Neustadt

Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
Emscherstraße 71
47137 Duisburg

A total of 23 sculptures form a fictitious city composed of various real buildings that have been demolished in the Ruhr region since the turn of the millennium on a scale of 1:25.

The selection of building types and construction tasks did not follow a strict system, but rather aesthetic, sculptural criteria and the desire to show a cross-section of local urban development. The sculptural installation is deliberately integrated into the seemingly fallow landscape that was actually created as part of the IBA Emscher Park in the 1990s and thus reflects - in addition to remarkable shifts in scale - the relationship between nature and culture. “Neustadt” evokes numerous associations and memories and at the same time invites the viewer to explore both urban planning and ecological issues, which are also reflected in the transformation of the Ruhr area and the Emscher conversion.interventions form an equally hybrid landscape.

Artists

Marta Dyachenko

Marta Dyachenko creates installations with model-like sculptures that critically question the relationship between nature, man and landscape.

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Julius von Bismarck

In his works, Julius von Bismarck examines perception, natural phenomena and urban space at the interface between art and science.

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Hamminkeln

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.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken,
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist
versteht, dass alles – liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild
wenn mensch findet sich selbst
vor uralten baumrinden
ein wesen schaut das andere an,
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt;
während die zeit bereits
das leichentuch des menschen webt
und der baum schaut den menschen an,
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen
nur hat der neue mensch
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen