Diane Arbus, Karl Blossfeldt, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, August Sander, Tata Ronkholz, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Garry Winogrand, Piet Zwart and ten more positions – all these photographers are...
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Karl Hugo Schmölz, born in 1917, inherited the famous Cologne photo studio of his father Hugo Schmölz and, in 1958, together with his wife Walde Huth, founded the studio schmöz + huth. The...
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For the first time, the MAKK presents a previously unpublicized private collection, which comprises an almost complete series of record covers devised by Andy Warhol plus numerous sketches and...
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Aurel Dahlgrün, *1989, studied 2011-18 at KA Düsseldorf under Prof Christopher Williams, transfers the medium of photography onto self-created paper, into heliogravures, installations and artist’s...
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They are not really in our field of vision, the carparks and open spaces outside a city’s discounters, DIY outlets and furniture stores. agii & Sailor devote their attention to these spaces...
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In "Die Summe meiner Daten" traces, marks and fingerprints emerge from the everyday use of digital devices with touch-sensitive screens and culminate in large-format, painterly photographs in which...
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On show are more than 60 high-quality photos that document Russia’s situation following the October Revolution of 1917 and prior to the millennium’s end. Joseph Kibilitsky is director of the Museum...
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Clang Artspace shows ‘Xerographien · Photogramme’ by the artist Rosy Beyelschmidt from 1985-91. “In her copy self-portraits, she became a stranger to herself; in this strangeness, she pushes...
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Ich – I – is a body. It with itself and others. Stimulated to visual limits. Frangible back-lit drawings of body contours assume aesthetic stance on the brink of dissolution. Grotesquely distorting...
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Photography alternating between concrete and abstract ways of seeing. Six artists show individual photography positions. Andreas Helweg: Sicht und Standort. Friesische Nachtreise | Manuele Klein:...
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Kamil Rachwal was born in Wroclaw/ Breslau, and has been living in Cologne since 1988. His photographic journeys often take him to Poland. It is not modern Poland – or what is assumed to be modern...
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Comprising approximately 150 original photographs, the current exhibition shows a representative cross-section of “People of the 20thCentury”, a unique condensed view of the creativity of August...
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Two films by film-maker couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (1933 in Metz/Paris 1936-2006 Cholet Cholet) about the painter Paul Cézanne form the departure point of the exhibition...
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In her works, as before, Verena Guther leads the viewer through the metropolises of this world and has them unfold their effect in impressive landscape or portrait formats. Her view of New York,...
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To Mellado, born in Alméria in 1966, Cuba is one of the world’s most up-to-date countries. “For me it was the fascination with beauty that resides in the ephemeral.” His large-format photographs...
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Clark worked in a house where a man was held suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. The installation of "Control Order House" documents this form of imprisonment in a meticulous sequence...
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As a season opener Galerie Julian Sander shows an exhibition that is incunabulum and homecoming simultaneously: For the first time, after numerous international exhibition projects on the great...
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In his works, Bernd Halbherr (*1964) deals with opportunities to convey the in itself two-dimensional photographic image into the third dimension. His “photo spheres”, “wall reliefs” and “photo...
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Exactly sixteen years ago the Krings-Ernst Galerie showed the works of South African photographer David Goldblatt. It was the series Wittenoom, Western Australia, his first major cycle in colour,...
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Mehtap Baydu works with the artistic forms of expression sculpture, performance and photography. She uses these in order to reflect social structures of multi-cultural society. Topics such as...
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“The project refers to photographs of moon landscapes that were taken by NASA astronauts during the Apollo missions of the late 60s and early 70s. I still remember seeing these pictures for the...
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For the first time, the MAKK presents a previously unpublished private collection. In a long-term project spanning several years, the two artists Hans Diernberger and Will Saunders (both *1983)...
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When, in the mid-60s, Beatniks were proclaiming freedom of intellect and free love, John Chicago (alias Wolfgang Schulz) picked up his camera and began documenting his impressions of the societal...
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Two films by film-maker couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet (1933 in Metz/Paris 1936-2006 Cholet Cholet) about the painter Paul Cézanne form the departure point of the exhibition...
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Prompted by the action of RWE Power AG and the politically responsible powers in the brown coal district, the series “Die Todgweihten – Bäume aus dem Hambacher Forst” came into being in early 2018....
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For the first time, the Thomas Zander gallery is showing new dye transfer prints of Tod Papageorge’s early colour photographs from New York. In highly expressive images of display windows...
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In the exhibition REAL LIFE DRAMAS, black-and-white works by Mary Frey from her READING RAYMOND CARVER series of works and colour photographs from the years 1985-1986 are presented together in a...
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We often see terrible things happening in Giordano’s images: serious accidents and deaths. Our instinctive reaction is confusion and consternation in the face of the characters’ unhappy fate, but...
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The four solo exhibitions deal with people of different cultures, whose lives appear to be hopeless and inevitable. In Room 1, Micha Ende shows “Treasure Hunters”. Works by José Giribás can be seen...
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“Church and City” is an exhibition project about the church of St Trinitatis in Leipzig. Architects of the multi-award-winning new church development joined internationally renowned architecture...
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Water – a paradoxical element, that simulates spatial illusions; a polymorphous phenomenon, stimulated or tamed by its environment; a force majeure, that creates life, moves, and ultimately also...
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Klaus the Violinist: a street Musician, a firework of passion. Christel Plöthner: Photographer and in every situation not only an observer, but present and involved. Two temperaments met in 1970 in...
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One of the 21st century’s central questions is how we can negotiate our identity in an ever more complex world and how a globalized society can take diversity into account. From global contexts...
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Cologne’s Carthusian church was put to service as evangelical place of preaching on 16 September 1928. The well-known priest Georg Fritze entered into his service as the first evangelical priest of...
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With her photographic works, Kathrin Broden abducts the viewer to mysterious places and immerses him or her into the world of ruins. She makes us witnesses of history, superficially of buildings...
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In their works, Anna C. Wagner, Frank Doering and Tobias D. Kern artistically realize the transformation process undergone by the more than 100 year-old former industrial area around...
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Christuskirche Stanislav Tůma, born in Cheb in 1950, was a Czech photographer. He began taking photographs professionally in 1969. In the 1970s he documented the Czech theatre and music scene. In...
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11 photography teachers at the Cologne adult education centre show their interpretations of the subject of change. Exhibitors: Silvia Bins, Joachim Clüsserath, Gabriele Dietrich, Hildegard Fritsch,...
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The photographic works of Rita Rohlfing have the effect of a cosmos, a construct of light and space. Only those who look for clues will discover the microcosmos, find traces of use and pause in the...
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The exhibition shows fifty examples of contemporary photography from Cologne collection Elder, including by Adams, Chargesheimer, Parr and Sladek. Questions concerning documentation, reality...
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Slow Photography at its best – Selected vintage prints from Dieter Röseler’s large-scale series of portraits on handmade paper sheets. Prof. Klaus Honnef in his introduction to #minnsche: “......
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Multimedia artist (sculptor) observes artists. Photographs are shown. Intermediate forms. Objects. Photography in the process of creative concepts.
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Thomas Dahmen: I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT - Photographers portraits with Polaroid Bigshot
Helmut Hergarten: WAIT & SEA - about the refugee drama in Mediterranean Sea
Nina von Kreisler: INSOMNIA -...
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“YOU is always someone else”deals with the evolution of portrait photography. At Stefan Schuelke Fine Books, Cologne-based artist Alexander Basile realizes a juxtaposition of his private photobook...
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For the moment. The ephemeral. Nothing that lasts. Emergence and disappearance. Fleeting encounters. Existing and past. The photographic works by the seven artists play with perception and reality,...
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To mark the shutdown of the 1st brown coal power station in the region, Katja Richter exhibits a piece of history with the series KRAFTWERKE. A theme that preoccupies people and triggers many...
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On the occasion of Photoszene 2018 the IIC presents works by Cologne-based photographers Rosanna D’Ortana, Francesca Magistro and Luisa Zanzani on the theme of their shared Italian origins. The...
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Partying people alongside heavily armed police, concrete blocks and water cannons – an apparently irreconcilable contrast that lent a more serious face to the exuberant buoyancy of Cologne’s...
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spaces of the Klöckner foundry. Both work with the factor of contingency, which the photographer deploys in a controlled manner. The “Parisian Series” was created on b/w film, on which parts of the...
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Abstract photography places the materiality of the photographic at the focus. The medium is light, captured by negative paper, controlled by time. Neither camera nor object are part of the process;...
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To mark its 10th anniversary, the Museum of Applied Art Cologne is hosting the KASSEL DUMMY AWARD and the KASSEL PHOTOBOOK AWARD of the Fotobookfestival Kassel. Two established book awards are...
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Anna E. Stark has been moving through streets throughout the world with her camera for 50 years, encountering people who place their trust in her when she photographs them uninvited. Respectful...
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Permanence and vanishing – photographically visualized on nine kilometres of Rhine. Unknown and confusing views show images on a major Cologne development, the Deutz port – an apparently...
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Six artists from the recently established Grevy art space show photographic works on the theme “Spaces for Species”. Exhibitors: Norbert Goertz, Katja Kempe, Gesa Kieselmann-Fricke, Steffen...
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There are many photographic collections on the Cologne, there is rarely an overview and insight into the Cologne, as it is today - so as to depict an extraordinary retrospective of the urban...
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<< Libre de pensèr. livre despensèes. ivre de pensEr.>> (Freedom of thinking, book of thoughts, drunk on thinking). The series “Symptome” is shot through with the relationship of...
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Refugees are the current headlines these days. New neighbours live among us everywhere. At the same time we seek an appropriate visual language in dealing with them. “Jenseits des Westens” presents...
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The PhotoBookMuseum presents a KICKOFF exhibition for a new project “Street-Life”. A tribute to Chargesheimer and his photographic work in the streets of Cologne. 2018 is the 60th anniversary of...
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Technological evolution means that photographic portraits have become cheap, realizable at any time and available everywhere. Has everything changed because of it? What do we want portraits to...
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The central theme with Ralf Kardes is the art of seeing. To him, photography is not only the illustration of things that have happened: it has a lot more to do with feeling. He works with different...
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With “Uneven Perspectives”, Atelier #1 shows the convening of Anne Barth, Christin Schnittke, Nicole Tersteegen and Dennis Wilhelms, who devote their works to the study of people and perceived...
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Not only the mind, but also the posterior separates man from other living beings. Maybe this is the reason for the ambivalent interest in this outstanding body part. The two body parts evoked...
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KUNSTHALLE RROSE SÉLAVY was inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s tongue-in-cheek talking and his self-portrait with a walnut in his cheek. Through investigative photography, the artist discovered in this...
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Approximately 20 photographers from the Rheinland regional group of the photographers’ association FREELENS e. V. present their view of the Rhine country. The range of topics is broad and the...
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People, cities and landscapes in the East of the USA. A photographic exhibition featuring large-format exhibits by the photographer JOCAO (Joachim Weber). Photographs in black-and-white and colour...
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Thomas Kost photographs 60 - 70-year-old parachute pioneers who have been causing a furore in formation jumping since the 1970s. Guido Schiefer photographs the traces of the Atlantic Wall which...
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In her new works, Verena Guther leads the viewer through some of the world’s metropolises, allowing these cities to unfold their effect in striking landscape or portrait formats. Her unique look at...
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Max Dauven’s works interlace analogue and digital visual worlds. Applying a complex process, the artist simulates digital-looking images in the darkroom with the aid of stencils or montages of...
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Michael Wagener met Armenian photographer Ed Tadevossian underneath an apple tree in Armenia in November 2017. It was the beginning of a photographic symbiosis. High-quality b&w prints show the...
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Under the title Sweet Suburban Sky, artists Feli & Pepita and Ana Motjér present various artists’ positions on the the theme of urban life. In their documentary-looking works Feli & Pepita...
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BAGERITZ, media artist, welcomes visitors to his made-up artists’ bar: At the location that is probably unique in art history, almost in the former studio of the “style pluralist” Sigmar Polke, in...
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"It’s not like me...” - this is the theme worked on by the participants of the photography workshop and photography project course at the Leonard-da-Vinci-Gymnasium in Cologne Nippes. In their...
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The project “Quadri veneziani” is a collection of photographic references, clues and citations from art history that range visually between painting and the beginnings of photography.
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Jo Kirchherr discovered his passion for an old photographic technique – that of COLLODION photography. Using light by the ton, he manages to bring faces and things onto a silver-coated glass plate...
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The diverse positions – based in Germany’s biggest studio house, simultaneously an association for the promotion of art and culture – represented in this tension-filled juxtaposition of...
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Looking onto, looking through, looking into, looking out. A confrontation becomes a positing. Sprawling across the field to be encompassed with a gaze, variable, temporary pausing. An offer:...
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A young collective - documentary or artistic, as different as the positions themselves, are united around the question of truth in the image. At the focus of the confrontation are photographs that...
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In her second Cologne solo show after the 2014 exhibition, Belgian artist Stine Sampers shows new photographic works that are to be understood as an extension of her performative work of recent...
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In Everything That’s Out There the Klinkerkollektiv shows poetic plant stills by Anja Klein alongside weirdly staged fantasy world by Steffi Karkuske and the rather sober-looking bunker...
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“You keep memories in your heart, as the saying goes.” And at the Fotoraum, located in the heart of Cologne Lindenthal, visitors can take away memories of our city quarter with them. Fur coats on...
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The irresponsible handing of limited resources is one of the most urgent problems of the globalized world. Electronic devices have become our everyday companions, life without them unthinkable. In...
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In the late 18th century a terrible typhoon laid waist to Pingelap, a small atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Its king, one of the few survivors, was a carrier of the rare achromatopsia gene, which...
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