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curator 2018: Michael Stockhausen
Michael Stockhausen studied Art History and Literary Studies. Since 2014 he is working as a lecturer at the Department of Art History at the University of Bonn, Germany. In his […]
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Janneke van der Putten – Directed to the sun
Vocal performances / audio-visual installation “I see my interventions as part of the landscape, in which the entire environment and its contexts are involved” Janneke van der Putten Directed to […]
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Thomas Musehold
Thomas Musehold is a sculptor and develops among others small-scale objects out of casted and modified foundries. Often those artefacts remind of nature forms, which visually establish as stylized, varnished […]
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Performance Archive (phantom cigarette) – Performance Art Archive / The Black Kit und Ivan Cheng
The exhibition series 2017 at Q18 is characterized by the performative. The theme is illuminated by different perspectives and artistic approaches in four events, including an additional program. Process, experiment […]
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curator 2017: Jari Ortwig
She studied art history and Romance studies in Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the Universitá degli Studi di Torino, Italy. After an internship at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, she was awarded the curator’s […]
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Vanja Smiljanić & Lukas Marxt – Echos from the SKY
Following an invitation to develop a duo work for the exhibition series in the Quartier, the artists Vanja Smiljani? & Lukas Marxt conceived a scenery from some of the works […]
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Tanja Goethe & Christian Odzuck
The artists Tanja Goethe and Christian Odzuck combined their common interest in the processes of the city in the conception of a work for the public outdoor space of the […]
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Sabine Bokelberg & Bert Didillion – Ideal X
In decision theory, there is a decision logic that can be used in situations of uncertainty. It is called effectuation. Instead of acting in a goal- and future-oriented way, the […]
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Jessica Twitchell & Thomas Straub – The assembling white smoke
The Assembling White Smoke is the title of the first joint exhibition by Jessica Twitchell and Thomas Straub. For the exhibition at Q 18,Twitchell and Straub jointly developed an expansive […]
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curator 2016: Linda Nadji
Linda Nadji (*1972 in Tehran, Iran) lives and works as a freelance artist in Cologne. After studying design at the Fachhochschule Aachen and acting at the Zentrum für Schauspiel und […]
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Frank Weidenbach & Ralf Werner – Textum
Frank Weidenbach‘s drawings result from intersecting lines that fill the entire sheet format and form a close-meshed network of lines. These lines refer to nothing. They are -in orthogonal rigor- […]
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Wendelin Böttcher & Bianca Voss – Höhere Gewalt
Force majeure can mean many things in the double and triple sense of the word. Already the title reflected the subtle-subversive ambiguity that characterizes the works of Bianca Voss and […]
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Taka Kagitomi, Michael Sauer & Christian Schreckenberger – Strumenti
Wunderkammer Some topoi of contemporary exhibition practice can be deployed universally and, thanks to their pliable metaphorical scope and their simultaneously figurative and diffuse character, are used for all kinds […]
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Nora Hansen & Lorenzo Pompa – Multiversum
MULTIVERSUM The totality of parallel worlds. Only by the contact of these worlds the special became visible and the regularities clearly distinguishable: What one saw seemed at one time smooth, […]
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curator 2015: Katharina Maderthaner
Katharina Maderthaner (*1982) studied at the Academy of Art Düsseldorf until 2014. The sculptor and painter has also been active as a curator since 2010 (e.g. “raum für vollendete tatsachen”, […]
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katerina kuznetcowa & alexander edisherov – des illus ion
In the context of their exhibition Des Illus Ion, Katerina Kuznetcowa and Alexander Edisherov realize a three-dimensional triptych that extends from the interior exhibition space to the exterior of the […]
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simon rummel & tina tonagel – erholung an bord
Curated by Lisa Bensel & Theresa Nink. Three self-imagined instruments transformed Q18 into a slowly shifting and constantly changing sound space that invited visitors to linger. Without a defined beginning […]
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Alwin Lay & Lorelinde Verhees – the wavering stage
Just like Mike Lacey’s comic ‘X-Ray Specs’, the exhibition ‘The Wavering Stage’ played with its asymmetrical informational advantage over the environment. The view of the audience on the couch – […]
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Elisabeth Oertel – Handle with care … handle don´t care
In the balancing act between adventure and security, between the everyday and the extreme, things and letting go, Elisabeth Oertel transported the depth and insanity of objects and life to […]
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curator 2014: Lisa Bensel
Born in Freiburg in 1988, she returned to Germany in 2012 after a 5-year stay in the Netherlands. She studied Fine Arts in Den Bosch and Porto and has initiated […]