POTLUCK: Zeitgeist Irland, 2024
Kunst Station Sankt Peter, Cologne
Over five weeks in Summer 2024, POTLUCK brought together artists, performers and collectives from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Germany at Kunst-Station Sankt Peter in Cologne, a church and internationally renowned exhibition space for contemporary art.
POTLUCK was a growing, site-specific installation in the centre of the vast church building, with each invited artist or collective adding to the temporary structure and activating it with performances or other forms of intervention, including (but not limited to) sculptural and installation works, workshops, lectures, concerts, or collective naps. Cologne-based artist collective Jellyspoor will acted as co-host and provide the modular structure in the central nave of the church that works as stage, refuge, starting-point or playground for the five invited artists and collectives from Ireland.
Each artistic position, which engaged with aspects of collaborative processes, artistic self-reflection, queer topics and collective care, developed over the course of one week, adding as much or little to the main installation as desired. POTLUCK experimented with different forms of collaboration in a shared space while still giving each invited artist time and space for their contributions to carve their own presence in the unique architecture and atmosphere of Sankt Peter.
Participating artists: Mark Buckeridge, Emma Brennan, Emer McGuckian, Jellyspoor (Evamaria Schaller and Andreas Gehlen).
Curated by Anne Mager. Photography by Bozica Babic
