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Embracing the Fold
Kinke Kooi (
@kinkekooi ) & Roland Schimmel (
@schimmel_roland )
10 May–10 August 2025 |
@temporary_gallery
With a spatial concept by Astrid Kajsa Nylander (
@catasstrofy ) & Pål Rodenius (
@pal_r )
“Together, the works of Kinke Kooi and Roland Schimmel form a breath, a two-step movement that flows towards one another: contracting and expanding, folding and smoothing out again, shrinking and swelling again, drawing in and spreading out.
The relationship between Kooi’s and Schimmel’s works is like a reversible figure, an inversion, a reversal from large to small, from the outermost to the innermost and back again. Roland Schimmel’s precisely placed, molecular circular forms find their counterparts in Kinke Kooi’s hand-drawn round pearls, berries, and fractals, in the natural and artificial objects and structures of her paintings. It is as if a temporal shift or a degree of abstraction has come between the two.”
✧ Find the full curatorial text by
@lisaalice_klosterkoetter on our website
✧ Good to know: Paula Erstmann (
@paulaerstmann ) cooks for the opening!
✧ Free admission | Come by, everyone is welcome!
✧ Accessibility info: see on our website
Graphic Design:
@risottostudio | Images: Kinke Kooi, Principle of motion, 2016; Roland Schimmel, Un-fixing the Past (59), 2024
Funding / Support: Kunststiftung NRW, Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Mondriaan Fund, Generalkonsulat des Königreichs der Niederlande in Deutschland, Kulturamt Stadt Köln, Hotel Chelsea