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©Daniel Sadrowski
Do., 6.3.25, 11–17:30 hViewWriting in Haltern am See
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©Daniel Sadrowski
Do., 27.3.25, 15–18 hViewGolfing in Oer-Erkenschwick
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Opening Königsgrube
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©Heinrich Holtgreve
Do., 10.4.25ViewSending in Datteln
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©Daniel Sadrowski
Do., 8.5.25ViewWaltrop
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Artists

© Sara Alvarado
Camilo Pachón
With The Ancient Masked Temple, Camilo Pachón aims to create a collective space in the Healing Complex with a programme of workshops, readings, performances and the traditions of carnival.

© Anne Arndt
Anne Arndt
In her cross-media works, Anne Arndt critically and humorously scrutinises our public living space as a mirror of social cultures of power and remembrance.

Asad Raza
In his work artist Asad Raza often explores dialogic exchange and rejects disciplinary boundaries. Raza conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience combining human, non-human beings.

© Andrzej Steinbach
Katja Aufleger
Katja Auleger's artistic works critically observe (social) contexts and systems with aesthetic precision and are infused with subtle humor.

©Mladen Penev
Borjana Ventzislavova
Borjana Ventzislavova (born in Sofia, Bulgaria) lives in Vienna and works with video, film, photography, installation and often works in public space.

©Visvaldas Morkevicius
Emilija Škarnulytė
Working between documentary and speculative fiction, Emilija Škarnulytė's video works take viewers through nuclear power plants, deep-sea data storage units and uncanny natural phenomena.

©ruїns collective
ruїns collective
The ruїns collective was founded by Oleg Isakov, Elias Parvulesco and Teta Tsybulnyk in 2017 in Kyiv and is a film and art union.

©Kateryna Turenko
Dana Kavelina
In her practice Dana Kavelina often touches upon military violence and war, historical and individual trauma, memory, and critical perspectives on the historical canon.

©KLEMMS Berlin
Sven Johne
Sven Johne is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. In his text, photo and video works, Sven Johne combines historical research and fictional narratives and deals with post-socialist biographies.

©Mira Turba
Anna Daučíková
Anna Daučíková lives and works in Prague. In her practice she is working with painting, photography, video, and performance exploring authorship, gender and sexuality.

©Roberto Ruiz
Tekla Aslanishvili
In her practice, Tekla Aslanishvili observes the shifting relations between governments, people, and their territories through the lens of large-scale infrastructure projects.

©Fabrizio Spucches
Driant Zeneli
In his films and sculptural video installations, Driant Zeneli (*1983 in Shkoder, Albania) interweaves representations of power, science, mythology and fairy tales with individual narratives.

©Tekla Basishvili
Nino Kvrivishvili
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.

©Sergey Illin
Zhanna Kadyrova
Zhanna Kadyrova (*1981 in Brovary, Ukraine) has been working in the field of sculpture for 20 years and is currently one of the best-known artistic positions from Ukraine.

©Taras Grytsiuk
Nikita Kadan
Nikita Kadan (*1982 in Kyjiv, Ukraine) works with painting, graphics, and installation, often in collaboration with architects, sociologists and human rights activists.

©Jannis Uffrecht
Jana Gunstheimer
Jana Gunstheimer (*1974 in Zwickau) often combines drawings, paintings and objects in her artistic practise to create complex overall installations.

©Uli Golub
Uli Golub
Uli Golub's (*1990 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) artistic practice includes video, installation, performance, photography and mixed-media collages. Storytelling forms the basis of her work.

©Familie Tetianych
Fedri Tetianych
Soviet-Ukrainian artist Fedir Tetianych was a visionary who was influenced by the ideas of space exploration and the flight of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to space in 1961.

©Irena Haiduk
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.

©National Gallery Krepmlová
Eva Kot'átková
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).
News
- Open Article
Against Hate
Political discourse around the world is shifting towards authoritarian ideologies. Wherever there is incitement against minorities, polemics against immigration and attacks on the freedom of the press, the democratic function of public space is at risk. This is also where Urbane Künste Ruhr operates artistically.
©Heinrich Holtgreve
- Open Article
New Book by Urbane Künste Ruhr
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. It has also been expanded to include an index of people and places as well as an editorial by Artistic Director Britta Peters. New projects can always be discovered while leafing through the catalogue, while the index enables a playful, retrospective discourse analysis.
- Open Article
Von Fragmenten ausgehend
The evening Von Fragmenten ausgehend is both a conclusion and a beginning: it marks the end of the three-month residency of artists Marlin de Haan, Jonas Leifert, Paula Pedraza, Franziska Pierwoss and Anna R. Winder as guests of Urban Künste Ruhr in the Ruhr region.
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