Student Feature: Fool Collective / PH3

Fool Collective Exhibition in Cologne

Following their fieldtrip last year, students of the Fool Collective (PH3) were invited to put together an exhibition in Cologne as part of the symposium ‚We do/are photography‘ of the Internationale Photoszene Köln. During the symposium, co-heads Lotte Sprengers and John Fleetwood talked about the KABK, and the newly printed publication ‚Trickle‘ was on the table for the very first time, fresh from the printers!

We’re showing you some visuals from the exhibition, the build-up, and the talk, as well as two of the fieldtrip projects: ‚Edleweisspiraten sind treu’ by Giulia Menicucci and ‚hereinspaziert‘ by Hannah Schleifer.

↳ ① BUILD UP IN COLOGNE (2022) , snapshot by Giulia Menicucci / ③ BUILD UP IN COLOGNE (2022) , snap -

↳ ↱ EDELWEISSPIRATEN SIND TREU (2021), Giulia Menicucci @giuliamenic, fieldtrip Cologne FOOl cOllecTive

"None of the boys and girls who hid in the woods are still alive, they who road their bicycles and camped in the countryside with their guitars and their desire to be young and free. It was 1934 when the songs of the Edelweißpiraten began to echo through a Germany increasingly restricted by a more and more violent regime. In my work, I have followed the paths of those boys and girls who took many risks in order to be free, accompanied by the memories of those who heard their stories while growing up, children of the juvenile resistance."

↳ HEREINSPAZIERT (2021), Hannah Schleifer @hannahschleiferww, fieldtrip Cologne FOOl cOllecTive

"What is it like to be in a unified place that is actually constructed for people to live their individual lives in? The Uni Center presents itself as an own cosmos which a couple of thousand people navigate in. Shouldn’t this amount of people leave traces of personality and community? By spending time in the building and moving through it I am trying to find answers to these questions and to capture the daunting discretion the place evokes."