“With her obelisk, Rita McBride, in true Cologne fashion, brings together high culture and pop culture and contributes with brilliant ease to bringing a little structure into the chaos of everyday life.” This is what the Cultural Foundation of Sparda-Bank wrote in its motivation for awarding its prize to the artist Rita McBride and her…

Carbon Obelisk brings together traditional form and modern materials. For thousands of years, the obelisk has served as a monument and landmark. Here too, at the edge of the Emscherradweg, it marks a fork in the road towards Emscherinsel and makes reference to a change in the landscape: The nearby Schurenbachhalde is made of excess…