The Program

This year's Photoszene-Festival offers a variety of opportunities to encounter photography in the form of workshops, lectures, actions, guided tours, discussions and much more.
Here is a selection of our program highlights at a glance!

Events at the MAKK

Once again this year, the festival headquarters of the Photoszene-Festival will be located in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAKK). In addition to our information point, where you can inform yourself about the spots in the city, and the Artist Meets Archive exhibition "Archive Land" by Erik...

Guided tours for adults

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During the festival from 3 to 12 May, many exhibitions in the participating museums, galleries and offspaces throughout Cologne will be inviting visitors to individual tours, explorations and workshops. On the FotoVeedelTours of the Photoszene, known and unknown exhibition locations can be...

Artist Meets Archive

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The Museumsdienst invites you to take a guided tour of our Artist Meets Archive exhibitions. On the second festival weekend, as well as at the Museumsfest on 19 May, three stations can be explored in each of the tours. In addition, each museum with an Artist Meets Archive-exhibition offers...

Photoszene-Kids

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Images and photographs are an essential part of our visual cosmos. In the meantime, however, they also play a central role in everyday communication. And this is not only true for many adults. Young people and children are also increasingly coming into contact with pictorial forms of expression...

SPECIALS

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And there is more: guided tours for collectors, the symposium "Photographic Materials" at the Kunsthochschule für Medien and of course our party on Langer Freitag.