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50676 Cologne
Germany
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In 2024 the CCA Temporary Gallery continues to evolve towards becoming a perma-cultural institution—an art space guided by the reflection on environmental and social sustainability.
April 12–June 2
Blue Binding Ribbon
Common Threads Press, Maris Curran, Nina Danino, Brigitte Dunkel, Fashion House Limanka, Maria Renée Morales Garcia, Nora Hansen, Laura Huertas Millán, Stephan Idé, Olena Newkryta, Marzena Nowak, Nie Pastille, ReSew sewing cooperative, Sarah Ferreira dos Santos, Working Textiles (Alissa Ritter, Karla Kleinschmidt, Marie Schubert, Sofia Magdits Espinoza), and others
Curated by Lisa Klosterkötter and Aneta Rostkowska
Blue binding ribbon includes a processual exhibition and a series of workshops. The project revolves around collective aspects of textile handwork in the visual arts. Its primary inspirations are current and historical cross-feminist working groups, collectives, self-help gatherings, studio communities, schools, platforms and digital networks that focus on the joint production of artistic works and handicrafts. During the exhibition, two collectives occupy the space and develop projects. Blue binding ribbon aims to highlight and strengthen the communal aspect of craftsmanship in connection with its political and therapeutic aspects.
June 22–December 15
Alberta Whittle: …Moving Beyond the Time of Salt
Curated by Sour Grass
…Moving Beyond the Time of Salt is the first solo exhibition in Germany supporting Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle’s works. Weaving tapestries that foreground themes of liberation, anti-colonialism, care, and resistance, the exhibition features films, works on paper, installations, performances, and a social collaboration rooted in the concept of radical hospitality and collective care. Whittle’s work draws on contested colonial histories and the contemporary anguish of systemic racism, violence, and grief to capture the collective imagination. It is an open invitation to co-creating spaces for intimacy, listening, expanded kinship, and collective healing. Sour Grass is a curatorial duo and experiment founded by Holly Bynoe and Annalee Davis in 2020. It seeks to work with artists and creative practitioners from the Caribbean and across its diaspora to build transnational relationships with museums, cultural institutions, and both private and public entities.
July 20–28
Eloïse Bonneviot and Anne de Boer: All of the Critters
Curated by Nada Rosa Schroer
The project addresses changes in urban ecosystems under climate pressure. Through a site-specific installation in an community garden, a card game, and an interactive digital landscape the project invites participants to explore different scenarios of global warming in cities from a more-than-human perspective. What would urban planning for ‘climate resilience’ look like if all of the critters had a say?
Residency programme
Since 2023 the Temporary Gallery is running a residency programme whose guests visit different institutions in Cologne that support artists with disabilities. The goal is for these places to become normal places of curatorial research and enable artists working there to participate in the art system. In 2024 the institution hosts Yvonne Billimore, Raphael Daibert, Gilly Karjevski, Jussi Koitela and Alberta Whittle. Partners: kaethe:k Kunsthaus, Kunsthaus KAT18.
Youth education program
The project aims to help teenagers and young adults gain access to cultural institutions and recognise the art system as a potential career perspective. Through workshops with professional artists, curators and activists, excursions to exhibitions and community meetings, networks are opened for young people to help them build sustainable relationships from which they can benefit in the long term. Curated by Paloma Nana.
Mobile Kitchen
In 2023 CCA Temporary Gallery built a mobile kitchen which over the summer months moved through the neigbourhood. The artist Paula Erstmann and curator Lisa Klosterkötter, in cooperation with local initiatives, communities and associations, invited people to cook and eat together to get to know people in the district better, to network and to exchange ideas. In 2024 the mobile kitchen will be on the move again to make the CCA Temporary Gallery a better neighbour.
Funding and Support: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Deltax contemporary, Institut français, ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Deutsche Postcode Lotterie, RheinEnergie-Stiftung, Commerzbank-Stiftung.
