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Currently in the DANCE RESIDENCY

From 08.12.2025 – 04.01.2026 Kim Gorol and Salome Kehlenbach will be in residence with us. Kim Gorol Woman Eden: The “Woman Eden” project deals with the question of the existence, […]
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Episode 3: Literary Residency in Cologne for Turkish Authors

Literary residency for authors from Istanbul in Cologne. Application deadline: December 31, 2025
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Audition – Collaboration with Compagnia Bellanda

Compagnia Bellanda is looking for two to three dancers for the research phase of the new production “CARNE” in the TANZRESIDENZ at Quartier am Hafen. Application deadline: December 15, 2025 […]
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Seyir Quartier Literary Residency – Episode 2: Fellow Luisa Ringel

We are pleased to announce that Luisa Ringel has been selected as the fellow for the second episode of the Seyir Quartier project. With the residency in Istanbul, Ringel will […]
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Omer Halperin – Residency Kunststiftung NRW

Omer Halperin will be a guest as an artist-in-residence at Quartier am Hafen until the end of 2025. The figures in Omer Halperin’s works arise from an ongoing interest in […]
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Open Call: Seyir Quartier 2025 – Episode 2

Quartier am Hafen (Cologne) and istanbulberlin invite literature mediators from Cologne to be guests at the “Atelier Galata” (Istanbul) of the City of Cologne as part of the “Seyir Quartier” Episode 2 residency from December 6, 2025, for approximately six weeks.
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Seyir Quartier – Zelal Dicle Baz is a fellow of the literature residency

We are pleased to announce that Zelal Dicle Baz has been selected as the first fellow for the Seyir Quartier literary residency. The aim of the residency is to promote […]
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OPEN CALL Curator Program: c/o Q18

We present quarterly curated solo and group exhibitions of invited artists from various disciplines at Q18. Since 2013, we have been assigning the curatorial concept of Q18 to young, up-and-coming […]
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Review: Zelal Dicle Baz

Zelal Dicle Baz was the first fellow of the Seyir Quartier literature residency and spent six weeks in Cologne. In addition to visiting various literature networks and events, Baz gave […]
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c/o Q18: Like a river, grief wants to move and flow

⪼ Exhibition | Exhibition September 27 – October 19, 2025 Inspired by a quote from Camille Sapara Barton, the group exhibition “like a river, grief wants to move and flow” […]
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Sumbisori

As part of i.d. new talents, Quartier am Hafen is presenting three current works by the artists Julia Gruner, Christoph Kilian and Natascha Schmitten in the group exhibition SUMBISORI, curated […]
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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 […]
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Wendelin Bottländer & Bianca Voss – Force Majeure

Force majeure can mean many things in the double and triple sense of the word. The title itself reflected the subtly subversive ambiguity that is characteristic of the works of […]
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Simon Rummel & Tina Tonagel – Recovery on Board
Curated by Lisa Bensel & Theresa Nink Three self-invented instruments transformed the Q18 into a slowly changing and constantly evolving sound space that invited visitors to linger. Without a defined […]
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Alwin Lay & Lorelinde Verhees – The Wavering Stage
Like Mike Lacey’s comic ‘X-Ray Specs‘, the exhibition ‘The Wavering Stage’ also played with its asymmetrical information advantage over the environment. The viewer’s gaze on the couch – on the […]
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Elisabeth Oertel – Handle with care … Handle don’t care
Caught between adventure and security, between the everyday and the extreme, between things and letting go, Elisabeth Oertel elevates the depth and madness of objects and life to a surface. […]
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Katja Donnerstag & Yvonne Klasen – Pause
From December 6, 2013, to January 10, 2014, the Quartier am Hafen studio house presented a site-specific spatial installation with new works by artists Katja Donnerstag and Yvonne Klasen as […]
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Gonzalo H. Rodriguez & Kuai Shen – The Initiate (You) & The Mystics (Them)
From September 28 to October 18, 2013, the Quartier am Hafen studio house in Cologne-Poll presented an interdisciplinary installation with new works by the artists Gonzalo H. Rodriguez and Kuai […]
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Caroline Bayer – Depot
Caroline Bayer (born in Stolberg, Rhineland in 1973, lives and works in Berlin) traces clues in her work. In her drawings, objects and installations, she explores the urban space, its […]
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Anna Sokolova – Black White Black
From February 22 to March 22, 2013, the Quartier am Hafen studio house presented a site-specific media installation with new works by artist Anna Sokolova as part of its exhibition […]