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.
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.
We are eagerly awaiting the year 2022 and will soon be providing the first insights into our diverse programme of projects, exhibitions and events.
For the Emscherkunstweg, artist David Jablonowski has created a hybrid sculptural installation in Dortmund using sandstone and 3D printing technology.
In his recent projects Guy Königstein researches the different ways we live the past in the present, for instance through practices of commemoration, archiving or archaeology.
The work Dawns by Canadian artist Jessica Arseneau deals with the state of insomnia at dawn on the threshold between night and the new day.
Vanessa Nica Mueller's films and artwork focus on aspects of memory, the relation of human, nature and urban space, the uncanny and the construction of conditions.
For the 2020/2021 edition, the focus will be on artists whose work deals in the broadest sense with 'climate' and 'sleep', the thematic brackets of the Ruhr Ding editions 2021 and 2022.
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.
A total of 23 sculptures form a fictitious city, on a scale of 1:25, made up of various real buildings that have been demolished in the Ruhr area since the turn of the millennium.
Urbane Künste Ruhr und das Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets begrüßen neue Künstler*innen im Rahmen des Residenzprogramms Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr.
In Wandersalon #29 Alisa Hecke and Julian Rauter talk on the occasion of their audiovisual installation Der lange Abschied.
Adriana Arroyo's works reference to geological activity, to reveal possible relationships between the movement of the Earth, politics and the fragility of the body and the mind.
As part of the Ruhr Ding: Klima the Heimatmuseum has devoted a exhibition to automobility demonstrating how the car has transformed the urban space and still continues to dominate it today.
Jessica Arseneau explores the way human perception and subjectivity is shaped by social codes, patterns of behaviour, accelerating culture and technological progress.
People today are experiencing in different and unevenly distributed ways, something that no generation before them has ever experienced: the ongoing loss of the planet as we know it.
With “Absorption” Urbane Künste Ruhr is showing an installation by US artist Asad Raza of sensual and poetic power that takes up the entire first floor of the listed former Allbauhaus on Pferdemarkt.
Together with the artist and architect Marta Dyachenko, Julius von Bismarck designed the installation Neustadt on a green area of the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord.
Kristina Paustian examines cultural anthropological and socio-political topics. In cinematic images she focusses in particular on the themes of times of upheaval and technical utopias.
Silent University is an autonomous knowledge and exchange platform for academics who have fled or are seeking asylum.
2026 findet die renommierte Wanderbiennale im Ruhrgebiet statt.
Yuki Jungesblut seeks out potentialities and instances of overlap between imagination, fiction and reality, often exploring underdetermined states and liminality in general.
In his cinematic / sculptural works David Reiber Otálora deals with exoticisms and colonial representations of the so-called other and explores possibilities to affirm them into ambiguous narratives.
By means of multi-channel installations, associative, reflective and surreal sequences, Taube works against conventional cinematographic codes.
For the project Absoprtion we are looking for people who are interested in becoming part of a group of cultivators and working with the artist Asad Raza.
