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An exhibition close to Dortmund main station

With Works by Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong, Anushka Chkheidze, Aleksandra Domanović, Kein schöner Archiv (Michael Annoff & Nuray Demir), Katrin Mayer, Hans Ostapenko with MNPL, Ziran Sha Pei, Joanna Piotrowska, Neda Saeedi, sakasaka, Silke Schönfeld, Transsolar, UH HUH HER, Driant Zeneli and The Troubadour by Ari Benjamin Meyers in co-production with Manifesta 16 Ruhr

Familiar environments are changing, fundamental orders are shifting, and threatening events are repeating themselves: the uncanny could be considered a state that describes the prevailing mood of the present. While committed scientists are trying to find ways out of the global crises, feelings of fear and uncertainty are mixed with polemics, denial and rejection in the discourse fueled by authoritarian voices.

The exhibition Uncanny Shifts uses artistic means to address some ecological, social, and political interactions of our time. At various locations around Dortmund's main railway station, sculptural, installation and performative works interact with their surroundings. They encounter a complex present with new inventions, curiosity, prudence, beauty and melancholic analyses. 

Some projects were developed as part of the programme Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr.
An exhibition by Urbane Künste Ruhr for the Ruhrtriennale 2026