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Jahrgang 2021

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Palliative Patterns

Kasia Fudakowski

Close-up of padded seat cushions with a colorful pattern.

© Daniel Sadrowski

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© Daniel Sadrowski

Close-up of a mobile stage with a screen and speakers.

© Daniel Sadrowski

Hast du schon mal über dein eigenes Sterben nachgedacht? Die Künstlerin Kasia Fudakowski fragt in Palliative Patterns, ihrer Arbeit für die Grand Snail Tour, was passiert, wenn wir aufhören würden, den Tod zu verdrängen und stattdessen lernen, mit der Allgegenwart unserer Endlichkeit zu leben. 

Mit ihren Kissen und Vorhängen für den Grand Snail Tour-Trailer übersetzt die Künstlerin diese Idee in einen Raum zum Verweilen. Dazu vervielfältigt und spiegelt sie mikroskopische Aufnahmen von Gewebeveränderungen, die den tödlichen Krankheiten Gehirn-Aneurysma, Lewy-Körperchen-Demenz und Arteriosklerose zugrunde liegen, bis sie ein psychodelisches Muster ergeben, das auch an Rorschach-Tafeln denken lässt. Ursprünglich aus der Psychodiagnostik soll der Rorschach-Test Aufschlüsse über den mentalen Zustand/Gesundheit der*des Patient*innen geben. Hier, bei Fudakowski, werden die Besucher*innen zu Proband*innen, ihre Vorstellungen wiederum zum Teil der Installation.  

Dieses Gedankenspiel wird auch in weiteren Medien- und Veranstaltungsformaten trainiert: Als Gründungsmitglied der internationalen Künstler*innengruppe The Association for the Palliative Turn (APT) fordert Fudakowski geistreich und mit viel Humor immer wieder dazu auf, dem Tod und Abschied zu begegnen und herauszufinden, wie Akzeptanz statt Verdrängung neue Werte definiert: Fürsorge statt Zeitdruck, Qualität vor Quantität und eine Entlastung von dem ewigen Streben nach Fortschritt, denn: Es gibt ein Leben vor dem Tod. 

Palliative Patterns setzt auch eine Werklogik fort, die Fudakowski im Allgemeinen verfolgt: Ihr lebenslang laufendes Skulpturenprojekt Continuouslessness (seit 2017) wird erst mit ihrem Tod vollendet sein. Endlichkeit ist hier kein Thema, sondern strukturelle Bedingung. 

Artist

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Kasia Fudakowski

Kasia Fudakowski works with sculpture, film and performance to uncover social enigmas through surreal logic and theory.

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