Here we go: Urbane Künste Ruhr is starting the Grand Snail Tour. Over the next three years, we will be travelling to all 53 cities in the Ruhr region – equipped with a trailer.
A former pumping station of a disused colliery on the Emscherkunstweg becomes an installation, the name remains and sounds promising: Königsgrube.
Looking at the landscapes of the Ruhr area, Landscapes of an Ongoing Past traces questions of industrial production and relates them to the aftermath of socialist ideologies.
For 2024, Urbane Künste Ruhr is awarding six research stays for guest artists for three months each in Dortmund, Duisburg and Bochum.
In her work, Eva Kot'átková explores forms of power, manipulation, discrimination and control exercised by institutions upon those who deviate from the norm (or what is perceived as such).
Nine printed issues of the Urbane Künste Ruhr magazine were published from 2018 to 2023. The individual issues are now brought together in a 670-page catalogue.
In her artistic work, Nino Kvrivishvili reflects on the history of textile production in Georgia, which was a central branch of industry in Soviet times.
My Body Is Not an Island invites us to empathise with others and to learn how to use emotions as a way in to the world: Bring your emotions and your jackets too, the artist tells us.
From April to the end of June 2024, the artists Anne Arndt and Camilo Pachón will take over the Healing Complex and develop a programme for the neighbourhood and other interested parties.
The Ruhr Ding: Schlaf marks the end of a three-part exhibition series presented throughout the region by the Urbane Künste Ruhr under Britta Peters’ artistic direction.
The start of an artistic-performative tour through the entire Ruhr area will be the highlight of the Urbane Künste Ruhr programme in 2024.
With an economy that is not only metaphorically based on the model of mushroom cultures – myconomy – the Healing Complex was reopened in March 2023.
Marta Dyachenko's (*1990 in Kyiv, Ukraine) objects create new fictional landscapes that combine two contrasting states - new buildings in the process of being built and ruins.
With the event, Urbane Künste Ruhr presents an interim status of the cooperation with the Stiftung Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets within the framework of the residency programme for artists.
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.
As part of the Emscherkunstweg, the work Pool Lines by Mexican artist Sofía Táboas is being created between an industrial estate and allotment gardens in Dortmund’s Schüren district.
Urbane Künste Ruhr is awarding six research stays for guest artists with various regional cooperation partners in the Ruhr area for 2024.
With Ermüdung und Versorgung — a cooperation with the Institute of Theatre Studies at the RUB — we turn our gaze to topics around the concepts of sleep and infrastructure.
The second edition of Ruhr Ding is dedicated to the topic of climate in all its facets, from man-made climate change to dealing with the current social climate.
Jungsein und Jüdischsein – wie geht das in Deutschland zusammen? Damit beschäftigt sich der preisgekrönte Film „Masel Tov Cocktail“, der den Abschluss der Filmreihe im „Healing Complex“ bildet.
Bis 2027 verlängert: Britta Peters führt die erfolgreiche Arbeit von Urbane Künste Ruhr fort!
Curated by Georg Elben, Britta Peters and Jana Kerima Stolzer, the exhibition approaches Spielstraße from today's perspective and shows film material from the Ruhnau archive for the first time.
With a sound installation, shared Dindać with coffee and Silesian poppy cake and the concluding Mycel Bankett, we will bring the season to a close at the Healing Complex.
With “Absorption” Urbane Künste Ruhr is showing an installation by US artist Asad Raza of sensual and poetic power that takes up the entire first floor of the listed former Allbauhaus on Pferdemarkt.
Margo Zālīte (born 1980 in the Soviet Union) works in Dortmund, Berlin and Riga in the mediation of music theatre studies, space-time models and the transfer of world views.
Nikita Kadan (*1982 in Kyjiv, Ukraine) works with painting, graphics, and installation, often in collaboration with architects, sociologists and human rights activists.
Die Künstlerin Inga Krüger nimmt den Emscher-Umbau zum Anlass, sich in ihrer Performance Perspektivisch gesehen, Spaghettieis mit der Künstlichkeit der Landschaft zu beschäftigen.
