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    Do., 25.6.26, 14–19 hView

    Golfing in Wetter

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    © Heinrich Holtgreve

    Sa., 22.8.26, 15 hView

    Opening Uncanny Shifts

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    So., 13.9.26, 15 hView

    The Golden Miracle

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    So., 13.9.26, 16 hView

    Multiple Coexistences

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    Sa., 19.9.26, 20–23 hView

    Electronic Shifts

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Open "Uncanny Shifts"

© Heinrich Holtgreve

22.8. – 4.10.26

Uncanny Shifts

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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.

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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.

    Historic old town of Xanten with houses of various architectural styles and two church towers.

    ©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.

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Open "Zu Gast Jahrgang 2026"

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Zu Gast Jahrgang 2026

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Artists

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© 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. 

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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. 

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Nils Norman

Nils Norman is an artist living in Amsterdam and Munich. He works across the disciplines of public art, architecture and urban planning.

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© Yao Tsy

Yevgenia Belorusets

Yevgenia Belorusets' work operates at the intersection of literature, visual art, and activism, often drawing attention to the more vulnerable segments of Ukrainian society.

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© Josefine Kaiser

Boris Sieverts

Since 1997, the artist Boris Sieverts has been running the ‘Büro für Städtereisen’ (Office for City Trips) from Cologne, through which he explores everyday living spaces as travel destinations.

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Joram Schön

Joram Schön lives and works as a freelance artist and filmmaker in Berlin and Cologne. He studied fine art at Berlin University of the Arts and completed his master's degree in art and film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

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© Harald Popp

Harald Popp

Harald Popp studied photography at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences under Prof. Ute Mahler. After several years as an applied photographer, he focused on his artistic practice.

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© Stephan Ernst

Lucia Birzer

Lucia Birzer has been engaged as choir director and conductor at the Regensburg Theatre since the 2024/25 season. Prior to this, she worked as choir director with conducting duties at the Hof Theatre from 2022 to 2024.

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© Louis Headlam

Dr. Reyhan Şahin aka Lady Bitch Ray

Dr Reyhan Şahin, also known to many as Lady Bitch Ray, is a scholar, author, performance artist, activist, rapper, fashion designer, journalist, speaker and educational consultant.

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Dr Anne Potjans

Dr Anne Potjans is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded research project “Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives” at Humboldt University in Berlin.

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HEUTE DEMNÄCHST ENDE

Anna Viebrock

© Daniel Sadrowski

© Daniel Sadrowski

© Daniel Sadrowski

© Daniel Sadrowski

© Daniel Sadrowski

Drei Wörter leuchten in den Himmel: HEUTE DEMNÄCHST ENDE. Es könnte wie die Ankündigung eines Kinoprogramms klingen, beim wiederholten Lesen aber vervielfältigen sich die drei Worte auf dem Schriftzug von Anna Viebrock zu mehr – einer Prophezeiung, Warnung, einem lakonischen Gedicht. 

Seit den späten 1980er-Jahren hat die Bühnenbildnerin, Regisseurin und Künstlerin einen Fundus aus ihren eigenen Bühnenbildern angesammelt, den sie für die Entstehung neuer Arbeiten nutzt. Sie verwendet Elemente ihrer detailreichen und Geschichten-überbordenden Innenräume erneut und lädt sie mit zusätzlicher Bedeutung auf. Auch das 2021 für Christoph Marthalers Inszenierung der Operette Giuditta von Franz Lehár entworfene Szenario, dem der Schriftzug HEUTE DEMNÄCHST ENDE entstammt, hat seither ein Eigenleben entwickelt: 2024 schuf Viebrock aus dem recycelten Giuditta-Bühnenbild eine Gesamtinstallation für ihre Ausstellung in der Skulpturenhalle Neuss, die das Zitat aus der Operette als Titel verwendete. Seit 2026 zieht der Schriftzug nun in wetterfester Ausführung auf dem Trailer der Grand Snail Tour durchs Ruhrgebiet. Mit jedem Stopp und in jedem Kontext kann der Text neue Bedeutungen gewinnen. 

Die Buchstaben leuchten auch sinnbildlich für das gesamte Konzept der dreijährigen Tour, die als Hybrid zwischen mobilem Ausstellungsort und Veranstaltungsformat alle 53 Ruhrgebietsstädte miteinander verbindet. HEUTE DEMNÄCHST ENDE beschreibt damit nicht nur eine abstrakte Zeitlichkeit, sondern die konkrete Dramaturgie eines im September 2024 begonnenen und bis Oktober 2027 geplanten Projekts, das seine eigene Endlichkeit kennt. 

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© Lisa Rastl

Anna Viebrock

Anna Viebrock studied stage design at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Her collaboration with Christoph Marthaler took her to numerous theatres and opera houses.

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