2019
Using malish and femalish strategies katze und krieg attract men and women for their harem. Kindly supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the NRW KULTURSekretariat and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia NRW.
2018
the world declaration of Burgbrohl
Being artist-in-residence at the KUNSTPAVILLON BURGBROHL katze und krieg create an audio picture about the life in the countryside by asking people simple why questions and recording their answers. Kindly supported of the AIM e.V. Culture in rural space | ArtLab in the Kunstpavillon Burgbrohl, the Fonds Soziokultur e.V., the Ministry for Science, Education and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate and the Volksbank-Foundation. Nominated for the federal prize competition "Innovationspreis Soziokultur" (Innovation Prize for Socio-Culture) with the leading theme HEIMAT by the board of trustees of the Bundesfonds Soziokultur e.V.
Living in a turbocapitalism, katze und krieg unveil to their audience in the middle of the city their newly found strategies, allowing them to do even more in less time. Kindly supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the NRW KULTURSekretariat and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia NRW. Revival 2019 in Mühlheim an der Ruhr in the mark of the academy of the Impulse theatre festival.
In the mark of the Impulse city project katze und krieg read on the street in Düsseldorf the collected farewell letters of the foreign departments to the annexed building of the Wilhelm-Marx-Haus.
2017
katharinamariajej, Julia Josef Dick and donkey hike in the days before Christmas towards home, trying to find refuge on their way. Supported by Hans Bühler and his donkey Boromir.
The audience is guided through companies to witness performance art enriching the working world. katze und krieg developed the performance together with the artist duo Clark Beaumont. Kindly supported by the Land NRW and the City of Cologne.
2016
The audience is invited to the streets of Cologne and seduced to sleep outside with the artists. katze und krieg develop the performance together with the artist duo „we are visual“ whilst living on the street. Kindly supported by the Land NRW.
2015
katze und krieg invite twenty people to participate on a guided bus tour to the studios of artists living in the outskirts of Braunschweig. Performed at the exhibition ”kunst…hier und jetzt” in Braunschweig.
katze und krieg invite the audience into a club in Cologne and its surrounding area to see what they can see if they cannot see. The performance is part of the series „Stimmern der Dinge“ of Drama Köln. Revival in Munich 2018 in the mark of the IETM Festival.
With a bus the audience is guided of the city and into the forest. They are encouraged to explore their wild surrounding where they can meet the lover of the woods, Rotkäppchen, the stick thrower and the king of the woods. Performed by katze und krieg together with Andrei Andrianov and Oleg Soulimenko. Funded by the Land NRW.
MONEY.EXPERIENCE.SATISFACTION.NOW.
katze und krieg open up a shop for just one week where you can buy satisfaction for your individual wants and needs. Supported by Sommerblutfestival and the City of Cologne. Nominated for the Theaterpreis.
katze und krieg open up the PerformanceKunstGallery at the Kölner Liste, an artfair in Cologne. Supported by the Kölner Liste.
2014
katze und krieg invite you to release your inner animality in a tidy, comfortable, pretty, rich, clean district of the city. Created in residence at Lothringer 13_Florida in Munich, performed in Bochum supported by the city of Bochum and Admiral.
katze und krieg reside at the house of Bouchera in Marrakesh, Marocco. There they develop a videowork. Not supported by the Prefecture of Marrakesh.
2013
katze und krieg invite twenty people to participate on a guided bus tour to the studios of artists living in the outskirts of Braunschweig. Performed at the exhibition ”kunst…hier und jetzt” in Braunschweig.
katze und krieg intervene with a supermarket while moving in slowmotion. Performed at the festival fremdgehen Drama Köln, inverscity Oberhausen and Duisburg, Unithea Festival Frankfurt/Oder and in Rijeka Kroatien Spajalica, Museum of Modern Art, Brotfabrik Berlin.
katze und krieg invite their audience to stroll through the streets and learn from teenagers. Peformed in Cologne at the KKT, funded by the Fonds Soziokultur, city of Cologne and the County NRW and in Bielefeld in the Theaterhaus.
we want to survive - with magic
A videodocument about katze und krieg transforming themselves into magicians. As magicians they sell love, freedom, trust and erotic rituals to the people on the street in order to earn money to survive.
we want to survive - every year again
Public showing at the Neues Kunstforum Köln of the three videodocuments: we want to survive - by hook or by crook - very dramatically - with magic. Funded by the Karin-Abt-Straubinger Stiftung.
2012
The Adventures of Sissi and Sissi
katze und krieg are invited to an artist residency at the castle Laudon in Vienna. There they develop a video, shown in the gallery of the Bundesministerium für Kunst und Kultur, Austria, and in 2013 win the first prize of the Nostalgia Film Festival in Berlin by the transart institute.
Ten things we learned hanging around in Grote Waal
During their residence at Hotel Maria Kappel (Hoorn/Netherlands) katze und krieg hang around in the ghetto of the town to learn from the gangsters.
we want to to survive - very dramatically
A videodocument about katze und krieg transforming themselves into pubactors. As pubactors they make experimental dance and theater scenes in the pubs of Cologne in order to earn money to survive.
whisper
katze und krieg whisper in the Nachtbar at the Theater für Niedersachsen in Hildesheim.
katze und krieg are invited for a residence at the casa do rio in the brasilian jungle. They produce a series of adventures on video. After their return, they present the video series in the context of the instant record collection at the Allgemeiner Konsumverein in Braunschweig and at the Looking for your speech- Screening in Manzara Perspectives Galerie in Istanbul (Türkei).
2011
how to be a really good artist
katze und krieg invite twenty people to participate on a guided bus tour to the studios of artists living in the outskirts of Braunschweig. Performed at the exhibition ”kunst…hier und jetzt” in Braunschweig.
a landscape of tents
katze und krieg give a workshop about encounters in an intimate space. The result of the workshop is performed together with machina eX and Theater Bruit as the festivalproduction of the explosive festival for young theater in Bremen.
katze und krieg explore the possibilites of the city at night. Performed at LOT Theater Braunschweig, Brotfabrik Berlin, Theaterhaus Hildesheim, at the Festivals Unithea in Frankfurt Oder, the Jacuzzi-Festival of the WUK theatre in Vienna, at the studiobühneköln with kind support from the city of Cologne, at transeuropa-festival in Hildesheim, in the context of the series How to perform? at the store contemporary in Dresden, at the festival of dramaköln "Wer ist denn schon bei sich zuhause?" in Cologne and at the festival trial and error in the Shedhalle in Tübingen. Funded by Stiftung Braunschweiger Kulturbesitz and, for it´s documentation, by the city of Braunschweig.
breeding of paradise
katze und krieg breed the paradise at the blogger kongress „Re-evolution: Krise muß nicht traurig sein“ in Cologne/ Rhenania artisthouse.
we want to survive - by hook or by crook
A videodocument about katze und krieg trying to earn their money to survive in different ways. The Premiere was at the Gastmahl of the exhibition Über/Gabe at the Kunstverein Hildesheim.
2010
katze und krieg invite twenty people on a local bus. While the bus is driving through the pedastrian zone katze und krieg leave the bus to fulfill their wishes for the here and now. Performed in Braunschweig, Festival Theaterformen, and in Erlangen, Festival “ARENA…der jungen Künste”, where they won the audience award once again. Further performances at the stromereien performance-art festival in Zürich /Switzerland (2011), at the C.A.T. - Creative - Artistic - Theater Festival in Bat Yam/Isreal (2011) and in Losone/Switzerland at the Performa Festival. The videodocumentation was shown (2012) at the screening "video and performance in Germany" in Galpon Espacio Cultural in Lima/ Peru and in frame of the Performancevoyage from the MUU-Galerie in Helsinki (Finnland). The project was supported by the Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz and developed in cooperation with the BSVAG and the Festival “ARENA…der jungen Künste”.
katze und krieg collaborate with theatraler subversion and create a happening called “all mine” on the subject of property. The piece has been shown at the Kaltstart Festival in Hamburg, at the LOT Theatre Braunschweig, at the Brotfabrik Berlin and the 100 degree Festival, Berlin, in the Theaterhaus Hildesheim and at the Theater am Bauturm in Cologne. Supported by the Stiftung Niedersachsen, the country of Niedersachsen and the Weinhagenstiftung.
katze und krieg collaborate with theatraler subversion and create a happening called “I am everything” dealing with the subject of identity. The piece has been shown at the LOT Theatre Braunschweig, at the Brotfabrik Berlin, Theaterhaus Hildesheim, at the festival Theaterszene Europa of the studiobühne in Cologne (2011) and at the explosive - festival for young theater in Bremen (2011). More shows were made at the Freizeichen-Festivals of the Theaterhaus Hildesheim (2012) and at the northgerman children- und Youththeaterfestival Hart am Wind at the theatre of Göttingen (2012). Supported by the Stiftung Niedersachsen, the country of Niedersachsen and the Weinhagenstiftung.
2009
katze und krieg invite twenty people to participate on a guided bus tour to the studios of the artists living in the outskirts of Braunschweig. Performed for the exhibition ”kunst…hier und jetzt” in Braunschweig.
From the morning until the evening katze und krieg try to give birth to the Paradise at the Festival “ARENA…der jungen Künste” in Erlangen.
2008
a roadtrip into the absolute life
Driven by the longing for a live full of liveliness katze und krieg take off into the world. They neither know which way they are going to drive nor what is going to happen. But they have an aim: They are looking for freedom. Five people are invited to accompany the theatrical performative journey in a mini van. Performed in Frankfurt, exhibition „Parasit“ Satellit Raum für junge Kunst, at the Galerie Anita Beckers, in Hannover, Festival „StadtMachtKunst“ a7, and at the Festival “ARENA…der jungen Künste”, Erlangen (2009), where they won the audience award.
katze und krieg try to reveal Paradise in Hildesheim at the Festival „ZOOM international Performance Art Südostasien“.
2007
katze und krieg collect and perform ten „lovestories” at the exhibition „kunst 8 – temporäre Heimat“ in Braunschweig.