The Cologne-based artists Julia Dick and katharinajej have been working together as a duo under the moniker katze und krieg since 2007. In slow motion and clad in the most beautiful ball dresses they go shopping at the supermarket, or, they scream their heads off while beating the hell out of fences and street light posts in the clean and tidy neighbourhoods of the city - just in order to release their reawakened “inner animality” - or use a landing net and rod to catch passersby for their harem. Their interventions have been realized in German-speaking countries as well as internationally.

At Köttinspektionen katze und krieg are showing a selection of documentation videos of their performance work and on a wide screen. On the course of the opening weekend a limited group of visitors is allowed to take place of the interim showing of their new performance playing around.

interim showing of the performance:

playing around

no expectations
no judgements
no planning
no aim
no pressure
no manipulation
no compulsion
no power
no superiority
no meaning
no theory
no foreknowledge
no rigidity
no past
no future
no intent
no severity

katze und krieg are playing around in public space. They use what they find at situ, barefoot, open for what`s about to happen. Come and witness their play!

Maximum 10 visitors are allowed to follow the outdoor performance on the 14th of August, 4 pm.
Please sign up to take part of the performance. Write an email to: köttinpsektionen The exhibition will be on view from August 14 – 30, 2020 the opening is on August 14, 3 – 7 pm.

Visit the artist duo’s website for further information: https://www.katzeundkrieg.de/home.html

In my hands presents the latest edition „IT´S A PHOTO love story“ with an exhibition at the Strizzi.space. 25 young artists will present an intimate insight into their life and visual thought process. They will take us on a journey of moments and encounters between direct and unapproachable contacts. In black and white we will see concrete, light and shadows or just silhouettes until the image space appears to dissolve. The first look widens for a new but close mystery. The discoveries lie invisible behind visible in the virtual space, telling of nature, friendship, desire, past and constant.

To be seen in other hands by other eyes is IN MY HANDS a photography magazine for young artist to show the variety, perseverance, thoughtfulness, inspiration, creativity, defiance and curiosity of photography. With the 4th edition „IT´S A PHOTO love story“ held at the Strizzi.space, IN MY HANDS presented for the first time a thematically curated exhibition which invited visitors to be become part of this project, by curating their own love story magazine on site.

With photographs by:
Fabio Aranzulla, Soeren Baptism, Julie Batteux, Henry Boebst, Taissa Fromme, Elisa Goldammer, Sina Guntermann, Biniam Graffé, Inka Hilsenbek, Anna Hofmann, Tobias Huschka, Johann Husser, Sarah Letalik, Antonia Koerfer, Christian Limber, Felix Miebach, Meike Männel, Louisa-Marie Nübel, Julia Perkuhn, Xiaoyue Pu, Anna Rupp, Robert Schittko, Jannis Uffrecht, Stella Weisel, Lilith Wolf

Music by our favourite Dj Team "Dj Ich liebte dich“

We do it, but we do it soft! This is a soft opening, please bring your mask with you and pay attention to a distance of 2 meters. Please be patient, because unfortunately, only a small number of visitors can enter the room.
Already today we would like to thank you for your understanding and look forward to a great evening with you to celebrate the latest Issue of IN MY HANDS!

DAS ERWACHEN DER MONGOLIDEN / MORNING OF THE MONGOLOIDS

A work by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES is Young- hae Chang (Korea) and Marc Voge (USA). Based in Seoul, they have written their signature animated texts set to their own music in 26 languages and shown many of them at some of the major art institutions in the world, including Tate, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Whitney Museum and New Museum, New York. They have been in the Venice and São Paulo Biennials, among others, won the Webby Award for best art Web site, San Francisco, received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, New York, and been Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellows. M+, in Hong Kong, has acquired an ensemble of all of their past and future work, YHCHANG.COM/AP2: THE COMPLETE WORKS.

DAS ERWACHEN DER MONGOLIDEN / MORNING OF THE MONGOLOIDS, 2007 (2016 for this version)
Original text and music soundtrack, 5 min 37 sec
HD QuickTime movie, flexible dimensions

(Picture: Installation view, Morning of the mongoloids, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, at Strizzi Space, Cologne / Germany, May 2020)

http://www.yhchang.com

Eröffnung: 28.02.2020, 19 Uhr

Dauer: 29.02. 2020 – 28.03.2020

Öffnunszeiten: Samstags 14 bis 16 Uhr

Die Ausstellung Als mir der Rucola auf den Staubsauger fiel handelt vom Verhältnis der inneren Ästhetik zur äußeren Ästhetik. Darin spielt die Spiritualität ihre Rolle sowie kesse und kecke Elemente. Der visuelle Aushang zur Ausstellung zeigt eine moderne Version eines Propheten in Anlehnung mittelalterlicher Darstellungen. Beteiligte Artists sind Alex Djidjewdjew, Zuza Golińska, Bernhard Holaschke, Aurel Iselstöger, Pola Mika Lara Kapuste, Magdalena Mitterhofer, David Ostrowski und Philipp Pusch. Kuratiert ist die Ausstellung von Alex Pilarski.

Magdalena Mitterhofer in her first solo performance:
https://vimeo.com/396305453

Eröffnung: 24.01.2020, 19 Uhr

Dauer: 25.01. 2020 – 15.02.2020

Öffnunszeiten: Samstags 14 bis 16 Uhr

Der Hamburger Zeichner Anton Engel und die Berliner Köchin Paula Erstmann bespielen gemeinsam den Projektraum Strizzi. Gezeigt wird eine Auswahl von Zeichnungen, darunter eine großformatige, zum Anlass der Ausstellung entstandene Arbeit, sowie ein kulinarischer Beitrag, der von den BesucherInnen beim Betrachten der Bilder verzehrt werden kann. Die Ausstellung setzt sich mit Entspannungs- und Erschöpfungszuständen, mit Genuss und Zerfall auseinander.

The Hamburg based drawer Anton Engel and the Berlin cook Paula Erstmann will jointly use the Strizzi project space. A selection of drawings will be shown, including a large-format work created for the occasion of the exhibition, as well as a culinary contribution which can be consumed by the visitor while viewing the dawings. The exhibition deals with states of relaxation and exhaustion, with enjoyment and decay.

Die In-STALL-ation in unserem Ausstellungsraum in der Trimbornstraße.

Schalten Sie online das Licht in unserer minimalistischen Krippe im Ausstellungsraum an und betrachten Sie über die Webcam das Ergebnis oder laufen Sie in der Trimbornstraße 7 vorbei, betrachten Sie In-STALL-ation vor Ort und schalten das Licht über Ihr Smartphone aus, wenn Sie fertig sind:

Licht an / aus (Funktion nach dem 6.1.2014 leider deaktiviert)

Besonders lustig am 20.12 ab 19 Uhr, wenn alle aus dem Büro für Brauchbarkeit unter der Stalllampe im Stroh dinieren und feiern.
Danach schalten Sie bitte ihre smarten Geräte aus und geniessen die Weihnachtstage:

FRÖHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN

Ihr Büro für Brauchbarkeit

(Idee: Bernd Hartwig, Realisierung: //////fur////)

Remagen thematisiert eine oberflächliche und generierte Fröhlichkeit, die durch die medialen Einflüsse unserer Zeit in unsere Gesellschaft gelangt ist. Die Traurigkeit, die Einsamkeit aber auch das Allgegenwärtige der Medien wird mit klassischer Technik in schreienden Farben und doch düster anmutend dargestellt.

Soloperformance und Videoscreening von David Pollmann am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2013, 20 Uhr im Ausstellungsraum des Büro für Brauchbarkeit
kuratiert von Florian Müller

spectators only
Videoscreening von David Pollmann in den Schaufenstern des Ausstellungsraumes

7. – 20. Oktober 2013, täglich von 19 – 7 Uhr
   kuratiert von Florian Müller

Eine Installation von Daphné Keramidas

Ortega y Gasset said once that, “the earth being a field without limits, mankind had to delimit a portion of this field in order to release itself from it. Mankind erected walls to determine a portion of earth, creating thus a closed and finite space.”
With walls, a new reality appeared, as walls are a boundary per se. Dividing, isolating and segregating, walls allow us at the same time to perceive space for what it is.

Clouds are images that constantly reform and recreate themselves.
They are able to cross the borders between the imaginary world of children and the adults fear of environmental pollution, just as they cross any country borders without being controlled.
They are the negation of frontiers, just like dreams are too.
They are the image of total freedom.

kuratiert von Florian Müller

Die Ausstellung zeigt Fotografien von Bunkern des Atlantikwalls von 2011-2013 sowie Laserprints von Diapositiven seines Vaters aus den Siebzigern und Achtzigern:

beachlife
Fotografien von Arne Rawe