Finsterlay - Eine Reise in das Innere des Lavastromes - Stadtwaldholz - Frauke Stärk | Light X Play - Studio C 104 - Markus Bollen | Internationale Brückenbauprojekte - TRILUX Lichtcampus Köln - Christian Amouzou | Light on Photo Art: Documentation – Staging – Change - Wertheim Cologne - Laura Westerhoff | Stories Beyond Conventions - Positionen zwischen Dokumentation und Kunst - Westspitze | Mirror Box - Weyer51 - Freya Hattenberger | Kommen Sie nach Hause 19 - Internationale Wanderausstellung in Wohnungen - Steff Adams | Erlebniswelt Mantelhaus - Ehemaliges Mantelhaus Goertz - Joachim Rieger

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    Artist Meets Archive #3
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