Helena Weber, born 1985, is a historian, curator and author who works and lives in Cologne. After studying history, Western Slavic studies and English at the universities of Cologne and Krakow, she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Theory and History of Photography at the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne and as a freelance photo editor at the photo agency United Archives. Since 2014, she has worked as a curatorial assistant at several cultural history museums, where she has realised some of her own photo-historical exhibitions. Among others, at the Ruhr Museum Essen, the City Museums Leipzig and Dresden and most recently at the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn. In 2022/2023 she was project manager of Artist Meets Archive #3 and has been head of the programme since 2024.
Our Team
Internationale Photoszene Cologne has been driven forward since the 1980s by the ideas and commitment of numerous people from the museum and gallery scene, politics and business. Heide Häusler has headed the institution as Artistic Director and Managing Director since 2013. Since 2017, an Artistic Board has defined the long-term programme concepts. Until 2023, the Artistic Board consisted of Heide Häusler, Inga Schneider and Damian Zimmermann. Since 2024, Heide Häusler, Lucia Halder and Damian Zimmermann form the Artistic Board. A whole host of great people from the fields of art history, art, journalism and the creative industries in general are involved in the programme and the direction of the Photoszene. With their impulses and approaches, they all contribute to the diversity of the programme.