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    ©Daniel Sadrowski

    Do., 6.3.25, 11–17:30 hView

    Writing in Haltern am See

  • Open Event

    ©Daniel Sadrowski

    Do., 27.3.25, 15–18 hView

    Golfing in Oer-Erkenschwick

  • Open Event
    So., 30.3.25, 15 hView

    Opening Königsgrube

  • Open Event

    ©Heinrich Holtgreve

    Do., 10.4.25View

    Sending in Datteln

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    ©Daniel Sadrowski

    Do., 8.5.25View

    Waltrop

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Spotlight

Open "Between Invention and Capture"

©Heinrich Holtgreve

22.8. – 5.10.25

Between Invention
and Capture

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Open "Open Call: Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr"
© Heinrich Holtgreve

Open Call: Zu Gast
bei Urbane Künste Ruhr

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Open "Königsgrube"

©Daniel Sadrowski

Königsgrube

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Open Publication

Urbane Künste Ruhr 2018-2023

Artists

Open Artsit

© 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.

Open Artsit

© 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.

Open Artsit

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.

Open Artsit

© Andrzej Steinbach

Katja Aufleger

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

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©Jannis Uffrecht

Jana Gunstheimer

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

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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.

Open Artsit

©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).

Artists

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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