Lebohang Kganye

Artist Meets Archive #3: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

Artist ProgrammeArtist Meets Archive
Lebohang Kganye
Lebohang Kganye © Lerato Ntombela

Kganye, who is best known for her photographic work, often combines the archival and the performative with a practice that focuses on storytelling and memory as it plays out in the familial experience. Her ongoing interest in the materiality of photography is variously explored through the use of sculpture, performance and moving images. While reflecting a particular South African experience, she also critically examines oral traditions and memory as an unreliable repository.

The starting point for Lebohang Kganye's project is a collection of images by the German painter and photographer Marie Pauline Thorbecke, which are kept in the archives of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Thorbecke undertook an expedition to Cameroon with her husband Franz from 1911-1913 on behalf of the German Colonial Society. Some 110 years later, Kganye is travelling through the country again on these tracks and weaving memories, impressions and narratives from a female perspective into a video work and a spatial installation.

All artists who participated in the program
 From Vies possibles et imaginaires © Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh and Rozenn Quéré, 2012

Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh

Artist Meets Archive #2: Rautenstrauch-Joest cat Scratching the Black Box of Colonial Photographs

 Joan Fontcuberta © Damian Zimmermann

Joan Fontcuberta

Artist Meets Archive #2: Gossan: Mars Mission

 Naoya Hatakeyama © Marion Mennicken

Naoya Hatakeyama

Artist Meets Archive #3: Yokohama Souvenirs

 Erik Kessels © Erik Kessels

Erik Kessels

Artist Meets Archive #1: Archive Land

 Ola Kolehmainen © Maija Toivane

Ola Kolehmainen

Artist Meets Archive #1: COELN. Cathedral of Light

 Pablo Lerma © T. Ripa

Pablo Lerma

Artist Meets Archive #3: NS-Documentation Center

 Lilly Lulay © Enrique Ramirez

Lilly Lulay

Artist Meets Archive #3: Rhenish Image Archive

 Anna Orłowksa © Chrobot&Filak

Anna Orłowksa

Artist Meets Archive #2: A Part of the Part

 Ronit Porat © Yair Barak

Ronit Porat

Artist Meets Archive #1: Paradiesvogel

 Rosângela Rennó © Julia Rennó

Rosângela Rennó

Artist Meets Archive #2: Eaux des Colonies

 Fiona Tan © A van Leeuwarden

Fiona Tan

Artist Meets Archive #1: GAAF

 Roselyne Titaud © Yves Bresson

Roselyne Titaud

Artist Meets Archive #1: Die Hummer-Quadrille

 Antje van Wichelen © Antje van Wichelen

Antje van Wichelen

Artist Meets Archive #1: NOISY IMAGES

Participants

Between 2018 and 2024, 4 editions of the Artist Meets Archive programme have been realized so far. A total of 20 artists took part and presented their projects at the Photoszene Festival in Cologne.

This website is using cookies to provide a good browsing experience
These include essential cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site, as well as others that are used only for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, not all functions of the website may be available.
This website is using cookies to provide a good browsing experience
These include essential cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site, as well as others that are used only for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, not all functions of the website may be available.
Your cookie preferences have been saved.