Stream - Urbane Künste Ruhr

The Emscherkunstweg is a public art collection along the Emscher. The cooperation project is implemented by Urbane Künste Ruhr, the Emschergenossenschaft and the Regionalverband Ruhr and is under the patronage of Ina Brandes, Minister for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The public art collection emerged from the temporary exhibition format Emscherkunst, which has accompanied the Emscher conversion by the Emschergenossenschaft since 2010. Emscherkunst was initiated on the occasion of the RUHR.2010 Capital of Culture and subsequently continued as a triennial. While many works of art remained permanently at the site in 2010, mainly temporary works were created in 2013 and 2016, each for an exhibition period of three and a half months. Since 2019, the Emscherkunstweg has been a permanent sculpture trail and thus a sustainable exhibition format for the region. New works of art will gradually be added to the existing works. The extension is being designed by Britta Peters, artistic director of Urbane Künste Ruhr, together with curator Marijke Lukowicz.

The Emscherkunstweg is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Königsgrube

A former pumping station of a disused colliery on the Emscherkunstweg becomes an installation, the name remains and sounds promising: Königsgrube.

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Perspektivisch gesehen, Spaghettieis

Die Künstlerin Inga Krüger nimmt den Emscher-Umbau zum Anlass, sich in ihrer Performance Perspektivisch gesehen, Spaghettieis mit der Künstlichkeit der Landschaft zu beschäftigen.

Emscher Folly

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

Public Hybrid

For the Emscherkunstweg, artist David Jablonowski has created a hybrid sculptural installation in Dortmund using sandstone and 3D printing technology.

Pool Lines

As part of the Emscherkunstweg, the work Pool Lines by Mexican artist Sofía Táboas is being created between an industrial estate and allotment gardens in Dortmund’s Schüren district.

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On Site with Markus Jeschaunig

On the former pumping station Herne-Königsgrube arises Markus Jeschaunig’s new work for the Emscherkunstweg. A sculptural work in which the materials of the pumping station are reused.

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.

Neustadt (2021)

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.

Zauberlehrling (2013/2019)

The Zauberlehrlng is based on the dimensions and shape of a conventional electricity pole, but all the parts have been redesigned and manufactured to give it the dancing character.

Kunstpause

The Berlin landscape architecture office atelier le balto transformed a large, overgrown hazelnut grove near a motorway feeder road into a place to linger for Emscherkunst 2016.

The Insect Societies (part I)

Henrik Håkansson opens a vision of ecological future at Emscherquellhof: The Insect Societies (part I) was created in the context of a region reinventing itself with the Emscher rebuilding.

Carbon Obelisk (2010)

The almost 14-metre-high carbon obelisk stands at a crossroads north of the Emscher, not far from the Schurenbachhalde. McBride's work is a response to the prominent landmarks by Kummer and Serra.

Black Circle Square

The Italian conceptual artist Massimo Bartolini created the walk-in sculpture Black Circle Square for Emscherkunst 2016 with reference to the suprematist painter Kasimir Malevich.

Spirits of the Emscher Valley

The multi-part sculpture was created in a participatory process with people who have a personal connection to the Dortmund districts of Huckarde and Hörde.

Zur kleinen Weile (2016)

Berlin-based artists and architecture office raumlabor created the amorphous, walk-in sculpture Zur kleine Weile on an already renaturalised part of the Emscher river course in Dortmund-Dorstfeld.

PLAY_LAND (2013)

With her project PLAY_LAND for the Emscherkunst 2013, Slovenian artist and architect Apolonija Šušteršič was directly involved in the Emscher rebuilding.

Vögel (2016)

The artist Samuel Treindl developed the work Vögel (Birds) as part of the contribution Stadt-Raum-Bewegung by the Münster Art Academy to the Emscherkunst exhibition 2016.

dasparkhotel (2010)

Starting from the question of whether hotel rooms could function as simple as lockers, the artist Andreas Strauss developed his project dasparkhotel.

Glückauf. Bergarbeiterproteste im Ruhrgebiet (2010)

Inspired by the aesthetics and iconography of English wall paintings, Silke Wagner sees the mosaic as a monument to the history of mining.

reemrenreh (kaum Gesang)

The three-part figuration stands at the end of a rectilinear headland in the middle of the Herner Meer. The bodies have irregular holes in which the wind can catch and produce sounds.

CATCH AS CATCH CAN (2010)

In close cooperation, the German light artist Mischa Kuball and the American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner have realised a work for the exhibition project Emscherkunst 2010.

Gesellschaft der Amateur-Ornithologen

For Emscherkunst 2010, artist Mark Dion converted an old gas tank, which he found on a former sewage treatment plant during his explorations of the Emscher Island, into an observation station.

Monument for a Forgotten Future (2010)

The Monument for a Forgotten Future project consists of a faithful copy of a mountain formation from Joshua Tree National Park near Los Angeles.

Slinky Springs to Fame (2010)

Based on the well-known children's toy, the colourful spiral "Slinky", the Slinky Springs to Fame bridge in Oberhausen winds its way across the Rhine-Herne Canal.