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Essen-Steele

The new cityscape, which characterizes the Steele district to this day, is made up of low property developments from the 1970s, giving it the feel of a seaside tourist resort.

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Mülheim an der Ruhr

The river flows through the middle of the city, and its excursion boats and industrial harbour give Mülheim a special atmosphere.

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Witten

With its population fluctuating around 100,000, the town of Witten, idyllically situated in the Ruhr sandstone mountains, had been reaching for recognition as a city for decades.

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Gelsenkirchen-Erle: Healing Complex

The project Healing Complex (2018-ongoing), run by Urbane Künste Ruhr in Gelsenkirchen, was initiated by Irena Haiduk and functions as a satellite project during Ruhr Ding: Schlaf.

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Ruhr Ding: Schlaf – Irrlichter-Tours

During the Irrlichter-Tours, you will set out together with our trained art educators to explore the Ruhr Ding: Schlaf – on foot or by bike.

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Michel Gondry's Home Movie Factory

Michel Gondry's participatory project Home Movie Factory – having already toured internationally in New York, Tokyo, São Paulo, and Paris – will be there to experience at Ruhr Ding: Schlaf.

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Michel Gondry: Film series at Astra Theater

As part of the Ruhr Ding: Schlaf the Astra Theater Essen in cooperation with Urbane Künste Ruhr is showing selected films in original version by Michel Gondry every Wednesday.

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Köşk x Kiosk

For Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, the artist Viron Erol Vert transforms a kiosk through shapes, colours, textures, and reflections and engenders a place for encounter and daydreaming.

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The Sound of the Multitude

Nik Nowak has transformed an overseas shipping container into a seemingly monolithic, movable sound sculpture of industrial dimensions which creates a site for discourse and musical intervention.

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Wir schließen

The Museum für Fotokopie M.F.F. adopts the advertising principle of artificial scarcity, using the title Wir Schließen, to celebrate its reopening in the context of Ruhr Ding: Schlaf.

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What are we in now?

For Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, the artist group The Wig is presenting an architectural intervention taking the form of an immersive sound installation of music, noise, and field recordings.

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Know Your Stones

A stone quarry in Hagen, the Thyssenkrupp steelworks in Duisburg-Bruckhausen, the Ruhr University Bochum – Katarina Jazbec has selected all three sites for her new film project Know your Stones.

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Route Phantom

The solo exhibition Route Phantom by Wojciech Bakowski was initiated as a collaborative project between Urbane Künste Ruhr and Neuer Essener Kunstverein in the scope of Ruhr Ding: Schlaf.

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Standby Map II

The sculpture Standby map II by Wojciech Bąkowski, positioned in the middle of Essen urban space, evokes a sense of unease, similar to the feeling that remains after a bad dream.

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tomorrow, there will be no monsters

In her work tomorrow, there will be no monsters, Kameelah Janan Rasheed transforms the facade of a former store into a giant picture composed of fragments of text and photographs.

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Ad Astra

Through a constellation of mirrors mounted on the ceiling, the artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke creates the illusion of a supply infrastructure of infinite dimensions.

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Sister Flats II

Through her work Sister Flats II, Alicja Rogalska explores questions about the validity of past utopias and interaction between rhythm of life and the built environment.

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After stops in Paris, London, and Dresden, Stephanie Lüning is creating a foam event in Essen-Steele – to mark the opening weekend of Ruhr Ding: Schlaf – as a sustainable, stunning experience.

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Das Sprechende Eck

With Das Sprechende Eck artist and art educator Maximiliane Baumgartner invites children, youth, and adults to explore their very own artistic forms of agency.

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Cruise Tentare

For Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, God’s Entertainment is creating a walk-in spatial sculpture at the Saalbau Witten, while the building interior has been given the appearance of a cruise ship.

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dream sequence

In the multimedia installation dream sequence by the artist Yuri Pattison, water assumes a central role in its metaphorical dimension, but also as a carrier of measurable data.

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Dancing is the best revenge

The comprehensive retrospective Dancing is the best revenge by Melanie Manchot presents pivotal works by the artist from the past twenty years and shows the premiere of her film Golden Girls.

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Liquid Skin

Melanie Manchot’s video piece Liquid Skin, commissioned for Ruhr Ding: Schlaf and on show in the disco room of the sociocultural centre Werk°Stadt, is devoted to nocturnal life.

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who wants to tell her

The artist Nora Turato, with her work who wants to tell her, has chosen to install a subtle audio parcourse in the Schwesternpark area marked by hills and an enchanting appearance.

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Dreams Are The Facts From Which We Must Proceed

For three selected display cases of the former Galeria Kaufhof branch in downtown Witten, the artist Joanna Piotrowska (has developed almost surrealistic scenes using photographic props.

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Lange Filmnacht

For twelve hours, we will be exploring the topic of sleep as a motif in film. All through the night guests will accompany us, reflecting on the programme and engaging in dialogue with the audience.

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Cute Community Radio - Hudu’ Nisbi – هدوء نسبي

For the Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, Guy Dermosessian curates the eight-week radio format Hudu’ Nisbi at the Cute Community Space.

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Moving through the World. Reading and Talk with Lütfiye Güzel, Anneke Lubkowitz and Stephan Muschick

Together with Lütfiye Güzel, Anneke Lubkowitz and Stephan Muschick, we will jointly investigate various modalities of navigating the world.

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Wojciech Bąkowski

Memories, dreams and visions influence the often melancholic, dark works of the artist, filmmaker, musician and poet Wojciech Bąkowski.

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Maximiliane Baumgartner

Based on her interest in creating publicity and the conditions within an urban environment, the artist's projects are characterized by an exploratory practice.

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God's Entertainment

The Viennese theatre collective God’s Entertainment has been working since 2006 in different team constellations on projects in the areas of performance, happening, the visual arts and sound.

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Guy Dermosessian

Some time ago Guy Dermosessian founded the platform Cute Community for the production and dissemination of music, art and knowledge with the collaboration of Maral Saremi.

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Michel Gondry

French artist and Oscar-winning Hollywood director Michel Gondry gained international acclaim for his feature films as well as innovative music videos for Björk, Daft Punk, and Radiohead.

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Irena Haiduk

In June 2022, Irena Haiduk opens the exhibition Healing Complex (2018—ongoing) in the former church of St. Bonifatius, which is becoming a new meeting and community place in Gelsenkirchen.

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Katarina Jazbec

In her works, the artist and filmmaker Katarina Jazbec creates new forms of narrative in which she explores vital questions of ethics, identity, freedom, justice, and economic inequality.

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Nadia Kaabi-Linke

In her work, Nadia Kaabi-Linke is particularly interested in the correlations between political, economic and sociocultural contexts as well as the constructions of identity, memory and perception.

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Stephanie Lüning

The artistic work of Stephanie Lüning often intervenes in urban infrastructures and creates dream-like scenarios.

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Melanie Manchot

Melanie Manchot’s projects operate at the interface of documentary and staged form, approaching certain sites, public spaces, and groups or communities with great sensitivity.

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Nik Nowak

In his multimedia work, Nik Nowak concentrates on the affective dimensions and potentials of sound and space so as to redefine the boundaries of form between installations, sculptures, and paintings.

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Yuri Pattison

Yuri Pattison explores how new technologies – such as the digital economy or online communication – fundamentally affect and modify the conditions of social life.

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Joanna Piotrowska

Joanna Piotrowska's works possess a dream-like atmosphere, leaving the viewer feeling moved and with a confusing, sometimes eerie sensation.

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Kameelah Janan Rasheed

The artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed considers herself a learner. In her interdisciplinary practice, she explores technologies and rituals used to generate, share, store and conceal knowledge.

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Alicja Rogalska

With a research-oriented approach that includes theoretical and archival research as well as interviews and discussions, Alicja Rogalska develops her works for specific environments and contexts.

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Nora Turato

In spoken word performances, as well as in colourful large-format text images and objects by artist Nora Turato, language is the central medium.

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Viron Erol Vert

In his artistic practice, Viron Erol Vert probes – against the background of his own intercultural experiences – identity constructs and different aspects related to the self and the other.

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The Wig

For Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, the Welsh artist Angharad Williams as part of the collective The Wig adevelops a work for the Makroscope rooms.

Guided Tours

An extensive communication programme accompanies the exhibition on weekends, Ascension Day and Corpus Christi during the entire period. During the Irrlichter-Tours, our trained art educators set out together with the visitors to explore the Ruhr Ding. Walking and bike tours link the different venues and allow visitors to discover the various districts in which they are located. They invite visitors to see the art projects in a new light, to get to know new districts and rediscover familiar ones, and to discuss what they have seen.

You can bring your own bike or rent one. Bike rental stations will be located near the train stations in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Witten. Of course, you can also explore the exhibition on your own. On site you will meet our competent colleagues from our art education team. Information on how to prepare for the exhibition can be found online, on site at our info points in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen-Steele und Witten, and in the exhibition guide, which is available in advance.

The outreach programme Irrlichter-Tours is supported by E.ON Stiftung.

Registration

Participation in the Irrlichter-Tours is free, and tickets can be booked in advance via Bookwhen. Last-minute participation in the tours is also possible, depending on availability. Places are limited, so if you cannot attend, please cancel booked tickets promptly, so other visitors can participate.

You can join the Irrlichter-Tours with your own bike, or bikes can be rented from our partner RevierRad at the starting points. In order to plan your visit optimally, we recommend booking the tours and rental bikes in advance, as numbers of participants may vary according to the capacity on site. Registration for Irrlichter-Tours and bicycle rental can both be arranged online.

For tours in English and other languages, as well as group requests beyond the regular tour offer, please contact our art education team:

kunstvermittlung@urbanekuensteruhr.de
Tel: +49 (0) 234 97 48 3509
Service hours: Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Walks

Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays (Thu 18 May, Mon 29 May, Thu 8 June) in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Essen-Steele at 11 a.m as well as Wednesdays in Essen-Steele at 4 p.m. Duration approx. two hours. After the tours on Wednesday in Essen-Steele, visitors have the opportunity to attend a screening with films by the director Michel Gondry at Astra Theater in Essen at 8 pm.

By bike

Saturdays and Sundays as well as public holidays (Thu 18 May, Mon 29 May, Thu 8 June) in Mülheim an der Ruhr and Witten at 3 p.m. Duration approx. three hours.

Tours for FLINTA*

With our FLINTA* tours, it is our aim to create a site for safe conversation and exchange on the artworks found in Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, and to move through public space strengthened by the group. Which discourses arise when we look at the themes of these artistic positions from a FLINTA* perspective?

The only requirements for participation are an interest in art in public space and an enjoyment of bicycling or taking walks, as well as one’s own self-classification as FLINTA* (female, lesbian, interbinary, nonbinary, transgender, and agender)

Thu 18 May, 4 pm, on foot in Mülheim an der Ruhr
Thu 8 June, 4 pm, by bicycle in Witten

Duration: about 2 Stunden.

Registration via kunstvermittlung@urbanekuensteruhr.de

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