Jimmi Wing Ka Ho was the invited AMA artist at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum for the fourth edition of the programme.
He is a visual artist and documentary photographer from Hong Kong, now based in the UK. He graduated from the Royal College of Art and his work has been exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery. In 2021/22 he received the Royal Photographic Society Postgraduate Fellowship and was nominated for the C/O Berlin Talent Award. His series "So Close and Yet So Far Away" with photographs from 2019 to 2023 takes the viewer on a journey through Hong Kong's colonial history, migration and archives.
Invisible City
German-Chinese colonial history has rarely been the object of public notice. Jimmi Wing Ka Ho takes up this point and traces the history of the city of Qingdao, which was under German occupation from 1898 until 1914. Starting from holdings from the photographic archive of the RJM, he takes along his camera on an evidential search into Qingdao’s colonial past, examining its influence on the urban profile to this day and the memories that are transmitted. In dialogue with historical material, the photographs and video works created on location open up diverse – sometimes contradictory – angles and cause the boundaries to blur between archival memory and lived experience.
Jimmi Wing Ka Ho Meets Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
AMA#4 Meets University of Cologne
Marta Bogdańska was interviewed by students of the University of Cologne in the context seminar “Artist Meets Archive – Artists in the (Photo) Archive”, led by Dr. Franziska Brons and held at the Department of Art History Cologne.
She talks about her artistic practice and her residency project, and provides insights into the creative process behind her exhibition.
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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.