| | | |  | | | | | Internationale Photoszene Köln | | | Open Call for "Artist Meets Archive" residency programme | | | | Applications: 5 – 31 January 2024 | | | | www.photoszene.de | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | August Sander, Köln - Über den Dächern: Blick vom Hansahochhaus, 1928–1939
© Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Graphische Sammlung (Repros: RBA) | | | | | | Jointly with its partner institutions, and for the very fourth time, Internationale Photoszene Köln is opening up Cologne’s (photo) archives with the Artist Meets Archive residency programme. The aim of the programme is intensive dialogue and collaboration with international artists from the photography or archive fields. For the first time, five prospective artists and artists’ collectives can apply directly for the programme, which has been in place since 2018, via an Open Call. The outcomes of the work phase in Cologne from summer 2024 will be presented at the Photoszene Festival in May 2025.
Some of Cologne’s foremost museums are co-operation partners for the International Photoszene programme: the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum and Museum Ludwig. A fifth institution, the Dombauarchiv, makes its debut as part of the residency programme.
It is possible to apply until January 31st 2024. Information on participation conditions for the Open call, application procedure and scope of funding can be found here. | | | | | |  | | | | Ein Blick ins Depot © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln | | | | | | About "Artist Meets Archive"
In Cologne, since 2018, the "Artist Meets Archive" residency programme has been delivering proof that archives are inspiring, complex and productive places for artistic engagement and art production. Jointly with its co-operation partners, International Photoszene Köln invites international artists to Cologne so that they can familiarize themselves with an oeuvre of photography history that is as diverse as it is steeped in narratives in the city’s collections, depositories and archives and find new stimuli for their artistic creativity there – and inspire and stimulate the institutions in turn.
The artists will present their work outcomes in an exhibition in the subsequent year, during the Photoszene Festival, which takes place throughout Cologne’s urban area. The residency and exhibition are flanked by numerous events and thus invite the public to join the artists in reflecting on the often invisible, yet influential cultural practice of archiving – and in experiencing the archive as an institution as a lively "third place". | | | | | |  | | | Chargesheimer: An der Theke. Küssendes Paar, 1957
© Museum Ludwig, Köln, Reproduktion: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln | | | | | | Procedure
* Participation in the Open Call is possible until January 31st 2024. Information on participation conditions for the Open call, application procedure and scope of funding can be found here
* Once the applications have arrived, a jury, made up of representatives of the partner institutions, Photoszene and external experts from the photography field, will nominate the artists for the programme. The artists of the fourth Artist Meets Archive edition will be announced in early March 2024.
* The residencies will take place in summer 2024 and enable the artists to work with the photographic holdings of the host institutions under the supervision of the latter.
* In May 2025, the exhibitions of the Artist Meets Archive programme will be opened as part of the Photoszene Festival. | | | | | |  | | | Archivalien aus dem Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
© buerofuerkunstdokumentation | | | | | | The participating institutions in 2024/2025
Dombauarchiv
The Dombauarchiv documents the construction and restoration measures carried out since the Middle Ages on one of the world’s most important religious edifices and a landmark of the city – Cologne Cathedral. It encompasses almost the entire holding of papers concerning the cathedral’s construction since 1816, along with approx. 20,000 plans and drawings, a comprehensive holding of historical and contemporary photographs, and a large specialist library that contains approx. 25,000 volumes and 230 ongoing publications. Added to these is an art collection comprising paintings, graphics and arts-and-crafts objects. In addition, the Three Magi collection offers pictorial testimonies and scientific literature on the Holy Three Kings. In the cathedral’s model chamber, hundreds of plaster models from the 19th and 20th centuries are kept, and not only those but also original sculptures of the medieval Peter’s Gate.
The Dombauarchiv’s extensive image collection, containing some 50,000 historical and present-day photographs of Cologne Cathedral, its fixtures, and the restoration and conservation works undertaken by the Kölner Dombauhütte, along with reproductions and scans of archived items and plans from the Dombauarchiv, is available for scientific research or also generally for publications about Cologne Cathedral. The Dombauarchiv is a scientific institution which stimulates, supervises and publicizes cathedral research in many domains.
Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
The foundation stone for Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur was laid with the acquisition of the August Sander Archive in 1992 by what was then the Stadtsparkasse Köln – now the Sparkasse Köln/Bonn. Sander’s work is synonymous with the documentary, conceptual approach in photography, which forms the collection’s focus. Further contemporary positions are also tied to it, for instance Cuny Janssen, Francesco Neri, Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer, Judith Joy Ross and Wilhelm Schürmann. With bundles by likes of Albert Renger-Patzsch or Ruth Hallensleben, important positions from the field of landscape and industrial photography are present. The latter genre is represented by Bernd and Hilda Becher in particular. On the side of architecture photography and the image of the urban landscape are works by Boris Becker, Werner Mantz, Hugo Schmölz and Petra Wittmar. Further, the oeuvre of Jim Dine offers a broadly based field of observation. Also comprehensive is the former collection of the German Photographic Association, which has very different areas of photography at the ready.
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum
The Kölnisches Stadtmuseum has been collecting objects concerning Cologne’s history from the Middle Ages to the present day since its establishment in 1888. In March 2024, it is set to open a modern, unconventional permanent display at a new location, the former Franz Sauer fashion house in Minoritenstraße. The long-term aim is to secure a new location for the museum in Cologne’s historical heart, in direct proximity to Cologne Cathedral. Photographs have also been collected since the museum’s founding. As a consequence, the Graphic Collection of the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum also comprises a comprehensive photo collection (incl. around 20,000 picture postcards), which covers some 20 percent of that holding.
Photographs from the holdings of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne and from the city’s building construction office were among the very first objects in the museum. Photography’s emphasis, in that context, lay on urban profile and architecture, which also covered the Rhine region up until 1945 at least. However, portraits and “traditional costume pictures”, so pictures of people of all ages and genders collected on account their clothing, swiftly followed. In addition, the emphasis lies on photographers from Cologne. Up until the middle of the 20th century, photographs were collected essentially in order to serve as chronological documents; artistic photography did not feature in the collection until the acquisition of August Sander’s "Köln wie es war" portfolio. Naturally, that, too, was occupied with urban history, profile, culture, architecture and so on. That continues to be the theme to this day.
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne is a museum undergoing upheaval, that is seeking new ways to transform itself into an interdisciplinary forum for a post-migrant society. Its establishment falls under the Colonial Era, and a major part of the collection originates from the period before World War One. The collection comprises some 60,000 quotidian and ritual objects and approximately 100,000 historical photographs from Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. On the basis of this collection holding, examinations of the colonial legacy and exploration of new methods of curatorial collaboration are shifted into the focus and new approaches for communicating current issues are sought.
The museum’s photograph archive has long been at the centre of attention. The core of the holding is formed by photographs from the late 19th century up until 1945. Geographically and chronologically, the collection is narrowly associated with German colonial rule. It reflects the striving for encyclopaedic recording that was widespread in the 19th-century – striving for the documentation, categorization and classification of the world and its inhabitants. Working with the photographs involves opening the archive on the search for new expressive forms and decolonial spheres of action within the museum.
Museum Ludwig*
With approximately 70,000 works, Museum Ludwig is home to a significant and comprehensive collection on the subject of photography, from the early days to the present, and was one of the first museums of modern and contemporary art to dedicate a whole collection to photography. This collection was established in 1977. The photography collection includes early daguerreotypes, important artistic photographs from the 19th into the 21st century, albums and portfolios, but also extensive materials on the medium’s cultural history. In this case, too, it was private collectors who laid the foundation stone for the photography collection in 1977, with acquisitions and gifts from the collection of L. Fritz and Renate Gruber, who cultivated prestigious contacts to photographers within Germany and abroad.
*Museum Ludwig issues the invitation to the Artist Meets Archive programme to the artists directly; it is not possible to apply to Museum Ludwig via the Open Call.
Internationale Photoszene Köln
Internationale Photoszene Köln exists to promote artistic photography and is the exemplary embodiment of Cologne as a vibrant photography location. Since its first edition in 1984, in continuation of the picture shows organized by L. Fritz Gruber to accompany the trade fair photokina, the participatory festival has become a firm part of the city’s profile and every year, today, presents numerous exhibitions on photography and related visual media that draw up to 100,000 visitors. The next Photoszene Festival will be opened in May 2025.
www.photoszene.de | | | | | |  | | | Ansicht des unvollendeten Domes von Nordwesten, Gebr. Schönscheid, 1862
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