Portfolio-Review 2016
Cologne is a metropolis of photography. And SICHTBAR is the portfolio review within the context of the Photoszene festival. Three x twenty minutes with three of nineteen photography experts. The sum of this calculation: a unique opportunity to discuss your own photographic oeuvre with renowned reviewers from the artistic and museum context, galleries and publishing houses, and universities! The portfolio review will take place on 23 September 2016 at the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur. Sign up for the SICHTBAR portfolio review by 7th September.
Claudia Schubert // SK Stiftung Kultur
Claudia Schubert is an art historian and scientific employee and curator at the Photographic Collection/SK Stiftung Kultur. Documentary photography, with outlooks onto the artistic experimental field, is her particular concern.
Gérard A. Goodrow // Art + Language
Gérard A. Goodrow’s professional background is in the museum sector and on the art market. He is now a freelance author and curator based in Cologne, focusing on contemporary art and photography. He has curated more than 60 exhibitions in Germany and abroad and authored numerous publications.
Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber // Fotografie
Hidden behind BöhmKobayashi are Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber, but behind their identity many figures are concealed: photographer and artist, curator and initiator of exhibitions, designer and editor of books on art. Who each of them is at this very moment, when they are moving through their ...
Simone Klein // Magnum
Simone Klein is an art historian and the director of the “Print Sales” department at Magnum Photos. She lives and works in Paris, London and Cologne. Her focus during her studies was on 19th-century photography (Dageurrotype, early paper photography). Following her studies she was director of ...
Hartwig Schwarz // Temporary Gallery
Hartwig Schwarz works for the Temporary Gallery, a contemporary art centre in Cologne that collaborates with many international guest curators and theoreticians. He studied photography and film. His interest lies in working artistically with photography, which in his view seems to be largely ...
Norbert Moos // Forum für Fotografie
Dr. Norbert Moos is a curator, a publisher and the director of the Forum für Fotografie in Cologne. An established authority on the international scene, the Forum hosts the German Photobook Award on a regular basis. He deals intensively with Asian art and non-European photography. One of his ...
Barbara Hofmann-Johnson // Kuratorin
Barbara Hofann-Johnson works as a freelance art historian and curator in the field of contemporary art and photography; her clients include the Photographic Collection/SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne. She also teaches photography and theory at Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen. In addition ...
Thekla Ehling // The PhotoBookMuseum
Thekla Ehling studied photography and is now established as a freelance photographer in Cologne. The portrait is at the heart of her photographs. She works for magazines in Germany and abroad and is represented by the agency Focus in Hamburg and by Galerie Robert Morat in Hamburg/Berlin, and her ...
Alain Bieber // NRW-Forum
Alain Bieber has been a curator of exhibitions throughout Europe since 2004; topics have included street art, post-Internet art, Net and media art, political art, gaming and photography. He studied rhetoric, literary studies, sociology, and communication and political science. He worked in the ...
Wolfgang Vollmer // Fotograf
Wolfgang Vollmer, a freelance photographer, curator, author, artist, collector, critic and teacher, lives in Cologne. He works with the magazine Camera Austria, which discusses photography in context with contemporary art, media and social development. His own works are on display at Museum ...
Christoph Bangert // Fotograf
Christoph Bangert is a photojournalist specializing in reportages on political events and from war and crisis regions. He has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Darfur, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, among other places. His images have been published in the likes of the New York Times, ...
Michael Horbach // Stifter & Sammler
Michael Horbach is the founder of the Michael-Horbach-Stiftung, a foundation whose art spaces focus on socially critical photo exhibitions and provide a platform for societally and socially engaged artists. Exhibited artists have included Helmut Newton, Jock Sturges, Olaf Martens, Herlinde ...
Clara M. Sels // Duesseldorf Photoweekend
Clara Sels was co-founder, with Werner Lippert, former director of NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, of the Düsseldorf Photo Weekend in 2011. In 2013 she took on sole management of the festival. The festival took place for the fifth time in 2016 and has become a firm component of the international ...
Manfred Zollner // FotoMAGAZIN
Manfred Zollner worked initially as a film critic and film editor for several magazines following studies in communication science. He has devoted himself exclusively to photography since 1991. His first role was a Director of Photography at fotoMAGAZIN. In 2006 he switched from being ...
Nils Müller // Ruttkowski;68
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Ferdinand Brüggemann // Priska Pasquer
Ferdinand Brüggemann is responsible for the Japanese photography programme at Galerie Priska Pasquer in Cologne. During his art history studies he worked at the Photographic Collection of Museum Folkwang, Essen, and at the Bundeskunsthalle and Haus der Geschichte in Bonn. Following voluntary ...
Jan Wenzel // Spector Books
Jan Wenzel is a Leipzig-based publisher, author and artist. He was co-founder in 2001 with Markus Dreßen and Anne König of Spector Books. He has been writing the regular column “The Revolving Bookshelf”, which focuses on the photobook, in the magazine Camera Austria since 2013. His works ...