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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.
Visit to Pauline Hafsia M'barek in her residency at Museum Ludwig
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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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Andrés Galeano
Meets
Kölner Dombauarchiv
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Elena Efeoglou
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die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur
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Marta Bogdanska
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Kölnisches Stadtmuseum
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Jimmi Wing Ka Ho
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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
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.