Kolumba
Kolumbastraße 4
D-50667 Köln
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20 October 2006 - 9 April 2007
In the Garden of Reality – Part II Stars for Kolumba – last Part What is a mechanical wall clock doing in an illustration of the Annunciation to the Virgin? A Book of Hours from Bruges from 1475, opened to a double page, sparks a dialogue between things and works (of art), which this last exhibition at the old location is presenting as the epitome of Kolumba’s collection. With works selected from out of six centuries, the exhibition focuses on the unity of creation and raises the question as to the fundaments and ethical responsibility of creating. In the second part of the »Garden of Reality« as well, Stefan Lochner’s »Madonna with the Violet« stands again as the central focus (more information to Part I in the Menu Archive). However, the emphasis is on a selection from the collection of works and forms that Werner Schriefers had presented as a gift to Kolumba in 2002. This generous donation of around 8000 well-designed utilitarian objects ties in with the origins of the museum, founded in 1853 as a museum of the archdiocese in the spirit of achieving a model collection. On display you will find ceramics and glasses as well as technical equipment made from 1910 to the 1960s. A book published to accompany this exhibition displays a cultural history of things in the 20th century. In it, we introduce groups of products and materials, famous designers and firms, asking whether everyday things need to be aesthetically pleasing. This is a book to look at and to enjoy reading! (See new publications). »Everything that is, must appear, and nothing can appear without a shape of its own; hence there is in fact nothing that does not in some way transcend its functional use […] By the same token, namely in its sheer worldly existence, every thing also transcends the sphere of pure instrumentality once it is completed. The standard by which a thing’s excellence is judged is never mere usefulness, as though an ugly table will fulfil the same function as a handsome one, but its adequacy or inadequacy to the idea of what it should look like.« (Hannah Arendt) | 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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