Kontaktlinse – Cologne is full of art!
The Instagram platform “Kontaktlinse” (German for “contact lense”) offers a space for artists from Cologne to present themselves and their art. Regardless of the art…
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Local Projects
Street to Stage
Young people from urban dance scenes are confronted with big questions: how can artistic career aspirations be realised, how can their own talents and abilities…
ROOTS & ROUTES goes Bergisch Gladbach 2018
45 young musicians, dancers, graffiti and media artists from London, Rotterdam, Liverpool, Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach live on stage: together they create the stage show…
DeTalks
This two-year transnational project, together with 7 partner organisations from Europe, combines artistic methods and language learning.
Young Arts for Queer Rights and Visibility (#YAfQRaV)
The project provided a framework that encouraged young artists with different sexual orientations and gender self-definitions to reach out to other young people with strong…
DACRO – Dance meets Acrobatics
In the project DACRO – Dance Meets Acrobatics, an interdisciplinary dance theater piece with aerial acrobatics was developed over a six-month period with weekly training…
Re:Cognition – Moves, Beats & Rhymes
In our society, recognition is often awarded on the basis of material wealth, formal education, German language skills and appearance. We invited young people to…
R&R goes Bergisch Gladbach 2015
At “ROOTS & ROUTES goes Bergisch Gladbach”, 47 young people aged 12 to 18 produced songs, choreographies or video clips on the topic of the…
24Hz Festival 2015
In August 2015, a new festival for urban media art was launched in Cologne, to be followed by others every two years: international, transdisciplinary, multi-layered,…
Fail again. Fail better!
From October 2020 to March 2021, 15 young people between the ages of 11 and 18 from Cologne dealt intensively with the topic of failure.…