Artists Katie has collaborated with:
Mary Bauermeister, Conny Maier, Jarg Geismar, Daniel Weissbach, Stefan Marx, Willehad Eilers, Mathias Weinfurther, Henrik Vibskov, Monika Grzymala, Jenny Brosinski, Philip Emde, Tim Sandow, Ákos Ezer, C.O. Paeffgen, Fabian Treiber, Frédéric Platéus, Joakim Ojanen, Lars Eidinger, Andreas Schulze, Pablo Tomek, Stefan Strumbel, Thomas Wachholz, Odo Hans, Carolin Eidner, Tatjana Doll, Raphael Brunk, Tamara Malcher, Laust Hoejgaard, Mona Broschár, Denise Rudolf Frank, Lukas Glinkowski, Weronika Wysocka, Dominik Ritszel, Iza Koczanowska, Stach Szumski, Antonia Freisburger, Julius Hofmann, Katharina Keller, Mira Makai, Moses & Taps, André Wendland, Bernhard Adams, Marco Paul Lorenzetti, Jody Paulsen, Antonia Rodrian, Javier Ruiz Perez, Christiane Peschek, Fabian Warnsing, Tim Leimbach, Elisa Breyer, Magda Kirk, Sophie Ullrich, Noa Ironic, Arno Beck, Reihaneh Hosseini, Umar Rashid, Anouk Lamm Anouk, Michael Günzer, Navot Miller, Julia Gryboś & Barbora Zentková, Amir H. Fallah, Agata Ingarden, Christian Rex van Minnen, Mike Meiré, Milen Till, Paa Joe, Tom Król, Britta Thie, Charlotte Klobassa, Rhys Lee, Mark Jenkins, Gerd Janson, Tim Berresheim, Andy Kassier, Julius Brauckmann, Guy Aon, Elias Wessel, Tahnee Godt, Matthew Cheyne, Eric Winkler, Martine Seibert-Raken, Florian Meisenberg, Zoya Cherkassky, Ariel Schlesinger, Johanna von Monkiewitsch, Lena Henke, Hicham Berrada, Azza Al Qubaisi, Sven-Julien Kanclerski, Friederike Reveman, Sascha Missfeldt, Sarah Kürten, Roy Mordechay, Mounir Ayache, Klaus Kleine, Gesine Grundmann, Ilka Helmig, Oliver-Selim Boualam, and many more.
Serving as curator, I cordially invite you to the exhibition in public space CIRCUMSPECTIO at the train station Köln Messe/Deutz:
Köln Messe/Deutz
Ottoplatz 7
50679 Cologne
Cologne was the starting point for Heinz Breloh’s (1940, Hilden – 2001, Cologne) artistic development. From the early 1970s onwards, he was part of an experimental Cologne art scene that was exploring new forms of artistic practice and outreach. As a co-founder of the magazine ‘nummer’ and the exhibition forum ‘depot’, Breloh actively helped shape this new era and contributed to Cologne’s development as an internationally significant art hub.
To coincide with this year’s Art Cologne, the exhibition ‘Circumspectio’ brings his work back into the city’s public space and once again highlights his central position within Cologne’s art history. The exhibition features exclusively sculptures created during his years in Cologne.
The title ‘Circumspectio’, Latin for ‘viewing from different angles’, refers to Breloh’s sculptural working method and simultaneously articulates the curatorial concept. In his sculptural works, the body itself becomes a tool through direct contact. The sculptor shaped the material with his entire body, the spatial extent of which defined the boundaries of the sculpture. The sculpture can thus be understood as a negative mould of his movements, as a trace of a physical action in space, which in turn only reveals itself through movement and the work itself.
The exhibition conveys this idea: Breloh’s sculptures appear graphically isolated against monochrome colour fields, as well as from different angles on various supports in and around Köln Messe/Deutz train station. It is only whilst moving through passageways, stairwells, platforms and the station forecourt that individual perspectives come together to form a conception of a three-dimensional body. Whilst Breloh circled the sculpture during the creative process and shaped it by engaging his entire body, this relationship is, in a sense, reversed here. The viewers are in transit, whilst the work reveals itself to them step by step through changing views.
Graphic design by Leon Schniewind
In collaboration with Rehbein Galerie and the Estate of Heinz Breloh, supported by Ströer Media Deutschland GmbH
