Co-Labs! - Internationale Photoszene Köln

Maxim Zmeyev, Type 1.5.11.5, 2021, Courtesy the artist

Photoszene Co-Labs!
3 exhibitions in collaboration with Cologne's independent scene
The Photoszene is expanding its curatorial program and is pleased to announce collaborations with…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/photoszene/past-events/photoszene-festival-2023/photoszene-specials/co-labs/

Three people sit on a couch smiling, surrounded by two paintings with ornate frames on a wall. A single flower in a vase sits on a colorful tablecloth in the foreground. The scene is set in a cozy living room.

Márta and Andrea Palášti
Márta's Flowers
Andrea Palášti (b. 1984, Novi Sad) works across artistic, curatorial, and pedagogical boundaries…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/andrea-palasti/

The artist stands in her exhibition. She is wearing red lipstick and a vest.

Aslı Özçelik
Sıhhatler Olsun
Aslı Özçelik is a Cologne-based artist who uses photography, video, sound, textiles and…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/asli-ozcelik/

Artist's portrait: A darkly dressed man with a cap and glasses leans against a door frame. The room behind it is wood-paneled and furnished with various objects and works of art on shelves. The picture is black and white.

Atsushi Kakefuda
11032011
Born in 1986 in Sendai, Japan. While working at a photo studio, I assisted various photographers.
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/atsushi-kakefuda/

The artist, a person with long blond hair and glasses is sitting against a backdrop of woven fabric art.

Bokeum Lee
somewhere knitted in blue
Bokeum Lee (*1996, Seoul, South Korea) is an artist living in Germany and studying for a Master's…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/bokeum-lee/

Cihan Çakmak
Where I left you / My sister and I
Cihan Çakmak was born in Lower Saxony in 1993 and grew up in Worpswede and Bremen. After studying…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/cihan-cakmak/

Selfportrait in spring. From the series: PERMANENCES

Diego Moreno
PERMANENCES.
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. Mexico. 1992 … Visual artist specialized in photography and…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/diego-moreno/

Elvo Axt
Flesh of the World
Elvo Axt (b. Kazakhstan) is a mixed media artist exploring various mediums. Migrating to Germany as…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/elvo-axt/

Hanieh Bozorgnia
I DREAMT OF GROWING UP QUEER IN A FREE IRAN
Hanieh Bozorgnia works interdisciplinarily in film, video art and installation. Together with…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/hanieh-bozorgnia/

Janosch Boerckel
6 aus 49
Janosch Boerckel, born in Mainz in 1989, studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/janosch-boerckel/

Joanna Szproch
ALLTAGSFANTASIE
JOANNA SZPROCH (b. 1979, Warsaw) Berlin-based lens-based visual artist and activist whose practice…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/joanna-szproch/

Jonas Höschl
WHY ARE YOU CRYING?
Jonas Höschl (*1995, Regensburg) is a conceptual artist and photographer. In his graphic prints and…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/jonas-ho-schl/

Lisa Domin-Alouane
Twin Towers
The artist Lisa Domin-Alouane uses film, photography, performative elements and language to…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/lisa-domin-alouane/

Luise Marchand
DIE ZEICHEN STEHEN GUT
Luise Marchand (lives and works in Berlin) graduated in 2019 as a master student of Prof. Peter…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/luise-marchand/

Marcel Top
Reversed Surveillance
Marcel Top (b. 1997, BE) is a visual artist living and working between Belgium and London. He…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/marcel-top/

Maxi Glas
Experts
Maxi Glas studies fine arts at the HFBK Hamburg. He uses photography, video and photography-based…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/maxi-glas/

Nina Mokhtarbaf
Wo Mut geboren wird
Nina Mokhtarbaf is a photographer who deals with the role of women in the context of social and…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/nina-mokhtarbaf/

Ricardo Nunes
Family Time
Ricardo Nunes is a photographer, book designer and publisher of the photo book publisher The Velvet…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/ricardo-nunes/

Ronja Falkenbach
Raver
Ronja Falkenbach, born in 1989, is a photographer living in Berlin. She studied in Bielefeld…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/ronja-falkenbach/

Roxana Rios
the body is a practice
Roxana Rios *1994 (they/them) currently based in Leipzig, Germany. In 2017 Roxana picked up a…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/roxana-rios/

Samuel Henne
Samuel Henne studied Fine Arts at the Braunschweig University of Arts and graduated as a…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/samuel-henne/

Shirin Abedi
I will stand your ground on days you can‘t
Shirin Abedi is documentary photographer working on themes such as emancipation, shame and love.
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/shirin-abedi/

Stefanie Schroeder
Eine unsichere Bank
Stefanie Schroeder works in photography and film. She tries to combine a documentary approach with…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/stefanie-schroeder/

Jasper Yi Cao
Love Letters, Fireworks and Time Travel
Jasper Yi Cao, born in 1998 in Changsha, China, currently living and working in Utrecht, The…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/jasper-yi-cao/

Yuki Furusawa
Bye Bye Home Sweet Home
Yuki Furusawa is a Japanese photographer and book artist whose work explores themes of family…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/artist-programme/open-call-2025/kunstler-innen-open-call-2025/yuki-furusawa/

Feelings & Photography
Roxana Rio's work uses photographs, installative formats and performances to examine the body as a…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/festival/ausstellungen-2025/xxx/

Feelings & Photography
In her work, Nina Moktharbaf deals with the role of women in the context of social and cultural…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/festival/ausstellungen-2025/xxx-1/

Feelings & Photography
As part of the group exhibition FEELINGS & PHOTOGRAPHY Stefanie Schroeder exhibits, in her…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/festival/ausstellungen-2025/xxx-2/

Feelings & Photography
Since she left Poland in 2012, Joanna Szproch has been making a stand against the conservative…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/festival/ausstellungen-2025/xxx-3/

Cihan Çakmak, Where I left you / My Sister and I, 2023

Feelings & Photography
What role can photography play in the engagement with feelings and what role do feelings play in…
https://www.photoszene.de/en/festival/ausstellungen-2025/xxx-4/