with works by 

Gabbi Cattani and Cecilia Mangini.

The show will be on view through 14 March 2025. 

Clementin Seedorf
Karolingerring 17 
50678 Köln

Gabbi Cattani (b. 1990 in Rome, Italy) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. He graduated from Städelschule in 2024 where he studied in the class of Gerard Byrne. Through performance, video and installation, he incorporates family archives and personal objects to explore how narratives are constructed, inherited, appropriated and preserved. In his practice he often adapts literary works as film-vignettes and tableaux vivants in which desire and the representation of sexuality hold a central role of aesthetic reflection. Recently his work was shown at CCA: Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen; Return Gallery, Dublin; Mediterranea Biennial, San Marino; Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art and OUTPOST Gallery, Norwich. His work is part of the collection of Museion, Bolzano.

Cecilia Mangini (b. 1927 in Mola di Bari; † 2021 in Rome, Italy) was an Italian documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and photographer. She is considered the first Italian documentary film director of the post-war period.

Mangini began her career as a film critic: from the early 1950s, she wrote reviews for leftist film magazines such as Cinema Nuovo, Cinema ’60, and Eco del cinema and began to collaborate with her husband and filmmaker Lino del Fra and Pier Paolo Pasolini on her own documentaries and feature films. In her work she explored the transformation of a rural, agrarian, and religiously influenced society into an urban, industrialized, and secularized state during the 1960s and 1970s, highlighting the lives of women, the poor, workers, and children in particular. Special thanks to Christopher Tröster, Max Schropp, Amelie Karweick, Paolo Pisanelli, Cineteca di Bologna.