Two locations, distance 7.675 kilometres apart as the crow flies: Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Cologne, Geldernstraße. Two exhibition locations, distance 5.0 kilometres: in the centre of the...
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Since 2005 Markus Brunetti has been fully dedicated to the fascination of architectonic structures. For this reason he took off on a voyage that continues to this day, and employs a complex...
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The PhotoBookMuseum will be the first museum in the world to specialize in artistic photobooks. At the opening, a total of 30 exhibitions and PhotoBookStudies will be shown in a space of over...
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A darkroom, fully equipped, bathed in red light, the lab worker’s hands: photographic paper is exposed and goes through the development process. Visitors watch as the motif appears in the...
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Aline Smithson, LA, USA - Arrangement in Green + Black
Beatrix Reinhardt, NY, USA - Chapter IV Kumbha Mela
Joanna Black, Edinburgh, UK - Jubilee
Karen Glaser, Florida, USA -...
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Motorway A3, on which hundreds of thousands of vehicles normally travel every day, is blocked. Photo artist JOCAO made use of this time out in order to experience the deserted locality and...
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The portrait and studio shots of Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz were created while the artists were busy at work. The photographer Benjamin Katz has been friends with the artists for many...
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Anja Jensen tackles the scenario of observing and being observed. In the twilight and in the glow of artificial light, the artist stages eerie scenes at real locations in nature or the urban...
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From 30 August until 28 September 2014, painter and photographer Martin Streit will be opening a large, walk-in camera obscura to the public on Roncalliplatz. The Cathedral's south portal will...
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With "Summer Blues", the Cologne-based artist couple shows photographs that Sailor took of deserted places, squares devoid of people or isolated settlements, always in summer. agii painted...
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To mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the "culture forum in Herz Jesu is presenting the exhibition, "Reportage from No Man's Land" by Bettina Flitner. Following...
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Children in mines, in factories, glassworks, spinning mills, working as errand boys or as “newsies”, as newspaper vendors or at work in the fields – their age, depending on employment, about 4...
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Frederick Vidal (*1977, lives and works in Hamburg) looks for visual arrangements whose mysteriousness throws up the question of whether this is still chance at work, or whether a conspiracy...
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The exhibition “Exteriors and Interiors” at Galerie Karsten Greve presents new works by Robert Polidori, born in 1951 in Montreal. Polidori’s images of outside and inside realms within an urban...
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The nude is a classic motif in artistic photography. The desire to present oneself naked is in close symbiosis with the photographer's desirous gaze at his model. An appealing alternation...
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With her unique eye for light and shadow, internationally renowned photographer Hélène Binet portrays selected historical buildings from the English Baroque to the French Modern. The London...
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Franziska Stünkel has been working on one series of photographs for years. The visual starting point is formed by reflections in panes combined with photographs with no digital editing, lending...
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The two Cologne-based photographers Jo Fober and Guido Mario Mosler show two positions in the perception of city life. "Charisma Paris" unites Fober's richly contrasting architectural and street...
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Jutta Vogel has travelled intensively in the Sahara since 1998. Her photographs tell of desert landscapes and their inhabitants, the Tuareg. They are photographs that react spontaneously and...
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"There is nothing like a dream to create the future." (V. Hugo) The individual in space has been an omnipresent theme in art since time began. In their works, the three talented Spanish...
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Gallery Mirko Mayer shows in collaboration with gallery Nagel Draxler selected works from the very beginning of Clegg & Guttmann’s carrier to the most recent works. The core of the...
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The Grand Shrine of Ise is held to be Japan’s most important Shinto sanctuary. Its imposing layout comprising principal and auxiliary shrines is visited by approximately eight million people...
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American photograper Todd Hido (*1968) has emerged as an artist through his night shots from the series "House Hunting“ (2001) and today ranks among the world’s renowned fine art photographers...
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First Floor: The exhibition shows Lee Friedlander’s structurally complex landscape photographs alongside Pierre Bonnard’s drawn sketches, which served as templates for Bonnard’s paintings and...
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First Floor: The exhibition shows Lee Friedlander’s structurally complex landscape photographs alongside Pierre Bonnard’s drawn sketches, which served as templates for Bonnard’s paintings and...
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Lorenz builds backdrop-like sets that enable her to capture, on the camera plate, picture planes that progress into the depths within a single shot. With these works it is completely impossible...
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Two locations, 7,675 km apart as the crow flies: Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Cologne, Geldernstraße. Two exhibition locations, 5.0 km apart: In the heart of the neighbourhood, smartphone photos of...
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Thomas Hoepker (1936) has been a member of the legendary agency Magnum Photos since 1989, and was its president from 2003 until 2007. Hoepker’s images, committed and sworn to the truth but never...
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Through the selection of the image detail and the composition of colour and graphical elements an aesthetic develops that gives a specific individuality to the water and the walls. At the same...
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How deeply rooted Cologne's carnival is in people and how much positive energy is released during the carnival can perhaps best be perceived when one observes the Cologne Triumvirate. The...
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On 08 November 2013 probably the most violent typhoon “Yolanda” (internationally: “Haiyan”) raged in the Philippines. The journalist duo travelled to various parts of the archipelago a few weeks...
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They embody the dream of grace and immaculate beauty – these little plastic beings which are the object of young girls’ care, and these bigger ones which draw the gazes of older gentlemen in the...
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What effects do poverty and homelessness have on a person’s identity, when the pillars of material and emotional security are flimsy or have crumbled away? The photographer Uwe Müller describes...
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The photo artist Martin Claßen takes us with him down into the crypt of the Capuchin monastery in Palermo, where corpses mummified over centuries are entombed. His images provide a contemporary...
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Bettina Flitner spent ten days in a large brothel in Stuttgart. She asked the guests: “Why are you here?” The men, aged between 23 and 73, answered – and allowed themselves to be pictured seated...
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In this exhibition the artist Anna E. Stark shows the moments that moved her during her encounters with people in various countries. Her large-format, generally analogue b/w portraits give...
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The exhibition shows photos by Maxi Uellendahl that were created for the book “Zerkall - Die unzeitgemäße Geschichte der Eifeler Büttenpapierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne”, which was...
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Be it man in space, empty space or inter-space, whether documentary/objective, abstract, narrative or in installation form – Rosanna D'Ortona, Julia Horn, Bernadette Jansen, Francesca Magistro,...
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"time shift" is the name of the current exhibition by the Cologne-based photographer and graphic designer Philipp J. Bösel. It features unedited digital panoramic shots that were taken on the...
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The exhibition shows a bundle of publisher's and studio photographs taken at the start of the 20th century. Following the shape of the Italian boot, from Ticino in the north to Naples, our focus...
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Identity – an area of tension between being and possibility to be. Can it be that the only reason photography was invented was the ability to give expression to the many facets of the search for...
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The group exhibition by Bettina Becker, Gerd Günzel and Kirsten Radermacher is richly faceted. The artists have been brought together by a photo seminar by Cologne-based photographer Ellen...
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The global world of labour fluctuates between high technology in industrial nations and the most basic manufacture in less developed lands. 68elf e.v. shows 40 positions on diverse aspects of...
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To imagine sth.: To visualize, to surmise, to fantasize, to dream. Diana Kraege and Hartmut Schneider present photographic interpretations of selected musical pieces. The photos are not hung on...
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Three American photographers – three different approaches to portrait photography. Pamela Pecchio uses a home or a landscape as a backdrop. The melding of subject and context demonstrates the...
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The "Non Places" series are webcam app photos for which, last year, Kiera won first prize at the Mobile Art Europe Award handed over at Berlin's Museum of Communication. The "Stolen Faces"...
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Fabian Weiss accompanied young people in German youth assistance institutions for several months. Empathetically his work provides an insight into special yet everyday life stories in Germany’s...
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The jetztzeit Club exhibits. In the studio of Tobias Vollmer at the old gas engine factory Deutz the jetztzeit Club – art photographers Nadine Targiel, Florian Müller and Michael Streckbein...
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Pi Heinz’s works testify, as so often in photography, to the elapsing of time. Time is halted and transience becomes all the clearer. His found objects from the wayside are often carelessly...
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Around 30 pro photographers from the Rhineland regional group of the photographers' association FREELENS present, for the second time, their look at the Rhineland and the Rhineland residents in...
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The photographer Claudia Kroth shows portraits of men from different cultures: from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Orient. This is a selection of b/w shots that couldn't be more colourful.
How much order do people need? Is order typically German? Does it demonstrate cultivation, or rather narrowness in thought and deed? Ute Grünewald’s conceptual series of photos documents the...
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The eye's imagination triumphs over the sharp-edged laws of science. This geometric mockery forces a new examination of architectonically created landscapes. In this visual cocktail, distances...
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On display are interiors of slum huts in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. “Aesthetically attractive for the beholder, crowdedness is at the same time a clear sign of the poverty in which many people...
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"Jim Dine - My Tools" provides an insight into his complex photographic reflections on the theme. The large-format black-and-white shots, colour photographs and helio engravings. From 2001 to...
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The lecturers of the photography department at Cologne’s adult education college (VHS) are highly dedicated, able and knowledgeable teachers of photographic in theory and practice. With their...
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Original Polaroids, Impossible and Polapaintings at Galerie KILO. Three multimedia artists, who have been experimenting with the medium of Polaroid and Impossible for many years and who have...
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For the 10th time the artists’ group orange linsen exhibits its different works which, as a result of consistent creative methods and viewpoints, and viewpoints, are always characterized by...
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The forest as a fabulous and mystical symbol plays a central role in the staged photographs of Cecilia Szabó. In the language of fairy tales it is synonymous with wilderness and unspoilt nature,...
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NORTHERN SPRING CLASSICS
For four years Mathias Schneider accompanied the four selected spring classics of cycling. Self fascinated by the road racing event he tries to catch the gap...
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The exhibition shows photographic works and installations by several artists on the topic of interior and exterior spaces. Halle Zollstock will itself be turned into an interactive space, beyond...
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“Hospital in Change” is a temporary exhibition project of a very special kind. In the former historic building of the children’s hospital, built in 1914 in Cologne-Weidenpesch, Klaus Benden...
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Kathrin Esser and Urszula Golaszweska are present both in front of and behind the camera, acting in their photography as artist and model. The colourful portraits have a dreamily playful and...
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Atelier Botz invites visitors to the exhibition “Hinterland”. On show are works by the French photographer Emmanuel Sapet, who, during his artistic research projects, allows himself to be guided...
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During Photokina, in the exhibition spaces of the Michael Horbach Foundation, laif Agentur für Photos & Reportagen shows 6 thematically and pictorially different works on the topic of...
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In the form of an artistic encounter between the twin cities of Cologne and Istanbul, the exhibition shows works by Boris Becker and Murat Germen. Both artists place their topical focus on...
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The exhibition is being organized by the Van der Grinten Galerie on the occasion of the new autumn show at STOLL WOHNBEDARF + OBJEKT. A comprehensive selection of b/w photographs by the...
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A challenge is set to the notion of the forest as an idyll. Lonely, aged and broken, these trees and forests seem to us to be almost alien lifeforms. They have something inherently morbid,...
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From the 'Madonna in the Rubble' to the Dolce Vita on the Rhine: In the black-and-white photographs by Hermann Claasen, Theo Felten, Clemens Hartzenbusch, Karl-Hugo Schmölz, Lotte Laska, Walter...
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Teresa Rothwangl has an exceptional view of people. One can tell from her photos that she loves what she sees! In 2013, the Austrian master photographer moved to Cologne. Her new exhibition, her...
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Together with the stylist Ursel Winkler, photographer Manfred Daams stages grotesque situations and freezes them between construction and naturalness. Thus, we see images that prompt us to...
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