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Architecture

Museum:
Project
Peter Zumthor
People involved
Materials
Building defects 2016
Consecration 2007
Building Site 2007
Topping-out 2006
Building Site 2006
Building Site 2005
Building Site 2004
Building Site 2003
Foundation Stone 2003
Building Site 2002
Workshop 2001
Competition 1997
Chapel:
Madonna in the Ruins
Pastoral Team
Opening hours/Church services
History St. Kolumba

Exhibitions

Current:
Artist at Work
Loans on travel
Review:
2024 For Joseph Marioni
2023 Word Script Sign
2022 As beautiful as a Buren
2022 Place and Self
2022 Terry Fox
2021 Into the Expanse
2021 Photoszene: Hannah Villiger
2020 Art and Choreography
2020 Raimund Girke
2020 The Oil Dwarf
2020 New Beginnings 89
2020 Robert Klümpen
2020 Heiner Binding
2019 Ulrich Tillmann
2019 New Beginnings
2019 Schools as Guests VII
2018 Attila Kovács
2018 Michael Oppitz
2017 ars vivendi – ars moriendi
2017 Pas de deux
2017 Marek Poliks
2017 Eric Hattan
2017 Office for...
2017 Barthel Bruyn
2016 Street Art Project
2016 Kurt Benning
2016 On the Individual
2016 Bethan Huws
2015 Shopmovies
2015 Anna & Bernhard Blume
2015 The Read Thread
2015 Museum for Drawing
2015 Birgit Antoni: Cinema
2014 Vertigo of Reality
2014 playing by heart
2014 Achim Lengerer
2014 Bruno Jakob
2013 show cover hide
2013 Eucharist
2013 Norbert Schwontkowski
2013 Pascal Schwaighofer
2012 Art is Liturgy – Paul Thek
2012 Leiko Ikemura
2012 Volker Saul
2012 Jaromir Novotny
2011 Birgit Antoni
2011 thinking
2011 Philipp Wewerka
2010 Mischa Kuball
2010 Noli me tangere!
2010 Heinrich Küpper
2010 Robert Haiss
2010 Renate Köhler
2010 Georg Baumgarten
2009 Stefan Wewerka
09/09 Bequest
2009 Koho Mori-Newton
2009 Hermann Abrell
2008 Heiner Binding
2008 Man Leaving Earth
2007 Infinite Space Expands
2006 In the Garden of Reality II
2006 Werner Schriefers
2006 In the Garden of Reality I
2005 The Egner Donation
2005 Leiko Ikemura
2005 Arma Christi
2005 Hans Josephsohn
2005 Coptic Textiles
2005 Birgit Antoni
2004 Monika Bartholomé
2004 Max Cole
2003 Reliquary Crosses
2004 Heinrich Küpper
2003 Martin Frommelt
2003 150 Years!
2002 Attila Kovács
2002 Herbert Falken
2002 Peter Tollens
2001 ars vivendi
2001 Peter Zumthor
2000 Volume
2000 walkmen
2000 The Härle Donation
2000 Children's drawings
2000 About Reality
1999 Andor Weininger
1999 Joseph Marioni
1999 Andy Warhol
1998 Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
1998 Faith and Knowledge
1998 Stephan Baumkötter
1998 Bernd Ikemann
1998 Kabakov Pane a.o.
1998 Hildegard Domizlaff
1997 Cage Tsangaris a.o.
1997 Richard Serra
1997 Manos Tsangaris
1997 Kunst-Station
1997 Klaus vom Bruch
1997 About the Site: Kolumba
1996 About Ambivalence
1996 Chris Newman
1996 Peter Tollens
1996 Wolfgang Laib
1996 About Colour
1995 Early Christian Art
1995 Mischa Kuball
1995 Palace of Art
1995 Horn Falken Michals, a.o.
1995 Monika Bartholomé
1993 Tápies Thek Tuttle u.a.
1992 Vaticana

Visit

Getting here
Admission
Guided Tours
Annual Season Ticket
Opening hours
Resonances

Gallery

As beautiful as a Buren ...
Place & Self
Into the Expanse
Art and Choreography

Museum

General:
A-Z
Awards
Artists
Team
Museum Concept
Presentation
The Collection
Fact Sheet
We mourn the loss of ...
Museum history:
Museums-History
1990 – 2007
1972 – 1989
1954 – 1971
1940 – 1953
1923 – 1939
1906 – 1922
1852 – 1905
Joachim M. Plotzek
Walter Schulten
Joseph Hoster
Wilhelm Neuß
Jakob Eschweiler
Arnold Steffens
Hermann J. Schmitz
Alexander Schnütgen
Franz Bock
Johann Baudri
Friedrich Baudri
Essays:
The Defence of Childhood (2010)
A museum in alterity (2009)
Aesthetic Moment (2009)
Art for All (1995)
Museum of Reflection (1995)
History of the Museum (1995)
Art and Architecture (1994)
Idea and Task (1994)

Publications

Monographs:
Susanne Kümpel
Joseph Marioni
Paul Thek
Andy Warhol
Andor Weininger
Medieval Manuscripts:
Laval Book of Hours
Bruges Book of Hours
Clarence Book of Hours
Manderscheid Book of Hours
Lamspringe Psalter
Doña Isabel Book of Hours
Ars memorandi
Hearst Book of Hours
Derval Book of Hours
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Esther Kläs
Duane Michals
Richard Tuttle
Single Volumes:
Salve (Kolumba Pocket-Book)
Compact-Disc

Events

Current:
Review:
11/24 Sound Workshop
11/24 Memorial Joseph Marioni
11/24 For All Souls
02/24 Peace upon you, Jerusalem
1-8/24 Required Reading
11/23 Sound Workshop
11/23 For All Souls 5
10/23 A different view of art
08/23 A Ukrainian Kolumba
06/23 Un Film Dramatique
01/23 The Reading Room
11/12 Sound Workshop
11/22 For All Souls 4
07/22 Lecture by Linda Wiesner
05/22 Vortrag Rolf Lauer
08/21 New Ocean Sea Cycle
06/21 BODY TALE
02/21 Tonspur_Achim Lengerer
11/18 Circumstance
12/17 Renate König Donation
08/17 Ten Years Kolumba
04/17 Artist Talk
01/17 Series of Concerts
11/16 10th Soundworkshop
06/16 Eric Hattan & Julian Sartorius
06/15 FORSETI feat. subsTANZ
06/15 Cologne Opera
03/15 Animated Cartoon Workshop
11/14 Soundtrack (Achim Lengerer)
11/14 Edith Stein Conference
11/14 Sound Workshop
10/14 Philosophical Discussion
10/14 Albert-Talk
10/14 Seminar on Philosophy
06/14 Visiting Schools III
02/14 Barlach-Haus
11/13 Dance performance
11/13 Sound Workshop
10/13 E-MEX-Ensemble
10/13 4th Albert-Discussion
05/13 Performances
03/13 Horatiu Radulescu
11/12 Sound Workshop
10/12 E-MEX-Ensemble
09/12 Girls' Choir
08/12 Cage: Empty Words
08/12 Hosting Schools II
08/12 Many thanks to all of the...
07/12 Table Talks
06/12 Table Concert
06/12 The chamber of meditation
05/12 episteme
05/12 new talents
04/12 Cage: A Collection of Rocks
03/12 Cage: Number Pieces
03/12 Hans Otte
11/11 Sound Workshop
09/11 Imploding Desk
07/11 Finissage
07/11 Schulen zu Gast I
11/10 Joseph Marioni
11/10 Sound Workshop
06/10 Steffen Krebber
05/10 Holy-Spirit Retable
02/10 Bernhard Leitner
02/10 Ash Wednesday
11/09 Sound Workshop
11/08 Workshop
10/08 Donaueschingen Festival
06/08 Kolumba is singing!
04/07 Art Cologne
08/05 1st view!
12/04 The Pietà from St. Kolumba
11/03 Schauspielhaus Köln

Education

Guided Tours:
Booking
Guided tours for Groups
… for Schools
Experience:
Artists Talks
Night Space Silence
Art Space Sound
Reading Room
Dialogues
The Gems
Sound:
Soundscape
The Museum in the Body
La Voix Off
Videos:
09/22 Place & Self
06/21 Art and Choreography
06/21 La Voix Off #5
04/21 La Voix Off #3_Part 3
04/21 La Voix Off #3_Part 3
04/21 La Voix Off #3_Part 2
04/21 La Voix Off #3_Part 1
03/21 La Voix Off #02
03/21 La Voix Off #01
02/21 Dance Ecosystem
12/20 Meet
11/20 Lockdown
11/20 Installing Heinz Breloh
10/20 Installing Office vor...
10/20 Installing Hannah Villiger
10/20 Installing Bernhard Leitner
10/20 Installing Duane Michals
10/20 Performance Kläs & Gomes
09/20 Installing Richard Tuttle
09/20 Dark Red
09/17 Pas de deux
01/17 Kurt Benning
09/16 Me in a no-time state
10/15 Winterreise
09/15 The Red Thread
06/15 Opera II: Gustav Holst
06/15 Opera I: Leos Janácek
09/14 playing by heart
04/14 Kunst Raum Klang
09/19 Aufbrüche
05/14 The Visitors
06/13 HornroH
09/13 show cover hide
05/13 Ellen Keusen
05/13 Seline Baumgartner
05/13 Manos Tsangaris
05/13 Special Exhibition
09/12 Art is Liturgy
04/12 Collection of Rocks
08/11 Finissage Noli me tangere
11/11 Sound Workshop
09/11 thinking
07/11 Noli me tangere - reloaded
11/10 Sound Workshop
09/10 Noli me tangere
10/09 WDR master.pieces
06/09 Lauren Newton
10/08 Donaueschingen
09/08 Marble Maze
06/08 Kolumba is singing!
04/08 Farewell for JMP
04/08 Public guided tour
04/08 Guided tour with children

Bärbel Messmann II

Museum

In an excellent building that combines a ruined church with modern architecture, the Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne displays a collection of objects from antiquity to the present day, which is presented in annually changing exhibitions.