Ruhr Ding: Klima - Urbane Künste Ruhr

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Herne

In Herne, the geographical center of the Ruhr region, various works are devoted to both the urban transformation of the region and various questions about the topic of social climate.

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Haltern am See: Silbersee II

At Silbersee II, art and visitors are relentlessly exposed to the climatic conditions and the physical experience at the bathing lake enables a completely different art experience.

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Gelsenkirchen

An interesting contrast to General Blumenthal Colliery is provided by the Consol Theatre, with whom a long-term participatory project was launched dedicated to the organisms living in Consol Park.

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Recklinghausen

At the main-station, a former tram kiosk is taken over by bats, and a few metres further on, the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen presents Mariechen Danz’s solo exhibition Clouded in Veins.

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Future Past

Two vast shimmering objects by Monira Al Qadiri occupy the centre of the abandoned Schwarzkaue. What seem to be machines from the future are reproductions of drill bits from the Kuwaiti oil industry.

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Take your Time. A multi-path walk for observations on ecology and vulnerability

At Silbersee II Deborah Ligorio will create an audio walk that focuses on natural phenomena around the lake.

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Die Mine gibt, die Mine nimmt

For her multimedia installation, exhibited inside the old waiting room at Herne train station, Ana Alenso (*1982) has conducted research in the archives of the NGO SOS Orinoco.

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Geisterspiele

Last year, Natalie Bookchin invited us to document the new everyday life in the pandemic through short home videos. The result is an audiovisual portrait of the collective experience of isolation.

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Treasure

With the sculpture Treasure, Canadian artist Michel de Broin will build a monument to the natural resource of sand and its unique potential.

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Inverted Mine

From the ceiling of the Weißkaue, Johannes Büttner suspends a type of mobile made up of a range of humming ventilators and wind gauges, together with claw-like hands.

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The Futurology Kiosk

From a social and ecological perspective bats are model creatures from which humans can learn a great deal. This fact provides the starting point for Monster Chetwynd’s sculptural installation.

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Forecast (Installation Part I)

In a Gelsenkirchen shop, visitors will hear the sound and text composition Forecast by Ari Benjamin Meyers, an adaptation of his music theater performance of the same name.

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Der lange Abschied

In their audio-visual installation, Alisa Hecke and Julian Rauter examine the practice of taxidermy and have worked together with scenographer Franz Thöricht to devise a space of reverence and memory.

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Family Business

In the stories of Silke Schönfeld’s multi-part video installation Family Business personal recollections merge with collective remembrance.

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800.000 Jahre Photosynthese

Club Real use the parliamentary model as a point of departure to join locals in examining the question of how the effects of coal mining on the former colliery site at Consol park can be offset.

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Automobilism. Urbane Räume im Wandel

As part of the Ruhr Ding: Klima the Heimatmuseum has devoted a exhibition to automobility demonstrating how the car has transformed the urban space and still continues to dominate it today.

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Clouded in Veins

In her exhibition Clouded in Veins, Mariechen Danz uses a stage-like approach to display her works throughout the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and enables the public to be actively involved.

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Love is a Warm Gun

In the tennis hall of the Recklinghäuser Tennisgesellschaft, and the adjacent city park, La Fleur, in collaboration with Elisabeth Tambwe, enquire into the contemporary meaning of love.

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Death of Worlds

On the site of the former General Blumenthal Mine, New Zealand born artist Hayden Fowler creates a poetic reflection on the dramatic and often invisible loss of species from the natural world.

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Word Count #1–8

In her film series “Word Count”, Kasia Fudakowski creates a dystopian world in which the right to communication is fundamentally curtailed in order to avoid a climate disaster.

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Assembly/ Spherical Semaphore

With Assembly, an octagonal island made of wood covered with a roof of brightly-patterned cloth that, Raul Walch has installed a place of community on the open wate.

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Mute

In her artistic works Jeewi Lee searches for historical traces. She lays open what she finds and uses a range of techniques to make this comprehensible and tangible to the viewer.

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Clouded in Vain

On the beach at the Silbersee the artists Mariechen Danz and Kerstin Brätsch are creating a sand sculpture that incorporates traces of the climatic conditions in previous ages

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Climate Changing Room

The recurring disputes between ‚regular‘ and nudist bathers around the boundary between their two sections of beach provided Kasia Fudakowski with the inspiration for her work.

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Discuvry

Confronted with the harsh reality of the Berlin property market the artists created their own housing, half shelter, half architectural installation made from recycled materials

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Über Geist

Via AR Paul Sochaki's ghosts at the Silbersee also appear at information points and cycle stations of the exhibition at the railway stations in Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Recklinghausen and Haltern-Sythen.

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Monira Al Qadiri

The history and conditions of the extraction of petroleum surface again and again in Monira Al Qadiri’s work.

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Ana Alenso

Ana Alenso art focuses on the global dependence on resources and the concomitant political, social, and economic exploitation.

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Natalie Bookchin

As a pioneer of Net Art, Natalie Bookchin was already exploring the structures and aesthetics of the Internet in the 1990s.

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Michel de Broin

Michel de Broin works at the interfaces of art, technology, and physics. His interdisciplinary practice is based on an artistic-scientific exploration of productivity, consumption, and waste.

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Johannes Büttner

Johannes Büttner’s works of art are devoted to the interdependencies between humans and technology and to the question of how these impact working reality.

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Monster Chetwynd

Monster Chetwynd stages performances, large-scale sculpture installation and consistently paints bats as protagonists in dramatic settings. Her work is characterised by a sense of playful exuberance.

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Club Real

Since 2000, Club Real has been realising mainly participative and site-specific performance projects, in which alternative reality scenarios are devised and enacted.

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Mariechen Danz

The points of departure for her work are communication and knowledge transfer, with the Irish artist focusing her process-based artistic practice on the body.

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Mariechen Danz & Kerstin Brätsch

At Silbersee II, the two artists will be implementing their idea of a sand sculpture that merges various motifs.

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Hayden Fowler

The artist Hayden Fowler, born in New Zealand, studied biology and also ethology, the science of animal behaviour.

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Kasia Fudakowski

Kasia Fudakowski’s conceptual works of art follow strict, self-imposed rules, usually developed and expanded by the artist over a period of several years.

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Hecke / Rauter / Thöricht

For many years now, the duo Hecke/Rauter (Alisa Hecke and Julian Rauter) has been exploring the topic of taxidermy through installations, extended performances, and stage productions.

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Jeewi Lee

The Korean artist Jeewi Lee grew up in both Germany and Korea. Her art is thus characterised by an exploration of heterogenous communication and language.

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La Fleur

During the exhibition at Ruhr Ding: Klima, La Fleur will be dwelling on the book A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes together with the artist and choreographer Elisabeth Tambwe.

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Deborah Ligorio

Deborah Ligorio's artistic research connects ecological, technological, and feminist conceptual models, lending them various forms of expression.

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Ari Benjamin Meyers

Originally trained as an opera conductor and composer, Ari Benjamin Meyers' work explores forms of performance, production, and perception of music.

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Silke Schönfeld

In her films, which range between documentation and fiction to varying degrees, Silke Schönfeld brings different people into focus, be it individual protagonists or social groups.

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Paul Sochacki

At glance, Paul Sochacki's painting moves between abstraction and romanticism, in which familiar motifs seduce with poetry and humor to complex readings.

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Yukihiro Taguchi & Chiara Ciccarello

The collaboration between the Japanese media artist Yukihiro Taguchi and the Italian designer Chiara Ciccarello goes back to their activities in Berlin’s fallow Cuvry.

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Raul Walch

Driven by his political commitment, the artist not only wants to explore and comment on the world artistically, but also wishes to play an active role in shaping it.

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Heimatmuseum Unser Fritz

The Heimatmuseum Unser Fritz, a local heritage museum in Herne, is participating in Ruhr Ding: Klima with the special exhibition Automobilism. Urbane Räume im Wandel.

Circular Routes

To experience Ruhr Ding: Klima in all its facets, a bicycle tour is a good idea. In order to facilitate orientation within the exhibition, we recommend three different circular routes in the cities of Gelsenkirchen, Herne and Recklinghausen by bicycle.

The circular routes connect all art locations in the respective cities and can also be combined with each other. The routes can be accessed via GoogleMaps or via download of the gps tracks. Navigation is also possible on the road via the komoot cycling app. It also enables the creation of individual exhibition routes in connection with the various other sights of the Ruhr Area.

We recommend planning two days for the entire exhibition visit. Red flags mark the locations. On site, our experienced exhibition supervisors will provide information about the projects.

Guided Tours

Accompanying the exhibition, an extensive guided tour programme has been developed. On the Irrlichter-Tours, our trained art educators will set out together with visitors to explore the Ruhr Ding. The Irrlichter-Tours invite visitors to view the art projects from different perspectives, to get to know unfamiliar places and to rediscover the familiar. The focus is on chatting together about the themes we encounter along the way.

If you have any questions about the tours or booking procedure, our visitor service is available Monday to Thursday from 10am to 3pm:
Tel.: +49 (0)234/ 97483509
e-mail: besucherservice@urbanekuensteruhr.de

Accompanying the exhibition, a podcast has been created which is dedicated to the art, themes and locations of the exhibition and offers a first glimpse of what can be experienced on the Irrlichter-Tours.
To the podcast.

The outreach programme Irrlichter-Tours is supported by E.ON Stiftung.

Herne

Haltern am See: Silbersee II

Gelsenkirchen

Recklinghausen

Circular Routes

Circular Route Herne

Circular Route Recklinghausen

Circular Route Gelsenkirchen

Guided Tours

Irrlichter-Tour Herne

Irrlichter-Tour Recklinghausen

Irrlichter-Tour Gelsenkirchen

Irrlichter Day Trip Gelsenkirchen - Herne

Irrlichter Day Trip Recklinghausen - Herne

Irrlichter-Tour at Silbersee II