Featured Events in Cologne in February, 2025 (May Updated)

ISM Cologne will create optimal conditions for future planning ISM Cologne will create optimal conditions for future planning. ISM’s annual schedule is a response to the pressure faced by the sector to produce innovations. It also provides excellent conditions for fast and continuous updating of goods. This show will bring together Health food wholesalers, Drugstore chains, Department stores, Online-food retailers, Vending machine operators, Nutrition scientists, and Food chemists. Information Source: Koelnmesse GmbH | expotobi

Entry Cologne brings together 140+ companies, universities and gap year providers and provides the attendees with the opportunity to hear stage lectures with information about education, studies and much more Entry Cologne brings together 140+ companies, universities and gap year providers and provides the attendees with the opportunity to hear stage lectures with information about education, studies and much more. Information Source: Koelnmesse GmbH | expotobi

Galerie Karsten Greve is pleased to announce Constellations, the 9th solo exhibition by the Chinese artist Ding Yi with the gallery. Opening upon the occasion of Art Cologne 2024, the exhibition presents 20 new works by Ding Yi. In line with his historical oeuvre, the works manifest the artist’s tenacity and keen observation, as well as their aesthetic autonomy.

The ProSweets Cologne, the supplier fair for the sweets and snacks industry, is a must-attend event The ProSweets Cologne, the supplier fair for the sweets and snacks industry, is a must-attend event. This international supplier fair, exclusively for trade visitors, is unmatched in the world -ProSweets Cologne presents the entire supplier range of the sweets and snacks industry: from diverse ingredients through innovative packing machines and packaging materials to optimized product technologies. Be part of it and present your products and services! The duo showcases the entire value chain of the confectionery industry and all parties are present: suppliers, manufacturers and retailers. Take the opportunity to discover the industry’s latest trends and to network with international industry colleagues as well as clients at ProSweets Cologne. Information Source: Koelnmesse GmbH | expotobi

Drawing was a crucial component and constant within Martin Wong’s various artistic practices. In our fifth solo exhibition dedicated to Martin Wong, we are showing an overview of his works on paper from 1968 to 1997. Martin Wong was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in North Beach, neighboring San Francisco’s Chinatown. After graduating high school in San Francisco, he studied ceramics at Humboldt State University in Arcata. His study of ceramics would exert an immense influence on his practice as a painter, particularly on his palette (with its earth reds, burnt siennas, ochers, and umbers) and his deep feeling for materials. After graduating from Humboldt State University in 1970, Wong traveled to Europe, the Middle East and Asia to work with local ceramic artists. Concurrent with his ceramics, Martin Wong developed a practice around calligraphy starting in the late 1960s, foreshadowing his lifelong interest in poetry, graffiti, and sign-language. Between 1970 and 1973, Martin Wong again lived in San Francisco, where he worked in the environment of the queer performance groups Cockettes and Angels of Lights, of which he was also a member for some time. After 1973, Wong returned to Humboldt County, where he concentrated on his painting over the next few years. In 1978, Martin Wong moved to New York and, beginning in the early 1980s, lived in the Lower East Side. Wong became part of the emerging art and poetry scene there and was also particularly interested in graffiti. In 1994, Martin Wong was diagnosed HIV-positive. Due to the better medical care in San Francisco, he decided to return to his parents, with whom he had a very close relationship. He stayed with them until his death in 1999.