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    Do., 30.7.26, 14–20:30 hView

    Mirroring in Herdecke

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    © Heinrich Holtgreve

    Sa., 22.8.26, 15 hView

    Opening Uncanny Shifts

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    So., 23.8.26, 14–16 hView

    Guided Tour

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    Fr., 28.8.26, 13–22 hView

    Raging in Witten

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    Do., 3.9.26, 18 hView

    Die Geschichte der ruhigen Wolke (WIP)

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Open "Uncanny Shifts"

© Heinrich Holtgreve

22.8. – 4.10.26

Uncanny Shifts

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  • Open Article

    The Troubadour by Ari Benjamin Meyers in Co-Produktion with the Manifesta 16 Ruhr

    The Troubadour will travel through the Ruhr region moving from Dortmund to Duisburg, from town to town, from performance to performance, from encounter to encounter. The Enduring Performance will take place from 10 August to 10 September, at various locations across the Ruhr region, as well as on 19 September at the Ev. Stadtkirche Sankt Petri in Dortmund.

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    Grand Snail Tour in ARCH+ Ruhr: From Territory to Space

    ARCH+ Ruhr: From Territory to Space understands the Ruhr region as an assemblage of different political and cultural spaces, interests, and affiliations. The issue directs its attention to spatial practices based on exchange and negotiation that open up new forms of living together. We are delighted to be part of this research-intensive issue: in the section “Peripheral Centres”, you will find a self-reflective presentation of Britta Peters’ Grand Snail Tour concept.

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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. 

  • Open Article

    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.

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© Guido Rottmann

Daniel Sadrowski

Daniel Sadrowski initially studied social sciences with the aim of becoming a journalist. His passion for photography led him to study photo design in Dortmund, where he earned his diploma in 2003. 

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Studio Onderstroom

The collective of Annabel Schouten, Jurriaan de Vos and Gemma Luz Bosch uses music, physical theatre, installation art and community art to offer physical experiences.

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Safiya Yon

Safiya Yon ist Textilkünstlerin, systemische Beraterin mit Fokus Mental Health für Communities des globalen Südens, sowie systemische Supervisorin in Qualifizierung.

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C:mone aka Tuincy Bright

Since 2007, C:mone aka Tuincy Bright, has been enriching the Cologne music scene with her versatile DJ sets. With her roots in early hip-hop culture, her vinyl selection ranges from jazz, funk, soul and disco through to rap, R&B, house, Afrobeat and experimental sounds.

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© Simone Junker

Cosima von Bonin

Cosima von Bonin is one of the most influential artists of her generation. She participated in documenta 12 in 2007 and the Venice Biennale in 2022.

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© 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.

Open Artsit

© 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.

Open Artsit

© 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.

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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. 

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© Jerome Hoffmeister

Julienne De Muirier

Julienne De Muirier is a writer of fiction and plays. Her stage texts have been produced by institutions including the Residenztheater Munich, the Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, and the Nationaltheater Weimar. 

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floor pieces and stanchions

Cem A.

© Amina Falah

© Daniel Sadrowski 

© Amina Falah

© Daniel Sadrowski 

Absperrbänder und Bodenaufsteller sind Infrastrukturen des Gehorsams. Sie strukturieren, lenken, verweisen, doch entgegen dem Eindruck, den sie erwecken, richten sie sich keineswegs an alle gleichermaßen. Wer Zugang zu welchen Räumen erhält, welche Körper wo willkommen sind und welche umgeleitet werden: diese Fragen sind in die Alltagssemiotik des öffentlichen Raums eingeschrieben, ohne je explizit gestellt zu werden. Cem A. macht genau diese leise Rhetorik mit seinen floor pieces and stanchions sichtbar. 

Als fester Bestandteil der Grand Snail Tour-Sammlung können die gelben Warnschilder, Bodenaufsteller und Absperrungen, die an administrative Innenräume von Behörden oder der Arbeitsagentur erinnern, nach draußen verlagert werden. Die Texte auf den Schildern von Cem A. oszillieren zwischen Verhaltensanweisung und Kunstkommentar. Wie mit seiner Arbeit Thank you for your understanding 2023 für die Berlinische Galerie erprobt, offenbaren seine Textblöcke aber vor allem institutionelle Höflichkeitsformeln als freundlich verkleidete Ausschlusslogiken. Darüber hinaus können uns die knappen, direkten Aussagen, die durch Kontextverschiebung irritieren, an Memes erinnern, die der Künstler in den physischen Raum überträgt. 

Cem A. studierte Anthropologie, was seinen analytischen Blick auf soziale Choreografien prägt ebenso wie den Seiteneingang, über den er die Kunstwelt betrat und stetig befragt. Als Gründer von Crit Club — einer Veranstaltungsreihe, die Kunstkritik mit der Direktheit sportlicher Debatten kreuzt — überführt er Dynamiken aus dem Sport ins Feld der Kunst: Transparenz, explizite Regeln, öffentliche Auseinandersetzung. Cem A. benennt die Mechanismen der Kunstwelt mit demselben sachlichen Gestus, mit dem die Aufschrift Achtung Rutschgefahr mitteilt, dass man besser aufpassen sollte. 

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Cem A.

Cem A. is an artist with a background in anthropology. He is known for running the art meme page @freeze_magazine and for his site-specific installations. 

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