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Jahrgang 2022

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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

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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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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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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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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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Marc Kokopeli

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Palliative Patterns

Kasia Fudakowski

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

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

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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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