The book, which also serves as documentation of the exhibition presentation of the same name at Haus Mödrath, presents early works from the private collection of Wilhelm Otto Nachf. It mainly shows works by artists who worked in the Rhineland in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Cologne was the global center of contemporary art alongside New York.

Over the years, a collection has been formed that provides a subjective insight into the Cologne art landscape of the time and is being shown for the first time in this form in Haus Mödrath.

The exhibition and catalog are supplemented by artists and works of art that directly followed this period in Cologne and form an important focus of today's collection.

With works by: Albert Oehlen, Andreas Schulze, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Antony Gormley, Blalla W. Hallmann, Christopher Wool, Fischli/Weiss, Georg Herold, Gregor Schneider, Günther Förg, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Isa Genzken, Jochen Lempert, John Bock, Joseph Beuys, Jürgen Klauke, Kai Althoff, Katharina Sieverding, Marcel Odenbach, Peter Duka, Rob Scholte, Roman Signer, Rosemarie Trockel, Siegfried Anzinger, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Zipp, Walter Dahn