Friday, 17.11.2023

1:00-4:00 p.m.
Works & words, bytes & clouds, warehouses & archive: art in the age of its overproduction. What do the solutions look like for mastering what art production, art industries place into the world at all levels? What can an efficient knowledge transfer, a sustainable and sensible sharing of information and materials look like?

1:00-2:00 p.m.
Where to with all the data? About the mental in art as a virtual challenge

With Nadine Oberste-Hetbleck, ZADIK, Cologne, Franziska Leuthäußer, Publisher Project Café Germany of the Städel Museum and Patricia Rahemipour, Institut für Museumsforschung, Berlin

Host: Kathrin Luz

2:00-3:00 p.m.
Where to with all the art? About art as a material challenge

With Boris Pofalla, Die Welt, Stephan Berg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Carolin Scharpff-Striebich, collector

Host: Kathrin Luz

3:00-4:00 p.m.
Where to with all the artists? About the training situation in the art landscape and the future of artist careers – academies in crisis?

With Constanze Fischbeck, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Florian Matzner, Kunstakademie München, Ana Dimke, HBK Braunschweig

Host: Kathrin Luz

4:00-5:00 p.m.
Josh Baer, The Baer Faxt in conversation with Daniel Hug, Art Director, ART COLOGNE (in English)

5:00-6:00 p.m.
Images as a means of self-exploration

Lars Eidinger, actor and photograph, conversation with Elke Buhr, Monopol

Saturday, 18.11.2023

12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
LBBW Art Talks with Monopol @ ART COLOGNE

12:00-1:00 p.m.
New Acquisitions – Collector talk: private collections, corporate collections and public institutions in dialogue

Gudrun Ruetz, private collector and founder of Art’Us Collectors' Collective, Susanne Kaufmann-Valet, curator for 20th/21st centuries, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Sarah Haberkorn, curator of LBBW Collection

Host: Elke Buhr, editor in chief of Monopol magazine

1:00-2:00 p.m.
New Acquisitions – Artist talk: Franz Ackermann in the LBBW Collection

With Franz Ackermann, artist

Host: Elke Buhr, editor in chief of Monopol magazine

2:00-3:00 p.m.
Going South... Travelling to art. Biennials at the intersection of tomorrow (in English) A KUNSTFORUM Talk on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the KUNSTFORUM

With Isabelle Bertolotti and Alexia Fabre, Biennale Lyon, Hedwig Fijen, Manifesta 15 Barcelona and Carlos Antunes, Bienal de arte contemporanea de Coimbra

Host: Ann-Katrin Günzel, editor in chief of KUNSTFORUM

3:00-4:00 p.m.
ADKV-ART COLOGNE award for art associations and ADKV-ART COLOGNE award for art criticism 2023

4:00-5:00 p.m.
Gaffel Design Glass Award with barrel tapping

5:00-6:00 p.m.
The New Vodoo. Spiritualism in art, yesterday and today

With Nicole Fritz, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Julia Voss, Co-curator "Helma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky" in the Kunstsammlung NRW, Nanette Snoep, Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Cologne

Host: Kathrin Luz

Sunday, 19.11.2023

12:00-1:00 p.m.
Long live art! 70 years of ars viva.

What kinds of spaces does art need? About the challenge of installation art for private collections and museums - perspectives of possible cooperation(s).

With Daniel Lie, ars viva prize winner 2023, Mischa Kuball, ars viva prize winner 1990, Dr. Anne Vieth, Head of Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Min-young Jeon, Visual Arts Program, Kulturkreis

Host: Prasanna Oommen

1:00-6:00 p.m.
Talk series "Forever Art / Indestructible. What makes art so valuable – and so indestructible?“

1:00-2:00 p.m.
Archive art. About (art) books as timeless repositories of knowledge.

A life with books: Walther König, bookseller and Art Cologne prize winner in conversation with Regina Wyrwoll, author and journalist

Host: Kathrin Luz

2:00-3:00 p.m.
Global hub art market. About the right and important channels for purchasing art.

Art between investment and speculation: Dirk Boll, Christie’s, in conversation with Birgit Maria Sturm, BVDG

Host: Kathrin Luz

3:00-4:00 p.m.
Crime scene art world. About the various ways for the appropriation of art.

Art between buying and stealing: Stefan Koldehoff, Deutschlandradio, in conversation with Andreas Blühm, Groninger Museum

Host: Kathrin Luz

4:00-5:00 p.m.
Value analysis artwork. About objective definition of value and subjective purchase decisions.

Criteria of art and art market: Sasa Hanten Schmidt, expert, author and collector, in conversation with Wolfgang Ullrich, art theorist

Host: Kathrin Luz