In her films, photographs and performances, Julika Rudelius (*1968 in Cologne, lives in the Netherlands/Amsterdam) is moved by curiosity to investigate people, stereotypes and milieus that she does not (yet) know and that in most cases are quite different from what she would have thought before. The desire to plunge into these realities and to seek out their contradictions, aesthetics and functional modes marks her artistic output on both the contentual and formal levels.

Coldness encompasses both low external temperatures or emotional detachment, lack of empathy, and the absence of solidarity. Coldness can also become an artistic medium, used to portray and critique societal conditions. The international group exhibition Cold as Ice. Coldness in Art and Society explores the existential dimension of coldness.

The exhibition presents the multimedia oeuvre of the artists’ collective Die Tödliche Doris. It is the first comprehensive survey show dedicated to the group, which was active from 1980–1987. Die Tödliche Doris arose to equal degree in the surroundings of the punk movement and amid the art academy in West Berlin. Structured as an artists’ collective, it worked conceptually with various media in the areas of music, performance, video, painting, object art and literature. In particular, it repeatedly put to question our habits of seeing and hearing.