“Slowly and steadily, the city seems to be consuming itself, even as it remains.”
(Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things, London, 1987, p. 21)
The festival title „Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt“, suggests the possibility of an urban utopia, one that is based on the fact that spaces are being produced rather than being given. International artists who work with different aspects of the city, space and society will explore the urban realm of “Cologne”.