Finja Sander: FÜR MORGEN_standort_10

With her performance "Für Morgen" Finja Sander invents a new form of collective remembrance: comparable to a re-enactment she translates Ernst Barlach's memorial "Der Schwebende" with the unmistakable facial features of Käthe Kollwitz into her own physicality and thereby questions both memory culture and monument history.

For the duration of one hour, the artist hangs above the floor in a space-consuming metal frame. She is held in place by three straps that refer to the original construction of the "hovering". In this way, Finja Sander stages herself as a sculpture and impressive extension of Barlach's memorial to the dead of the First and Second World Wars - and actualizes its message in impressive stillness and immobility as a breathing, living body.

With her Cologne performance on October 26, 2023, in the Stiftersaal of the Wallraf as Standort_10, Finja Sander refers to the "Schwebende" in the Antoniterkirche itself as well as to its ideal kinship to Käthe Kollwitz's memorial "Mourning Parents" in the church ruins of Alt St. Alban, the first memorial of the Bund for the fallen of both world wars, which can be seen from the Stiftersaal.

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Where.
Stiftersaal in the
Wallraf-Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud
Obenmarspforten (At Cologne City Hall)
50667 Cologne

Program
Finja Sander FOR TOMORROW_location_10
Thursday, October 26, 2023

6:00 pm
Admission

18:00 - 19:00
Performance FOR TOMORROW by Finja Sander

19:00
Artist-Talk
with Finja Sander, Markus Herzberg (Citykirchenpfarrer at the Antoniterkirche)
and Katharina Koselleck (Director of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne)

7:30 p.m.
Get together in the museum foyer

Admission:
4 € / reduced 2 €
Admission free for members of the Verein der Freunde des Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und des Museum Ludwig e.V. (Association of Friends of the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Museum Ludwig).
www.kunstfreunde.koeln