Artists-in-Residence
with MRIGANKA MADHUKAILLYA, RYM JALIL, KEKAHI WAHI, 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 will present Swamp things 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.
From July to November 2024 the Participatory Residency Program is currently being shaped by RYM JALIL (they/them) - poet, visual anthropologist and food artist. Jalil's work orbits around relationships between memory, social space and cultural significations of food and coffee. Jalil's long-term project "Jebena Talks; Conversations and Ceremony Around Memory and Food" is a space for intimate gathering and exploration of ritual with a focus on themes of access and exclusion.
rom October to December 2024, the film initiative KEKAHI WAHI, led by filmmaker SANCIA MIALA SHIBA NASH and artist DREW K. BRODERICK, will offer a series of events including a meet-and-greet, a weaving and reading workshop, and a film screening that creates space for discussion. The kekahi wahi residency is made possible with the kind support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and takes place in cooperation with the Hawai'i Triennale 2025 'ALOHA NŌ'.
Starting 2025, the ADKDW is organizing the Participatory Residency Program in collaboration with Un-Label. The aim of the cooperation is to strengthen the social participation of people with disabilities. In this model project, different expertise and networks will be brought together in order to develop a concept for inclusive residencies which are geared towards the needs of the participants and which can also be used in other places in the future.
Un-Label is committed to inclusive arts and culture and uses accessibility as an aesthetic vocabulary to change public perception and enable progressive artistic processes. Through its efforts, the initiative wants to show that inclusion and accessibility are achievable - in culture and any other areas of life.
The new international artist funding project Mutual Empathies will start in November 2024. The collaborative programme of the Academy of the Arts of the World, the Goethe-Institut Vilnius and the Rupert Centre for Art, Residencies and Education aims to promote artistic positions that deal with the complex eco-political issues of our global society in a meaningful and playful way. The first edition includes residencies, productions and public events in Vilnius, Cologne and online between November 2024 and February 2025.
We warmly welcome the selected artists Saroot Supasuthivech from Bangkok, Thailand, and Vanja Smiljanić from Cologne, Germany!
