RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
Arnisa Caterina Zeqo
We are delighted to welcome our new resident Arnisa Caterina Zeqo to Cologne. Arnisa will be in the city until January 16, offering feedback sessions for artists and curators. She will also visit several institutions, including Kunstlerhaus kat18, kaethe:k Kunsthaus, and Sammlung Zander.
Arnisa Caterina Zeqo is an art historian, curator and educator based in Amsterdam and Beetserzwaag. She co-founded Rongwrong, a space for art and theory in Amsterdam and is now director of Kunsthuis SYB in Beetserzwaag.In 2021/22 she was researcher in residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam where she worked on the intersection of (auto)fiction, performance and printed matter. In 2015-2017 she worked for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, responsible for the education programs (aneducation) in Athens and initiator of the Society of Friends of Ulises Carrion within the Parliament of Bodies.
STUDIO VISITS
with Arnisa Caterina Zeqo
Cologne-based artists and curators have the opportunity to meet Maria in person for approximately one hour to present their own work or projects and receive feedback.
Individual registration and scheduling at ch@temporarygallery.org.
About the residency programme:
It has become a declared, if often only half-heartedly pursued, goal of cultural institutions to question and renew their own structures with regard to diversity. However, diversity must not just be a temporary program or a hip agenda, but must go deeper. The question must not only be who gets access to cultural education and its institutions, but who is even able to consider cultural and/or creative work as a career perspective.
Although so-called "art brut" – art by people with a mental illness or a mental disability – is very well established and highly valued, "art brut" artists and their artworks are excluded from the usual art scene: "art brut" functions as a separate area of the art world with its own exhibitions in which only "art brut" artists participate. As a result, they very rarely meet with artists without disabilities. Although the intention behind "art brut" exhibitions is certainly positive and worthy of support, there is no real inclusion here – the artworks are "isolated" in separate exhibitions instead of being included in exhibitions of artists without illness or disability. In order to address this problem in the long term, the Temporary Gallery. Centre for Contemporary Art in Cologne, would like to implement an idea in 2024 that focuses on empowerment and inclusion at a deeper level: a residency program for cultural workers – in cooperation with several partners from Cologne – with the main goal: to counteract the exclusion of so-called "outsider art" in the long term to deal with this problem in the long term, the Temporary Gallery. Center for Contemporary Art in Cologne, initiated a project that focuses on empowerment and inclusion on a deeper level: a residency program for cultural workers with the main goal: to counteract the exclusion of so-called "Outsider Art" in the long term.
The aim of the program is to invite several international artists to Cologne. The guests visit partner institutions and meet artists in their studios. In addition, individual studio visits are offered, 1–2 hour talk, for which artists can register.
