Thematic guided tour

"The biology of ageing" - Interdisciplinary expert tour with Dr. Ina Huppertz

Thursday, 14.03.2024, 19:00 hrs

"The biology of ageing"
Interdisciplinary expert tour with Dr. Ina Huppertz, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne

Ageing researcher Dr. Ina Huppertz from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing investigates the biological causes of ageing. In her guided tour, she uses the exhibited works to address questions such as: Why do we age? What happens in our body and in our body cells? How can we age healthily and can ageing even be slowed down?

Dr. Ina Huppertz is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing and researches ageing stem cells in the brain. She studied and completed her doctorate at the University of Cambridge in the UK. She then went to the EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) in Heidelberg as a postdoctoral researcher in 2015. After an eight-month stay as a research associate at the European Research Council (ERC) office in Brussels, she will become a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in August 2022.

Themed tour as part of the exhibition:

Looking back in time - age and ageing in photographic portraits

Over 170 photographic works from more than 100 years are brought together in this exhibition to
a multi-layered portrayal of old age and ageing. The
exhibited works by 18 international photographers come not only from the museum's own
not only from the in-house holdings of the Photographic Collection/SK Stiftung Kultur,
but are supplemented by loans from national and international museums, galleries and estates,
galleries and estates.

Classical positions such as those of August Sander or Imogen Cunningham will be on display
contemporary works such as the series by Natalya Reznik or Jess T.
Dugan. How life circumstances and life experience are inscribed in faces and attitudes is
are shown in the works of Albrecht Fuchs, Martin Rosswog and Wilhelm Schürmann.
Schürmann. And while John Coplans takes a look at himself and his own ageing body
aging body, Cindy Sherman reflects in the exhibited work on what the physical
what the physical traces of age can mean for female role models. Long-term projects
such as those by Andreas Mader, Christian Borchert, Deanna Dikeman and Larry Sultan
address changes in family relationships over the course of time. The existential
human experiences such as saying goodbye and death often go hand in hand with age
aspects that are also impressively addressed in the exhibition by Daniel Schumann, for example.
taken up in the exhibition.

With works by Christian Borchert, John Coplans, Imogen Cunningham, Deanna Dikeman,
Jess T. Dugan, Albrecht Fuchs, Katja Kerstin Hock, Manfred Jade, Evi Lemberger/Maria
Göckeritz, Andreas Mader, Helga Paris, Natalya Reznik, Martin Rosswog, August Sander,
Cindy Sherman, Daniel Schumann, Wilhelm Schürmann and Larry Sultan.

Opening hours
The exhibitions are open daily from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. during the opening hours, closed on Wednesdays.
Closed on Wednesdays; Free admission on the first Monday of every month (otherwise €6.50, reduced €4.00).
Open until 9 pm on the first Thursday of the month, Free admission from 5 pm.
The exhibition box office can be contacted during the opening hours by telephone on +49 221
88895 311.

The Photographic Collection/
SK Foundation for Culture
In the Mediapark 7
50670 Cologne

Telephone: +49 221 88895 300
photographie@sk-kultur.de

Price information:

First Monday of the month free of charge, reduced €4/€6 with guided tour, regular €6.5/€8.50 with guided tour