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Jahrgang 2020

For the 2019/2020 edition, the focus was on artists whose work deals with ‘climate’ in the broadest sense, the thematic bracket of Ruhr Ding 2021.

The twelve-month residencies were awarded to the artist Euridice Kala (France/Mozambique) and the photographer Mohamed Altoum (Sudan). Altoum was already a scholarship holder of Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr the previous year. Both residencies were linked to the joint Silent University Ruhr project launched in 2015 by Ringlokschuppen Ruhr in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr and Urbane Künste Ruhr.

The three-month residencies were linked to KunstVereineRuhr. From July to September 2019, Nastassja Simensky from England and the Japanese-German duo Kyoco and Nico Alexander Taniyamaan came to the Ruhr region. From October to December 2019, Ana Alenso from Venezuela and Marianna Christofides from Cyprus were guests. From January to March 2020, Angharad Williams from Wales and Etienne Dietzel from Germany were at home in the Ruhr region. Jackie Karuti and Thomas Taube came to the Ruhr region from April to June 2020.

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©Angharad Williams Baege

The Wig

For Ruhr Ding: Schlaf, the Welsh artist Angharad Williams as part of the collective The Wig adevelops a work for the Makroscope rooms.

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©Roland Baege

Nastassja Simensky

Nastassja Simensky uses moving image, writing, music and performance to develop a material understanding of politics and history.

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©Roland Baege

Mohamed Altoum

Mohamed Altoum is a Sudanese visual artist, photographer and cameraman. n his works he combines selected visual impressions with storytelling.

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©Roland Baege

Marianna Christofides

In her practice Marianna Christofides deals with entangled narratives that constitute the different layers of multi-authored places.

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©Roland Baege

Kyoco Taniyama & Nico Alexander Taniyama

Kyoco+Nico are an artist duo from Tokyo and Berlin. The behaviour as well as the verbal syntax of the two cities tend to be exact opposites.

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©Roland Baege

Euridice Kala

Euridice Getulio Kala is an artist based in Paris. She was trained as a photographer at the Market Photo Workshop, Johannesburg.

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©Roland Baege

Etienne Dietzel

Etienne Dietzels works, which are frequently developed in cooperation with artists and specialists from various fields, are technical in nature, their appearance relating to their own genesis.

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©Roland Baege

Ana Alenso

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

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Xanten

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Xanten by Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a house with a front yard in Xanten. Text: "We are not talking about work here, we are talking about... front yards."

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a house entrance with a palm tree and decorative figures. Text: "There is a lot of work here... and very careful work."

© Jul Gordon

Drawing of two lion statues in front of a door with dialogue. Text: "So, I just wanted to say, I won’t set an alarm or anything." – "Why? If something happens...?"

© Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a frog with binoculars sitting on a table in front of a door. Text: "Do you remember Simex?"

© Jul Gordon

Artistic drawing with flying birds and a ribbon. Text: "She has become a cat." – "Could we maybe redirect this?"

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a creative front yard decoration with stacked shapes. Text: "She is really awesome."

© Jul Gordon

Minimalist drawing of a house with a lion figure in front of the door. Text: "And prevent more of this mess."

© Jul Gordon

Critical illustration of an advertising poster with the text "You belong" and a crowd. Text: "E.g. fascism."

© Jul Gordon

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Jul Gordon

Jul Gordon lives in Hamburg and works as a comic artist. In addition to drawing, she curates exhibitions and works as a lecturer at the HAW Hamburg.

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