Lucia Halder

Lucia Halder (*1981) has been head of the Photography Collection at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum (RJM) in Cologne since 2015. Halder’s work focuses on the history, semantics and political significance of historical and contemporary photographs. She studied history and art history and specialises in the accessibility and displayability of colonial image archives and (in)visibility. In 2018, together with Internationale Photoszene Köln, she developed the Artist Meets Archive residency programme.
Since 2020 she has conceived and realised the exhibition series Counter Images | Gegenbilder. The series takes a critical look at the medium of photography and offers international artists and curators a platform for decolonial approaches and counter-positions to familiar modes of representation.
Halder is chair of the History and Archives section of the German Photographic Society (DGPh) and a member of the editorial team of the blog www.visual-history.de. Since 2023 she is a member af the artistic board of Photoszene Köln.