URBAN ART | Johannes Raffael LDC Guerreiro

KOLBHALLE TEARDOWN
The „Kolbhalle“ has been a cultural center since 1989, hosting exhibitions, theater, readings, concerts, and international artist exchanges. An investor acquired the entire site in 2020, and new development plans are forcing the artists to abandon this unique space in 2026. A former studio was redesigned before it become a lost place and finally a construction site.

ZWISCHENRAUM
An expansive staging in the rooms of the Galllery, with images (Johannes Guerreiro) and text (Anika Lecomte) merging with the wall.

Beyond Walls
Malerei urban, explosiv, entgrenzt – Mai-Juni 2023 in der Bar Trinkgenossinnen, Köln Ehrenfeld

Viewed as an ensemble, Johannes Guerreiro’s work resembles a vibrant urban landscape. Spacious and immersive like an urban stage. Surfaces covered with spray paint at the intersection of gallery and street underpass. Johannes‘ art moves between graffiti, media art and pop culture. His work for the Bar Trinkgenossin was created outdoors through dynamic layering of flat colors and rhythmic graphic patterns. Now it makes its way indoors into the public, pulsing casually like a conversation among friends. A temporary but lively collective of individual fragments.

Outdoor Interventions

Wandering through the area of urban or rural places that speak of abandonment, I admire the calm and the supposed standstill. Some want to leave the decay untouched as a miracle of nature, I want to revisit and revitalize the broken dialogue between men and environment – adding another chapter to the story.