Events at the MAKK

© Silviu Giuman

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 Kessels, numerous events in the Overstolzensaal and the collection can be visited here.

Photo book quartet +

Fotobuch-Quartett 2019.jpg

It may be argued again: In the photo book quartet, five podium participants* talk about four photo books, put them through their paces and sometimes even almost touch each other's throats. This time they are: Frank Dürrach and Oliver Rausch (both from the Cologne Photo Academy), Damian...

Insight. Four ways into the forest

Klammer_FL_Diskussion_Hambach_2019_5 Kopie.JPG

FREELENS presents: Insight. Four ways into the forest Panel discussion on photographic approaches and visual languages using the Hambach forest as an example. On the panel: Thekla Ehling, Matthias Jung, David Klammer and Bernd Lauter.Moderation: Ute Wegmann Thursday 9 May, 2019Time: 18...

Photographer’s Night

U.Mahler870505um_web02.jpg

Photographer's Night 2019 "The Art of Documentary Photography"Guests are Ute and Werner MahlerModeration Angela Spizig The Photographer's Night as the "Gala of Photography" has been a highlight of the Photoszene-Festival for more than twelve years. It was first conceived and organized by...

Streaming Pictures

Once again, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) is offering the universities a forum for presentation within the framework of the International Photoszene 2019 in Cologne. On 10 and 11 May, an image projection with several beamers at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK)...

fotobus

Fotobus Society in cooperation with the DGPh Photography students from the Fotobus Society present works on the theme of identity and society at the Museum für Angewandt Kunst in Cologne. The photographs on display illuminate the state of our current world. The manifold mechanisms behind the...

Dr. Erich Salomon Award Ceremony of the DGPh

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) awards the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize to the US photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair. The DGPh honors the work of a photojournalist who has long occupied an outstanding position in the tradition of humanistic photography. The laudation will be given by...

Art Meets Education

5c69bb243ca6bdc24b361bd2_Christopher “Topher” Castro.jpg

Photoszene Köln is the patron of Art Meets Education (AME), a non-profit organization that provides education through photography. AME offers children from disadvantaged families in the Philippines the opportunity to finance their school attendance through photography. In workshops, children...

SCANNER at MAKK

For the exhibition opening of the AMA artist Erik Kessels on 4 May 2019 in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne, the British sound artist SCANNER creates the appropriate acoustic atmosphere. In his performance "Memory Sonatas", the knights, church bells, Renaissance sculptures and iron chests...