Looking at the landscapes of the Ruhr area, Landscapes of an Ongoing Past traces questions of industrial production and relates them to the aftermath of socialist ideologies.
The exhibition Landscapes of an Ongoing Past will be accompanied by a varied programme.
Urbane Künste Ruhr is launching the Grand Snail Tour in autumn, an artistic-performative journey through all 53 cities in the Ruhr area. The kick-off event will take place on 26.9. in Xanten.
The start of an artistic-performative tour through the entire Ruhr area will be the highlight of the Urbane Künste Ruhr programme in 2024.
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.
From April to the end of June 2024, the artists Anne Arndt and Camilo Pachón will take over the Healing Complex and develop a programme for the neighbourhood and other interested parties.
Urbane Künste Ruhr is awarding six research stays in Dortmund, Duisburg and Bochum for 2024. Artists and collectives were able to apply with their project via an open call.
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.
Urbane Künste Ruhr is awarding six research stays for guest artists with various regional cooperation partners in the Ruhr area for 2024.
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.
A former pumping station of a disused colliery on the Emscherkunstweg becomes an installation, the name remains and sounds promising: Königsgrube.
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.
Bis 2027 verlängert: Britta Peters führt die erfolgreiche Arbeit von Urbane Künste Ruhr fort!
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).
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.
With an economy that is not only metaphorically based on the model of mushroom cultures – myconomy – the Healing Complex was reopened in March 2023.
Eva Koťátková in conversation with Britta Peters about the exhibition My Body Is Not An Island
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.
The Ruhr Ding: Schlaf marks the end of a three-part exhibition series presented throughout the region by the Urbane Künste Ruhr under Britta Peters’ artistic direction.
On a Saturday morning, under the heatwave called El Niño, I went on a walk in Essen-Steele with seven people and visited public artworks created specifically for places you wouldn't normally enter ...
Wir sind erschüttert über die terroristischen Angriffe der Hamas auf die Menschen in Israel. Unsere Solidarität gilt den Opfern und Angehörigen, die Angst um ihre Familien und Freund*innen haben.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Grupa Mauczka widmet sich, ausgehend von ihren eigenen Familienbiografien, Fragen von Zugehörigkeit und Erinnerungskultur polnisch-deutscher Migrationsgeschichte.
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.
