With an economy that is not only metaphorically based on the model of mushroom cultures – myconomy – the Healing Complex was reopened in March 2023.
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.
Jungsein und Jüdischsein – wie geht das in Deutschland zusammen? Damit beschäftigt sich der preisgekrönte Film „Masel Tov Cocktail“, der den Abschluss der Filmreihe im „Healing Complex“ bildet.
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.
With the event, Urbane Künste Ruhr presents an interim status of the cooperation with the Stiftung Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets within the framework of the residency programme for artists.
With a sound installation, shared Dindać with coffee and Silesian poppy cake and the concluding Mycel Bankett, we will bring the season to a close at the Healing Complex.
For twelve hours, we will be exploring the topic of sleep as a motif in film. All through the night guests will accompany us, reflecting on the programme and engaging in dialogue with the audience.
Together with Lütfiye Güzel, Anneke Lubkowitz and Stephan Muschick, we will jointly investigate various modalities of navigating the world.
Die Künstlerin Inga Krüger nimmt den Emscher-Umbau zum Anlass, sich in ihrer Performance Perspektivisch gesehen, Spaghettieis mit der Künstlichkeit der Landschaft zu beschäftigen.
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.
In the workshop with Malte van der Meyden, everyday objects are molded and cast into candles to find a new form and function.
Die Kuratorin Natalia Matsenko und der Künstler Yuri Yefanov entwickeln im Kunstmuseum Bochum ein fortlaufendes Programm an Veranstaltungen und Videoarbeiten.
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.
During her one-year residency, artist Haha Wang developed her performance Wicked Wickeder, which celebrates its premiere at Künstlerhaus Dortmund on 15 January 2023.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
At Silbersee II Deborah Ligorio will create an audio walk that focuses on natural phenomena around the lake.
Silent University is an autonomous knowledge and exchange platform for academics who have fled or are seeking asylum.
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.
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.
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.
