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Finale at Kulturbeutel

The 30th Speyer Kulturbeutel Festival came to an end with an exciting program in the Old Town Hall. A special exhibition was also on display.

The 31st Speyer Kulturbeutel Festival will then raise the curtain in the Old Town Hall on October 4. Preparations are already underway.

Between the afternoon and evening performances, Dagmar Woyde-Koehler presented her project “Mindkiss” to Kulturbeutel visitors. With this extraordinary interactive exhibition, she brings the Karlsruhe artist Rudi Wendelin-Koehler, alias Oubey, who died in an accident in 2004, back to life. The virtual journey of discovery into the artist’s different thought spaces is particularly emotional when Oubey’s original voice can be heard. Even though it is recreated by AI, it still has a strange sound for his widow, especially since it is deceptively real, as she says.

A space of thought by Oubey.

Woyde-Köhler lived with Oubey for 21 years and has made it her mission to share his legacy with the world. The exhibition offers a glimpse into an uncertain future and insights into the past as Obey saw it. It tells of the cosmos and the beauty of the underwater worlds and of the 1000 stars that the artist wanted to create. Almost all of them shine brightly at the viewer between two toiletries bags.

Ellen Korelus-Bruder in DIE RHEINPFALZ, October 13, 2025 (excerpt)

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