We understand photography as a medium in progress, which is constantly changing due to external influences and technical innovations.
In addition to artistic strategies that question both technical progress and media-specific conditions and modes of use, we want to show a variety of presentation possibilities and visual languages. It is not only through digitalisation or artificial intelligence that their scope and possibilities of reception are constantly expanding. Globalisation and increasing networking are leading to an ever more complex and, as it were, fragile world in which changes are taking place faster than ever before. In our everyday lives, we are constantly challenged to deal with these changes and to create structures to deal with them. Photography as part of visual culture is also affected by this fragility, so that the way we photograph, receive and share is also undergoing major changes.
For the first time, the International Photoszene Cologne 2022 has issued an open call for artists working with the medium of photography and its extended sense of the post-photographic.
Photography in Progress: Fragile Infrastrukturen
Openingng Friday, 12th May 6 pm
Michael Horbach Foundation