Events & Education

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

Guided tour of the exhibition Eine Stadt als Atelier with Valérie Knoll and Fabian Flückiger, co-curators of the exhibition. Admission to the exhibitions, events and guided tours is free, registration is not required.

On the final day of the exhibition Eine Stadt als Atelier there will be a film screening at the Kölnischer Kunstverein’s cinema, Kino 813 in der BRÜCKE, organised in collaboration with Filmclub 813.

THE START
LE DÉPART
Belgium 1967, 92 mins, German-language version, b/w, 35mm
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Screenplay by Andrzej Kostenko, Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematography: Willy Kurant; Music: Krzysztof Komeda
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Catherine Duport, Jacqueline Bir, Paul Roland

“Day in, day out, Marc stands in the hairdressing salon cutting strangers’ hair. His true passion, however, lies with fast cars. He secretly practises in his boss’s “borrowed” Porsche, his goal being to take part in a car race. When, of all days, the car is unavailable on the day of the race, a replacement has to be found at short notice. This leads to a wild chase through Brussels by night, the city as you’ve never seen it before. Krzysztof Komeda’s music whips the action along and propels Marc through bizarre adventures.”
(Claus Löser, Zeughauskino)

“Nothing less than a seminal work of modern cinema. A Belgian film by a Polish director that is more Nouvelle Vague than almost anything by Godard, Truffaut and co. Anyone who wants to know what the ‘Swinging Sixties’ – if they ever actually existed – must have felt like should watch Skolimowski’s masterpiece.”
(Lukas Foerster, Perlentaucher)

Followed by
SUNDAY
DIMANCHE
Belgium 1963, 18 mins, German-language version, b/w, 35mm
Written and directed by Edmond Bernhard
Cinematography by André Goeffers

“Director Edmond Bernhard depicts a perfectly ordinary Sunday in Brussels: an empty dormitory in a boarding school, a museum with no visitors, children playing hide-and-seek… […] There is no voice-over commentary, but an extraordinary sense of aesthetics. The film was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture with the brief to address ‘the problem of leisure’. Edmond Bernhard focused above all on conveying a sense of emptiness and boredom.”
(sabzian.be)

In cooperation with Filmclub 813
Admission by donation