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Jahrgang 2022

© Daniel Sadrowski

In 2022, Urbane Künste Ruhr invited a total of 15 international artists to live and work in the Ruhr region for the 4th time. The loose, thematic bracket for the residency programme was called "Future".

The cooperation with KunstVereineRuhr, an association of various art associations and artists' residencies that has existed since the start of the programme, was continued. The Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets in Bochum and the Halfmannshof in Gelsenkirchen also once again opened their doors to two artists each. New additions are the collaborations with the Makroscope - Centre for Art and Technology in Mülheim an der Ruhr and with the Kunstmuseum Bochum.

Artists

Open Artsit

©Daniel Sadrowski

Yuri Yefanov

Yuri Yefanov (*1990) is an artist and filmmaker from Ukraine. His works use computer-generated imagery and game simulations to create digital dimensions of otherworldliness.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Philipp Modersohn

Philipp Modersohn's sculptures, animated films, and interdisciplinary projects highlight the vibrancy of things / matter and confront these with man-made structures and systems of social organization.

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Open Artsit

©Daniel Sadrowski

Nollaig Molloy

Nollaig Molloy works with moving image, sculptural installation and sound while sometimes using workshop and event-based outcomes, to explore landscape through material means.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Nadja Abt

In her performances, videos and paintings, Nadja Abt constructs feminist narratives that reference the world of literature and film.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Marc Kokopeli

Marc Kokopeli's work is overly concerned with how identity is formed during childhood.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Magdalena Los

In Magdalena Los’ digitally collaged visual worlds, everyday views collide with private screenshots or references to popular film scenes, works of art and current news from various departments.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Lubov Malikova

Lubov Malikova is a Ukrainian artist and – together with Max Poberezhsky – runs the collaborative art group and experimental design studio DIS/ORDER.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Jan Kiesswetter

In his work, Jan Kiesswetter produces publications and, increasingly, film documentaries. Recurring themes in his work are the representation of architectures and archives and the reading of images.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Jan Berger

Jan Berger's practice is primarily occupied with the ludic formation of cultural mythologies and the production of subjectivity in online spaces.

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Iris Ward Loughran

Iris Ward Loughran is sculptor, photographer, and urbanist living and working in Brooklyn, NY.

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Henrik Nieratschker

Henrik Nieratschker's artistic work deals with the social implications of our lives within a digital infrastructure.

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©Daniel Sadrowski 

Haha Wang

Haha Wang works mainly in sculpture and installation but also in video. In her works, the intimate feelings of both humans and animals are conveyed and transformed by unexpected objects or events.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Fabian Hampel

Fabian Hampel deals with contemporary technologies and is interested in linear, reflexive forms as well as abstract borderlands.

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Deniz Aktaş

In his work Deniz Aktaş captures human and environment relations affected by urban decay, environmental collapse, human migration, and the traumatic transformation of city and nature.

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©Daniel Sadrowski

Alina Schmuch

Based on photography and its extension in the medium of film, Alina Schmuch uses artist's books, video and installation to investigate the interaction between the visual medium and reality.

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Local Blackouts

Lütfiye Güzel

A person in a brown leather jacket looks at a large printed newspaper on a stand with the heading 'Wesel'.

© Daniel Sadrowski

A sign with the word 'NACHRICHTEN' with an abstract newspaper layout with little text.

© Heinrich Holtgreve

Ausgangsmaterial ist ein besonders kurzweiliges Format aus dem Alltag: die Tageszeitung. Lütfiye Güzel, Poetin aus Duisburg und Vertreterin eines konsequent selbstverlegten, körpernahen Schreibens, lässt sich für die Grand Snail Tour von Projektpartner*innen und Passant*innen Lokalzeitungen und -beilagen aus den zu bereisenden Städten zusenden. Aus diesen Dokumenten erzeugt Güzel durch gezieltes Ausstreichen und Schwärzen von Textpassagen insgesamt 53 Gedichte — Local Blackouts —, die auf Aufstellern an jeder Station veröffentlicht werden.

Die Methode der Blackout Poetry ist eine Form der Found Poetry und wird bei Güzel zum politischen Akt. Das Schwärzen zitiert die Logik der Zensur, kehrt sie aber um, denn das unkenntlich Machen hat nicht Unterdrückung, sondern Verdichtung zum Ziel: Was bleibt, wenn der redaktionelle Lärm verschwindet? Lyrische Miniaturen, die in ihrer Knappheit dem Haiku ähnlich ist. Güzels Entscheidung, diese Textarbeiten im öffentlichen Raum zu zeigen, stellt zudem implizit die Frage: Für wen werden solche Texte geschrieben, und wer kommt darin vor?

Lokalzeitungen sind ein ambivalentes Medium. Sie fördern und informieren Nachbarschaften jenseits von Social Media — doch die Sprache und Nachrichtenauswahl ist häufig hetzerisch und vereinfachend. Tatsache ist, dass Lokalzeitungen an Bedeutung und finanzielle Unterstützung verlieren. Güzels Aneignung bewahrt und befragt dieses Erbe zugleich. Präsentiert auf herkömmlichen Presseaufstellern verleiht ihre Arbeit der Grand Snail Tour ein vertrautes Erscheinungsbild von regionaler Kultur und überführt diese gleichzeitig in die poetische Abstraktion.

Artist

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©Ben Knabe

Lütfiye Güzel

Lütfiye Güzel is a poet and has been publishing poems under her own label go-güzel-publishing since 2014.

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