The Museum in the Body
You can get started right away, wherever you are.

While you are reading these words your body adopts a certain stance. Perhaps you are sitting at your desk. Your eyes are alert as they scan the individual letters in a fluent sequence on the screen. The rest of your body is supportive of this activity, continuing to perform all vital processes. Our experience of the world depends on our bodies. – To what extent is art also a physical experience? Can art become a sensual encounter made by the body when detached from the usual tête-a-tête between the object and the viewer in a given space? What other opportunities are available to engage with art beyond a purely intellectual discourse? »The museum in the body« addresses these questions in its own way. The starting point is the museum as an architectural and institutional body. A guided tour takes you through the rooms without you having to be there yourself. You are invited to explore your perceptions and the physical resonance of an artwork in a playful manner. No prerequisites are necessary – just the readiness to listen along with a spark of curiosity! You can get started right away, wherever you are. Are you ready?

Idea, concept, execution: Suzanne Josek
Production: Studio 255, Cologne

»Museum im Körper« 06:
Duane Michals, Things are Queer
From Monday, 16 August 2021


»The Museum in the Body« 05:
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, Dark Red
From Monday, 12 July 2021


»The Museum in the Body« 04:
Hannah Villiger, Skulptural
From Monday, 14 June 2021


»The Museum in the Body« 03:
Triple Face vultus trifons (Holy Trinity), 17th century
From Monday, 10 May 2021


»The Museum in the Body« 02:
Richard Tuttle, »Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself«, 1973/2020
From Monday, 12 April 2021, 8 p.m.


»The Museum in the Body« 01:
Heinz Breloh, »Lebensgrösse von ferne«, 1988
From Monday, 8 March, 8 pm.

Art museum of the
Archdiocese of Cologne