»I spin myself totally into the great box of wonders known as the world and then bring the large forms inside, into my very own bo...

Loans from Kolumba are/were on display at the following exhibitions: Bonn. Bundeskunsthalle Susan Sontag – Sehen und gesehen werd...

On September 6 2024, the American painter Joseph Marioni died unexpectedly at the age of 81 in his adopted home of New York. As th...

"It is an exhibition that thrives on exciting juxtapositions and outstanding staging in Peter Zumthor's spaces, which are as ...

Beau comme un Buren mais plus loin (As beautiful as a Buren but further) is a flag made of blue and white fabric designed by...

“making being here enough” was what the American artist Roni Horn called the work that we have selected as the point of departure ...

In Cologne in 1968, Terry Fox realized a radical and momentous artistic work: he decided to stop painting and to devote himself t...

A historical-aesthetic approach as cooperation of MiQua. LVR-Jüdisches Museum im Archäologischen Quartier Köln and Kolumba, Kunstm...

Hannah Villiger (1951-1997) began exploring her body with the camera in the early 1980s. In a dialogue with herself - as a ‘littl...

A collaboration between Kolumba and tanz.Köln Heinz Breloh, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas, Esther Kläs, Bernhard Leitner, ...

»My firm aspiration, even as a student at the Dusseldorf Academy, was to work in a really abstract way, leaving the object behind ...

 The book »Der Ölzwerg wont im Tigel hinter der Klape (The Oil Dwarf lives in the Tiegel behind the Flap)« is special. Of all...

When the exhibition 1919 49 69ff started, one important date was necessarily missing: 1989, the year of German reunification. We h...

As a graduate of Dieter Krieg’s Master class Robert Klümpen is updating a particular position in art. He addresses the interface ...

In the context of the exhibition New Beginnings the painter Heiner Binding (*1958, lives in Cologne) affords us insight into his ...

Ulrich Tillmann (Linnich 1951–2019 Pfäffikon) made his name as a photographer. From 1986 he worked as an expert in photographic te...

»New Beginnings« is the title of an exhibition about art in times of crisis. We begin in 1919 and honour the founding in that year...

Every year Kolumba invites a partner school to take part in bringing various forms of cooperation to fruition. The aim is for the ...

Works by the painter Attila Kovács (1938–2017) appeal to us for their precision, their balanced measure and proportions, their bla...

The point of departure for all of our exhibitions at Kolumba is our collection. This means that it is not always major works that...

7 December 2017 – 7 February 2018 ars vivendi – ars moriendi Donation Renate König The receipt of the most significant gift ...

15 September 2017 – 19 August 2019 Pas de Deux Romano-Germanic Kolumba 10 years of Kolumba – celebrated with a most spec...

19 July to 14 August / 19 to 21 August 2017) Marek Poliks: Interdictor (on the occasion of "Ten Years Kolumba") The sound mac...

12 July to 21 August 2017 Eric Hattan: Individuell (Customized) (on the occasion of "Ten Years Kolumba") “Observe the street...

2 June to 14 August / 19 to 21 August 2017 Office for eyes, nose, tongue, mouth, heart, hand and mask (that covers it all) N...

1 March to 22 May 2017 Bartholomäus Bruyn ‚Last Supper Altar’ (Church St Severin) During the ongoing restoration of the Col...

Since December 2016 Street Art Project Site Fence of Kolumba’s West Façade We currently combine the necessary scaffolding of ...

15 September 2016 to 17 July 2017 Kurt Benning BURGTRESWITZMENSCH »The subject of decay, which continues to interest me, pose...

15 September 2016 to 14 August 2017 »Me in a no-time state«On the Individual Every modern notion of art takes for granted t...

8 April – 22 August 2016 Bethan Huws: Culture, Language & Thought Public Opening: 7 April 19 h A visual metaphor for the int...

15 September 2015 to 2 January 2016 SHOPMOVIES A Project by Olaf Eggers i-Pad-Installations to be seen at following places: ...

15 September 2015 to 22 August 2016 Anna & Bernhard Blume Transcendental Constructivism Anna and Bernhard Blume are among the...

15 September 2015 – 22 August 2016 The Red Thread On Structures in Narration Kolumba’s new exhibition for the coming...

15 April to 24 August 2015 Monika Bartholomé – Museum for Drawing Monika Bartholomé has gained repute for her drawings, not l...

14 January to 6 April 2015 Birgit Antoni: Cinema Birgit Antoni is well known as a painter. Her works display complex ornamenta...

4 to 8 November 2014 "What am I doing here?" – A guest performance from the Rhineland Province. Kolumba as Guest at the Academy o...

15 September 2014 - 24 August 2015 playing by heart 50 years "Gaudium et Spes" »The joys and the hopes, griefs and anxieti...

7 May to 25 August 2014 Achim Lengerer – Scriptingsb #40: Entretien sonore avec Fernand Deligny (Public rehearsals for a soundtra...

15 January to 5 May 2014 Bruno Jakob. The Visitors The paradox that progressive reduction does not necessarily mean a limiting...

15 September 2013 – 25 August 2014 show cover hide. Shrine An exhibition on the aesthetics of the invisible This year’s e...

30 May - 18 August 2013 »trotz Natur und Augenschein« Faith, the law of sight transcending The Eucharist - Transformation an...

1 May to 18 August 2013 Norbert Schwontkowski The Inner Architecture of a Painting Last year the Art Prize of the Dieter Kri...

16 January to 29 April 2013 Pascal Schwaighofer Mythological Reenactment (vol. 2) Works by Pascal Schwaighofer seem strangely...

15 September 2012 – 18 August 2013 Art is Liturgy Paul Thek and the Others »Art is Liturgy« is a quote by American artist Pau...

30 Mai to 31 August 2012 Leiko Ikemura "Mare e Monti" Cabinet exhibition in Room 10 With the catastrophe that befell Japan on...

21 March to 28 May 2012 Volker Saul Aluminum Cuts Cabinet Exhibition Room 10 Paintings by Cologne artist Volker Saul (born in...

11 January to 19 March 2012 Room 10: Jaromír Novotný Painting from 2009 "The only way to think of the negative, is to think t...

15 September 2011 to 9 January 2012 Birgit Antoni – Paintings (1998/1999) Cabinet Exhibition Room 10 For many years, this Col...

15 September 2011 to 31 August 2012 thinking About ways to experience the world An exhibition of ways to experience the world...

20 April to 31 July 2011 Philipp Wewerka »Taurus« – Color drawings Cabinet Exhibition On 20 April, under the Taurus sign of t...

25 December 2010 to 2 February 2011 Mischa Kuball »KolumbaShift« Light projection onto Kolumba Mischa Kuball’s light projecti...

15 September 2010 to 31 July 2011 Noli me tangere! Don't touch me! »Touch me not« or »Cease holding on to me«: Two in...

19 May to 30 August 2010 Heinrich Küpper – Drawings Memorial Exhibition Room 20 This past December the drawer Heinrich Küpper...

19 May to 30 August 2010 Robert Haiss – Paintings Cabinet Exhibition Room 10 With persisting continuity, the Cologne painter ...

6 January – 17 May 2010 Renate Köhler – Older Works Cabinet Exhibition Room 10 In the wake of sculptor Stefan Wewerka, works ...

6 January – 17 May 2010 Georg Baumgarten – Works from around 1933 Cabinet Exhibition Room 20 Georg Baumgarten (1894-1945) cov...

14 September 2009 – 4 January 2010 Stefan Wewerka — Old and New Works Cabinet Exhibition Room 10 The fourth exhibition in Roo...

14 September 2009 – 30 August 2010 Bequest About memory and responsibility The third annual exhibition at Kolumba, the art mu...

29 April to 31 August Koho Mori-Newton Cabinet Exhibition Raum 10 Koho Mori-Newton is the painter of Kolumba's silk curtains ...

January until 27 April 2009 Hermann Abrell – Paintings since 1978 Cabinet Exhibition Raum 10 Departing from the line, the pai...

September through December 2008 Heiner Binding - Paintings Cabinet Exhibition Room 10 Room 10 is a small exhibition within th...

14 September 2008 to 31 August 2009 Man Leaving Earth About Creation After the successful first year in the new building (1...

September 14 2007 to August 31 2008 Infinite Space Expands Opening exhibition in the new building It was a long way from th...

20 October 2006 - 9 April 2007 In the Garden of Reality – Part II Stars for Kolumba – last Part What is a mechanical wall clo...

14 April - 27 September 2006 Werner Schriefers – 80th birthday Cabinet Exhibition Using delicate botanic motifs painted behin...

14 April to 16 October 2006 In the Garden of Reality I Sterne für Kolumba – Part 11 Over the past 15 years the painting „The ...

21. October 2005 to 22. February 2006 Ceramic Vessels from the Egner Donation Cabinet Exhibition Shaping and firing clay is o...

21. October 2005 to 22. February 2006 Leiko Ikemura Stars for Kolumba – Part 10 Visitors to the exhibition of works by Leiko ...

5 August – 16 October 2005 Arma Christi – Signs of Suffering and Salvation Cabinet Exhibition on the occasion of World Youth Day...

13 May to 5 October Hans Josephsohn – Reliefs and Drawings Sterne für Kolumba – Teil 9 On the occasion of his 85th birthday w...

18 February to 21 August 2005 Coptic Textiles Stars for Kolumba – Part 8 »There are lions, panthers, bears and bulls and dogs...

18 February to 11 May 2005 Birgit Antoni – Paintings Cabinet Exhibition »…in the window« Alongside Kolumba’s own collection o...

Oktober 2004 to February 2005 Monika Bartholomé »inside is outside is inside« Stars for Kolumba – Part 7 »Inside is outside i...

2 April to June 2004 Max Cole – paintings and graphic Cabinet Exhibition in the window According to the artist Max Cole, born...

7 November 2003 – 6 January 2004 The Golden Reliquary Crosses Stars for Kolumba – Teil 6 In October 1996, young treasure hunt...

2 July to September 2004 Heinrich Küpper – Drawings Stars for Kolumba – Part 6 In Heinrich Küpper’s world, drawing is an impe...

24 October 2003 to 19 February 2004 Martin Frommelt »Apocalypse Vähtreb Creation« Stars for Kolumba – Part 5 The series “Star...

4 April to 5 October 2003 150 Years! – Donations Sterne für Kolumba - Part 4 A retrospective and also perspectives of a movin...

6 December 2002 to 28 February 2003 Attila Kovács – Studies and Sequences Stars for Kolumba – Part 3 »Since the middle of the...

September to December 2002 Herbert Falken – Works from the 1990s Stars for Kolumba – Part 2 The »stellar constellation« of ou...

Juni to August 2002 Peter Tollens – Studies, paintings, books Stars for Kolumba – Part I Kolumba is the name of the Cologne D...

15 December 2001 to 22 May 2002 The art of living – the art of dying The Manuscript Collection of Renate König In the high an...

November 2001 Peter Zumthor – Workshop Drawings, Models, Materials

November 2000 to November 2001 Volume 10 Positions of Contemporary Sculpture Whilst the Archangel Michael is busy triumphing ...

14 April to 25 October 2000 walkmen Five Commissioned Compositions The ritual is similar to the situation in many museums: Af...

17 November 2000 to 16 May 2001 The Härle Donation Reencounter with the Unknown – last part In the 1920s and 1930s the lawyer...

30 October to 1 November 2000 Children’s drawings »Who lives behind this door?« As part of the celebrations for the Holy Year...

14 April to 25 October 2000 »About Reality« Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 15 This exhibition deals with the questioning...

22 October 1999 to 1 March 2000 Andor Weininger – Weimar ... New York Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 14 He was no Bauhau...

11 June to 19 September 1999 Joseph Marioni – Triptych Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 13 Can a picture be a body? As pai...

19 February to 24 May 1999 Andy Warhol »Crosses« Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 12 To launch the new exhibition year we ...

5 September to 1 November 1998 »Infinite Space Expands« As Guest in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden The exhibition »Inf...

7 August to 15 November 1998 Faith and Knowledge in the Middle Ages The Cologne Cathedral Library Surrounded by his boxes of ...

22 May to 5 July 1998 Stephan Baumkötter – Paintings Cabinet Exhibition in the window Stephan Baumkötter (b. 1958) “draws” hi...

10 April to 20 May 1998 Bernd Ikemann – Paintings Cabinet Exhibition in the window We continue our presentation of contempora...

10 April to 5 July 1998 Kabakov, Pane, a.o. Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 11 The exhibitions in 1998 all fall under the...

25 January to 31 March 1998 Hildegard Domizlaff On Occasion of her 100th Birthday During the first three months of this year ...

September 1997 to January 1998 Cage, Falken, Geisselbrunn, Tsangaris, a.o. Reencounter with the Unknown” – Part 10 After half...

March to June 1997 Richard Serra »The Drowned and the Saved« Former sacristy of St. Kolumba’s Church On 24 February 1997, a d...

18 April to 20 August 1997 Manos Tsangaris Cabinet Exhibition in the window “Collection for an Open Museum” is the title of a...

29 March to 29 June 1997 The Diözesanmuseum as Guest: Paul Thek Church St. Peter in Cologne What happens if a museum brings i...

15 February to 2 April 1997 Klaus vom Bruch »The Eyewitness« Cabinet Exhibition in the window Are you an eyewitness? What did...

Mid February to September 1997 About the Site: St. Kolumba Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 9 Parallel to the current arch...

October 1996 to mid February 1997 About Ambivalence Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 8 Subsequent to our “Homage to the Sq...

19 April to 12 June 1996 Chris Newman »Me in a no-time state« Cabinet Exhibition in the window Chris Newman’s work hits the n...

2 February to 17 April 1996 Peter Tollens – A Picture and Books Cabinet Exhibition in the window »Several sheets make a book«...

February to March 1996 Wolfgang Laib »Rice Houses« Cabinet Exhibition in the window Two rice houses of white stone, long and ...

8 March to 11 September 1996 About Colour Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 7 »The pure shaping of colour shows that the to...

From mid December 1995 Early Christian Art New acquisitions and collection In this part of the world, evidence of early Chris...

December 1995 to 11 January 1996 Mischa Kuball Cabinet Exhibition in the window As part of the series of new artistic positio...

8 November to 21 December 1995 The Diözesanmuseum as Guest: Jannis Kounellis Cologne Kunstverein The museum can only maintain...

Mid October 1995 to February 1996 Horn, Falken, Marcks, Michals, a.o. Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 6 With Part 6 of th...

Mid-September to November 1995 Monika Bartholomé – Drawings Cabinet Exhibition in the window Following the string quartet by ...

June 1993 to September 1995 Tápies, Thek, Beuys, Saura, Opalka, Marioni u.a. Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 1 to 5 The t...

9 October 1992 – 10 January 1993 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Liturgy and Devotion in the Middle Ages After a year of reno...