©Dietmar Osses
Dietmar Osses is Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions at the Ruhr Museum at the Zollverein World Heritage Site in Essen. He previously worked as director of the LVR Industrial Museum Zinkfabrik Alten in Oberhausen and the LWL Industrial Museum Zeche Hannover in Bochum. His exhibitions and publications focus on industrial culture and everyday history in the Ruhr region as well as the history of migration in NRW.
The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.
©Jan Kapitaen
Felix Bork deals with the important things in life: cute animals, beautiful flowers, colourful stones, poop and love.