SimultanProjekte 2025
28.06. – 19.07.2025

The exhibition Imperfect by Filiz Özçelik at Simultanhalle Cologne explores the past of the site and its surroundings. It begins with the question of how the history of the building continues to resonate today – as an architectural in-between space, as a former prototype for Museum Ludwig, as a place of the provisional and the experimental.

Filiz Özçelik treats the open yet architecturally confined space as part of her artistic process, playfully investigating and reconfiguring the atmosphere and history of Simultanhalle. She incorporates found objects from the immediate surroundings into her sculptural still lifes. These remnants, fragments, and everyday items are combined with materials from Özçelik’s own archive to create compact, detailed material collages. In doing so, they absorb physical traces of the place while generating new contexts and narratives.

The series of works is titled The Center is Elsewhere – a reference to a shifted perception of center, meaning, and temporal structure. The past here does not appear as a fixed narrative, but as a constellation of traces – as a poetic, open material that continues to resonate in the present.