createPeace:
can art define peace?

What does your peace look like?

The world seems to be sinking into a multitude of crises and conflicts. The flood of negative news is overwhelming. Many people struggle with the feeling of powerlessness.
In order to constructively address this powerlessness, courage and the will to create profound changes are needed more than ever. It needs ideas and images that counteract the negative news: positive images.
If »without peace everything is nothing« and if we want to express our desire for peace today, what does this actually look like? What image would you create that others might also want to participate in?
The createPeace initiative invites artists and cultural workers to contribute their personal views of peace. The individual works open doors to new spaces for discussion about peace – both online and in direct encounters.
The createPeace initiative is organized by Matthias Ries and Kirches-Ban.de.

Events

Kunstraum Ba Cologne / © Michael Zoephel

“Stell Dir vor, es ist Frieden!” The first exibition and meeting of artists involved in createPeace were a complete success!
June 14th, 2025 at Kunstraum Ba Cologne

We are now intensively planning the next event in October.

next public event:

collective exhibition in progress + talk with the international artists

3rd of October 2025, 9 p.m.

Patron of the event: Sven Lehmann, Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Media of the German Bundestag

Kunstraum Ba Cologne
Neptunplatz 7 | 50823 Köln-Ehrenfeld,
mobile +49 160 271 62 62

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