Events & Education

reiheM presents:
James Hoff & Ben Kudler „Radical Democracy“
Followed by an artist talk with Julia Scher

Sat, October 4, 2025 / 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.)

Radical Democracy is a new project by James Hoff and Ben Kudler.
The duo hacks surveillance cameras from around the world in real time and uses the GPS data obtained to control oscillators and trigger samples.
This creates a generative “soundtrack” that simultaneously comments on the live images from which it emerges—GPS and surveillance become artistic tools that can be experienced beyond their military, commercial, and private uses.
Following the performance, artist Julia Scher will host a talk with the duo. (In English)

Admission: €15 / reduced €10

reiheM Konzertreihe für Gegenwartsmusik, Elektronik und neue Medien – Köln is organized by Mark e.V. and supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Köln and Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen www.reihe-M.de

Photo: James Hoff & Ben Kudler

Guided tour of the exhibition Amelie von Wulffen, Jonas Lipps with Valérie Knoll, Director.
Admission to the exhibitions, events, and guided tours is free, registration is not required.

As part of the accompanying program for the exhibition Vanja Smiljanić, On Board Were The Twelve, 04.09. – 18.10.2025, at artothek – Raum für junge Kunst, Vanja Smiljanić will present the lecture video performance “Labyrinth Riders in (Dis)Remembering Atlantis” on October 8, 2025, at the Kölnischer Kunstverein.

The performance consists of a 19-minute video showing three former Atlantic citizens attempting to return to the present as they move through the security checks of the immigration authorities. The video is embedded in a performative prologue and epilogue in which Vanja Smiljanić further explores the potential of Atlantis as a socio-political instrument. In doing so, the multimedia artist experiments with the creative possibilities of non-linear narrative.

The exhibition is funded by Kunststiftung NRW and Freunde der artothek Köln e.V.
Photo: © Vanja Smiljanić

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

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

In the summer of 1927, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – dadaist poet, nude model, and proto-punk – writes a letter to the patron Peggy Guggenheim. In prophetic euphoria and apocalyptic urgency, she outlines her latest project: a studio for experimental modelling in Paris, which she hopes will mark her artistic comeback and provide an escape route out of her existential misery. Peggy Guggenheim expresses interest, but does not pay. Shortly afterward, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven takes her own life. Now, almost a century later, ,Bruch‘- is taking up this forgotten episode in the history of performance art and re-stages it as a space of resonance for contemporary dilemmas of artistic labour and self-fashionings. Together with dancer Frances Chiaverini, composer Stanislav Iordanov and author Théo Casciani amongst others, and drawing on the artist’s late autofictional texts, they model multi-layered choreographic worlds and explore the act of calling oneself an ‘artist’ in an economically, politically and spiritually precarious present.

28. & 29. November, 8 pm

More information will follow soon.

Funded by:
Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW

In the summer of 1927, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – dadaist poet, nude model, and proto-punk – writes a letter to the patron Peggy Guggenheim. In prophetic euphoria and apocalyptic urgency, she outlines her latest project: a studio for experimental modelling in Paris, which she hopes will mark her artistic comeback and provide an escape route out of her existential misery. Peggy Guggenheim expresses interest, but does not pay. Shortly afterward, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven takes her own life. Now, almost a century later, ,Bruch‘- is taking up this forgotten episode in the history of performance art and re-stages it as a space of resonance for contemporary dilemmas of artistic labour and self-fashionings. Together with dancer Frances Chiaverini, composer Stanislav Iordanov and author Théo Casciani amongst others, and drawing on the artist’s late autofictional texts, they model multi-layered choreographic worlds and explore the act of calling oneself an ‘artist’ in an economically, politically and spiritually precarious present.

28. & 29. November, 8 pm

More information will follow soon.

Funded by:
Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Kunststiftung NRW

Guided tour of the exhibition Amelie von Wulffen, Jonas Lipps with Valérie Knoll, Director.
Admission to the exhibitions, events, and guided tours is free, registration is not required.