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.
I am standing on the railroad platform. It is too late. Too early too. No more loudspeaker announcements at this hour, no electronic excuses. I just took Lena to her platform...
The artistic work of Stephanie Lüning often intervenes in urban infrastructures and creates dream-like scenarios.
The whole universe is concentrated on a small screen with the bed floating in an infinite sea of information. To lie down is not to rest but to move. The bed is now a site of action.
Reinhold Zisser sees the focus of his work in initiating and shaping processes, art as an event, which ultimately manifests itself in objects.
Ausgehend von ihrem Interesse daran Öffentlichkeit herzustellen und den Bedingungen innerhalb einer städtischen Umgebung, sind die Projekte der Künstlerin von einer forschenden Praxis geprägt.
At Wandersalon #38 the artists Maximiliane Baumgartner und Stephanie Lüning present their ideas and discuss ways in which public space can be influenced.
In Trance writer Leonhard Hieronymi traces the origins of trance and technoculture in the 90s. In Wandersalon #37 he reads excerpts from the book and talks about club culture.
Für das Ruhr Ding: Schlaf suchen wir Ausstellungsbetreuer*innen und Kunstvermittler*innen für den Zeitraum von März bis Juni 2023.
With mobile saunas on the forecourt and a varied program of talks, film screenings and communal baking, we will end the first phase of the Healing Complex with a Summit on November 12th.
Leonhard Hieronymi's new publication is titled Trance and is a wild hybrid of personally colored essay and literary nonfiction.
Henrik Nieratschker's artistic work deals with the social implications of our lives within a digital infrastructure.
Nollaig Molloy works with moving image, sculptural installation and sound while sometimes using workshop and event-based outcomes, to explore landscape through material means.
At Wandersalon #35, the interdependency between sleep and working life is discussed from different perspectives
The Ruhr Ding: Sleep marks the end of a three-part exhibition series presented throughout the region by the Urbane Künste Ruhr under Britta Peters’ artistic direction.
As part of Wandersalon #36 Wojciech Bąkowski and Moritz Scheper talk about dream processes, imagination and the question of the architectures and boundaries of subjective reality.
In the workshop with Malte van der Meyden, everyday objects are molded and cast into candles to find a new form and function.
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.
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.
Die Kuratorin Natalia Matsenko und der Künstler Yuri Yefanov entwickeln im Kunstmuseum Bochum ein fortlaufendes Programm an Veranstaltungen und Videoarbeiten.
Yuri Yefanov is a Ukrainian artist and filmmaker from Kiev who has participated in international experimental film festivals and exhibitions in Europe and the USA.
Marc Kokopeli's work is overly concerned with how identity is formed during childhood.
Iris Ward Loughran is sculptor, photographer, and urbanist living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
Lubov Malikova is a Ukrainian artist and – together with Max Poberezhsky – runs the collaborative art group and experimental design studio DIS/ORDER.
Fabian Hampel deals with contemporary technologies and is interested in linear, reflexive forms as well as abstract borderlands.
For the Emscherkunstweg, artist Nicole Wermers has created a sculpture from over 50 bicycles and a triangular bicycle stand she designed.
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.
