Zeitkapsel, Byron Co, Köln, 2024
Zeitkapsel (Time Capsule) was selected as one of six winning works — out of 106 submissions — for 'Kunst an Kölner Litfaßsäulen', a citywide initiative turning Köln’s historic advertising pillars into an open-air museum. From April to June 2024, the work was exhibited across 27 sites in the city, bringing contemporary art into daily public spaces.
One image captured a Litfaßsäule in Cologne; another showed the fountain at Neumarkt, captioned "Fun with water fountain during summertime in Germany." The fountain, long closed, was reopened in the same summer that Zeitkapsel was exhibited, marking a poignant intersection of memory, place, and re-imagining in the city’s evolving landscape.
The artwork’s resonance extended beyond the streets: it was organically featured in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the city’s largest-circulation newspaper — reinforcing its role in sparking conversations about history, migration, and belonging in public space.
By placing his grandfather’s imagery back into the public sphere, Byron reimagines the Litfaßsäule as a vessel for cultural memory, bridging past and present through image, migration, and transformation.
The artwork is part of a larger project. See: 'MOMENTOUS'.
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Neuehrenfeld, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Neumarkt, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Volksgarten, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Bayenthal, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Nippes, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Agnesviertel, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Kalk 1, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Kalk 2, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Gothaerplatz, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Poststrasße, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Altstadt-Süd, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Sülz, Köln, 2024
"Zeitkapsel" on an Art Pillar, Byron Co, Zollstock, Köln, 2024
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Stadt Köln | Art Initiatives Köln | Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger | Kölnische Rundschau | Kabinett Online Bonn | KiVVON Media | Köln International School of Design
Photography, Research – Byron Co | Photography – Nathaniel Gutierrez | Publication shown in Artwork – Philippines International Publishing | 'Kunst an Kölner Litfaßsäulen' Art Initiative – Stadt Köln, Kunsthochschule für Medien (KHM), Ströer
