Über Brücken – Bridging

Über Brücken Bridging is published on the occasion of the performance and exhibition project of the same name in public space, curated by Lisa Klosterkötter and Elena Malzew, which took place between September 2022 and September 2024. The project spanned three long summers, presenting artistic interventions, performances, readings, sound pieces, temporary exhibitions, and installations on and around the seven Rhine bridges in Cologne. Cologne’s bridges are historical symbols of urban transformation and key structural elements of the city. They link districts undergoing different forms of social change and connect the inner-city west with the east at seven points across the Rhine. Around them condense social, cultural-historical, and socioeconomic narratives that relate to migration and labor, to urban history and its gaps, to environmental issues, and to public space and its ongoing privatization. Bridges are not only architectural passages but also material expressions of social orders. The majority of the artistic works presented during Über Brücken – Bridging were site-specific productions that, to varying degrees, engaged with the individual bridges, their role in contemporary and historical urban life, or their architecture, materiality, and corporeality.

Editor: Lisa Klosterkötter, Elena Malzew
Texts: Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Nouria Behloul, Alexander Hagner, Nora Hansen, Martin Karcher, Lisa Klosterkötter, Son Lewandowski, Elena Malzew, Laura Martens, Ani Menua, Lisa Oord, Julius Vapiano
Designer: Hanna Osen, Björn Giesecke

Artist: Nouria Behloul, Add Label, Amélie Ratle, Amina Abouelghar, Camilla Mercedes Schielin, Eleni Poulou, Franca Scholz, Hanin Tarek, Harry Thring, Hilary Jeffery, Hilma Bäckström, Jakob Penca, Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Jil Lahr, Jonathan Penca, Julia Maria Müllner, Julius Metzger, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Magdalena Los, Mark Leckey, Moritz Englebert, Okka-Esther Hungerbühler, Olga Monina, Ozan Tekin, Pablo Schlumberger, Paula Erstmann, Petr Step Kišur, Philipp Schießler, Pitt Wenninger, Rosanna Graf, Shira Lewis, Shirin Sabahi, Son Lewandowski, Soya Arakawa

published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE
2026, language: English, German, 280 pages, 20 x 14cm

Available in two cover colors, pink or silver.