With Vito Acconci, Johanna Billing, Olga Chernysheva, Song Dong, Anja Kirschner, Klara Lidén, Improv Everywhere, Cinthia Marcelle, Marjetica Potrc, Christine Schulz, Alex Villar, Haegue Yang. Kuratiert von Christine Nippe.
The exhibition Everything, then, passes between us shows snap-shots of urban life. It asks how forms of public or of temporary communities can be produced nowadays. The artists question fragmentary aspects of metropolises in times of global turmoil and ask for actual ideas of community and collecti-vity in the cities.
The exhibition, curated by Christine Nippe, places its focus on artistic interventions and performances in global metropolises such as Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Cologne, London, New York and Seoul, and shows The Metropolis and Mental Life, only one hundred years after Georg Simmel’s famous essay on the mentality of the inhabitants of big cities, published in 1903.
Marjetica Potrc, Rural Practices, Future Strategies, 2007. Marjetica Potrc New Orleans Rainwater Connections, 20072009. Everything, then, passes between us, Kölnischer Kunstverein 2009, Installation view, photo: Simon Vogel 
Anja Kirschner, Polly II, 2006, Everything, then, passes between us, Kölnischer Kunstverein 2009, Installation view, photo: Simon Vogel 
Christine Schulz, Everything, then, passes between us, Kölnischer Kunstverein 2009, Installation view, photo: Simon Vogel
