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Do., 25.6.26, 14–19 hViewGolfing III in Wetter
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Do., 30.7.26, 14–20:30 hViewMirroring in Herdecke
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© Heinrich Holtgreve
Sa., 22.8.26, 15 hViewOpening Uncanny Shifts
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Fr., 28.8.26, 13–22 hViewRaging in Witten
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© Daniel Sadrowski
Do., 10.9.26, 10–19 hViewClearing in Hattingen
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Artistic Director starting 1.11.2027
Urbane Künste Ruhr initiates contemporary art in public space and connects people across the Ruhr region through exhibition projects. Many projects are realized in collaboration with local, supra-regional, and international partners. We are seeking an Artistic Director for Urbane Künste Ruhr starting 1.11.2027.
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Emscherkunstweg goes IGA 2027
With the opening of Markus Jeschaunig's installation Königsgrube, the collaboration between Urbane Künste Ruhr, Regionalverband Ruhr and Emschergenossenschaft for the Emscherkunstweg project has come to a successful conclusion.
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Outside the White Cube
In an in-depth interview, Britta Peters talks to author and art critic Maja Ćirić about her work as Artistic Director of Urbane Künste Ruhr. She explains her perspective on public art in the Ruhr area and elsewhere, and describes how questions of participation, co-production and dialogue are constantly being renegotiated in her projects. The full interview is now available online at MOST Magazine.
©Silke Briel
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Against Hate
Political discourse around the world is shifting towards authoritarian ideologies. Wherever there is incitement against minorities, polemics against immigration and attacks on the freedom of the press, the democratic function of public space is at risk. This is also where Urbane Künste Ruhr operates artistically.
©Heinrich Holtgreve
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New Book by Urbane Künste Ruhr
Nine printed issues of the Urbane Künste Ruhr magazine were published from 2018 to 2023. The individual issues are now brought together in a 670-page catalogue. It has also been expanded to include an index of people and places as well as an editorial by Artistic Director Britta Peters. New projects can always be discovered while leafing through the catalogue, while the index enables a playful, retrospective discourse analysis.
Notizbrett
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Artists
© Anael Berkovitz
Anael Berkovitz
Anael Berkovitz is an interdisciplinary artist, living and working between Brooklyn and Tel-Aviv. Berkoviz’s work draws on photography, film, installation and narration as means of examining the creation and perception of identity.
© Jeanna Kolesova
Jeanna Kolesova
Jeanna Kolesova is a Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, and researcher. Their practice traces how narratives emerge and circulate over time, examining their inscription into memories, infrastructures, and landscapes. Through speculative documentary, Kolesova reveals the cyclical relationship between narratives and histories of control, exploring how these cycles might be disrupted.
© Jan Hottmann
Julia Schäfer
Julia Schäfer is a Paris-based artist whose video works and site-specific installations explore narratives of loss by blurring documentary and fiction. Emerging from investigations into her family’s butchery, her work reflects on meat production as a metaphor for the dialectics of pleasure and pain, violence and sustenance.
Monika Rinck
Monika Rinck lives in Berlin and Cologne. She has been publishing poems, essays, and translations with various publishers since 1998. Her most recent publication is the poetry collection HÖLLENFAHRT & ENTENSTAAT.
© Jerome Hoffmeister
Julienne De Muirier
Julienne De Muirier is a German African American playwright and prose writer. She has written for theatre productions at Theater Oberhausen, Theater Dortmund, and Theater Lübeck.
© Neven Allgeier
Neven Allgeier
Photographer Neven Allgeier (born 1986, Wiesbaden) lives and works between Frankfurt am Main and Vienna. In recent years, he has published three books with Distanz Verlag.
© Rico Thumser
Masixole Ncevu
Masixole Ncevu is an artist and practitioner of sensory ethnography; his work encompasses in-depth theoretical and conceptual research.
© Heidi Specker
Heidi Specker
Heidi Specker is an artist based in Berlin. Her photographic, conceptual practice explores various photographic genres, using them to examine the medium of photography itself.
Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten
Kerima & normalmap., aka Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten, are a DJ and live performance duo whose music defies genre classification.
Nils Norman
Nils Norman is an artist living in Amsterdam and Munich. He works across the disciplines of public art, architecture and urban planning.