Spirits of the Emscher Valley

Originally, Spirits of the Emscher Valley was intended for the 2016 Emscherkunst exhibition as a kind of parkour linking three sculptures. The “spirits” consisted of the two works Vogelfrau (Bird woman) and Totem mit Elster (Totem with magpie) that were installed during the exhibition on the southern shore of the Phoenix Lake in Dortmund’s Hörde district, then later shifted to the Emscher-Weg (Emscher cycling path) on the other side of the lake. A third sculpture, Beobachter (Oraculum) (Viewer), was originally installed on the grounds of the Hansa coking plant in the Huckarde district of Dortmund but is now no longer preserved.