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Guided tour of the exhibition Defection with Anna Heldmann, curatorial assistant. Admission to the exhibitions, events and guided tours is free, registration is not required.

THE E N D (It’s About New Beginnings) Performance weekend featuring 30 works by students and alumni of KHM – marking the conclusion of Prof. Mischa Kuball’s time at KHM.

Friday, 27 March and Saturday, 28 March: 2:00 pm–9:30 pm

The end as a final symbolic heartbeat: a moment of pause that is, at the same time, always meant to be a beginning. THE E N D brings together contributions from former and current students of Mischa Kuball’s seminar urban stage, on the occasion of the conclusion of his 19-year teaching career at the KHM. The weekend focuses on time-based works. On view are performances and video works, as well as painting, photography, sculpture, VR and sound works that carry inherently performative elements.

The thirty presented works engage with various crises of recent decades. Spatially, they extend from the Riphahnsaal through the cinema and the Apostelnklosterplatz to the in-between spaces of the Kölnischer Kunstverein. In terms of content, they give form in many different ways to the fragility of the present, employing artistic strategies such as repetition and gesture: in weeping, in window-cleaning, in spectacular stage moments, in filmic and performative spatial analyses. Others develop dystopian dissections and borderline states, giving voice to the unspeakable.

The programme features performances by Ale Bachlechner, Friedrich Boell, Cloudi, Vera Drebusch & Florian Egermann, Mathilde Hawkins & Max Mauro Schmid, Jan Hoeft, Cătălina Bucos & Karen Fritz, Dabin Kim, Stefanie Klingemann, Ella Kühn, Alysha Lahner, Constantin Leonhard, Johanna Schütt & Tanja Saban, Søren Siebel, Mila Stoytcheva, Evamaria Schaller, The Blind Queen of Anger, as well as interventions on the building’s exterior by The Time Teller (the latter as personas of Mohamad Moe Sabbah).

The Riphahnsaal will present sculptures, paintings and video works by Finn Wagner, Alwin Lay, Charlotte Triebus, Jonas Monka, Johannes Bendzulla, Alexandra Nikitina, Christoph Kilian, Pauline M’barek and Jens Pecho.

Running throughout the weekend, video works by Jens Pecho, Noa Gur, Finn Wagner, Cătălina Bucos & Ada Kopaz will be on continuous view. On two cinema evenings, in collaboration with Filmclub 813, films by Alexander Basile, Viktor Brim & Emerson Culurgioni and Miri Ian Gossing & Lina Sieckmann will be screened.

Invited by Mischa Kuball in cooperation with the Kölnischer Kunstverein. Curated by Maja Funke and Helin Korkmaz.

Admission is free, no registration is required.

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Guided tour of the exhibition Defection. Admission to the exhibitions, events and guided tours is free, registration is not required.

Guided tour of the exhibition Defection with Valérie Knoll, director of Kölnischer Kunstverein and curator of the exhibition. Admission to the exhibitions, events and guided tours is free, registration is not required.

We cordially invite you to a conversation between artists Monika Baer and Amy Sillman on Sunday, 3 May at 7 pm at Kölnischer Kunstverein. Admission is free, registration is not required.