Recklinghausen

It takes a good ten minutes on the S-Bahn to travel from Herne to Recklinghausen. Or you can walk along Bochumer Straße and cross the imperceptible change in city boundaries. At the 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. The exhibition is a collaboration between Kunsthalle and Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, with whom we are arranging another performative project in a large tennis hall near the Festspielhaus. The numerous collaborations that Ruhr Ding supports at all its locations anchor the exhibition project in the region and link different groups of visitors — local residents, theatre audiences, or friends of the local history museum — with the temporary art project, and vice versa. The beautiful and rough General Blumenthal colliery, recently saved from demolition by a heterogeneous community of users, forms a central hub within walking distance of the Festspielhaus with its large installations.