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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.

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.

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.