In Cologne's Galleries: Clay, Stones, Concrete

"Just Another Day" is the name of an exhibition in the gallery Delmes and Zander, which can be via Skype or Facetime visit, but also analog and in the flesh in the rooms at the Cologne Linden street is accessible. "No particular day" – as well particularly the works of the artists can be considered artists in this group show, all the characters, moving in their own mental universes, exclusive Knowledge about the world generated, and this unique art will emerge were: drawings, embroidery, Polaroid, conceptual, graphic, serial leaves, sometimes in a galloping number that tends to infinity. It only connais reality of the Outsider type who bought such works, the gallery owner Susanne Zander, but also young collectors, the interest is quite simple for contemporary art would be.

for the icon of photo copies with tables, ballistic tables, look, blending techniques of the skilled Electrician Harald Bender (1950 to 2014), the studied after he was unemployed, in the seventies, at the Berlin University of the arts. There, he was expelled, from not known reasons, forced. Ravings seized the spirit world of the young man: A Uterus, he imagined in himself and is certainly an onerous atomic secret. Henceforth, the artist Adelhyd van Bender was. Several hundred files folder-fill in the gallery the shelves with the estate; which he encoded in any of the thousands of charts – at the behest of higher powers – meticulously and in tabular form, is likely to be a science in itself. Of bezwingendem charm of the colored drawings of the American "Prophet" Royal Robertson are: his wife, a former professional sign painter from Louisiana in 1955, in addition to common twelve children left, he guessed in the other gender's a conspiracy against himself and ranted in pictures, however, let Raymond Pettibon thinking. A local Berlin legend Helga Goetze (1922-2008) was: In tapestries and drawings, the joyful activist, who called herself Helga, Sophia, the liberating and redemptive power of sexuality conjured up – this is since 1983, in daily demonstrations in front of Berlin's memorial Church; Rosa von Praunheim has dedicated to a film portrait. The exhibition shows from your multi-faceted readable works, in which the mother of six priced well, also the Venus, Amazon, watcher, and Herald. (Up to 30.June; prices 1200 to 22,000 euros.)

From invisible, quite long-term and far-reaching dangers, witness the recent images of Yelena Popova in her fourth solo exhibition at Philipp of roses. However, in 1978, in the Urals-born, London-based painter is not of mystery powers are liable to be addressed, but rather on selfishness, specifically risky places, such as the decommissioned nuclear power plants on the British coast. Specifically, Popova informed about dealing with seven so-called Magnox reactors of the first Generation, the need to act according to their information over generations as a landfill. With this theme you come back to your biography, as in her home town of Ozjorsk to the South of Yekaterinburg was during the times of the Soviet Union in 1957, an exceptionally severe nuclear accident occurs, the authorities were able to decades-long concealment.

The paintings in the entrance of the gallery, you can't see this context at all. But the artist is a ornamental-playful, decorative handwriting, which appears to be today actually considered to be maxed out, with neural hypoallergenic content to enrich. At the same time it plays, the fact of matter-of-factly, an early modernist canons of Russian painting that connects with names such as Alexandra Exter and Natalia Goncharova. Clay, stone and earth collected by the researcher on their own in the vicinity of these reactors, RUB the contaminated? Material from the vicinity of the nuclear industry and mixed it with the tempera paint. Pale yellow and grey plumes of smoke spiral to the small and medium-sized formats, which combine in the exhibition to be very gentle, "Landscapes of Power". You look long enough in these arabesques, they begin to pulsate, some breathe hard, sometimes you can think of shadow on the lung. In the basement tapestries flank a sculptural Ensemble, "taught stones": There are finds from geological regions of the UK, the access to Mediation through human Power and powerlessness in dealing with the Atom. Wherein the contrast of rich tapestries for the decommissioned reactors are designed, therefore, as equipment for mausoleums. (Up to 20. June; prices of 2800 to 20,000 euros.)