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Ruhr Ding: Schlaf – Irrlichter-Tours

During the Irrlichter-Tours, you will set out together with our trained art educators to explore the Ruhr Ding: Schlaf – on foot or by bike.

14.5. ©

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.

3.6.—31.12.23 © Ruhr Ding: Schlaf

Healing Complex (2018—ongoing)

With an economy that is not only metaphorically based on the model of mushroom cultures – myconomy – the Healing Complex will reopen in March 2023.

12.2. ©

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.

25.5. ©

Moving through the World. Reading and Talk with Lütfiye Güzel, Anneke Lubkowitz and Stephan Muschick

Together with Lütfiye Güzel, Anneke Lubkowitz and Stephan Muschick, we will jointly investigate various modalities of navigating the world.

12.8.—23.9.23 ©

My Body Is Not an Island

My Body Is Not an Island invites us to empathise with others and to learn how to use emotions as a way in to the world: Bring your emotions and your jackets too, the artist tells us.

5.5.—25.6.23 © Ruhr Ding: Schlaf

Michel Gondry's Home Movie Factory

Michel Gondry's participatory project Home Movie Factory – having already toured internationally in New York, Tokyo, São Paulo, and Paris – will be there to experience at Ruhr Ding: Schlaf.

15.1. ©

Haha Wang: Wicked Wickeder

During her one-year residency, artist Haha Wang developed her performance Wicked Wickeder, which celebrates its premiere at Künstlerhaus Dortmund on 15 January 2023.

Healing Complex: Summit – A day of conversations and sauna

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.

8.10. ©

Molding and candle workshop with Malte van der Meyden

In the workshop with Malte van der Meyden, everyday objects are molded and cast into candles to find a new form and function.

18.9. ©

Reden wir über etwas Anderes – Let`s talk about something else

Die Kuratorin Natalia Matsenko und der Künstler Yuri Yefanov entwickeln im Kunstmuseum Bochum ein fortlaufendes Programm an Veranstaltungen und Videoarbeiten.

Automobilism. Urbane Räume im Wandel

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.

Clouded in Veins

In her exhibition Clouded in Veins, Mariechen Danz uses a stage-like approach to display her works throughout the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and enables the public to be actively involved.

11.8.—18.9.22 ©

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.

4.12.—13.12.21 ©

Dawns

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.

Silent University Ruhr

Silent University is an autonomous knowledge and exchange platform for academics who have fled or are seeking asylum.

Future Past

Two vast shimmering objects by Monira Al Qadiri occupy the centre of the abandoned Schwarzkaue. What seem to be machines from the future are reproductions of drill bits from the Kuwaiti oil industry.

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.

Clouded in Vain

On the beach at the Silbersee the artists Mariechen Danz and Kerstin Brätsch are creating a sand sculpture that incorporates traces of the climatic conditions in previous ages

Take your Time. A multi-path walk for observations on ecology and vulnerability

At Silbersee II Deborah Ligorio will create an audio walk that focuses on natural phenomena around the lake.

Death of Worlds

On the site of the former General Blumenthal Mine, New Zealand born artist Hayden Fowler creates a poetic reflection on the dramatic and often invisible loss of species from the natural world.

Über Geist

Via AR Paul Sochaki's ghosts at the Silbersee also appear at information points and cycle stations of the exhibition at the railway stations in Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Recklinghausen and Haltern-Sythen.

Word Count #1–8

In her film series “Word Count”, Kasia Fudakowski creates a dystopian world in which the right to communication is fundamentally curtailed in order to avoid a climate disaster.

Inverted Mine

From the ceiling of the Weißkaue, Johannes Büttner suspends a type of mobile made up of a range of humming ventilators and wind gauges, together with claw-like hands.

Love is a Warm Gun

In the tennis hall of the Recklinghäuser Tennisgesellschaft, and the adjacent city park, La Fleur, in collaboration with Elisabeth Tambwe, enquire into the contemporary meaning of love.

Mute

In her artistic works Jeewi Lee searches for historical traces. She lays open what she finds and uses a range of techniques to make this comprehensible and tangible to the viewer.