Quartier am Hafen

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 that already existed, transforming the space into an almost scientific research laboratory and confronting the visitor with visual and acoustic impressions in equal measure. In […]

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 Quartier am Hafen. The starting point for Terrassino Poll is very concrete. Plastic stools, as they are ubiquitously found in non-European countries as loose arrangements […]

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 actors start from the given circumstances, the available means and their own possibilities. Coincidences and the unexpected are considered as a possibility and can flow […]

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 work. Using an architectural approach, they erected a shamanistic structure that subverts its illusionistic existence all by itself. In doing so, the artists referenced two […]

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- only what they are and form a structure, a surface, a textum. They are lines that are drawn -close together- either with a ruler or […]

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 Wendelin Bottländer. Force majeure is by definition the incoming, unforeseeable damaging event, the unavoidable catastrophe, but perhaps also the unforeseeable, unavoidable stroke of luck. However, […]

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 of discourses.The artist as alchemist, art as visualization of the invisible, or the museum as temple constitute some of these rhetorical figures that can be […]

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, unapproachable and fast-moving, at another time raw, timeless and elemental. The two worlds stood opposite each other. Each closed in itself and yet they reacted […]

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 Atelierhaus. In terms of content, they set out with three sculptures in search of a pictorial answer to existing riddles of the cultural and natural […]

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 or set end, the motor-driven musical machines played themselves, generating a continuously transforming sound and light situation that remained unpredictable on the one hand and […]

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 a surface. The sculpture “594 km”, like an action painting, drawn from glass threads, is a living entity. It addresses decay, unarchivability and the moment […]

From December 6, 2013 to January 10, 2014, the Atelierhaus Quartier am Hafen showed a site-specific spatial installation with new works by artists Katja Donnerstag and Yvonne Klasen, curated by Anne Mager, as part of its exhibition program. “If no one asks me about it, I know it, but if I want to explain it […]

From September 28 to October 18, 2013, the Atelierhaus Quartier am Hafen in Cologne-Poll showed an interdisciplinary installation with new works by the artists Gonzalo H. Rodriguez and Kuai Shen, curated by Anne Mager, as part of its exhibition program. The starting point of the exhibition “The Initiate (You) & The Mystics (Them)” were two […]

Caroline Bayer (born 1973 in Stolberg, Rhineland, lives and works in Berlin) goes in search of traces in her works. In her drawings, objects and installations, she explores urban space, its patterns and visual structures of order. She picks up architectural set pieces – façade elements, floor plans, functional constructions or existing spatial ordering systems […]

From February 22 to March 22, 2013, the Atelierhaus Quartier am Hafen showed a site-specific media installation with new works by the artist Anna Sokolova, curated by Anne Mager, as part of its exhibition program. The indoor and outdoor interventions shown in the solo exhibition “Black-White-Black” explored issues of monumentality and artistic autonomy through the […]