Kolumba
Kolumbastraße 4
D-50667 Köln
tel +49 (0)221 9331930
fax +49 (0)221 93319333
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13 to 19 August 2005, 10am to 12pm
1st view! (Kolumbastraße 4) The Ground Floor of the New Building A star pulls behind it a blue lacquered cart filled with building blocks. It is intended as a “Portable Ocean”, a travelling sea. Art is able to create the unimaginable with the simplest means. Do we follow the star … where am I? Invisible doves fly across the exhibition space as wind blows through the walls and daylight falls in softly. A building made up of different time periods: is it a church, a ruin, a monument or a museum? The building created on the basis of the plans of the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor respects all the existing fragments of the two thousand year old architectural history of this location in Cologne’s city centre. The new building for the art museum of the Archbishopric of Cologne develops upon the wartime ruins of the late Gothic church of Saint Kolumba. It embraces in its core a gem of the 1950s: the chapel “Madonna in the Ruins”, which was built in 1949 according to a design by Gottfried Böhm. One can experience one of the densest archaeological zones of Europe as well as the remains of Roman houses, the foundations of several antecedent churches and modern burial vaults all in one and the same space. After three years of building works the shell of the almost finished building is accessible for the first time for World Youth Day. Some of the collection’s works are already in place: One can hear the synchronicity of the past and presence in Bill Fontana’s sound installation “Pigeon Soundings” recorded in 1994. “. In the future museum foyer a painting of a Baroque church interior questions the ability of paintings to evoke memories. – Let us follow the star! The new building and Kolumba’s art collection preserve the role of the church as cultural guardian and lead it into the future with the help of today’s technology. | Art museum of the
Archdiocese of Cologne Current events Architecture Exhibitions Gallery Videos Audio Tracks Information Chapel Museums-History Publications Essays Events Education 11/24 Sound Workshop 11/24 For All Souls 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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