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    Sa., 30.5.26, 11 hView

    Walking in Sprockvel

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    Sa., 30.5.26, 17–20 hView

    Arriving in Gevelsberg

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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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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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Artists

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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.

Open Artsit

© 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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Rebecca Racine Ramershoven

Rebecca Racine Ramershoven (*1987) lebt und arbeitet in Köln und Thessaloniki.

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Local Blackouts

Lütfiye Güzel

A person in a brown leather jacket looks at a large printed newspaper on a stand with the heading 'Wesel'.

© Daniel Sadrowski

A sign with the word 'NACHRICHTEN' with an abstract newspaper layout with little text.

© Heinrich Holtgreve

Ausgangsmaterial ist ein besonders kurzweiliges Format aus dem Alltag: die Tageszeitung. Lütfiye Güzel, Poetin aus Duisburg und Vertreterin eines konsequent selbstverlegten, körpernahen Schreibens, lässt sich für die Grand Snail Tour von Projektpartner*innen und Passant*innen Lokalzeitungen und -beilagen aus den zu bereisenden Städten zusenden. Aus diesen Dokumenten erzeugt Güzel durch gezieltes Ausstreichen und Schwärzen von Textpassagen insgesamt 53 Gedichte — Local Blackouts —, die auf Aufstellern an jeder Station veröffentlicht werden.

Die Methode der Blackout Poetry ist eine Form der Found Poetry und wird bei Güzel zum politischen Akt. Das Schwärzen zitiert die Logik der Zensur, kehrt sie aber um, denn das unkenntlich Machen hat nicht Unterdrückung, sondern Verdichtung zum Ziel: Was bleibt, wenn der redaktionelle Lärm verschwindet? Lyrische Miniaturen, die in ihrer Knappheit dem Haiku ähnlich ist. Güzels Entscheidung, diese Textarbeiten im öffentlichen Raum zu zeigen, stellt zudem implizit die Frage: Für wen werden solche Texte geschrieben, und wer kommt darin vor?

Lokalzeitungen sind ein ambivalentes Medium. Sie fördern und informieren Nachbarschaften jenseits von Social Media — doch die Sprache und Nachrichtenauswahl ist häufig hetzerisch und vereinfachend. Tatsache ist, dass Lokalzeitungen an Bedeutung und finanzielle Unterstützung verlieren. Güzels Aneignung bewahrt und befragt dieses Erbe zugleich. Präsentiert auf herkömmlichen Presseaufstellern verleiht ihre Arbeit der Grand Snail Tour ein vertrautes Erscheinungsbild von regionaler Kultur und überführt diese gleichzeitig in die poetische Abstraktion.

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©Ben Knabe

Lütfiye Güzel

Lütfiye Güzel is a poet and has been publishing poems under her own label go-güzel-publishing since 2014.

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