KunstBewusst-Talk: Vom Bischofsgarten zum Museumsgarten. Hier: gestern und heute

What's it all about?

It can still be recognized on old maps, the Bischofsgarten, located between the cathedral and the Rhine, i.e. where the Ludwig Museum stands today. Only the street name still reminds us of it. The excavation pit for the museum, on the other hand, brought even older finds to light and helps us to realize that the world looked very different exactly where we are now. If you question the earth beneath the Museum Ludwig itself, a depth of millions of years opens up that is difficult to comprehend. In order to draw a thread between the past and the future, the exhibition HERE AND NOW is growing at the Museum Ludwig. And yesterday and tomorrow a new garden, on the roof of the Museum Ludwig, designed by Atelier le balto.

Who are our guests?

Prof. Dr. Marcus Trier, born 1962 in Cologne. Studied prehistory and early history, classical archaeology and historical geography at the universities of Bonn and Munich. Doctorate at the University of Bonn in 1989. Subsequently worked as an archaeologist for the Rhineland Regional Association and the City of Meerbusch. From 1992 to 2000 scientific management of an archaeological specialist company. Since January 2000, initially scientific advisor at the Roman-Germanic Museum / Archaeological Heritage Management of the City of Cologne. 2008 Appointment as deputy director. October 2012 Appointment as Director of the Roman-Germanic Museum / Archaeological Heritage Conservation of the City of Cologne. Since 04/2013 also acting head of the "Archaeological Zone" staff unit on Rathausplatz. Honorary professor at the University of Cologne since April 2019. Numerous publications on urban archaeology in Cologne and the archaeology of the early Middle Ages.

"The landscape architecture office atelier le balto Berlin controls and organizes processes of time. Seemingly disadvantaged urban spaces with a negative appearance - old, deserted, unattractive - are transformed by le balto into unique events. The gardens and public spaces are less scenic than atmospheric, dense rather than vast. Sometimes they become merely temporary stagings, even atmospheric images. Processes of change and transience itself characterize the office's work with the aim of creating and preserving places of calm and slowness.

Since the office was founded in 2001, atelier le balto has created gardens throughout Europe - in Spain, France and Germany, in Italy and Estonia and especially in Berlin."

(Dipl.-Ing. Ingrid Rappl. Research assistant. Dresden University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture - Written as part of the office presentation for the lecture series Spann-Weiten, nov. 2009).