Ruhr Ding: Territorien - Urbane Künste Ruhr

Nein Weil Wir

In the purist aesthetics of her films, the Belgian artist combines conceptual expression with literally handmade execution. Ariane Loze produces every aspect of her films herself.

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Öffnungszeiten

The object, initially an ordinary calendar with spiral binding, but ordered chronologically from May 2019 to April 2020, appears in various places.

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Soundfiles

The soundfiles are dedicated to the space in between, to being on the way, to waiting and arriving. We asked artists, musicians and DJs from the region to put together their soundtrack.

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A good-shaped diamond is hard to find

Referencing Woody Guthrie’s soundtrack, Essen’s wall honours the little man’s everyday life and his search for a better future.

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Materialverwaltung on Tour

The project promotes the further use and recycling of materials, props and, not least, ideas from theatres, museums, film sets and trade fairs.

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I love you lots more than you know

Marx’s murals are in some ways reminiscent of the dust-soiled windows and the black façades of buildings in the past, bearing immortal lines – as if written by fingers in soot.

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The Pavilion

Ivan Moudovs installation is dedicated to concepts that were not selected in the open call process for Venice.

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Hartware MedienKunstVerein — Der Alt-Right-Komplex

Curated by Inke Arns, the international group exhibition at HMKV deals with forms of right-wing populism, which, especially today, use the Internet and social media to disseminate ideas.

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Die Dauercamperin

In the parking lot, next to the neoclassical building of the vacant Hoesch administration building, Hopkins stages a homage to Lena Bauer, a fictional character who lived her life in a camper van.

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Tonspuren zur Linken

Tonspuren zur Linken traces these narratives as an ongoing collaborative work in progress in the tradition of oral history.

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Tag X

In postmodern shop fittings, design lemon presses can be found as weapons for self-defence. Symbols of bourgeois prosperity and economic security become combat equipment.

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Human Landscape

The hologram installed in the Waschkaue imagines a body that is both atomised and composite in relation with a live, human performer that interacts with the holographic image.

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Inner and Outer Landscapes

For over 60 years, the self-taught Chicago-based artist has been working in the media of painting, collage and sculpture.

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Urban Culture, Amsterdam – Düsseldorf – Milan The Street & Modern Life, Birmingham, U.K.

The prints, hung in three rows, generate their own complex narrative structure that progresses from image to image.

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Nøtel

The fictitious Nøtel Corporation offers the appropriate architecture and services for this life of perpetual mobility.

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The Hexagon Pitch / Unofficial Envoy of the Tartan Army

The exhibition Unofficial Envoy of the Tartan Army shows – staged in the midst of the club’s documents and trophies, a site-specific selection of existing video works and photographic series..

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Mein Name ist Sprache

Nicoline van Harskamp is presenting a video installation in the waiting room of Oberhausen’s city hall, that incorporates stories about the translating of names and their cultural appropriation.

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OMG! Was haben wir getan?!

With OMG! Was haben wir getan?!, the group is presenting an exhibition in the water tower about both their previous work and current projects.

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Bitter Things

Bitter Things is a research-based exhibition project by bi'bak that explores the impact of labor migration on motherhood and family.

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WerkStadt – Solid Skills

WerkStadt is a stock exchange for knowledge, a meeting space in which old and new neighbours can encounter each other, as well as artists and academics from all over the world.

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Betonoper: Die Taube

In the context of the exhibition, Suse Weber is applying the method of de- and reconstruction to the motif of the pigeon or dove.

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Another Weekend

Another Weekend is emblazoned in large letters on the facade of a house in Dortmund – a reference to the song of the same name by the American singer-songwriter Ariel Pink.

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Emanzenexpress_ Gemeinsam sind wir gemeiner

The bridging of different generations is a crucial element of the project, whose underlying attitude lies “somewhere between a declaration of love to the earlier campaigners and critical examination”.

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Composition

Louis Henderson and João Polido researched the region for the musical echo accompanying such changes.

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Binibining Promised Land

In Binibining Promised Land Köken Ergun portrays a festive occasion that entails numerous rituals and competitions, carefully observing and approaching individual protagonists.

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atelier automatique

Eva Busch and Julia Nitschke’s Exhibition “Emanzenexpress” acts as a Memory Station and is on show at atelier automatique in cooperation with the Academy of the Arts of the World.

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Margot Bergmann

In her series “Other Reveries”, Margot Bergman makes painterly additions to existing paintings that she has acquired at flea markets.

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bi’bak

bi’bak (Turkish: have a look) is a non-profit organization and cultural space based in Berlin, with a focus on transnational narratives, migration, global mobility and their aesthetic dimensions.

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Roderick Buchanan

The Scottish artist Roderick Buchanan (born 1965) loves games and sport. He makes them both themes of his work.

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Hans Eijkelboom

For Ruhr Ding, Eijkelboom has developed a new series of work from photographs of couples in Düsseldorf, Amsterdam and Milan.

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Köken Ergun

Military parades, the Olympic Games, dance performances and beauty pageants — Köken Ergun’s video installations repeatedly address cultural and political events and the rituals that define them.

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Nicoline van Harskamp

Nicoline van Harskamp explores the use of language in different contexts within her artistic practice.

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Louis Henderson & João Polido

For Ruhr Ding, Louis Henderson has developed a sound installation and several radio broadcasts together with João Polido.

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Sam Hopkins

In his artistic exploration, Sam Hopkins attempts to find possible answers to contemporary social and political issues.

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kitev

Since 2006, kitev (Kultur im Turm e.V.) has been working as a laboratory, artists' collective and hub for regional and international art projects in Oberhausen.

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Lawrence Lek

Based on both real-world locations and fictional scenarios, Lawrence Lek creates virtual worlds in his works, reminiscent of both futuristic video games and digital visualizations of architecture.

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Achim Lengerer

Achim Lengerer explores medial language in his practice. He examines images, texts and original soundtracks as vehicles for political power and emancipatory potential.

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Ariane Loze

Ariane Loze’s video works are, from beginning to end, self-produced in the spirit of a one-woman show, in that she plays all the roles herself, being the camerawoman as well as lighting technician.

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Stefan Marx

For Ruhr Ding, Marx is creating various black and white murals on facades that are located in each city involved in Ruhr Ding: Territorien.

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Ivan Moudov

When Ivan Moudov announced the opening of a Bulgarian museum of contemporary art in a Sofia train station hall in 2005, 200 guests came – and waited in vain.

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Henrike Naumann

In her work, Henrike Naumann reflects on the history of right-wing extremist violence in Germany and the causes of racial prejudice.

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Alexandra Pirici

In performative actions lasting several hours, Alexandra Pirici combines contemporary dance with language and space.

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Suse Weber

Suse Weber works with sculpture, installation, sound and performance. Utilizing these media, she has developed her own conceptual complex of emblematic sculpture.

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WerkStadt

With the people on site resources for coping with change processes, crises and other challenges will be identified.

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Nicole Wermers

In her sculptures, photographs and collages, Nicole Wermers combines formal questions with investigations into urban space and its social, economic and psychological inscriptions.