Kolumba
Kolumbastraße 4
D-50667 Köln
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Mid February to September 1997
About the Site: St. Kolumba Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 9 Parallel to the current architecture competition for the new building of the Diözesanmuseum upon the ruins of the St. Kolumba Church in Cologne, we are organising a six-month programme of exhibitions, lectures, talks and concerts designed to make us experience the site and introduce and explore it at the same time. As always, in this 9th part of our exhibition series “Reencounter with the Unknown” a major work of the collection forms the central focus: the “Mother and Child” from around 1650 by the sculptor Jeremias Geisselbrunn. In the northern side aisle of the Late Gothic St. Kolumba Church, the baroque portrayal of the Madonna once posed an outstanding highlight. In 1677 Jakob de Groote, known for his various donations to churches in Cologne, gave the piece to Kolumba. After having survived the endeavours of rigorous over-cleansing in the 19th century, to which a lot of Colognes churches had fallen victim, it finally seemed lost when the entire church was destroyed on 28 January 1945. The piece owes its reconstruction to the diligent restoration of the seventy fragments of the alabaster sculpture which had burst in the flames. The “Reencounter” dedicates itself this time to this major work of Cologne Baroque sculpture. Its liveliness triggered by its energy finds a counterbalance in our presentation of the quiet work of artist Kurt Benning from Munich. For his “Luminated Box” with the seemingly presumptuous and loaded title of a “Historical Picture” called “The War in Middle Europe, mid XX. Century” Benning uses a photo of the place his father worked in, taken by his father in Belgrade in 1943. The artist as an eyewitness of history using the reference of such pictures is also a topic of the video installation by Klaus vom Bruch “… in the Window” of the museum. | Art museum of the
Archdiocese of Cologne Current events Architecture Exhibitions Gallery Videos Audio Tracks Information Chapel Museums-History Publications Essays Events Education 02/24 Peace upon you, Jerusalem 1-8/24 Required Reading 11/23 Sound Workshop 11/23 For All Souls 5 10/23 A different view of art 08/23 A Ukrainian Kolumba 06/23 Un Film Dramatique 01/23 The Reading Room 11/12 Sound Workshop 11/22 For All Souls 4 07/22 Lecture by Linda Wiesner 05/22 Vortrag Rolf Lauer 08/21 New Ocean Sea Cycle 06/21 BODY TALE 02/21 Tonspur_Achim Lengerer 11/18 Circumstance 12/17 Renate König Donation 08/17 Ten Years Kolumba 04/17 Artist Talk 01/17 Series of Concerts 11/16 10th Soundworkshop 06/16 Eric Hattan & Julian Sartorius 06/15 FORSETI feat. subsTANZ 06/15 Cologne Opera 03/15 Animated Cartoon Workshop 11/14 Soundtrack (Achim Lengerer) 11/14 Edith Stein Conference 11/14 Sound Workshop 10/14 Philosophical Discussion 10/14 Albert-Talk 10/14 Seminar on Philosophy 06/14 Visiting Schools III 02/14 Barlach-Haus 11/13 Dance performance 11/13 Sound Workshop 10/13 E-MEX-Ensemble 10/13 4th Albert-Discussion 05/13 Performances 03/13 Horatiu Radulescu 11/12 Sound Workshop 10/12 E-MEX-Ensemble 09/12 Girls' Choir 08/12 Cage: Empty Words 08/12 Hosting Schools II 08/12 Many thanks to all of the... 07/12 Table Talks 06/12 Table Concert 06/12 The chamber of meditation 05/12 episteme 05/12 new talents 04/12 Cage: A Collection of Rocks 03/12 Cage: Number Pieces 03/12 Hans Otte 11/11 Sound Workshop 09/11 Imploding Desk 07/11 Finissage 07/11 Schulen zu Gast I 11/10 Sound Workshop 11/10 Joseph Marioni 06/10 Steffen Krebber 05/10 Holy-Spirit Retable 02/10 Bernhard Leitner 02/10 Ash Wednesday 11/09 Sound Workshop 11/08 Workshop 10/08 Donaueschingen Festival 06/08 Kolumba is singing! 04/07 Art Cologne 08/05 1st view! 12/04 The Pietà from St. Kolumba 11/03 Schauspielhaus Köln |
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