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    Ongoing
    
      Single images
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2026
    
      Picnic on the Runway
      Der Appropriator
      Abbild, Bild und Bilder, Gesichts-Genealogie
    
    
    2025
    
      Tiere für Worri
      Sedona Vogel
      40211 Worri, Kontaktbogen
      Der Paragraf
      Die Pappel im Wind // Archives &#38;amp; Orbits
    
    
    2024
    
      floating states
      Die Pappel im Wind
      Repräsentationskörper
    
    
    2023
    
      Kapselriss
      EUROPAREISE
      Übersehensicht
      Abstandsgrün und Anstandsgrün
      Der Magen Europas
    
    
    2022
    
      Turtle Walk am ersten internationalen Log Lady Day
      Das innere Leben der Dinge
      Der Garten als eine Art Auto betrachtet
    
    
    2021
    
      Verwandlungsmöbel
      Keys to Keys
      Der Magen Europas II
    
    
    2020
    
      Die Reise der Quadriga
      Die Horizontale Grand Tour
      Alte Spitzen
      Analogue Louvre, 2001/2020
      Die Hohepriesterin im Gelmeroda Hochgebirge
      Der Magen Europas
    
    
    2019
    
      Featuring die Ritterrüstung
      DIEPUBLIKA
      My Life in Hotels
      Säule der Arbeit, Säule der Lust, Säule der Kurzweil, Säule der Bewegung, Säule des Müßiggang
    
    
    2018
    
      Die Blauen Bücher
      Pestdoktor
      Teppich Buch Tapete Schnaps
      Passagenmajestät
      Trümmertanz
      Inside the Brick
    
    
    2017
    
      Marble, Eggs and Legs
      Treibhaus
      Sunday Painter Watercolour Station Tour
      Jahrskript
      Körperliche Ertüchtigung
    
    
    2016
    
      Leise Fuchs
      Kavalierstour
      Norbert and his Friends
      Carl and Paul
    
    
    2015
    
      Men at work
      Prelude to the afternoon of a faun
      Susi Gern, Charles Bronson und die Marilyn
      Rocks
      Lindner on the beach
    
    
    2014
    
      Ali Nino and the Numbers
    
    
    2013
    
      Ways of seeing, Ways of aging
      80 Bücher
      Das schielende Archiv
    
    
    2012
    
      Fornasetti
      smba project 1975
      SchulerSeifert / SeifertSchuler,2012 / 2015
    
    
    2011
    
      Blaker / Lüster
      Die Moral eines Rahmens
      Grisaille
      Toscana dreaming, 2010/11
    
  
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    40211 Worri
    Die Pappel im Wind
  
  
    Der Magen Europas
  
  
    Der Garten als eine Art Auto betrachtetGolden Pigeon und seine Gefährten
  
  
    Die Blauen Bücher
  

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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:12:42 +0000</pubDate>

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	Christoph Westermeier is a German visual and conceptual artist based in Düsseldorf. Born in Cologne in 1984, he explores image circulation, media power, and the history of photography. Westermeier frequently uses archives, found objects, and text in his work to study cultural systems.
			
		
			CV
			1984 		born in Cologne2004-2010 	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf / Academy of Fine Arts Duesseldorf 2011-2013 	de Ateliers, Amsterdam
			since 2018 Lehrauftrag Bergische Universität Wuppertal2019 - 2021 Lehrauftrag HSD Düsseldorf
			2021 - 2024 Lehrauftrag Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
			
			1st Chairman of Künstlerverein Malkasten since 2024
			
			AWARDS AND GRANTS
			
			Der Magen Europas, Shortlist Lex Prix Du Livre, Arles 2023
			Der Magen Europas, Longlist Stiftung Buchkunst, 2023Förderpreis der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, 2018Moscow residency, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, 2016Schloss Ringenberg residency, 2015Istanbul residency, Kunststiftung NRW, 2014Förderpreis NRW, 2013Working grant Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, 2013dHCS Scholarship, Kunstverein Dusseldorf, 2011Peter-Mertes-Stipendium, Kunstverein Bonn, 2010Meisterschüler of Christopher Williams, 2009
			
		
			SOLO EXHIBITIONS 
			
2026: kjubh
Picnic on the Runway, Köln
2026: Goethe-Museum
			Abbild, Bild und Bilder, Düsseldorf
			
			2025: Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR
			Sedona Vogel, Brühl
			
			2024: Theatermuseum
			Die Pappel im Wind, Düsseldorf
			
			2024: Studio 155
			Floating States (with Martin Pfeifle), Münster
			
			2023: Kunstkommission, Rheinbahn
			Übersehensicht, Düsseldorf
			
			2023:&#38;nbsp;Free_port_purgatory
			Kapselriss (with Martin Pfeifle), Karlsruhe&#38;nbsp;
			
			2023: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Nachtfoyer
			EUROPAREISE (with Jurgen Ots), Düsseldorf
			2022: Duesseldorf photo+
			"Der Garten als eine Art Auto Betrachtet", Düsseldorf
			2021: Rotunde 58"Der Magen Europas II" (with Jurgen Ots), Brüssel
			2020: Museum Folkwang, Provenance Performance "Die Hohepriesterin im Gelmeroda Hochgebirge", Essen
			2020: Daindiefront"Der Magen Europas" (with Jurgen Ots), Düsseldorf
			2018: Kunstraum"Die Blauen Bücher", Förderpreis Düsseldorf
			2018: Archiv 11 "TEPPICH BUCH TAPETE SCHNAPS" (with Matthias Gabi), Zürich
			2018: Malkasten "Trümmertanz" (with Daniel Poller), Düsseldorf
			2018: Central Fine"Inside the Brick", Miami
			2018: Thebaïs "Myself when young", Cologne
			2017: Between Arrival &#38;amp; Departure"Marble, Eggs and Legs", one night happening, Miami Beach
			2017: Atelier am Eck 
			"To Wander at Large", Düsseldorf
			2016: Poligon the Shooting Gallery"Leise Fuchs" (with Yesim Akdeniz), Istanbul
			2016: Rodchenko School "Walkers", Moscow
			2015: Hammerschmidt &#38;amp; Gladigau "Rocks“ (with Martin Pfeifle), Erfurt
			2014: Kunststiftung NRW"Let’s talk about the Bildungsbürger“, Istanbul 
			2014: Galerie van Gelder"Ali, Nino and the Numbers“, Amsterdam 
			2013: Coalmine“Studioline”, Winterthur 
			2012: Galerie Max Mayer "The Early Walnut Period“, Düsseldorf 
			2011: Kunstverein Bonn"Christoph Westermeier-Jan Meier“, Bonn 
			2011: Schaufenster Kunstverein Düsseldorf"Grisaille“, Düsseldorf 
			2010: Parkhaus"Flexy“ (with Martin Pfeifle), Düsseldorf
			
		
			SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
			2025: Mauve ViennaA PAIR OF SHORTERALL, Wien
			
			2025: Galerie Bernhard Knaus
			Archives &#38;amp; Orbits, Frankfurt&#38;nbsp;
			
			2025:Luitpoldblock&#38;nbsp;Ein Haus ohne Mauern bauen, München
			
			2024: MAP / Kunst- und Kulturstiftung
			Travertin und Muschelkalk, Düsseldorf
			
			2024: the pool
			Doors, Düsseldorf
			
			2023: Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt
			2022: 3RD-SPC EU
			Kraljevica, Croatia
			2021: Roentgenmuseum
			Verwandlungsmöbel, Neuwied
			2021: Ludwig Forum 
			Bon Voyage, Aachen
			2020: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
			Subjekt und Objekt Foto Rhein Ruhr, Düsseldorf 
			2019: Museum Morsbroich
			Next Generations, Aktuelle Kunst made im Rheinland 
			2018: KIT 
			Meeting the Univers Halfway, Düsseldorf
			2017: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen "Asymmetrische Architexturen", Düsseldorf
			2017: Künstlerhaus Dortmund "Ohne Netz und doppelten Boden", Dortmund
			2017: Kunstraum
			"history ASAP", Düsseldorf 
			2016: Kunsthaus NRW 
			"that's how the light gets in", Kornelimünster
			2015: Schloss Ringenberg“I/K”, Hamminkeln 
			2015: Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen "Weder hier noch dort, weder Fisch noch Fleisch“, Siegen 
			2015: Stigter van Doesburg “Hijacking Karma #2.1”, Amsterdam
			2015 Gebert Stiftung
			"Die Unendliche Bibliothek“, Rapperswil CH
			2013: de Ateliers“off spring”, Amsterdam 
			2013 Westfälischer Kunstverein“There’s no place like home”, Münster 
			2013: Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem“Physical and virtual Bodies”, Arnhem
			2013: KunsthausI6“Fenster.Fenster”, Freibrug
			2012: Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
			"The Memories are Present“, Amsterdam
			2012: BCC."The Gap – die Lücke“, Frankfurt/Main 
			2012: de Appel
			„Three Artists Walk into a Bar...“, Amsterdam 
			2011: Julia Stoschek Collection"Number Five: Cities of gold and Mirrors“, Düsseldorf 
			2011: MAP – The Chain"2 oder 3 Dinge die ich von ihr weiß“, Düsseldorf 
			2011: Galerie Max Mayer"Ein psycho-geographischer Plan“, Düsseldorf 
			2010: Galerie Thomas Flor"The Amen Break“, Düsseldorf 
			2010: Villa Romana"Talking To Rocks“, Florenz 
			2009: 701 e. V."Regarding Düsseldorf“, Düsseldorf
			2009: Malkastenpark, MAP"parcours interdit“, Düsseldorf 
			2008: Gloriahalle"UNTER TAG (11min)“, Düsseldorf 
			2008: Galerie der HfbK Hamburg"Fotofolgen“, Hamburg 
		

			LECTURE PERFORMANCES
			
			2025/26: Max Ernst Museum 
			Der Appropriator, Brühl
			2022: 3RD-SPC/RPThe sound of faces, Kraljevica, Croatia
			2017: MAP"Sunday Painter Watercolour Station Tour"
			2016: Weltkunstzimmer: “Keine Angst vor der Vergrößerung”, Düsseldorf
			2014: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf“Im Land des Apfelbaums”, Düsseldorf
			2014: InEnArt: “Walking”, Istanbul
			2013: Kunstverein Düsseldorf “Didaktische Disko”, with E. Hermann, A. Pöhlmann, F. Rohden Düsseldorf
			2013: Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem“image conversation”, with Rachel Niffenegger, Arnhem
			2012: Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam"Flying boxes“, Amsterdam
			2011: Kunstverein Düsseldorf“Beleuchtungskörper Bulletin“, Düsseldorf
			2009: wg3zikb“schöner scheitern”, Düsseldorf
			2007: wg3zikb“Ausrauschtausch”, Düsseldorf
			Curator of “Asleep fingers”, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, 2014
			2006-2009 organizer and curator of the project space “KIK”, Dusseldorf
		
	
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:20:48 +0000</pubDate>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 15:20:41 +0000</pubDate>

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&#60;img width="2481" height="3508" width_o="2481" height_o="3508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f77d314297507ea1979c3c39a2233ba04f27e869b786a446895ebd9ecec38ee7/article_mousse7.png" data-mid="161261319" border="0" alt="Image 6 of 6 &#38;amp;#8594" data-caption="Image 6 of 6 &#38;amp;#8594" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f77d314297507ea1979c3c39a2233ba04f27e869b786a446895ebd9ecec38ee7/article_mousse7.png" /&#62;


Jennifer Allen, The Man without Photographs, Mousse 42, 2014


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Christoph Westermeier und Christina Irrgang im Gespräch, KubaParis #2, 2015
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 16:16:19 +0000</pubDate>

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"Marmor III", 30x45 cm, 2022


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"Marmor II", 30x45 cm, 2022


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"Marmor I", 30x45 cm, 2022


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"Zitate", 60x90 cm, 2021


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"Mülheimer V-Lampe" 60x90 cm, 2021


&#60;img width="2848" height="4288" width_o="2848" height_o="4288" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95fca18e11573a95c15a5f1f5d758d1e45d59e914854a3ce8fc0616d03b97ee9/_DSC0020.jpg" data-mid="161261414" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95fca18e11573a95c15a5f1f5d758d1e45d59e914854a3ce8fc0616d03b97ee9/_DSC0020.jpg" /&#62;
"Spring2.1" 60x90 cm, 2021


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"Friends and more", 60x90 cm, 2020


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"Friends and more", 60x90 cm, 2020


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"Friends and more", 60x90 cm, 2020


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"Friends and more", 60x90 cm, 2020


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"studioline", 35x50 cm, 2019


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"Inspektion", 35x50 cm, 2018, cooperation with Mélange, Cologne


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"slow dance", 42x30 cm, Inkjet Print, 2018


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"knees" 40x60 cm, 2017


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"target", 40x60 cm, 2017


&#60;img width="1772" height="1329" width_o="1772" height_o="1329" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cce90cd7d4e3abe0024c7354e8da467440bc1cde4eb956f502ba862278f63b81/C-Diver.jpg" data-mid="161261402" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cce90cd7d4e3abe0024c7354e8da467440bc1cde4eb956f502ba862278f63b81/C-Diver.jpg" /&#62;
"C-Diver", 32x24 cm, C-Print, 2016


&#60;img width="2362" height="1569" width_o="2362" height_o="1569" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ed1534029132ce970203279ac2a46003b9d79014287f6e2c1abf22e0f29a321/_-surprising-Gecelli.jpg" data-mid="161261401" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ed1534029132ce970203279ac2a46003b9d79014287f6e2c1abf22e0f29a321/_-surprising-Gecelli.jpg" /&#62;
"Surprising Gecelli", 84x55 cm, Inkjet Print, 2016


&#60;img width="2013" height="3000" width_o="2013" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5dcf31f2b0c3a54a05512ff2bc9d7da492c89e7d6813daf4b32930e137b484e1/46-StudioCastle_cristoph_westermeier.jpg" data-mid="161261391" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5dcf31f2b0c3a54a05512ff2bc9d7da492c89e7d6813daf4b32930e137b484e1/46-StudioCastle_cristoph_westermeier.jpg" /&#62;
"Studio Castle“, 40x60 cm, C-Print,  2015


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"Caste Studio“, 40x60 cm, C-Print, 2015


&#60;img width="1417" height="1063" width_o="1417" height_o="1063" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab6647ac66d39a4eb1099fea5df09fb7413a2921f40126a8fa5e3db169ef422b/let-s-talk-about-the-Bildungsburger.jpg" data-mid="161261400" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab6647ac66d39a4eb1099fea5df09fb7413a2921f40126a8fa5e3db169ef422b/let-s-talk-about-the-Bildungsburger.jpg" /&#62;
"let's start to talk about the Bildungsbürger", 20x30 cm, C-Print, 2014


&#60;img width="957" height="1276" width_o="957" height_o="1276" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfbec6e23de525b3199e9f9da06cc59a8627b4aff7361f7ff713ecc0c2611bc4/44.-lets-talk-about-the-Bildungsbrger-II.jpg" data-mid="161261351" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/957/i/dfbec6e23de525b3199e9f9da06cc59a8627b4aff7361f7ff713ecc0c2611bc4/44.-lets-talk-about-the-Bildungsbrger-II.jpg" /&#62;
"Let's talk about the Bildungsbüger“, 2014, IMG_1146/5.Juni2014 13:56, 2014


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"Let's talk about the Bildungsbüger“, 2014, IMG_1204/5.Juni2014 10:08, 2014


    “The German ‘Bildungsbürger’ by contrast is still alive and well. You can find him, or her, everywhere. In the theatre, mid-week, when no Englishman leaves his television set, you can hear serious analysis during the break. Because the German is not ashamed to be serious.

Now that is something Germany could export in these times of crisis.”

- Roger Boyes, “Still Alive and Well: the German ‘Bildungsbürger’,” Goethe Institut, March 2009, online at: goethe.de.

Here, we are confronted with an image of the artist holding a photographic advertisement by the Goethe Institut, portraying the red-painted hands of a woman embracing an elegant alabaster bust of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, rendered in the style of classical Greco-Roman sculpture. Reflecting on the bust alone, one is reminded of the reverence to Greek sculpture by Goethe’s teacher, Johann Joachim Wincklemann, for whom the noble and masculine grandeur embodied by Greek sculpture symbolized an imaginary moment of harmonious balance in the polis, wherein political and cultural life were held tightly as one. During the height of German idealism, this image of political and cultural synthesis would influence a larger effort to solidify the dream of Bildung, of education and self-cultivation by the middle class, predicated on the German struggle for unification. And the Bildungsbürger, the high-minded, cultivated, educated class of elites came to fully embody and enact this German cultural identity, returning into the social world and free imperial cities to further disseminate their knowledge and sacred values. 

One can’t ignore the juxtaposition of high and low cultures in this advertisement. Like many other institutions and programs that import and impose upon others their national cultural values under the guise of promoting cultural exchange, the ad seems to suggest that the Institut can keep up to speed with, and adapt to, contemporary life and its realities. But this openness functions only to the extent that the institution will open its doors of high culture and antiquated ideals to the visitor, whose task then is to retrieve, learn from, and emulate this valuable legacy regardless of any local context or experience. Indeed, Goethe himself was a major influence on the Bildungsbürger and for many today he continues to symbolize the epitome of high culture. And like the female hand resting on Goethe’s shoulder, we are taught to continue to embrace this outdated, corrective image of culture rooted in an exercise of recovery by the institutions that disseminate them to us. 

What would it mean to reflect on one’s culture otherwise? An array of disparate objects are photographed and then rearranged in Christoph Westermeier’s works, but these juxtapositions do not function comparatively, nor do they privilege one form over the other. These is a strategy of decontextualization at work here; one not with the aim of recontexualization or projection as in the Bildungsbürger’s selective memory of culture and history, but one that recognizes the simultaneous instability and flexibility of the process of collecting, reassembling, and archiving. As such, the artist invites a rereading and reconsideration of the cultural imagery that surrounds us. 

Seyma Bayram
  
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"H.o.T.", 20x30 cm, C-Print, 2013


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"Grey“, 60x40, C-Print, 2013


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"Snake“ 60x40, C-Print, 2013


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"Research Material“, 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


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"Sunbathing“, 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


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"Seamless“, 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


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“Chatterton” 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


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“Avantgarden retrospektiv”, 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


&#60;img width="1181" height="1801" width_o="1181" height_o="1801" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d803e1707d2ab0a88f0f88575f5f2b425db8728409f3f33cdf192558923354b3/34.-Studioline--das-Fotohandbuch-Kopie.jpg" data-mid="161261359" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d803e1707d2ab0a88f0f88575f5f2b425db8728409f3f33cdf192558923354b3/34.-Studioline--das-Fotohandbuch-Kopie.jpg" /&#62;
“Studioline: das Fotohandbuch”, 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


&#60;img width="1969" height="1680" width_o="1969" height_o="1680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c81765ca583061c7525c4f9e382c1b63b2ca5daf5098ff840f7b9d0e4527c35/33.-i-want-to.jpg" data-mid="161261360" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c81765ca583061c7525c4f9e382c1b63b2ca5daf5098ff840f7b9d0e4527c35/33.-i-want-to.jpg" /&#62;
"I want to hold your hand“, 60x50 cm, C-Print, 2013


&#60;img width="567" height="814" width_o="567" height_o="814" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70bedc90d6a98d3e02ea6bf0530fbf8be71a49025ef34b2b8894dd552739f03a/32-H-T.jpg" data-mid="161261362" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/567/i/70bedc90d6a98d3e02ea6bf0530fbf8be71a49025ef34b2b8894dd552739f03a/32-H-T.jpg" /&#62;
“H&#38;amp;T”, 25x35 cm, C-Print, 2013


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“RatW” III, 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


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“RatW” II, 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


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“RatW” I, 60x40 cm, C-Print, 2013


&#60;img width="2500" height="1678" width_o="2500" height_o="1678" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6fe612df10bc17c59618b92ebd0e7646ef1c636b67943a6945230330b234bf4/28-early-cut-out_christophwestermeier.jpg" data-mid="161261399" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6fe612df10bc17c59618b92ebd0e7646ef1c636b67943a6945230330b234bf4/28-early-cut-out_christophwestermeier.jpg" /&#62;
"Early Cut Out“, C-Print, 20x30 cm, 2013


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"What happened to Furka-Oberalp", C-Print, 20x30 cm, 2013


&#60;img width="1828" height="2452" width_o="1828" height_o="2452" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5f720c387bbc4aabb7405d0b1bf616b907bb14d99be1895aeb2f496265c6498/26.jpg" data-mid="161261364" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5f720c387bbc4aabb7405d0b1bf616b907bb14d99be1895aeb2f496265c6498/26.jpg" /&#62;
Documentation: “Duroy”, Inkjet Print, stainless steal, 84x294 cm, 2012


&#60;img width="1772" height="2362" width_o="1772" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ce99eb4f1ab035505211885a560dbb16b4a0ac50f2934cfe11144d17a0f4aec/25.-Magnificent-Rockies-III.jpg" data-mid="161261365" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ce99eb4f1ab035505211885a560dbb16b4a0ac50f2934cfe11144d17a0f4aec/25.-Magnificent-Rockies-III.jpg" /&#62;
"Magnificent Rockies III“, C-Print, 96 x 72cm, 2012


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"Magnificent Rockies II“, C-Print, 96 x 72 cm, 2012


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"Magnificent Rockies I“, C-Print, 96 x 72 cm, 2012


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"Niello“, C-Print, 68 x 51 cm, 2012


&#60;img width="1772" height="2362" width_o="1772" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0ece35e104df5cd98320e051e17a54b7e374e3728f0a1c2ae3c0e573833b625/21.-Mairac.jpg" data-mid="161261368" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0ece35e104df5cd98320e051e17a54b7e374e3728f0a1c2ae3c0e573833b625/21.-Mairac.jpg" /&#62;
"Mairac“, C-Print, 68 x 51 cm, 2012


&#60;img width="425" height="619" width_o="425" height_o="619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b4d7928775a080f49f5bd6dea2b6179622ec6467eaa4bcc75aa7427b7016119/20.-the-early-walnut-period--Kopie.jpg" data-mid="161261369" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/425/i/3b4d7928775a080f49f5bd6dea2b6179622ec6467eaa4bcc75aa7427b7016119/20.-the-early-walnut-period--Kopie.jpg" /&#62;
"The Early Walnut Period“, C-Print, 40 x 30 cm, 2011/12


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"Nancy, Pamela, Thomas, Diana, Unity, Jessica, Deborah“, Fine Art Print, 52 x 39 cm, 2011


    The work „Nancy, Pamela, Thomas, Diana, Unity, Jessica, Deborah“ references the Mitford Family. The six Mitford-Sisters are know for their literature, but mostly for their correspondance between themselves, that has lead to a vast amount of letters. Their common-ground and comradery that – although having very different political views – kept the sisters together, becomes the conceptual subject matter in the image of a set of overlapping bracelets; in the connection of objects and words. 

Extract from the text: “The early walnut periode”, Christina Irrgang, 2012
  
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„Blush“, Fine Art Print, 60 x 45 cm, 2011


&#60;img width="1063" height="1417" width_o="1063" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/219f7299b4d851bf4a5b712b1c1c84bf0166bdace48ed844a203b993dfa648ae/17.-covet.jpg" data-mid="161261373" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/219f7299b4d851bf4a5b712b1c1c84bf0166bdace48ed844a203b993dfa648ae/17.-covet.jpg" /&#62;
"Covet“, Fine Art Print, 60 x 45 cm, 2011


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"Torrentius“, C-Print, 56 x 42 cm, 2011


&#60;img width="1875" height="2500" width_o="1875" height_o="2500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff04acb0daf4b2198bcd4f83f661408cf60fe7f5dde2bb2219c11a5d545e0139/15._Bollongier_small.jpg" data-mid="161261375" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ff04acb0daf4b2198bcd4f83f661408cf60fe7f5dde2bb2219c11a5d545e0139/15._Bollongier_small.jpg" /&#62;
"Bollongier“, C-Print, 40 x 30 cm, 2011


&#60;img width="1181" height="1575" width_o="1181" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27d1810abf71ebd8ad41ebf0120e7c3dec44302661af992e471d61a29f783488/14.studioMirror.jpg" data-mid="161261376" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27d1810abf71ebd8ad41ebf0120e7c3dec44302661af992e471d61a29f783488/14.studioMirror.jpg" /&#62;
"Studio Mirror“, C-Print, 96x72 cm, 2011


&#60;img width="2500" height="1875" width_o="2500" height_o="1875" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e2e95406939b6158cf41d37232b143e0870f6fd8b510f2f4c41102a84f8e533/13-Marschallhof_small.jpg" data-mid="161261388" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e2e95406939b6158cf41d37232b143e0870f6fd8b510f2f4c41102a84f8e533/13-Marschallhof_small.jpg" /&#62;
"Marschallhof“, C-Print, 96 x 72 cm, 2011


&#60;img width="1181" height="1575" width_o="1181" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7be00b9a8198f7941a4f757968c4cb3908cdc727764f87c8bae1ff68692b444a/12.-Schlaf-und-.jpg" data-mid="161261378" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7be00b9a8198f7941a4f757968c4cb3908cdc727764f87c8bae1ff68692b444a/12.-Schlaf-und-.jpg" /&#62;
"Schlaf- und Wohnmaschine“, C-Print, 68 x 51 cm, 2011


&#60;img width="1063" height="1417" width_o="1063" height_o="1417" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/640974d781149b99bfea1886f4961ffc649325ab09a29bed56dc4f9908880dbb/11.-Cartoline.jpg" data-mid="161261379" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/640974d781149b99bfea1886f4961ffc649325ab09a29bed56dc4f9908880dbb/11.-Cartoline.jpg" /&#62;
"Cartoline III“ Inkjet Print, 112 x 84 cm, 2011


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"Cartoline II“, Inkjet Print, 112 x 84 cm, 2011


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"Cartoline I“, Inkjet Print, 112 x 84cm, 2010


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"Heimatglocken in der Fremde 02.02., Normandy“, 112x84 cm, 2010


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"Heimatglocken in der Fremde 02.02. Arizona“, 112x84 cm, 2010


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-PICNIC ON THE RUNWAY-

2026


 Picnic on the Runway stellt die Frage nach kulturellen Klischees und medialen Transformationen. 


Im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung steht das traditionelle chinesische Märchen Ashima aus dem Mythos der Sani aus Yunnan. In der Geschichte verwandelt sich nach&#38;nbsp; einem Unfall die weiblich gelesene Person Ashima in einen Felsen, dem eine magische Kraft zugesprochen wird. Der seit 2007 zur UNESCO gehörende Steinwald Shilin in Kunming bewahrt heute das Andenken an diese denkwürdige Transformation und sorgt für eine touristen gerechte Vermarktung, die spätestens seit der Verfilmung von Liu Qiong im Jahr 1964 zum populären Allgemeingut gehört. Ashima war der erste Farbfilm, der in der Volksrepublik China gedreht wurde und wurde in der Folgezeit als Peking-Oper, Yunnan-Oper und Sani-Oper aufgeführt. 


Christoph Westermeier verbindet Fotografien, die er in Shilin gemacht hat, mit Aufnahmen des Filmes von 1964 und weiteren Ashima Devotionalien. Flankiert wird die Ausstellung von zwei Tableaus, die sich mit der Präsentation kulturellen Erbes in unterschiedlichen Kontexten befassen und der Serie Sublime Society of Steaks.


Picnic on the Runway explores cultural clichés and transformations in the media. The exhibition centres on the traditional Chinese folktale Ashima from the mythology of the Sani people of Yunnan. In the story, following an accident, the female character Ashima is transformed into a rock said to possess magical powers. The Shilin stone forest in Kunming, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2007, preserves the memory of this remarkable transformation and ensures its promotion to tourists; it has been part of popular culture since at least the release of Liu Qiong’s film adaptation in 1964. Ashima was the first colour film to be shot in the People’s Republic of China and was subsequently staged as a Peking Opera, Yunnan Opera and Sani Opera. 


Christoph Westermeier combines photographs he took in Shilin with stills from the 1964 film and other Ashima memorabilia. The exhibition is flanked by two tableaux that explore the presentation of cultural heritage in different contexts, as well as the series Sublime Society of Steaks.

Picnic on the Runway, 23.05-20.06. kjubh, Köln&#38;nbsp;Eingeladen von Katja DavarSublime Society of Steaks (I –IIX), Inkjet prints on book pages, each 18 x 20 cm, 2026,


Ashima World, mixed media installation (wallpaper, perforated sheet metal, magnets, prints), dimensions variable, 2026
Picnic on the Runway (I)(II), various printed papers, 100 x 68 cm, 2026
photos of the installation: Mareike Tocha


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