Ingrid Kaufman, op. 1 – Priamel: Allegorie der Träumenden

28.01.2023, Einlass ab 18.00 Uhr, Konzertbeginn 19.45 Uhr
Kirche St. Gertrud, Krefelder Straße 57, Köln

Szene mit Badewanne, Raumtrenner, Tauchsieder, Wasser, Schaum,
Protagonist:innen & Mehrkanal-Tonsystem

Ingrid Kaufman ist die Hauptfigur einer Kurzgeschichte von Maria Wildeis, die 2021 im Rahmen der Publikation „anwesend“ von On Cologne e.V. entstanden ist. Zwischen Kunstdiskursen und Selbstzweifel bereitet sich Ingrid Kaufman auf die Aufführung eines neuen Stückes vor, in dessen Zentrum Badewannen stehen. Maria Wildeis interpretiert die Erzählung innerhalb ‚Ingrid Kaufman, op. 1 – Priamel: Allegorie der Träumenden‘ und verbindet den Klang einer Badewanne (Interpretiert von Fabian Jung) mit dem Kirchenraum und der dort installierten Orgel mit Elektronik und einem Mehrkanal-Tonsystem (8-Kanal Lautsprecherkonfiguration und Körperschallwandler). Die Aufführung ist als Szene konzipiert, deren visuelle Eingriffe von der Bildhauerin Katharina Maderthaner bestimmt wurden.

Künstlerische Leitung und Elektronik: Maria Wildeis
Installation, visuelle Eingriffe: Katharina Maderthaner
Instrumentalist, Performance: Fabian Jung
Technische Assistenz und Orgel: Sebastian Fecke Dia
Grafik, Design: Sebastian Wulff
Bild, Licht: Luis Neuenhofer

28.01.2023
18.00 Uhr Einlass, Zugang zur Installation
19.45 Uhr Konzertbeginn

Kirche St. Gertrud
Krefelder Straße 57
50670 Köln

Die Digitale 2019

1. – 16. November 2019
curator
Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf
die-digitale.net

< die digitale dusseldorf >, the festival for digital art, music and contemporary criticism is a innovative cultural event with unique format and content in dusseldorf. we focus on the productive relationships between creativity and digital technology in subculture clubs and established cultural spaces.

Artists:
DIGI-GXL / Eva House, Edie Jo Murray u.a. – DISONAVTION / Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska – Manja Ebert – Lars Eidinger – Karen Eliot – Heidi Hörsturz – Karl Heinz Jeron – Keiichi Matsuda – Jolene Mok – Duncan Poulton – Kelsey Brod – Yvonne Klasen – Valia Fertisov – Łukasz Horbów – Marta Revuelta – Julia Weißenberg – Cristiana Cott Negoescu – Florian Kuhlmann – Systaime – Sebastian Thewes – Liat Berdugo (durchgeführt von Ale Bachlechner) – Lenn Blaschke – Jan Hoeft – Dasha Ilina – Yunying Huang

Tiefgarage @ NOISELAB

MAY 25 + 26 2019
TEUFELSBERG BERLIN

curator
Tiefgarage – stage at Noiselab

NOISELAB~
​A weekend dedicated to Noise and Sound Art on the former field station on Teufelsberg in Berlin Grunewald.
www.noiselab.org

Tiefgarage stage on both days with Taka Kagitomi, Ketonge, Tzeshi Lei, Methlife – René Haustein & Philipp Höning, Kotaro Mitsune, Laura Not, OLEOS – Yarei Molina, Tintin Patrone, M’Shakti-La – Kenn Hartwig, Leonhard Huhn, Johannes Klingebiel,  Christian Lorenzen & Andi Voelk, OhBoiNoBoi – Sad Ed & Peter Hanson, Bernd Schurer, Ulrich Steinbach, Maria Wildeis

A collaboration of Institut für alles Mögliche, Dots Gallery, Plusnull e.V. and Teufelsberg crew.
www.dots-gallery.de
www.plusnull.org
​www.teufelsberg-berlin.de

Radio Mario

2019 – ongoing
hosting a radio show every 5th Sunday in the month with performances in experimental, electroacoustic, electronic and contemporary pop
@674fm


upcoming: 29.11.2020
upcoming: 30.01.2021

31.1.2021: Taka Kagitomi & Riad Nassar, Kenn Hartwig
7.12.2020: Alisa Berger, Ketonge, Maria Wildeis
29.11.2020: Der Täubling, Alisa Berger, Tamponyoga
30.8.2020: MME dUO, Sandilé, Leonhard Huhn, Maria Wildeis
31.5.2020: C.A.R., seren.a, Xayíde, Ulrich Steinbach (https://bit.ly/radio-maria-4-a and https://bit.ly/radio-maria-4-b)
29.12.2019: Denise de Winter, Anna-Lena Meisenberg, M.Funk, Maria Wildeis (https://bit.ly/radio-maria-3)
30.6.2019: Soya Arakawa, FRAGIL, Hem Taf (https://bit.ly/radio-maria-2)
31.3.2019: Fabian Jung, Dominik Mahnig, Monibi (https://bit.ly/radio-maria-1)

Radio Maria from 674FM on Vimeo.

Gemeinde Köln

2018 – ongoing
founder together with
Institut für alles Mögliche, Berlin
Welcome the new project in town: Gemeinde Köln. Maria Wildeis, founder of „Tiefgarage Ebertplatz“ teamed up with Berlin/Leipzig based art project Insitut für alles Mögliche to open up the new space „Gemeinde Köln“. The aim of the space is to broaden the network and to think of art as a network in general.

Bild: Bergernissen, Awakening / Destruction, 26. Januar – 21. Februar 2019

http://gemeinde-koeln.de

http://www.i-a-m.tk/

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Frauenkulturbüro visiting Yerevan

Eröffnungsempfang am 2. Juni, 17 Uhr, mit Ansprachen von:

Natia Mikeladse-Bachsoliani (Goethe-Zentrum Eriwan)
Dr. Ruth Seidl (Frauenkulturbüro NRW)
Maria Wildeis (Kuratorin und Leiterin des Austauschprogramms).

Werkpräsentationen um 18.00 Uhr von Gohar Matrirosyan, Katharina Maderthaner

Mit Videoarbeiten von Alisa Berger, Ana Jikia, Diana Hakobyan, Gohar Martirosyan & Nino Kvrivishvili, Gvantsa Jishkariani, Heike Kabisch, Julia Bünnagel, Julia Charlotte Richter, Katharina Maderthaner, Nino Sekhniashvili, Tamar Chaduneli, Tessa Knapp, Ulrike Möschel

Installationskunst von Astrid Busch, Gohar Martirosyan, Katharina Maderthaner

Aufführung von Alisa Berger

Kuratiert von Maria Wildeis in Zusammenarbeit mit Eva Khachatryan

KooperationspartnerInnen: Goethe-Zentrum Eriwan, Museum Goch, WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf

https://www.frauenkulturbuero-nrw.de/index.php/archiv/ausstellung/praesentation-der-stipendiatinnen/

FAR OFF 2016 – 2018

FAR OFF Cologne

FAR OFF took focus solely on performance, time based and media arts and was held at various locations in Cologne. 2018 it was presented at Cologne ́s most discussed open space, the Ebertplatz. Far Off was broadely discussed in the media, e.g. here:

Ein kurzes Gespräch mit Maria Wildeis über die FAR OFF 2017

https://www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-verwaltung/presse/mitteilungen/19296/index.html

TAVIDAN 2017, Artistic Dialog between Georgia and Germany, Tbilisi CCA

2017
curator
Group exhibitions in June 2017 at the CCA Center for Contermporary Art Tbilisi, Georgia and in September 2017 at the Museum Goch, NRW.

Image: Patrick Rieve – SHARE

On the occasion of the anniversary of the 200-year friendship between Georgia and Germany, Museum Goch, the CCA Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi and the curator Maria Wildeis will be taking part with Frauenkulturbür NRW e.V. in joint group exhibitions in Georgia and NRW in summer and autumn 2017.

Program:
15th June,
7.30 p.m .: Gallery Nectar (Project Space): „Soul-tracks“, butoh-dance by Wolfgang Schäfer
June 16, 8 pm: Exhibition opening TAVIDAN: GE, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art & Medea Museum of Medicine

uznadze street, 51 Dimitri Uznadze St, Tbilisi 0102, Georgia

www.tavidan.net

cca.ge

The directional meaning of the exhibition title points to the exchange between two different cultural spaces: Germany and Georgia, the geographic and cultural hub of Asia, Europe and Russia. In both places, artists work together on the concept of contemporary art and make use of a global and cross-cultural visual language.

The exhibition aims to stimulate the exploration of artistic practices in the contemporary art, while illuminating different approaches. The title also refers to works of art that are understood as time-based processes and atmospheric compositions and do not have an effect solely on an object. Questions within the artistic exchange are aimed at the manifold expressions in contemporary art, which create an aesthetic experience in the form of installation art or performance, but also in objects and their placement or the integration of the visitors into the work.

The selected artists work in almost all areas of visual arts, such as painting, new media, installation, film, photography, spatial object art, and they are also at home in other disciplines like music, fashion, bio-farming or education. Their working methods are often at an interface between art and society, architecture, education or music.

„Neither the receptive subject nor the solitary work of art within its limits constitute the reality of art.“ (Ludger Schwarte: Notate für eine künftige Kunst (Notate for a Future Art), Berlin, 2016, p. 11)

During their stay in Georgia workshops are held for art students from Georgia by the German artists.

An accompanying catalog documents the artistic exchange and will be presented during the exhibition in the Museum Goch in autumn 2017.

TAVIDAN is sponsored by the Ministry of Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North-Rhine Westphalia. Frauenkulturbüro NRW e.V. (women’s cultural office) and the Museum Goch have been promoting the exchange of artists between Germany, Georgia and Armenia since 2013 and are thus in a personal, friendly proximity to the Caucasus.

www.tavidan.net

Curator: Maria Wildeis
Project Assitant: Leksi Sosela, Project Manager CCA

Artists: CAROLINE BAYER (Berlin, DE
LARS BREUER (Köln, DE)
ANA CHADUNELI (Rustavi, GE)
TAMAR CHADUNELI (Rustavi, GE)
NINO CHUBINISHVILI (Tbilisi, Ge)
HÖRNER|ANTLFINGER (Köln, DE)
MAMUKA JAPHARIDZE (Tbilisi, Ge)
GVANTSA JISHKIRIANI (Rustavi, GE)
NIKA MACHAIDZE (Tbilisi, Ge)
MICHAEL POHL (Berlin, DE)
KAI RHEINECK (Düsseldorf, DE)
PATRICK RIEVE (Köln, DE)
PETER SCHLOSS (Köln, DE)
SCULPTRESS OF SOUND (JULIA BÜNNAGEL, PATRICIA KÖLLGES, TAMARA LORENZ) (Köln, DE)
NINO SEKHNIASHVILI (Tbilisi, Ge)
KOTE SULABERIDZE (Tbilisi, Ge)
GIO SUMBADZE (Tbilisi, Ge)
WATO TSERETELI (Tbilisi, Ge)

Frame Program:
15th June,
4 p.m .: Presentation Hörner|Antlfinger at Free University Tbilisi (tbc)
7.30 p.m .: Gallery Nectar (Project Space): „Soul-tracks“, butoh-dance by Wolfgang Schäfer
June 16, 8 pm: Exhibition opening TAVIDAN: GE, CCA – Center for Contemporary Art & Medea Museum of Medicine

uznadze street, 51 Dimitri Uznadze St, Tbilisi 0102, Georgien

cca.ge

Participants

The Frauenkulturbüro NRW e.V. started an international exchange program for female artists in 2013. Two artists from North Rhine-Westphalia visit Georgia and Armenia for two months. And in return, a Georgian and an Armenian artist will come to North Rhine-Westphalia for two months. The goal of the scholarship is to promote women artists to an international level, to expand their network and make them more visible on the art market for further international activities. Cooperation partners are WELTKUNSTZIMMER in Düsseldorf and Museum Goch.

Museum Goch: With its collection of late-Gothic sculptures of the Niederrhein up to the young present art, the museum unites 600 years of art history. Its fascinating collection rooms invite you to an interesting dialogue with history and art. Changing exhibitions, especially on contemporary art, enrich the museum.

Maria Wildeis (* 1984) studied art history, philosophy and classical literary studies in Cologne and has been a freelance curator and project manager in Cologne and NRW since her Master’s degree in 2010. Since 2015, she has been directing the International Exchange Program for female artists for Frauenkulturbüro NRW e.V., and in the same year she founded the Kunstraum Tiefgarage at Ebertplatz in Cologne, where she is curating since then (www.tiefgarage.org). Other projects she managed amongst others: Heritage Heroes (a photography exhibition for the German Commission for UNESCO and the Office of Foreign Affairs Germany, 2015), the 3rd Kunstfestival Strom (Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne 2013), project management Videonale.13 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn (2011) and TAVIDAN:Düsseldorf (in the WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf, 2014). Www.mariawildeis.com

CCA – Center for Contemporary Art Tbilisi Since October 2010, CCA has been an independent non-for-profit organization for contemporary art. In addition to the international exchange of exhibitions and artists, CCA focuses on its independent study program for Georgian art students.

Both exhibitions are being supported by Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.

International Exchange for Female Artists

2015 – 2019
head of International Exchange

Frauenkulturbüro NRW (FKB) facilitates two-months-residencies in Armenia and Georgia for women artists from Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. In exchange female artists from Armenia and Georgia are given a two months residency scholarship in NRW, Germany. The residency partners are Museum Goch (Stadt Goch) and WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf who offer the space for living and working during the residencies in Germany.

The selection of two countries in eastern europe bases on the fact that there are no other exchange programs in NRW of this kind. Especially those countries are interesting to the program, where social, political, ethnic or religious situations challenge the on site working situation for female aritsts.

frauenkulturbuero-nrw.de/index.php/projekte/internationaler-austausch/

FKB comitts to the support of such an exchange program to raise cultural networks and to create an international bound between our nations. Due to peculiar sensitivity and perception especially young artists can become a promoter for social, political and of course cultural changes within societies. They are contributing to a cultural interchange and deepen our knowledge about the other.

The artists have free choice how they want to fill their time during the International Artist Exchange Program, depending on personal artistic interests and objectives. FKB is happy to support in networking and assists to make contacts who lead to exhibitions, lectures, performances or other art related reflections and presentations. Still, it depends on the interests of the grant holders to find best way to support their individual artistic carrer. Thus, the worth of the International Artist Exchange Program for Female Artists lies in itself.

It lies upon our conviction that art can only grow in freedom. By providing the artists with the greatest possible freedom and still offering a wide range of possibilities, we hope to give the necessary freedom to develop the individual artistic carreer.

It is also a political statement for FKB to support this program. This is due to the idea that only by posessing a deepened knowledge of the Central European culture and its neighbour countries we can guarantee a connection within europe. Culture is the key to face major social changes on the continent.

http://www.frauenkulturbuero-nrw.de/index.php/projekte/internationaler-austausch/interview-mit-maria-wildeis/

Heritage Heroes

creative director & curator
together with Tatjana Krischik (creative director & designer)

„Heritage Heroes“ was inaugurated during the 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee in the World Conference Centre Bonn, Germany (June 28th till July 8th 2015). In cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Germany and the German UNESCO-Commission e.V.

The photography exhibition „Heritage Heroes“ shows the stories of 12 individuals with a portrait photo and a short story each who have committed themselves in an exceptional way to the protection and conservation of world heritage sites – people who can tell us their personal story about their fight against the destruction of cultural sites or habitat.

Abdel Kader Haidara, Foto: Albrecht Fuchs, Recherche: Djonam Saltani, Projektleitung: Maria Wildeis, Tatjana Krischik

„Heritage Heroes“ was inaugurated during the 39th Session of the World Heritage Committee in the World Conference Centre Bonn, Germany (June 28th till July 8th 2015).

www.39whcbonn.de

The „Heritage Heros“ have been interviewed and photographed at their designated heritage sites, during March 22 -June 22, 2015. We visited people from: Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, DR Congo, Croatia, Russia, Japan, Indonesia and Tasmania.

Project Management: Tatjana Krischik & Maria Wildeis
Photography: Bozica Babic, Albrecht Fuchs, Astrid Piethan, Michael Schaab
Research & Interviews: Tatjana Krischik, Djonam Saltani, Maria Wildeis, Ruth Wolter
Editorial Control / Curator: Maria Wildeis
Exhibition Design: Tatjana Krischik

Tiefgarage, 2015 – 2018

Tiefgarage Ebertplatz widmete sich aktuellen Praktiken in der Bildenden Kunst, wie z.B. disziplinenübergreifende Projekte zwischen Bildhauerei, Klang, Prozess oder ortsspezifische Arbeitsweisen, die in einen Dialog mit den räumlichen und/oder sozialen Bedingungen am Ebertplatz traten.

Die eingeladenen Künstler zeigten eine Installation im Innenraum des Kunstortes für die Dauer von etwa 5 Wochen. Die Ausstellungen wurden begleitet durch Gespräche oder Performances aus dem Bereich Experimentalmusik, Noise, Drone, Improvisation, Neue Musik.

Positionen, die sich mit Architektur, stätischem Raum und besonders der Passage am Ebertplatz Köln auseinandersetzen, stellen ebenso einen Teil der Programmatik dar. Bis 2017 diskutierte die Stadt im Rahmen des „Masterplans Ringe“ über die Möglichkeit einer Tiefgarage an diesem Ort. 2011 von der FDP in die Runde geworfen, entschied sich der Stadtrat 2017 gegen die kostspielige Erweiterung der Anliegerflächen in der Innenstadt um maximal 222 Parkplätze.

Leitung & Konzept: Maria Wildeis
Assistenz: Santiago Alvarez Rodriguez
Die Tiefgarage war Mitglied des Brunnen e.V. und wurde gefördert durch das Kulturamt der Stadt Köln und RheinenergieStiftung Kultur

www.tiefgarage.org
www.ebertplatzpassage.de

Zeitzeugen

curator
(Contemporary Victims) An exhibition on the occasion of the jubilee of the first world war at the studio house of artrmx e.V. Cologne. With Alexander Edisherov (Gerogia/DE) & Katerina Kuznetcowa (Russia/DE), Robert Kunec (Slovakia/DE), Sharone Lifschitz (Israel/UK), Damir Radovic (Jugoslawia/FR) and Sharif Waked (Palestine). With a performance by Echo Ho (CHN/DE)

Sharif Waked: Gaza Zoo No. 1 (Bath Time), 2012 (Film Still)
Sharif Waked: Gaza Zoo No. 1 (Bath Time), 2012 (Film Still)

November 8 – 28, 2014. In cooperation with artrmx e.V., Museumsnacht Köln and supported by the Cultural Department of Cologne.

Unfortunately almost an entire generation lost their lifes during during the first world war. And now, 100 years ago, it doesn´t seem, anyone learned from this loss, as the last 100 years are said to be the bloodiest century of all time. And still, political and military violence, suppression and the limitation of freedom belongs to the daily life of so many. Within ‚Zeitzeugen‘, I am inviting contemporary artists who are dealing with this issue on a strong level, and some of them are victims of riot and armed defense.

Tavidan

curator
Group exhibition with Caroline Bayer (Berlin, DE), Lars Breuer (Cologne, DE), Nino Chubinishvili (Tbilissi, GE), Hörner|Antlfinger (Berlin, DE), Mamuka Japharidze (Tbilissi, GE), Nika Machaidze (Tbilissi, GE), Kai Rheineck (Düsseldorf, DE), Patrick Rieve (Cologne, DE), Peter Schloss (Düsseldorf, DE) & Michael Pohl (Berlin, DE), Nino Sekhniashvili (Tbilissi, GE), Kote Sulaberidze (Tbilissi, GE), Gio Sumbadze (Tbilissi, GE) and Wato Tsereteli (Tbilissi, GE).

Gio Sumbadze 2014, Photo: Michael Schaab
Gio Sumbadze 2014, Photo: Michael Schaab

October 18 – November 29, 2014, at WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf,

Opening October 17, 8 p.m. Supported by IfA (Institute for Foreign Affairs) and the City of Düsseldorf.
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Tavidan is the georgian expression for „from the mind“. The word introduces the book of Genesis and it describes the starting point of an idea, a project or a process. Tavidan forms the title of this upcoming exhibition, as it wants to describe the thematical frame within the event: to draw attention to the initial point of artistic contemporary practice and the many formal and conceptual ways it goes. Where does art begin? When does it end? In form of a dialogue between a vibrant art scene from georgia and artists from germany, Tavidan examines the origins of contemporary art and questions the significance of cultural, educational and spacial influence on art.

TAVIDAN

Ursprung und Entstehung
18 October – 29 November 2014
at WELTKUNSTZIMMER
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Fast Senkrecht, auf jeden Fall Richtung Oben

Group Exhibition with Tim Cierpiszewski, Maria Gamper, Marie Gerlach, Stefanie Klingemann, Katerina Kuznetcowa und Alexander Edisherov, Peter Schloss and Sebastian Walther.

October 19 – November 9, 2013 at Hongibrot Art Space.

In autumn 2013 Honigbrot organized a group project called FAST SENKRECHT. The artists presented new, space oriented works on two floors and the stair case of the gallery house.

They were all master students of Maik and Dirk Löbbert, by Kunstakademie Münster, and graduated in the last 5 to 10 years. Their common media, sculpture, is interpreted by them on a very individual way, but all of them come with a delightful sense of humor and a strong relation to the space.

Der flüsternde Raum

curator, project manager
Collaboration with Andrés Krause.
(The Wispering Room) is a Sound Art project with Natascha Nikeprelevic, Holger Mertin, Joseph Suchy and ‚The Knob, The Finger & The It‘. The artists produce Sound Art and Experimental Space Music and have to deal with the very special acoustic conditions of the architecture of the chirch St. Gertrud, built by architect Gottfried Böhm in the 1960s.

St. Gertrud, Photo: Sebastian Linnerz
St. Gertrud, Photo: Sebastian Linnerz

Sat, October 11, 2014, 8 p.m.  www.derfluesternderaum.de.

Der flüsternde Raum is supported by SK-Stiftung Kultur.

3. Kunstfestival Strom

The 3rd Art Festival Strom was devoted to the ephemeral in art. More than 40 artists working in the fields of installation art, sound art, noise, film, performance and dance were invited to show their work at Kunsthaus Rhenania in Cologne. The artists presented on more than 500 sqm in free artist studios, the outside space and the exhibition hall of the artist studio house. The shown works deal with the matter of time, either conceptionally or within the chosen material, as through light, digital image and sound. Furthermore the curator developed a stage program with around 15 concerts and performances with new forms of electronic and new music and a cinema in the upstairs roof space showed longplay films of the last two editions of Videonale e.V. Bonn. Plus parties and guided tours.

Kunsthaus Rhenania, Photo: Daniel Lang
Kunsthaus Rhenania at Strom Festival, Installation: Lang/Baumann, Photo: Daniel Lang

September 5 -8, 2013. facebook.com/kunstfestivalStrom

Almost 1000 visitors came and the festival enjoyed widespreaded reviews and announcements in the press with the local TV WDR live on site during the opening and several reports in the main newspaper of Cologne, like Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Stadtrevue and others.

Installation Artists: Eli Cortiñas, Dan Dryer, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Jan Glisman, Stef Heidhues, Lang/Baumann, molitor&kuzmin, Evangelos Papadopoulos, Pepper&Woll, Sören Siebel, Jens Standke

Sound Artists (selection): Waltraud Blischke, Echo Ho, FU ACUNE, Natascha Nikeprelevic & F.X. Randomiz, Ursula Nill, OSMOSIS, Gregor Schwellenbach, Sculptress of Sound, The Knob, The Finger & The It, TITANOBOA

Film (in Cooperation with Videonale e.V.) (selection): Michal Kosakowski: Zero Killed (80:50 min., 2011), Frances Scholz: Episodes of Starlite I-V (50 min., 2011-2012), Tobias Yves Zintel: Earthly Powers (38 min., 2011), Christian Jankowski: Casting Jesus (60 min., 2011), Anahita Razmi: Walking Drunk in High Shoes (47:22 min., 2010), Shezad Dawood: Feature (55 min., 2008), Mariola Brillowska: des Teufels Kinder (67 min., 2010)

Supported by: City of Cologne, RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur, Bezirksvertretung Innenstadt, HGK – Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln

Sponsors: Gaffel Kölsch, Finder TV, Entec, Kettler Druckverlag, Mice Portal, Colonia Spezialfahrzeuge, Steinzeug Keramo, Magtech, Kürten & Lechner

Kunsthaus Rhenania im Rheinauhafen, Bayenstraße 28, 50678 Köln, www.kunsthaus-rhenania.de

Dyssomnia

A group exhibition with Oliver Blumek, Andreas Gehlen, Gereon Krebber, Katharina Maderthaner, Claudia Mann, Lars Rosenbohm, Susanne Themlitz und Katharina Wackermann.

Gereon Krebber, Atros, 2012, Photo: Wolfgang Schäfer
Gereon Krebber, Atros, 2012, Photo: Wolfgang Schäfer

June 1 – 29, 2012. At WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf. Curated together with Wolfgang Schäfer.

DYSSOMNIA – Spatial Interventions (latin “dyssomina“: “sleeping disorder“) is the result of a deep investigation of the space – a former baking factory, which is in urgent need of restoration. On two floors, attached to the event halls of the foundation, the artists provide access on over 500 sqm to old storage rooms, cooling chambers and a black painted, old rocker bar. The spacial appearance with its dirty, dark and historically charged architecture is both, fascinating and a challenge for a sculptural examination. These installations whithin the exhibition space are opening up a new sight on WELTKUNSTZIMMER.

In this project recognized artists and students of the academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf are working together and react associatively on these raw, unrenovated rooms which were not yet used in the context of contemporary art. Especially the artists selection of material and the temporary limit within the works live make this an exciting project in current arts practice.

Friday, 1 June, 8 p.m.:             OPENING RECEPTION with an artists tour through the exhibition

Friday, 29 June, 8 p.m.:           FINISSAGE with Performance von Oliver Blumek

This event took place at the former storage rooms of HPZ.

Honigbrot, 2012 – 2013

2012 – 2013
curator
In this exhibition series, every two months an installation artist was invited to build a work especially considered for the space on the upper floor of a gallery building. Concerning the matter that this room was also used as my private appartment, the works were set into a social context and gave the chance to discuss the idea of art and science in an intimate and non white-cubish atmosphere.

Alice de Visscher 2013, Photo: Michael Schaab
Alice de Visscher 2013, Photo: Michael Schaab

Artists: Julia Bünnagel, Susan Collis, Luka Fineisen & Yeondoo Jung, Andreas Gehlen, Clemens Botho Goldbach, Gereon Krebber, Ulrike Möschel, Christian Odzuck, Evangelos Papadopoulos.

April 2012 – Dec 2013. Supported by the city of Cologne.

Side events like lectures, performances and video screenings inspired to determine how and where art speaks and what influence it may take on the perception of the private sphere. These questions have been discussed with philosophers, critics, poets, physicians, the artists and all guests. The duration of each single exhibition was 4 weeks.

The project was supported by the city of Cologne and gained various sponsorship by: Kultursekretariat Wuppertal, Konrad Chorodinski programming, graphics by Julia Majewski affairen-gestaltung, Mühlenkölsch Beer, Veltins Beer, Lemonaid, Bauhaus Köln-Kalk, printer DeineStadtKlebt, and others.

Tip Top Stop

A group exhibiton with installations by Julia Bünnagel, Anja Ciupka, Luka Fineisen, Manuel Franke, Gereon Krebber, Christine Rusche, Thomas Trinkl, Sonja Vordermaier and Lawrence Weiner in an old industrial warehouse at the docksite of Cologne Deutz which was previously a disount shop.

Tip Top Stop, Photo: Christine Rusche
Tip Top Stop, Photo: Christine Rusche

April 16 – May 16, 2010, www.tiptopstop.de

The event was included in the frame programme of the fair Art Cologne and was financed all alone. Including a book written by 4 philosophers: Prof. Dr. Jakob Steinbrenner, Dr. Henning Tegtmeyer, Dr. Bernadette Collenberg- Plotnikov and PD Dr. phil. Andreas Steffens. They wrote about their ideas on installation art and contemprary art practice, apart from classical art historian interpretation models.

Junge Kunst Nacht

Organisation of a night at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in cooperation with jungekunstfreunde and Kunst:Dialoge, with guided tours and a party with EROBIQUE (International Pony) at the museum foyer. This night was one of the most succsessful art nights at Museum Ludwig, with 1500 visitors and more than 200 new memberships for the Friends of Museum Ludwig and Wallraf Richartz Museum.

Organisation together with Rebekka Meyer and Amadeus Peters. June 20, 2009, jungekunstfreunde