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Jahrgang 2021

© Daniel Sadrowski

For the 2020/2021 edition, the focus will be on artists whose work deals in the broadest sense with 'climate' and 'sleep', the thematic brackets of the Ruhr Ding editions 2021 and 2022.

The residencies, which generally last three or twelve months, are initially awarded independently of specific project proposals and enable artists to familiarise themselves with the region, incorporate this experience into their existing work or develop new ideas from it.

For the first time in 2021, the Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets in Bochum and the Halfmannshof in Gelsenkirchen have opened their doors to artists who want to use the specific digital or content-related research opportunities for their work on site. Since the start of the programme, there have been collaborations with the KunstVereineRuhr, an association of various art associations and artists' houses in the region, as well as the Ringlokschuppen Ruhr and the Makroscope - Centre for Art and Technology in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Artists

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Yuki Jungesblut

Yuki Jungesblut seeks out potentialities and instances of overlap between imagination, fiction and reality, often exploring underdetermined states and liminality in general.

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©Roland Baege

Viron Erol Vert

In his artistic practice, Viron Erol Vert probes – against the background of his own intercultural experiences – identity constructs and different aspects related to the self and the other.

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©Roland Baege

Vanessa Nica Mueller

Vanessa Nica Mueller's films and artwork focus on aspects of memory, the relation of human, nature and urban space, the uncanny and the construction of conditions.

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©Roland Baege

Thomas Taube

By means of multi-channel installations, associative, reflective and surreal sequences, Taube works against conventional cinematographic codes.

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Nicoleta Moise

Nicoleta Moise is a visual artist, writer and researcher with different mediums combining photography, video and performance and focusses on making visible less known stories, characters or events.

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©Roland Baege

Nadine Rangosch

Natural sciences, visual culture and mythological stories inspire Nadine Rangosch to build her own vocabulary, translating abstract concepts into spatial arrangements.

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©Roland Baege

Laura Leppert

Laura Leppert works with film, installation and text. Her installations and cinematic spaces are constructed in fragments and are constantly in motion.

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©Roland Baege

Kristina Paustian

Kristina Paustian examines cultural anthropological and socio-political topics. In cinematic images she focusses in particular on the themes of times of upheaval and technical utopias.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Julia Lübbecke

In her works, Julia Lübbecke deals with the relation between body and institution. She explores this connection to examine dominant structures of order and creates processes to make them fragile.

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©Roland Baege

Jessica Arseneau

Jessica Arseneau explores the way human perception and subjectivity is shaped by social codes, patterns of behaviour, accelerating culture and technological progress.

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©Daniel Sadrowski 

Guy Königstein

In his recent projects Guy Königstein researches the different ways we live the past in the present, for instance through practices of commemoration, archiving or archaeology.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

David Reiber Otálora

In his cinematic / sculptural works David Reiber Otálora deals with exoticisms and colonial representations of the so-called other and explores possibilities to affirm them into ambiguous narratives.

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©Roland Baege

Adriana Arroyo

Adriana Arroyo's works reference to geological activity, to reveal possible relationships between the movement of the Earth, politics and the fragility of the body and the mind.

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Choir of Missed Connections

Aram Bartholl

A man looks at a futuristic lamp with integrated surveillance cameras.

© Daniel Sadrowski

© Daniel Sadrowski

Wir stehen unter einem Kronleuchter, der statt Kerzen fünf 360°-Kameras in Glühbirnenform trägt. Diese suchen pausenlos nach einer Internetverbindung, aus der Audioschleife von Verbindungsaufbau und Reset – „Entering peering mode“ und „Power on!" – wird ein Chor aus Fehlermeldungen, der uns im Grand Snail Tour Trailer umgibt.

Aram Bartholl – Medienkünstler, Aktivist und Professor – stellt seit Dekaden unser Medienverhalten und die Ökonomien sozialer Netzwerke zur Diskussion. Im heutigen Internet sieht er die zentralen Probleme im Rückzug in private und kommerzielle Nutzung, in Überwachung, Manipulation und den endlosen Datenfluten. Dabei ist Kontrolle durch Licht kein neues Phänomen: Straßenbeleuchtung dienten nicht zuletzt dazu, Sichtbarkeit im öffentlichen Raum herzustellen, um längere Arbeitszeiten zu ermöglichen, Bewegungen zu erfassen, Menschen zu kontrollieren. Geprägt von seiner Nähe zum Chaos Computer Club, überführt Bartholl Lücken und Absurditäten des digitalen Alltags in Objekte und Interventionen. Mit Dead Drops (seit 2010) zementierte er USB-Sticks in Mauerwerke – Speicher für einen anonyme Datenaustausch ohne Cloud, ohne Algorithmus, ohne Konzern. Für Skulptur Projekte Münster entwickelte Bartholl 2017 thermoelektrische Installationen an historischen Orten der Stadt, die das Feuer als ursprüngliches Kommunikationsmedium in Energie umwandelten: Ein ofenbeheizter Offline-Router am Fernmeldeturm, lagerfeuergespeiste Ladestationen für Mobiltelefone am Pumpenhaus – und einen Kronleuchter aus teelichtbetriebenen LED-Lampen in der Schlossunterführung. 

Choir of Missed Connections zieht nun als Soundskulptur durch abgelegene Kleinstädte, sucht Verbindungen – und wird im kommunikativen Sinne vielleicht auf unerwartete Weise fündig.

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©Friso Gentsch

Aram Bartholl

In his sculptural works and workshops, Aram Bartholl explores digital media, surveillance and platform capitalism in public space.

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