Artists-in-Residence
mit OLIVIA EMEFIELE, MRIGANKA MADHUKAILLYA, DARDAN ZHEGROVA
The ADKDW Residency will continue to bring international artists and cultural workers to Cologne in 2024 in order to connect them with the local art and creative scene and give them the opportunity to conduct research and find new impulses for their own work.
The Indian artist and filmmaker MRIGANKA MADHUKAILLYA will be a guest in the first half of the year. His film Swamp things is an attempt to make the city's organic and inorganic voices - from minerals to ecosystems to microorganisms - audible. From April to June 2024, Mriganka Madhukaillya will continue his research for the Swamp things project in Cologne, which is being carried out in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Maan Barua (University of Cambridge) and the Berlin sound artist Ralf Wendt. As part of a lecture performance, the three Swamp things will present to the Cologne audience and talk about how theory and visual thinking illuminate each other in the filmmaking process.
In May and June 2024 we welcome the artist DARDAN ZHEGROVA, whose work was shown in 2023 as part of Manifesta 14 in Prishtina, as Artist-in-Residence in Cologne. Dardan Zhegrova's works are oriented towards objects and performance. The breaking down of various boundaries in Zhegrova's work also reflects his queer identity, which oscillates between feminine and masculine attributes and consciously rejects and transcends a normative understanding of gender.
OLIVIA EMEFIELE is a German-Nigerian artist living in Cologne designer. Her works reflect anti-racist and socio-political issues, as well as narratives and discourses. As part of the ADKDW's Participatory Residency Program, she will work in creative workshops with the students of the Jugendwerkstatt Chorweiler in 2024.
The Participatory Residency Program is realized with the kind support of the RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur. The Participatory Residency Program with Olivia Emefiele is realized in cooperation with the Jugendwerkstatt Chorweiler.
