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RUHR.2010

We’re against it! But against what? In her installation Hajnal Németh unmasks political rhetoric.

Photo: Hajnal Németh

Dortmund – Centre for Art and Creativity

What is art? We’re going to save ourselves an answer to this philosophical question. Instead we’ve collected together exhibitions and projects by artists and creative workers under this menu heading: from Museum Night and Open Studio Weekend to the Creative Trade Fair at the Dortmund U.

You will also find a summary of art and artists, studios and galleries in Dortmund here:
www.kunst-in-dortmund.de

exhibitions, installings and literature

An Exhibition in the Cities of the Ruhr by Jochen Gerz

2-3 Streets

The art project "2-3 Streets" by Jochen Gerz highlights streets in the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 that are neither beautiful nor out of the ordinary - anonymous side roads such as can be found in any city or town and typical of post-war German cities with their blocks of apartments, shops and garages that get no mention in the town guide. The participating municipalities of Duisburg, Dortmund and Mülheim an der Ruhr have selected just such a number of nondescript streets. more…

Between illegal work and streetwalking

Borderland Ruhr – Tobias Zielony

Tobias Zielony is one of the advanced young photographers of our time. His works cover the range from classic documentary to conceptual presentation. His photographs document what the protagonists represent in the shown situations and spaces as well as who they are or pretend to be. more…

HMKV in the PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, 19 June - 10 October 2010

Arctic Perspective – Third Culture

The cooperative project “Arctic Perspective – Third Culture 2008-2010” directs attention to the global cultural and ecological significance of the polar regions. more…

DASA provides insights into European technology museums

DASA Media Pyramid

The German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition (DASA) in Dortmund will reach out to the world and become a crossroads of international networking. On June 12 and 13, 2010, a "media pyramid" will provide insights into Europe's most important science centres and science and technology museums. more…

Not creepy at all: museums at night

Dortmund DEW21 Museum Night

Cabaret performances between the art works and animals to stroke in a museum – that could only happen on Museum Night. On 25 September 2010 the Dortmund DEW21 Museum Night is celebrating its tenth anniversary. more…

A Centre for Creative Economy

ECCE – European Centre for Creative Economy

ECCE stands for "European Centre for Creative Economy". Its job is to make sure that the exciting projects that have been set in motion for the European Capital of Culture are carried on after 2010. more…

Networking for the creative economy

E-Culture Fair 2010

The E-Culture Fair 2010 is a different kind of trade fair. From 23 to 25 August 2010, in the tower of the Dortmund U, there will be individuals, initiatives and firms from the whole world, who work on the interfaces between culture, creative economy, and research and development. more…

The Hungarian artist Ádám Kokesch will exhibit installations.

Contemporary art from Hungary

Exhibition ".szimpla..dupla…"

The exhibition ".szimpla..dupla…" in the Artists' House ("Künstlerhaus") offers a fascinating insight into Hungarian contemporary art. From 9 April to 30 May 2010, Hungarian artists are showing installations and works that have been especially selected for this Dortmund exhibition space. more…

Propaganda meets art

Crystal Clear Propaganda – The Transparent Method

Visitors will hardly recognize the Kunstverein ("Art Association") from 30 April to 6 June 2010: for this period the exhibition space in Hansastraße will be transformed into an arena of political propaganda. The Hungarian artist Hajnal Németh shows the hollowness of political propaganda with her 2009 installation "Crystal Clear Propaganda – The Transparent Method". more…

The Heuser family from West Germany and the Szirmai family from East Germany in 1980

East and West at Lake Balaton

German unity at Lake Balaton – a European history

Even before the reunification of Germany, East and West Germany met regularly – for example at Lake Balaton. This Hungarian resort was a popular holiday destination for inhabitants of both German states and ensured that there were many German-German encounters between the building and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Péter Forgács and Gusztáv Hámos show what these meetings looked like in their cinematographic installation in the Museum for Art and Cultural History (MKK), from 8 May to 11 July 2010. more…

Crisis or everyday life

Hanging around

What do people really do when they do not work? When they do not enter their bakery at four in the morning or put on their working suit, do not move files, open their shop or garage? What kind of life is it without external ascertained work? How do they spend their time which is not called working-time? Do they just hang around? What does it mean not to work in the different countries? Don’t we have to think about a new meaning for work? Has "time" a different meaning than before? Time is not money, time is life. This is a non-profit project! more…

Tracing “home”

Homestories

"A Day in my Life" - that's the theme of a photography project involving Ruhr metropolis photographers Tania Reinicke and Ekkehart Bussenius and around 30 young people from Novi Sad (Serbia) and Dortmund's Nordstadt, a part of the city strongly influenced by immigration. Photographs taken as part of the project will be shown at an exhibition in Dortmund. more…

The festival ISEA offers insights into the latest productions.

16th International Symposium on Electronic Art

ISEA2010 RUHR

The world's most important international electronic arts festival ISEA will take place in Germany for the first time ever as part of RUHR.2010. Innovative works of art from around the globe will be on display in Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg in August 2010 as part of ISEA. more…

Clear the stage for literature

LesArt ('Reading Art') Literature Festival

A writer, a book, a table – that’s all you need for a reading? Yeah, right. The "LesArt" Literature Festival has been showing for ten years how to put literature on the stage properly. more…

In the right light

LichtKunstRaum sanktreinoldi

Churches are essential repositories of memory within the town or city in which they are located. Linking past with present, they are more than just places of spiritual contemplation. The "Sanktreinoldikirche" (Church of St. Reinoldi) on Dortmund's Ostenhellweg is a typical example. As a German Imperial and Alderman's Church, it was, next to the town hall, the city's most important place of municipal representation in days gone by. more…

Great cinema in the Dortmund U

Moving Pictures. Art and cinema from 1950 to the present day

Cinema brought movement into art. But how does the relationship between cinema and other art forms look today? The exhibition “Moving Pictures. Art and Cinema from 1950 to the present day” which will be opened by the Ostwall Museum in the Dortmund U, tells of this relationship. On display will be masterpieces of the 20th century as well as contemporary art. more…

Crime Scene Ruhr: terribly exciting

Murder on the Hellweg - Crime Scene Ruhr

"Murder on the Hellweg - Crime Scene Ruhr" is the title of the 5th bi-annual "Murder on the Hellweg" mystery festival. The programme includes more than 180 events featuring over 400 readings by around 600 authors from all over the world. more…

This is how the Peace Light looks as a "sky pillar" in Den Haag.

Shining for peace

The Peace light of the religions

The PEACE LIGHT OF RELIGIONS is made up of a large number of white, translucid elements, half of which are symbols of world religions like Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Bahai, Buddhism and Hinduism. Each of these symbols will be linked with the others, as well as further symbols free of any religious reference. more…

A network project involving various artists' associations within the region

Starke Orte: Powerful Places for Art

"Powerful Places" is the art project run by the artists' associations of the Ruhr Metropolis and as such will serve as a platform for the future of art in the region. These associations are operating in concert for the first time in their history. A network of places which, due to their architecture, history and function represent something typical of the life, work and culture of the Ruhr region, will be transformed into joint exhibition and performance venues in 2010. more…

A portrayal of change in the Ruhr Metropolis

Shaft Signs

Anyone visiting the old winding towers, redeveloped spoil tips and other elevated sites in the Ruhr Metropolis in May 2010 during the week after Whitsuntide will be confronted by a striking scenario. Around 400 yellow balloons with long ribbons will hover like pins on a pin cushion up to 80 metres above the former mineshafts, the roots of the Ruhr region. 40 of them will be seen in Dortmund - more than in any other town of the Ruhr region. more…

The platforms act as an access point to the Körne Brook in Dortmund-Kurl and can also be used as chairs and tables or as a bed.

A landscape and culture project on the River Seseke and its subsidiaries

Walking on Water

In keeping with the RUHR.2010 maxim of "Change through Culture - Culture through Change", this project is committed to transforming industrial areas into "life-enhancing living spaces" through the media of art and culture. An innovative integration of engineering, ecology and art has provided the Lippe Association with an opportunity to transform the River Seseke from a wastewater channel into a more natural body of water. more…

Culture researchers out and about in Dortmund’s Westend

Westend Stories

Dortmund's Westend district will be examined using artistic methods as part of a joint project by the Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Technical University's chair for the didactics of art, the Dortmund Teachers' Seminar and other educational institutions. more…

Elisabeth Wilms filmed the rebuilding of Dortmund in the 1950s.

Films and art by women – also for men

Women’s views of the Ruhr. Dortmund yesterday, today, tomorrow

The Equal Rights Officers of the Ruhr’s city and regional councils are putting on a joint programme of art works by or about women. The focus in Dortmund is on films and fine art – from a female perspective. A film trilogy will be accompanied by an art exhibition by the group "duktus – artists in the Ruhr territory". more…

Literary tandems take up the trail

Power Words

From 17 to 23 April 2010 four authors from the Ruhr Metropolis will meet four writers from their European twin towns – and set out on a literary reconnaissance of local places. more…

From the Beginnings to Modern Outsider Arts

Inside worlds Outside Worlds

The arch of history drawn by the exposition "Inside Worlds Outside Worlds - From the Beginnings to Modern Outsider Arts" is unique in Germany and has never been shown before. It presents historical and rarely accessible works of the Prinzhorn collection from Heidelberg, the Morgenthaler collection from Bern and contemporary art work from participants in the Art-Transmitter project in Dortmund, who have undergone psychiatric treatment. more…

Artists with and without handicap will develop new artistic forms.

A palace for a new world

palaixbrut_installation

Paradise doesn’t need culture. Any disturbance or any deficiency constitutes a radical starting point of development. There are only ideal conditions in dead worlds. "palaixbrut" invites visitors to enter rooms whose "residents" make up their own laws and rituals, document every-day situations using artistic means, place stories from the edge of society into the centre of attention and debunk social inequality. more…