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GEMEINDE KÖLN is an art project space in Ebertplatz established with the aim to provide an informal e

03/09/2025

Herzliche Einladung
Thomas Grundmann, SELF
Season Opening der Kunsträume am Ebertplatz

Ausstellung: 5. September – 5. Oktober 2025
Eröffnung: 5. Setpember, 18.00 Uhr

Mit Performances von:
Piolinda Marcela (DJ/live) outdoor 19:00 Uhr
DJ Brom (DJ) outdoor 18:00 Uhr
Mik Quantius (live) in der Ausstellung

“We’re all born naked and the rest is drag,” ist ein bekanntes Zitat von RuPaul Charles, das darauf ansprechen möchte, dass die Weise, wie wir uns kleiden, frisieren, oder auch welche Gewohnheiten wir transportieren, – wie wir gehen, sprechen und lachen, – diejenige Hülle ist, die wir an unsere Außenwelt senden. Ausgesprochen männlich oder feminin zu wirken, ist auch eine Entscheidung, unabhängig davon, in welchem Körper man geboren wurde. Eine Ikone trägt entsprechende Attribute, eine Politikerin andere. Und es sind diejenigen visuellen Codes, die im Social-Gossip interpretiert und bewertet werden.

Diese Ausstellung wird gefördert durch das Kulturamt der Stadt Köln. Die Konzerte werden von Unser Ebertplatz unterstützt.

Bild: Thomas Grundmann, BRITNEY, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm, 2022

Rahmenprogramm zur Eröffnung

– Ausstellungen, dj sets und live performances, outdoor und indoor –
5 Sept 2025, 18:00 Uhr
LINK ZUM RAHMENPROGRAMM SEASON OPENING

eröffnungen ausstellungen initiativen
17:00 Uhr Bar und Snacks
18:00 Uhr Thomas Grundmann – SELF
18:00 Uhr Rufus Michielsen – Serious Fun And Sugar Coated Violence
18:00 Uhr Haiqing Wang – True Story & Other Stories
18:00 Uhr Stephanie Stein und Tony Just, kuratiert von Marion Scharmann

Open Air
18:00 Uhr DJ BROM
19:00 Uhr Piolinda Marcela

special
20:30 Uhr Mik Quantius

26/08/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY

📅 Thursday, August 28, 2025
🕖 Film program: 19:00 – 20:45
🖼️ Exhibitions in the passage: 16:00 – 20:00
🍿 Free entry. Donations welcome. Popcorn + Bar.

Total Refusal – How to Disappear
21 min | 2021 | Austria

How to Disappear is a striking anti-war film that explores the act of desertion within the unlikely setting of an online war game. Blurring the boundaries between the virtual and the real, the film becomes a poetic and political homage to resistance, disobedience, and the refusal of systems of violence—both digital and physical. The artist collective Total Refusal subverts the very logic of heroism and war from inside the game itself.

Basma al-Sharif – Ouroboros (title image)
77 min | 2017 | Palestine

In her first feature film, visual artist Basma al-Sharif presents Ouroboros—a poetic homage to Gaza and to enduring hope in the face of destruction. Shot across five locations—Gaza, Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert, Italy, and Brittany—the film follows a mysterious protagonist on a cyclical journey through memory, loss, and renewal.

Drawing on the ancient symbol of the serpent that devours itself, Ouroboros navigates tensions between regeneration and destruction, between the personal and the political, fiction and reality. Boundaries of time and geography blur, echoing the experience of displacement and longing that lies at the heart of Palestinian identity. With haunting imagery and experimental storytelling, Al-Sharif offers a meditative reflection on what it means to return to a place that may no longer exist.

19/08/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY

📅 Thursday, 21 August 2025
🕖 19:00 – 20:45
📍 Ebertplatzpassage / Gemeinde Köln, 50668 Cologne
🖼 Exhibitions in the Passage: 16:00 – 20:00, “REALITY BREAK”
🎟 Free entry – donations welcome | Popcorn + Bar

Mukaddas Mijit & Bastien Ehouzan – Nikah (France, 2023, 55:44 min)
NIKAH (2017) tells the story of Dilber, a 27-year-old Uyghur woman facing immense family pressure to finally marry—especially since her younger sister Rena seems to lead a stable married life. But the political situation in the Uyghur region escalates dramatically: secret arrests multiply, including Rena’s husband. Dilber’s daily life becomes increasingly marked by insecurity. In regular FaceTime conversations with her friend Gulnur in Paris, she begins to hope that marriage to a young Uyghur man in France could offer a way out.
Mukaddas Mijit, originally from Ürümqi (China), is a Uyghur ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, dancer, and artist. Since moving to France in 2003, she has created documentary films and performances dedicated to exploring and preserving Uyghur culture.

Julie Černá – Stone of Destiny (Czech Republic, 2025, 10 min)
An animated musical based on Černá’s acclaimed comic trilogy, centering on a sensitive, magical object—the Stone of Destiny—that longs for freedom while struggling with self-doubt. On its journey, it encounters strange creatures and traverses surreal landscapes, touching on themes of identity, loneliness, and the search for meaning. Stone of Destiny premiered in competition at Berlinale Shorts 2025, where it was nominated for the Golden Bear for Best Short Film.

19/08/2025

Save the Date
Season Opening der Kunsträume am Ebertplatz

– Ausstellungen, dj sets und live performances, outdoor und indoor –

5 Sept 2025, ab 18:00 Uhr
Zum alljährlichen Saisonstart laden die Kunsträume am Ebertplatz, , gemeinsam mit ein zu:

ab 18:00 Uhr
eröffnungen ausstellungen initiativen

Thomas Grundmann – SELF
Rufus Michielsen – Serious Fun And Sugar Coated Violence
Haiqing Wang – True Story & Other Stories
Stephanie Stein und Tony Just, kuratiert von Marion Scharmann
Bar und Snacks

Open Air
18:00 Uhr DJ BROM
19:00 Uhr Piolinda Marcela

special
20:30 Uhr Mik Quantius

Die Ausstellungen und Konzerte werden u.a. gefördert von Stadt Köln, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln und Unser Ebertplatz und finden teilweise im Rahmen der DC Open statt.

Mehr Informationen auf www.gemeinde-koeln.org, https://brunnen-ev.de/, https://unser-ebertplatz.koeln/ und später hier.

Abbildungen
1 - Titelbild
2 - Piolinda Marcela
3 - Mik Quantius via psychedelic baby mac 2021
4 - DJ BROM (SPA Recordings)
5 - Ausstellungsflyer Thomas Grundmann
6 - Ausstellungsflyer Rufus Michielsen
7 - Ausstellungsflyer Haiqing Wang
8 - Ausstellungsflyer Stephanie Stein und Tony Just, kuratiert von Marion Scharmann

12/08/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY

📅 Thursday, 14 August 2025
🕖 19:00 – 20:30
📍 Ebertplatzpassage / Gemeinde Köln, 50668 Cologne
🎟 Free entry – donations welcome | Popcorn + Bar

Steffen Köhn & Johannes Büttner – Platform (Germany, 2022, 16 min)
A sci-fi documentary exploring the precarious realities of the gig economy. Combining real interviews with playful animations, it references Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash to imagine a future that feels eerily present. The film analyses the “online retail system” and shows how algorithmic control shapes 21st-century work life, featuring delivery drivers from Berlin, Hong Kong, and beyond. Themes of control, resistance, and digital revolution intertwine with a pizza delivery simulator and sci-fi aesthetics.

Posak Jodian – Misafafahiyan (Taiwan, 2023, 16:26 min)
Portraying Hao Hao, a trans performer from the Amis community in Hualien, this award-winning film (Jury Prize, Pulima Art Awards 2023) tells of her extraordinary life—from official recognition as a singer performing in Taipei’s nightclubs and burlesque theaters of the 60s and 70s, to her return to her indigenous community. Through song, dialogue, and memories, it explores boundaries between self and public, indigenous and transgender identities, offering a layered reevaluation of identity and belonging.

Anhar Salem – Love & Revenge (France/Saudi Arabia, 2021, 31 min)
A docu-fiction following a teenage girl trying to escape her reality through an Instagram filter, only to lose control over her digital avatar, challenging her desire for freedom. Made remotely, with family and friends appearing in fictionalized roles, the film examines the blurring lines between private and public life in Saudi Arabia.

05/08/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY

📅 Thursday, 7 August 2025
🕗 20:00 – 21:45
📍 Ebertplatzpassage / Gemeinde Köln, 50668 Cologne
🎟 Free entry – donations welcome | Popcorn + Bar

Hester Yang – Undesirables (England, 2022, 17:30 min)
An ongoing mixed-media project uncovering the secret forced repatriation of Chinese seamen from Liverpool in the late 1940s. Deemed “undesirable” by British authorities after WWII, these men vanished without explanation—leaving behind families trapped in silence and loss.

Sonam Tseten – Pema (Tibet/Dharamsala, 2019, 19:23 min)
A poignant exile story about Pema, separated from her parents as a child and raised far from home. When her long-lost father unexpectedly appears in McLeod Ganj, her inner void surfaces. Through carefully composed images—windows, walls, glass—the film subtly captures the boundaries between exile, identity, and reconciliation.

Alisa Berger – K-SARAM: Tale of the Pig Head (Germany/Russia/South Korea, 2021, 27:59 min)
Exploring the Koryo-Saram community in Rostov-on-Don, Russia—descendants of Koreans forced to flee during Japanese annexation and later victims of Stalin’s purges. Centred around the ancestral ritual “Jesa,” the film reflects on stereotypes, diaspora identity, and the longing for Korean reunification, weaving personal stories into the broader history of marginalised communities in the post-Soviet space.

28/07/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY

🗓️31 July 2025 | 🕦19:00 to 20:35
🎟 Free admission • Donations welcome • Popcorn & bar available

oooooooooo - Wato Tsereteli, Galaqtion Eristavi and Aleksi Sosselia

Georgia | 2021 | 3:44 min

This short film was developed as part of the Informal Master’s Program at CCA Tbilisi and commissioned for the 1st Tbilisi Triennial. It captures the atmosphere of a post-Soviet society navigating past traumas and a shifting collective identity, two decades after Georgia’s independence.

Wato Tsereteli, founder of the Center of Contemporary Art – Tbilisi, collaborated with artists Galaqtion Eristavi and Aleksi Sosselia to explore themes of renewal, disillusionment, and generational change. With experimental form and poetic rhythm, the film reflects a young generation’s idealism and their search for clarity in uncertain times.

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Bhu Tsering – Tenzin Wangjor
Tibet / Dharamsala | 2023 | 5:52 min
In the high-altitude pastures of Ladakh, a boy pleads with his parents to let him attend school. But his father hesitates – who will care for the animals if the boy leaves?
This tender short by first-time Tibetan filmmaker Tenzin Wangjor reflects his deep gratitude to his community and his commitment to amplifying Tibetan voices in cinema.

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Apocatastasis – Shinpei Takeda
Germany / Mexico / Japan | 2021 | 83 min
Aida, living in Germany, is haunted by hallucinations. Joaquin, a musician in northern Mexico, mourns his brother’s violent death. Their stories intertwine on a remote island off Nagasaki—where silence, memory, and loss converge.
In this poetic feature, artist-filmmaker Shinpei Takeda explores collective trauma and the search for healing across continents, myth, and time.

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21/07/2025

Fabian Jung Installation + Konzert mit Este Kirchoff, Fabs die Rackete, Jonas Engel

Ausstellung & Konzert – 24. Juli 2025
📍 Gemeinde am Ebertplatz, Köln
🕕 Ausstellung ab 18 Uhr
🎶 Konzert ab 21 Uhr

Spielzeuge, Stofftiere und Alltagsobjekte stehen im Mittelpunkt einer verspielten, immersiven Installation von Fabian Jung – zum Leben erweckt durch die „Soundwall“ von Marc Müller & Sebastian Wulff. Der Raum selbst wird zum Instrument: visuell, greifbar, klanglich erfahrbar.

Ab 21 Uhr verwandelt sich die Szene in eine Bühne:
✨ Este Kirchoff – E-Zither, Elektronik
🥁 Fabs die Rakete – Schlagzeug, Kinderspielzeug, Besenstiele, Bühnenbild
🎷 Jonas Engel – Saxophon, Elektronik

Drei Performer:innen, die sich teils seit Jahren kennen, teils zum ersten Mal begegnen. Nichts ist vorbereitet, nichts geprobt – alles entsteht im Moment. Freut euch auf Überraschungen: chaotisch, verspielt, vielleicht auch berührend.

Kommt gern vorbei – wir freuen uns auf euch!

21/07/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY

🗓 24 July 2025 | 🕖 19:00–20:30
🎟 Free entry

Che-Yu Hsu & Wan-Yin Chen – The Making of Crime Scenes
Taiwan/Netherlands | 2023 | 21:56 min
Using forensic 3D scans, this film reconstructs the 1984 assassination of writer Henry Liu and the strange afterlife of his killer as a wuxia film producer. Hsu, a Taipei- and Amsterdam-based artist, explores how media shapes memory through video and animation. Chen, a long-term collaborator, contributes narrative structure and conceptual framing.

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Stefan Ramírez Pérez – As Much As Anyone
USA/Germany | 2016 | 16:43 min
Four actresses play themselves—and each other—blurring the line between fiction and reality. Ramírez Pérez, based in Cologne, works with experimental narratives that explore performance, identity, and visual language. His work has been shown at IFFR, Oberhausen, and Visions du Réel.

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Georgia, Magic Steven; Aleksi Soselia; Zura Tsofurashvili; Scott McCulloch; Dima Dadiani, Made in China.

Fair and Fear in China | 12:00 minutes, 2017
24. Juli 2024, 19.00 – 20.30 Uhr

As part of the collection from the Georgian film archive.

Mikołaj Sobczak & Nicholas Grafia – Sturm und Drang (Storm and Hot Desires)
Germany | 2016 | 24:02 min
A darkly satirical reimagining of Goethe’s Urfaut, this video critiques the art academy as a site of institutional control. Sobczak and Grafia work across video, performance, and painting, focusing on marginalised identities, alternative historiographies, and queer-feminist perspectives.

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Ulu Braun – Gerhard
Germany | 2025 | 10:00 min
A hybrid biopic of “the most successful painter of our time,” Gerhard uses AI and video collage to examine creativity, commodification, and digital myth-making. Braun, a pioneer of experimental video, has received the Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis and Berlin Art Prize, and recently premiered Gerhard at IFFR 2025.

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16/07/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY

🗓 17 July 2025 | 🕖 19:00–20:40
🎟 Free entry

This screening brings together three documentary works that explore environmental resistance, indigenous heritage, and the politics of memory through personal and collective narratives.

Raphael Reichl – Ahuehuete
Mexico/Germany | 2022 | 6:30 min

Centered on the ancient Ahuehuete tree in Tule, Oaxaca, this short film—narrated by Ángel Villanueva—honors the oral traditions of the Mixe and Zapotec peoples. It addresses themes of cultural memory, resistance to colonial erasure, and the role of nature and language in preserving indigenous identity. Reichl, based between Vienna and Mexico City, works across analog film, installation, and documentary strategies to investigate ecological, social, and political entanglements.
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Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl & Jens Mühlhoff – Vergiss Meyn Nicht
Germany | 2023 | 91 min

When young filmmaker Steffen Meyn joins activists occupying the Hambach Forest to resist its destruction by coal mining, he documents the movement from within, climbing into treehouses with a 360° camera. After his tragic death during a protest, this film becomes a raw, intimate portrait of a generation fighting against ecological collapse. Fragale, Kuhlendahl, and Mühlhoff—all graduates of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne—develop a collaborative and hybrid documentary language that blurs lines between testimony, tribute, and political art.

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Tenzin Kalden – Light a Candle
Tibet/India | 2019 | 24:56 min

This film documents a powerful act of protest by Tibetan students in exile, who lit over 130,000 candles on a birthday cake to draw attention to the disappearance of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima—the 11th Panchen Lama. Kalden, co-founder of the Drung Tibetan Filmmakers’ Collective, uses poetic visual language to address loss, resistance, and the fight for human rights in Tibet.

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10/07/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY

🗓 12 July 2025 | 🕗 20:00–21:10
FREE ENTRY

Santiago Álvarez – Ara Nama
Colombia/Germany | 2025 | 4:34 min
Álvarez, who studied at KHM Cologne, works between Berlin and Colombia, often integrating ceramics, film, cooking, and community practice. His film reflects his broader artistic focus on the relationship between urban culture and nature, and on amplifying the voices of marginalised communities living at the edges of large cities.

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Black Power Naps (Navild Acosta & Fannie Sosa) – Frontlines of All Kinds
Germany/USA | 2025 | 25 min
This multimedia film documents the process behind a performance installation exploring the “sleep gap” – the racialized inequity in access to rest. Acosta and Sosa, two afrolatinx artists based in Berlin, examine institutional fatigue and rest as both resistance and repair.

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Sharone Lifschitz – Best City in the World – Looking after Belfast (Raymond’s Loss)
Israel/Ireland | 2010–14 | 19 min
Lifschitz’s film arises from a series of personal encounters in Belfast, focusing on the story of Raymond McCord, whose son was killed by loyalist paramilitaries. Lifschitz, a London-based artist working with film, photography, and text, explores memory and public space in a post-conflict society.

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Jonathan (Om) Omer Mizrahi – Active
Israel/Palestine | 2025 | 7:30 min
Created for a binational memorial ceremony, this work captures an exchange between Palestinian and Israeli peace activists. Mizrahi’s experimental video practice engages with contested geographies and the politics of mourning and resistance.

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Kamal Aljafari – UNDR
Palestine/Germany | 2023 | 16 min
Shot from aerial and archival footage, UNDR reflects on Palestinian landscapes shaped by surveillance and occupation. Aljafari, based in Berlin and graduate from KHM Köln, has exhibited internationally and continues to investigate memory, absence, and cinematic counter-narratives.

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07/07/2025

MEMORIES OF TODAY FILM LIST IS OUT

Ab 12. Juli 2025 zeigt der Kunstraum “Gemeinde Köln” ein wöchentliches Filmprogramm in einer eigens für die Ebertplatzpassage entwickelten Kino-Lounge. Unter der Leitung von Maria Wildeis haben die internationalen Kurator:innen Alisa Berger, Kuei-Pi Li, Aleksi Soselia (Georgian Video Archive) und Tenzin Tsetan Choklay (Drung Filmmakers Collective) ein Programm aus arthouse-, independent- und experimentellen Filmen zusammengestellt.

Die Filmauswahl bietet einen fragmentarischen Einblick auf drängende Themen unserer Zeit und öffnet Räume für marginalisierte Perspektiven. Die gezeigten Werke behandeln Themen wie territoriale Konflikte, gesellschaftliche Ungerechtigkeit sowie Fragen zu Hoffnung und Beharrlichkeit in einer von Kapitalismus, Imperialismus und Kolonialismus geprägten Welt.

Die Veranstaltungen sind für ein erwachsenes Publikum konzipiert. Das detaillierte Programm ist unter www.gemeinde-koeln.org verfügbar.

Titelbild: Posak Jodian, Misafafahiyan, 16:26 min, 2023 (Taiwan).

Kurator:innen + Team:

Alisa Berger, Till Bödeker, Thera de Freitas, Kuei-Pi Lee, Daria Nazarenko, Martin Pätzold, Aleksi Soselia + Georgian Video Archive, Tenzin Tsetan Choklay + Drung Filmmakers Collective, Maria Wildeis, Sebastian Wulff

Förderung und Sponsoring

Das Projekt “Erinnerungen an Heute / Memories of Today” wird gefördert durch:

Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (Diversitätsfonds)
Kulturamt der Stadt Köln
Unser Ebertplatz / startklar a+b GmbH
Gaffel Kölsch
Über die Gemeinde Köln

Gemeinde Köln ist Mitglied des Brunnen e.V. und AIC – Art Initiatives Cologen e.V. und wird im Jahresprogramm vom Kulturamt der Stadt Köln gefördert. Mehr Informationen zum Raum: www.gemeinde-koeln.org/ueber-uns

Kontakt
Künstlerische Leitung: Maria Wildeis
Projektleitung: Thera de Freitas

Technische Leitung + Gestaltung: Sebastian Wulff
Team: Till Bödeker, Daria Nazarenko, Marc Müller

weitere Informationen auf unserer offiziellen Website (Link in Bio)

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Eberplatzpassage, Laden 7
Cologne
50668

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http://www.gemeinde-koeln.org/

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Über uns

Die Gemeinde Köln ist ein Projektraum für eine pluralistische und inklusive Gesellschaft, der sich auf kollaborative Ansätze der kulturellen Produktion innerhalb und außerhalb seiner Lokalität konzentriert. Wir arbeiten mit der Lokalgemeinschaft und regionalen Gruppen zusammen, um in Partnerschaft mit KünstlerInnen spezifische Projekte umzusetzen und um längerfristige Beziehungen aufzubauen. Wir versuchen Menschen verschiedenster Hintergründe, Fähigkeiten und jeden Alters einen Raum zur Interaktion zu bieten. [email protected]

Die Gemeinde Köln ist im Verbund mit dem Brunnen e.V. (www.brunnen-ev.de) und Unser Ebertplatz (www.unser-ebertplatz.de) und wird gefördert durch das Kulturamt der Stadt Köln. Der Kunst – und Projektraum befindet sich in der Ebertplatzpassage Köln.

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