27.4.2022

#Simple2Go 3: Artists in War

Our blogger Arne writes about the project Artist in War of the Jam Factory Art Center from Lviv.

29.4.2022

#Simple2Go 1: What is the Sommerblut Culture Festival?

Experts say: "The Sommerblut Kulturfestival is a diverse, inclusive, multipolar cultural festival from Cologne".
Does that make your eyes roll? What does that actually mean?

13.5.2022

#Simple2Go 6: The Happy Island - Sommerblut premiers at Schauspiel Köln

The Sommerblut Cultural Festival 2022 celebrates its opening with Happy Island at Schauspiel Köln. Arne tells you why inclusive art belongs on stage and at Schauspiel Köln.

11.4.2022

#Simple2Go 2: Make it new!

Everything is new in May. That's why we've prepared ourselves for a new season: Make it new!

3.5.2022

#Simple2Go 4: #Simple2Backstage - Why do we gender?

Why do we write a colon and the feminine ending?
Here you can find out the why and the wherefore. All compiled by Arne for you and us.

10.5.2022

#Simple2Go 5: #Simple2Backstage - Nico Randel's white doves for peace

Nico Randel is an actor and artist at Kunsthaus KAT18. 24 artists with disabilities are working there. Nico has made 100 peace doves. He presented them at the Sommerblut press conference.

19.5.2022

#Simple2Go 7: UNSEEN: A glimpse into our inner life

Arne writes about Unseen, the exhibition of photographs by Suzie Larke, which is available to the public at the Stadtgarten in Köln from 07 to 22 May. 

19.5.2022

#Simple2Go 8: Nature once again turns into theatre

In the midst of a small forest, two female singers can be heard. Are they singing about loneliness? We're getting closer. They are looking at the surroundings of a wooden ruin, picking up dead wood or leaves, singing to it as if reviving it.

23.5.2022

#Simple2Go 9: #Simple2Backstage - High-performance art settles accounts with the achieving society

The fourth floor in an office building in Ehrenfeld is the perfect place for issuing a settlement concerning the German unemployment benefit II, colloquially referred to as Hartz IV.

With video, sound art, as well as scenes running parallel to each other, “AGENDA” puts to question: What happens when humans are being turned into files?

27.5.2022

#Simple2Go 10: The herb collection - finally not having to reflect for once

Herbarium is an exhibition that you, as a visitor, take part of. Herbarium is what it sounds like; a collection of herbs. Our Polish colleagues within the Face to Faith-project have collected dried herbs and other scents for the exhibition.