Nine printed issues of the Urbane Künste Ruhr magazine were published from 2018 to 2023. The magazine documented the institution's projects, in particular the Ruhr Ding exhibition format, and reflected on them in accompanying texts.

From the outset, 500 copies of each edition of the magazine were set aside for later use. The individual issues are now brought together in a 670-page catalogue. It has also been expanded to include an index of people and places as well as an editorial by Artistic Director Britta Peters. New projects can always be discovered while leafing through the catalogue, while the index enables a playful, retrospective discourse analysis.

In academic, essayistic and pop-cultural contributions by numerous authors and artists, the publication explores the special features of the Ruhr region and the relationship between art and the public sphere ‘between a glorified past and a future not yet realised’.

The book is published by BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE.