Calendar

Participating artists:
Martin Assig, Arthur Bauer, Heiner Binding, Christoph Dahlhausen, Stefan Löffelhardt, Russel Maltz, Fabian Marcaccio, Gabriela Oberkofler, Franziska Reinbothe, Elisabeth Vary, Birgit Werres

opening hours:
Tue-Fr 1pm-6pm, Sat 1pm-5pm

Venue:
Galerie Anke Schmidt
Schönhauser Str. 8
50968 Köln

“In meteorology, the eye is the almost windless center of a hurricane,” I read on Wikipedia on 01.12.2023. Around it, however, where the “high-reaching cumulus clouds” form the “eyewall”, the winds blow more violently than in the rough rest of the hurricane. The weather phenomenon has a proverbial character and can be applied to the state of the world and our almost untouched, thoroughly relaxed existence here, but it also applies to many other things, such as the storms surrounding the question of how art should function correctly. I would like to use the relative calm in the center to seek out positions that could first and foremost be concerned with finding a self-determined way of being, in order to be stable for the upheavals that may come; direct, even innate connotations with seen and felt realities are not excluded. After all, art is a part of this world and occasionally helps us to survive. I take note of the fact that the “eye” is also the first sensory organ for seeing as a meaningful ambiguity. The moment speaks from the background.