LVR-Landes-
museum Bonn & FrauenMedia-
Turm Köln

The LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn is one of the oldest museums of cultural history in Germany and has a tradition going back 200 years. It collects, preserves, exhibits and educates on treasures from archaeology, art and cultural history from more than 400,000 years. It is the Rhineland’s only cultural history museum to trace the region’s development from its beginnings to the present day. Its photographic collection encompasses important testimonies of German photography history of the 20th century and bequests from prominent photographers, for example Hermann Claasen und Liselotte Strelow, Hans-Martin Küsters and Angela Neuke.

For more than forty years, the FrauenMediaTurm has been home to one of the most significant collections on both the historical and latter-day women’s movement in Germany. Letters and journals, posters, button badges, films and magazines from 200 years of feminist women’s history, more the 86,000 written and 9,000 image documents in total, are kept alongside library treasures in the mediaeval Bayenturm in Cologne. With an archive, library and reading-room, the FMT is a place of living memory dedicated to women’s movements and is open to the public.

The work of photographer Angela Neuke is to be the starting point of engagement during Artist Meets Archive #5. An influential protagonist of a new photojournalism approach in German photography after 1960, she documented the Federal Republic’s societal lifeworld into the 1990s with a socially critical, politically focused gaze. As she did so she worked especially on socially disquieting content and feminist topics that remain highly current to this day and were published on a regular basis in magazines such as Emma or Brigitte.

Neuke’s extensive legacy is located today in the LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, which is due to put on a comprehensive monographic exhibition of her work in May 2027. The FrauenMediaTurm also keeps many of her photographs, including impressive shots of the first feminist demos against violence towards women and girls from the 1970s. Both holdings form the basis for artistic engagement with (photo) historiography from a feminist perspective. Accordingly, the residency will take place at two research locations.

LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn
Rheinisches Landesmuseum für Archäologie, Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte
Colmantstrasse 14-16
53115 Bonn

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FMT – FrauenMediaTurm
Bayenturm / Rheinauhafen
50678 Köln

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