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 form, genre or professional standards, people with a creative passion are portrayed here.
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 be further developed? The dancers, choreographers and dance instructors Daniela Rodriguez Romero and Bahar Gökten from nutrospektif bring in their own experiences to accompany the participants within these exciting fields.
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 “Who am I?
This two-year transnational project, together with 7 partner organisations from Europe, combines artistic methods and language learning.
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 messages for queer equality, inclusiveness and non-discrimination. Young people were supported in analyzing discriminatory actions and language, and in countering them with artistic means, advocating for queer rights, visibility and recognition.
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 and rehearsal sessions and performed on July 1 as part of the festival “Füreinander Miteinander” in Cologne-Mülheim.
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 reflect on the topic of “recognition” and to work on it artistically.
At “ROOTS & ROUTES goes Bergisch Gladbach”, 47 young people aged 12 to 18 produced songs, choreographies or video clips on the topic of the welcome culture for refugees.
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, inspiring. Taking place in Cologne’s Südstadt and bringing together young artists from Cologne and all over Europe.
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. In the joint examination with this topic, an exciting online theater performance was created.