Urbane Künste Ruhr works with international artists and groups as well as with artists and cultural practitioners based in the region in various formats. The usually long-term processes for developing joint projects can overlap, intersect and shift.

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Camilo Pachón

With The Ancient Masked Temple, Camilo Pachón aims to create a collective space in the Healing Complex with a programme of workshops, readings, performances and the traditions of carnival.
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Eva Kot'átková

In her work, Eva Kot'átková explores forms of power, manipulation, discrimination and control exercised by institutions upon those who deviate from the norm (or what is perceived as such).
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Margo Zālīte

Margo Zālīte (born 1980 in the Soviet Union) works in Dortmund, Berlin and Riga in the mediation of music theatre studies, space-time models and the transfer of world views.
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Grupa Mauczka

Grupa Mauczka widmet sich, ausgehend von ihren eigenen Familienbiografien, Fragen von Zugehörigkeit und Erinnerungskultur polnisch-deutscher Migrationsgeschichte.
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Anne Arndt

In her cross-media works, Anne Arndt critically and humorously scrutinises our public living space as a mirror of social cultures of power and remembrance.
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Irena Haiduk

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.
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Maria Renée Morales Garcia

Maria Renée Morales Garcia is a visual artist who often deals with the intersectionality of identity, looking at it through a decolonial and queer-feminist lens.
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Lütfiye Güzel

Lütfiye Güzel, born in Duisburg in 1972 and travelling between the Ruhr and Berlin, is a poet and has been publishing poems under her own label go-güzel-publishing since 2014.
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Alicja Rogalska

With a research-oriented approach that includes theoretical and archival research as well as interviews and discussions, Alicja Rogalska develops her works for specific environments and contexts.
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The Wig

For Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, the Welsh artist Angharad Williams as part of the collective The Wig adevelops a work for the Makroscope rooms.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed

The artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed considers herself a learner. In her interdisciplinary practice, she explores technologies and rituals used to generate, share, store and conceal knowledge.
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Nik Nowak

In his multimedia work, Nik Nowak concentrates on the affective dimensions and potentials of sound and space so as to redefine the boundaries of form between installations, sculptures, and paintings.
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Guy Dermosessian

Some time ago Guy Dermosessian founded the platform Cute Community for the production and dissemination of music, art and knowledge with the collaboration of Maral Saremi.
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Nadia Kaabi-Linke

In her work, Nadia Kaabi-Linke is particularly interested in the correlations between political, economic and sociocultural contexts as well as the constructions of identity, memory and perception.
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Joanna Piotrowska

Joanna Piotrowska's works possess a dream-like atmosphere, leaving the viewer feeling moved and with a confusing, sometimes eerie sensation.
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God's Entertainment

The Viennese theatre collective God’s Entertainment has been working since 2006 in different team constellations on projects in the areas of performance, happening, the visual arts and sound.
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Natalka Diachenko

As a documentary photographer and videographer, Natalka Diachenko approaches questions of cultural heritage and the relation between the personal and intimate and global historical narratives.
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Wojciech Bąkowski

Memories, dreams and visions influence the often melancholic, dark works of the artist, filmmaker, musician and poet Wojciech Bąkowski.
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Stephanie Lüning

The artistic work of Stephanie Lüning often intervenes in urban infrastructures and creates dream-like scenarios.
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Michel Gondry

French artist and Oscar-winning Hollywood director Michel Gondry gained international acclaim for his feature films as well as innovative music videos for Björk, Daft Punk, and Radiohead.
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Yuri Pattison

Yuri Pattison explores how new technologies – such as the digital economy or online communication – fundamentally affect and modify the conditions of social life.
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Maximiliane Baumgartner

Based on her interest in creating publicity and the conditions within an urban environment, the artist's projects are characterized by an exploratory practice.
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Nora Turato

In spoken word performances, as well as in colourful large-format text images and objects by artist Nora Turato, language is the central medium.
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Reinhold Zisser

Reinhold Zisser sees the focus of his work in initiating and shaping processes, art as an event, which ultimately manifests itself in objects.