As a pioneer of Net Art, Natalie Bookchin was already exploring the structures and aesthetics of the Internet in the 1990s.

In his explorative work, Sam Hopkins attempts to find possible answers to current social and political questions. His works, which do not adhere to a single medium, explore and rediscover elements and structures in everyday life.

Johannes Büttner’s works of art, including videos, performances, and multipart installations, are devoted to the interdependencies between humans and technology and to the question of how these impact working reality.

In collaboration with the choreographer Franck Edmond Yao, the director Monika Gintersdorfer founded the collective La Fleur in 2016, featuring an international group of artists. Ever since, they have been developing dance and theatre performances.

The Canadian artist Michel de Broin works at the interfaces of art, technology, and physics. His interdisciplinary practice is based on an artistic-scientific exploration of productivity, consumption, and waste.

The history and conditions of coal and oil extraction recur in Monira Al Qadiri’s work.

For many years now, the duo Hecke/Rauter (Alisa Hecke and Julian Rauter) has been exploring the topic of taxidermy through installations, extended performances, and stage productions. For the project Der lange Abschied (The Long Goodbye) as part of Ruhr Ding: Klima, Hecke/Rauter are working with the set designer Franz Thöricht.

As a reaction to the aggressive real-estate market in Berlin and to the difficulty of finding an affordable apartment in the city as a freelance artist duo, in 2013 they built a house using the simplest of means on a vacant plot along the banks of the Spree River in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district and lived in it for a year and a half.

Kasia Fudakowski’s conceptual works of art follow strict, self-imposed rules, usually developed and expanded by the artist over a period of several years. This gives rise to subtly humorous series that showcase global issues and the absurdity of certain societal norms.

Based on both real-world locations and fictional scenarios, der Welt. Achim Lengerer [geb. 1970] lebt in Berlin. Lawrence Lek creates virtual worlds in his video works, reminiscent of both futuristic video games and digital visualizations of architecture.

During 2018/2019 Stacey Gillian Abe is participating in our residency programme Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr.

Our relationship to nature and landscape often serves as a point of departure in the work of the Italian artist Deborah Ligorio. Her artistic research connects ecological, technological, and feminist conceptual models, lending them various forms of expression.

Since 2000, Club Real has been realising mainly participative and site-specific performance projects, in which alternative reality scenarios are devised and enacted.

Etienne Dietzel was born in1986 in Bad Salzungen (Thüringen). His works, which are frequently developed in cooperation with artists and specialists from various fields, are technical in nature, their appearance relating to their own genesis.

The composer, conductor, and artist Ari Benjamin Meyers interweaves the art forms of music and the visual arts in his work: many of his compositions, including three operas and countless music performances to date, are performed and presented in exhibition contexts.

Addis Ababa, Almería, Baghdad, Fukushima, and Idomeni are just some of the sites for the work of the artist Raul Walch. Driven by his political commitment, the artist not only wants to explore and comment on the world artistically, but also wishes to play an active role in shaping it.

During 2019/20 Euridice Kala is participating in our residency program Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr.

For Ruhr Ding, Louis Henderson has developed a sound installation and several radio broadcasts together with João Polido. To this end, his field research explores to what extent the history of the region’s music has been influenced by industrialization.

With her sculptures, drawings, costumes, and performances, the Irish artist Mariechen Danz plumbs the expressive possibilities, but also the limitations of language, the readability of signs, and the related hierarchical systems.

In her films, which range between documentation and fiction to varying degrees, Silke Schönfeld brings different people into focus, be it individual protagonists or social groups.

The Korean artist Jeewi Lee grew up in both Germany and Korea. Her art is thus characterised by an exploration of heterogenous communication and language.

In her series Other Reveries, Margot Bergman makes painterly additions to existing paintings that she has acquired at flea markets.

As part of Ruhr Ding and in collaboration with the Scenic Research Course at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Suse Weber is undertaking a critical approach to the pigeon, “the racehorse of the common man”, in an installation in public space she is deconstructing the bird’s physiognomy as well as its real and metaphorical significance.

In her sculptures, photographs and collages, Nicole Wermers combines formal questions with investigations into urban space and its social, economic and psychological inscriptions.

Monster Chetwynd stages performances and plays featuring handcrafted, phantasmal costumes and stage sets. The artist also draws inspiration from shamanism, the works of magic realism, or even from animal documentaries.

The artist Hayden Fowler, born in New Zealand, studied biology and also ethology, the science of animal behaviour. Today he applies his scientific background to his artistic projects.