Art

Art

It was Martin Kippenberger who initiated the exchange of art against lodging. Dr. Werner Peters, the owner of the hotel, remembers: Since 1985, Martin was a regular guest at the Café Central, which is part of the hotel’s first floor, since he had his studio close by „behind Karla’s kiosk“. It was in the summer of 1986 that he took up residence in the Chelsea. He very generously offered me loans from his collection of works of art (not only his own) to decorate the walls of the rooms and exchanged them for lodging, or sold them to me. In this way we developed the prototype of the now often copied „art hotel“. The Chelsea became his preferred residence whenever he stayed in Cologne – often for several months in a row.

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Philosophy in the Central

Philosophy in the Central

For more than 20 years Dr. Werner Peters has been inviting guests to the „Philosophy in the Central“ series at irregular intervals. Guest speakers such as Peter Sloterdijk, Stefan Heym, Johan Galtung, Johannes Stüttgen, Matthias Horx and Rüdiger Safranski and many others have all given lectures here.

There are no scheduled events at the moment.