Silke Schatz


Orakel 2007

Jesuit Chruch Sankt Peter, Jabachstraße 1, Tue–Sat 11:00 am –5:00 pm, Sun 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The search for the ideal museum of the future took Cologne artist Silke Schatz (*1967) back into history. Her collage of painting, drawing, and photocopies is an old map of Cologne that stands outside historical fact, as it features excavations and contemporary clumsy expressions, recollections of the ancient origins of the city, and disturbing archaeological effects. Tracing the past directs the eye forward, although the future seems to be uncertain. Presented in St.Peter’s, itself a sacred site for contemporary art, Schatz’s “Oracle 2007” seems like a preview of the future via the knowledge of history, which has become a relict. Ancient rituals, cults, and festivals, however, also form the backdrop for a work that uses the political, expressive form of collage, generating out of the apparently apodictic “Future? 
No thanks” its own potential rejection of conventional models in favor of alternative ideas 
and patterns of action.