Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln

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What`s on in Cologne with pictures or without pictures 

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In 1987 Friedhelm Mennekes the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter as a center for contemporary art. Since then, here are exhibitions of contemporary art, new music concerts and readings of contemporary literature.

Especially the newly designed sanctuary with his character of emptiness offers many opportunities to meet in the autonomous tendency of the cultural sectors of our time: religion, art, music and literature. Here, the art is not understood as an extension or illustration of religion, but as a free and independent.

Independent councils plan while the respective activities and ensure the artistic independence. Under these conditions, the three cultural factors get in the architectural space of a house of worship for practical co-existence and one-off open relationships: new music, modern art and literature in addition to living-related religion. The Kunst-Station Sankt Peter in with great openness in an intercultural transfer between church and art.

On the gallery and in the nave are continuously works of art, installations and interventions of contemporary artists shown. In respectful dialogue unfold with the sacred space of the exceptional works of depth and intensity.

The character of the new music is first determined by the two organs with their modern tonality. Then it is in group of contemporary musicians, who here gets together regularly to concerts with new music and presented to an interested audience new compositions.

With readings by contemporary authors, the literature is the third leg of the game art station. Reading and writing are solitary activities - author and reader meet in a virtual space. An author's reading brings this meeting a reality. Because the spoken word has often intense read, provided it finds the right place and right time.