Stream - Urbane Künste Ruhr

Katja Aufleger: THE HUDDLE — Opening and artist talk on Sat 13 August at 3pm

THE HUDDLE

As a contribution of Urbane Künste Ruhr to the Ruhrtriennale 2022, the sculptural installation THE HUDDLE, by the artist Katja Aufleger, is conceived for public space in Bochum city centre.

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Healing Complex (2018—ongoing)

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.

Marc Kokopeli

Marc Kokopeli's work is overly concerned with how identity is formed during childhood.

Iris Ward Loughran

Iris Ward Loughran is sculptor, photographer, and urbanist living and working in Brooklyn, NY.

Anna Viebrock

Anna Viebrock studied stage design with Karl Kneidl at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Her collaborations with Christoph Marthaler have taken her to numerous international theatres and opera houses.

Fabian Hampel

Fabian Hampel deals with contemporary technologies and is interested in linear, reflexive forms as well as abstract borderlands.

Emscher Folly

For the Emscherkunstweg, artist Nicole Wermers has created a sculpture from over 50 bicycles and a triangular bicycle stand she designed.

Jan Kiesswetter

In his work, Jan Kiesswetter produces publications and, increasingly, film documentaries. Recurring themes in his work are the representation of architectures and archives and the reading of images.

Different ways of entering – Welcome to the Dirty Archive

Magazine-Article by Julia Lübbecke

“Many small human-like beings descend below the earth’s surface. In the book Der Bergbau und seine Kultur (Mining and its culture) 'different ways of entering' is written in the caption next...”

“Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr” — 2021/22 residencies

In 2022, Urbane Künste Ruhr, under the artistic direction of Britta Peters, is inviting a total of 15 international artists to live and work in the Ruhr region for the fourth time.

Katja Aufleger

Die künstlerischen Arbeiten von Katja Auleger beobachten mit ästhetischer Präzision (gesellschaftliche) Zusammenhänge und Systeme kritisch und sind von einem subtilen Humor durchzogen.

The Most Beautiful Workplace on Earth

Magazine-Article by Dean Kissick

Dean Kissick talking to Irena Haiduk about how art might help us improve our world.

Nadja Abt

In her performances, videos and paintings, Nadja Abt constructs feminist narratives that reference the world of literature and film.

BRUTOLOGY

In preparation for the piece BRUTOLOGY which Montserrat Gardó Castillo and Petr Hastik are currently developing for the Emscherkunstweg, four virtual road movies will take place in April.

Melanie Manchot

London-based artist Melanie Manchot employs photography, film, video and sound to form a sustained enquiry into how we form ideas about our individual and collective identities.

Philipp Modersohn

Philipp Modersohn's sculptures, animated films, and interdisciplinary projects highlight the vibrancy of things / matter and confront these with man-made structures and systems of social organization.

Open Call: Participants wanted for film project!

News-Article

For a film project by artist Melanie Manchot for the Ruhr Ding: Schlaf in 2023, we are looking for contact with people who are typical night workers.

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Melanie Manchot

As part of Wandersalon #34, Melanie Manchot will provide insights into her current film project being made for Ruhr Ding: Schlaf.

Ermüdung und Versorgung

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.

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Vermessung des Körpers

A Wandersalon as part of the series Ermüdung und Versorgung, a cooperation between Urbane Künste Ruhr and the Institute for Theatre Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum.

Extractions from underground (journal excerpts)

Magazine-Article by Guy Königstein

"Dear Old Man, I have been in your homeland for a few days now. Somewhat coincidentally, the inner motivation of this research trip may never be revealed to me [...]"

Katarina Jazbec

Katarina Jazbec expands the media of film and photography through interdisciplinary and collaborative strategies and tools to question and expand their narrative possibilities.

Alina Schmuch

Based on photography and its extension in the medium of film, Alina Schmuch uses artist's books, video and installation to investigate the interaction between the visual medium and reality.

Haha Wang

Haha Wang works mainly in sculpture and installation but also in video. In her works, the intimate feelings of both humans and animals are conveyed and transformed by unexpected objects or events.

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Reflecting Landscape in Dreams

During the event, Katarina Jazbec will give insights into her current research and show her films You Can't Automate Me and Permeating Hearts.

Deniz Aktaş

In his work Deniz Aktaş captures human and environment relations affected by urban decay, environmental collapse, human migration, and the traumatic transformation of city and nature.

Open Call for Scholarships

News-Article

Urbane Künste Ruhr, in cooperation with the Stiftung Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets in Bochum, awards two residency scholarships to artists interested in working with archives.