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Zu Gast Jahrgang 2025

© Heinrich Holtgreve
1.8. – 30.11.25

Time Periods for the research stay

Kokerei Hansa: 1.8.-31.10.2025
Haus der Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets: 1.9.-30.11.2025
Focus Performance: 1.8.-31.10.2025

Im Rahmen des Programms Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr vergeben wir im Jahr 2025 erneut sechs dreimonatige Plätze für Recherchen und die Entwicklung von Projektideen im Ruhrgebiet.

Das Programm Zu Gast bei Urbane Künste Ruhr richtete sich an Künstler*innen und Kollektive, die an der Arbeit vor Ort und an einer zeitgenössischen Perspektive auf die Region und ihre Themen interessiert sind. Während des Aufenthalts entwickeln sie ein kontextspezifisches Projekt, das 2026 in einer Ausstellung der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert werden soll. Das Programm wird gemeinsam mit den regionalen Kooperationspartnern Stiftung Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets und Stiftung Industriedenkmalpflege und Geschichtskultur mit verschiedenen Schwerpunkten umgesetzt. 

Bis zum 31. März konnten sich Künstler*innen und Kollektive über einen Open Call mit ihrem Projektvorhaben bewerben. Aus den Einreichungen wählte eine Fachjury bestehend aus Stefanie Kreuzer (Direktorin Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr), Viktor Neumann (Direktor Kunstverein Bonn), Rebecca Racine Ramershoven (Künstlerin), Maximiliane Baumgartner (Künstlerin) sowie Christoph Seidel (Stiftung Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets), Ursula Mehrfeld (Stiftung Industriedenkmalpflege), Alisha Raissa Danscher und Britta Peters von Urbane Künste Ruhr die Positionen für den Jahrgang aus. 

Wir laden Euch herzlich ein, unsere Gäste und ihre Vorhaben beim Housewarming auf der Kokerei Hansa am 5. September 2025 kennenzulernen.

Events

  • Open Event

    © Daniel Sadrowski

    Fr., 5.9.25, 18 hView

    Housewarming

Artists

Open Artsit

Ziran Sha Pei

Ziran Sha Pei deals artistically with ableism, queer feminism, racism and right-wing extremism in Western, Muslim and East Asian culture. 

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sakasaka

The artists Adjoa Armah and Sel Kofiga work together artistically under the name sakasaka, which refers to the creative heritage of Adjoa Armah's parents and the Ghanaian Akan word for centipede.

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Katrin Mayer

Katrin Mayer is an artist based in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She works individually and collaboratively with a focus on site-specificity, gender, polyphony, textile and textual structures and topological notions of thought and space. 

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Jingyun Li

Jingyun Li (born 1995 in Xi’an) is a freelance theater artist and producer. Living and working across languages, have strongly shaped their approach to art making and performance. 

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Enrico Bordieri, Marina Erler and Ana Me Zentgraf

Ana Me Zentgraf (* in Thueringen) is a Vietnamese-German artist, Marina Erler is an independent theatre maker, theatre educator and director from Leipzig and Enrico Bordieri studied Romance studies and philosophy in Rome, Edinburgh and Berlin, as well as dramaturgy at the HMT Leipzig.

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Antonia Alessia Virginia Beeskow and Lilli Lake

Antonia Beeskow and Lilli Lake share an interest in sound as a speculative and subversive material. Their recent collaboration included exhibits at the Kunstverein Nürnberg (2024) and with the Inter Media Art Institute (IMAI) at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (2024).

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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

Artist

Open Artsit

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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