EMBRACING THE FOLD
Kinke Kooi and Roland Schimmel
10 May — 10 August 2025
Opening: Fri 9 May, 7 p.m.

With a spatial concept by Astrid Kajsa Nylander and Pål Rodenius

Kinke Kooi's and Roland Schimmel's studios have been situated next to each other for nearly 40 years. Despite their long partnership and their shared living and working space, they have not yet exhibited together. This may come as a surprise, as many of their artistic approaches, their visual worlds and perspectives are close to one another, complement or depend on each other, turn into, peel out along one another and, as they themselves describe it, have been created in close concord.

At Temporary Gallery. Centre for Contemporary Art, they are now coming together for the first time in a joint exhibition. The show includes paintings, drawings, computer animations and collages from the last decades to the present day, as well as a newly conceived wall painting for the space.

The artist Astrid Kajsa Nylander and the exhibition designer Pål Rodenius have worked together to develop a furniture and spatial concept that seems to weave the threads between the works even more tightly, while at the same time opening up the space as a place to pause and capture thoughts.

Find more information on the accessibility of Temporary Gallery on our website.

 

Image:
Kinke Kooi and Roland Schimmel, Welcome (detail of a collaboration), 2025, watercolour and (color)pencil on paper), 22 x 30 cm.

 

Funding and support:
Kulturamt Stadt Köln
Kunststiftung NRW
Generalkonsulat des Königreichs der Niederlande in Deutschland