Application Closed! Thank you for the many wonderful submissions!
Together with Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, Archiv der Fotowerkstätte Schmölz, Greven Archiv Digital as well as FrauenMediaTurm Köln and LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, we invite artists to delve into diverse photographic holdings, stories, and discourses, and to develop their own explorations and projects.
The new edition of Artist Meets Archive once again brings together a wide range of different photographic archives and collections, highlighting the complexity and versatility of photography: as a medium of reportage or feminist activism, documenting urban history and spatial change, or interpreting movement and dance (history). It combines extensive press image archives with collections and estates of significant photographers, opens up diverse institutional perspectives on photography, and places a particular focus on the (image) archive at the intersection of analogue and digital organization and use. All four residencies will take place in the summer of 2026. The exhibitions will open the following year at the Photoszene Festival in May 2027.
General information about the residencies, terms and conditions of participation, and the application process can be found here:
Got further questions? Email us at opencall@photoszene.de!
The program is generously supported by the City of Cologne, the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Sparkassen Kulturstiftung Rheinland, Sparkasse KölnBonn and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Thank you!
