15.09.2024 – 14.08.2025
Kolumba, Cologne
www.kolumba.de
El Kiosco Kolumba was inspired by kiosks from Santiago de Chile. When the free and printed press was still more diverse, these functional architectures in public urban spaces were lively meeting places where newspapers and articles for daily consumption were displayed and purchased and news was exchanged. They were places of fleeting affection, where three sentences were exchanged and the benefits of village structures of care were carried into the big city. Valeria Fahrenkrog transfers these moments of social interaction into the public space of the museum. Her artistic practice is based on Lucius Burckhardt’s idea of the “smallest possible intervention”: she finds materials from past exhibitions in the belly of the museum, which she adapts, cuts up and assembles into a temporary sculpture. Not only are the materials recycled, but also the ideas and stories associated with them. Like its role models, El Kiosco is also a place of information, exchange and affection. It is a platform for actions and gestures that Valeria Fahrenkrog not only uses herself, but also makes available to others. At regular intervals, she invites performers who – like herself – make their spaces available to other artists. The use of the kiosk will change with each event, so that threads will continue to be spun and traces left behind. In the best-case scenario, El Kiosco will become a kind of solidarity sculpture where different production and working methods are presented and questions about resource-conserving artistic practice are raised.
Programme:
28.09.2024, 15 h / Kioskgespräch #1 with Valeria Fahrenkrog
23.11.2024, 15 h / Kioskgespräch #2 with Stefanie Klingemann
11.01.2025, 15 h / Kioskgespräch #3 with Anna Bromley
22.02.2025, 15 h / Kioskgespräch #4 with Ivo Weber
29.03.2025, 15 h / Kioskgespräch #5 with Monika Kerkmann
10.05.2025, 15 h / Kioskgespräch #6 with mit Suse Itzel und Jennifer de Negri
14.06.2025, 15 h / Kioskgespräch #7 with Claudia Pacheco Araoz
