FAIR ENOUGH by ART COLOGNE + TEXTE ZUR KUNST #9

Shownotes

What made Cologne one of Europe’s most magnetic art cities — and what remains of that energy today?

Recorded live at ART COLOGNE 2025, this panel brings together leading voices who shaped and chronicled that era and continue to define the field today: Isabelle Graw, Diedrich Diederichsen, Andrea Fraser, Christian Nagel, and Monika Sprüth, moderated by Hannes Loichinger.

The conversation revisits the city’s rise as a cultural powerhouse in the 1990s — a scene marked by experimentation, discourse, and bold gallery movements — and reflects on how those foundations reverberate in the present.

How has the ecosystem of artists, collectors, and institutions shifted since then? What does Cologne’s story reveal about the evolution of European art hubs — and about the forces that sustain them? A vivid dialogue on memory, transformation, and the pulse of a city that continues to reinvent itself.

FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast by ART COLOGNE in collaboration with TEXTE ZUR KUNST, bringing together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to examine how art responds to the urgencies of our time.

Season 1 marks TEXTE ZUR KUNST’s 35th anniversary with the theme: There Is No Art Without Criticism.