Performance weekend featuring 30 works by students and alumni
March 27–28, 2026
The End as a final symbolic heartbeat! A moment of pause that is also meant to be a beginning: THE E N D brings together alumni and current students of Prof. Mischa Kuball‘s (Public Art) urban stage seminar for a performance weekend and to mark the end of Mischa Kuball‘s 19-year teaching at KHM. The exhibition focuses on time-based works. It shows performances and videos on the one hand, but also painting, photography, sculpture, VR and sound works in which performative elements or gestures are inscribed.
Friday & Saturday, March 27 & 28, 2026, 2pm to 9:30pm, Kölnischer Kunstverein
Hahnenstraße 6, 50667 Cologne, Free admission.
The 30 works on display are thematically dedicated to the crises of recent decades. They extend from the Riphahnsaal, through the cinema and the Apostelnklosterplatz, to the interstitial spaces of the Kölnischer Kunstverein. They symbolise the fragility of the present with artistic strategies.
The programme features performances by Ale Bachlechner, Friedrich Boell, Cloudi, Vera Drebusch & Florian Egermann, Mathilde Hawkins & Max Mauro Schmid, Jan Hoeft, Cătălina Bucos & Karen Fritz, Dabin Kim, Stefanie Klingemann, Ella Kühn, Alysha Lahner, Constantin Leonhard, Johanna Schütt & Tanja Saban, Mila Stoytcheva, Evamaria Schaller, The Blind Queen of Anger, as well as interventions on the building by The Time Teller (the latter two as personas of Mohamad Moe Sabbah).
The Riphahnsaal, on the other hand, features sculptures, paintings and video works by Finn Wagner, Alwin Lay, Charlotte Triebus, Jonas Monka, Johannes Bendzulla, Alexandra Nikitina, Christoph Kilian, Pauline M‘barek and Jens Pecho.
The video works by Jens Pecho, Noa Gur, Finn Wagner, Cătălina Bucos & Ada Kopaz will be presented throughout, as will the films by Alexander Basile, Viktor Brim & Emerson Culurgioni and Miri Ian Gossing & Lina Sieckmann on two cinema evenings in collaboration with Filmclub 813.
The meeting of KHM alumni with current students deliberately forms a cross-generational conclusion to Prof. Mischa Kuball‘s teaching at the KHM since 2007. The gathering is taking place at the invitation of Mischa Kuball in close cooperation with Valérie Knoll, director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein. The performance weekend is curated by urban stage graduates Maja Funke and Helin Korkmaz.
Supported by: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Rhein-Energie Stiftung, Privatbrauerei Gaffel Becker.
