GrenzGgebietRuhr

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"Container Transit"
"Black gold"

GrenzGebietRuhr is a network project within the framework of RUHR.2010 - European Capital of Culture , in which twelve art associations and two artists' houses in the Ruhr area came together to jointly develop a project that reflects the topic of "borders" both in closed exhibition spaces and in public spaces.

concept

The project aims to make the metropolitan area Ruhr with its 53 cities, three administrative districts and two landscape associations tangible as a complex living space with special aesthetic, social, cultural and historical qualities. The project pays particular attention to the representation of refraction, blurring and what is hidden beneath the surface of the visible. The projects approach the topic from different directions and develop different narrative strands that, taken together, are intended to reflect the identity of the Ruhr area as a living space.

“GrenzGebietRuhr” traces the boundaries of regional macro and microstructures and looks at borderline situations of the urban . The processes of border-drawing and border-shifting are observed and reflected in different contributions. Each contribution has its own artistic, historical or sociological background in order to make life-defining phenomena in the Ruhr Metropolis legible. From the sum of the different contributions, a new image of the region is to emerge, which is shaped by the nature of urbanity and change and, with its many facets, contributes to a genuine image of the Ruhr Metropolis.

Exhibitions

At a total of sixteen locations in the Ruhr area, installations , paintings and interventions show the different ways in which people in the Ruhr area can encounter borders.

Bochum

  • Expressway ; Klaus Dauven
    The drawing "Schnellweg" was created over a length of about 400 meters at the     Dorstener Straße bridge on the A 40 . The artist Klaus Dauven did not use paint, but removed existing dirt with a high-pressure cleaner .
"Una on the way to Bochum"; Hlynur Hallsson.
  • Limitless ; Dirk Schlichting
    50 red and white striped barriers in the viewing area of ​​the signal box set a sign on the former     Gahlens Coal Route during the day ( similar to a Mikado game ) and at night as illuminated bodies .
  • Come in ; Martin Brüger
    With a tall industrial mesh fence and turnstiles, Martin Brüger realized a site-specific installation in an area on Lake Kemnade , where the city limits of Bochum, Hattingen and Witten converge.
  • tungur - tongues ; Hlynur Hallsson
    The Icelandic artist Hlynur Hallsson showed "limits" as they are created by language. For the project »tungurungen - tongues« he asked people whose opinions were publicly exhibited in videos, photos and texts as well as in the KV Bochum cultural council.

Dorsten

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“Black Gold” on Gahlen's Coal Trail; Kirsten and Peter Kaiser
  • " Black Gold" on Gahlen's Coal Road in Dorsten ; Kirsten Kaiser An artificial lump of coal is suspended
    in the concrete cube at the Recklinghäuser Tor . A golden city silhouette that resembles     Dorsten sits enthroned on it . The sculpture "Black Gold" illustrates the importance of coal for the region.

Dortmund

  • Tobias Zielony - Photography
    With his camera Tobias Zielony will     photograph both the trendy district of the commercial trade and the illegal workers in Dortmund . The focus of the camera portrays people from Romania and Bulgaria who have come to Dortmund as the third wave of immigration since 2008.
  • Comeback
    »Comeback« crosses the unwritten boundaries of exhibition politics: They never come back. There is a renewed invitation to artists from all over Europe. Her more recent works will be shown in order to show the sustainability of the first stay in the Künstlerhaus and artistic developments.
  • Satellites, Boundaries and Footprints
    A media art workshop for artists and interested parties that deals with the drawing of boundaries and their superimposition by the "footprints" that satellites leave on earth.

Duisburg

  • Container-Transit
    "Container-Transit" deals with external relations in the border region of the Ruhr. Artists who live along the Duisburg - Rotterdam and Duisburg- Antwerp transport routes present their works in miniature containers.

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  • Checkpoint
    “Checkpoint” reflects on the occasion of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 the life contexts of migrants in the Ruhr Metropolis as well as in the pan-European context. Through artistic approach to selected biographical situations, sensitive and profound portraits of people of different (cultural) origins and socializations are created. The artistic contributions deal with cultural, linguistic, geographical and psychologically effective borders. They visualize their meaning and effectiveness against the background of an urban society that is constantly changing and characterized by immigration and emigration.

Artists: Valentin Beinroth, Anne Berlit, Doris Frohnapfel, Petra Göbel, Johannes Gramm , Christoph Hildebrand, Susanne Krell , Katharina Lökenhoff, Zhenia Couso Martell, Renate Neuser, Gerda Schlembach

  • Gaylen Gerber
    The Chicago-based artist Gaylen Gerber intervenes in the appearance of the exhibition space with reduced means, so that it is no longer possible to distinguish between the exhibited works and the context.

Gelsenkirchen

Herne

  • Bridge over the Emscher near Crange ; Helmut Bettenhausen
    A reduced bridge as a reminder of the crossing of Gahlen's coal route over the Emscher from the times of early industrial development of the Ruhr area.

Recklinghausen

  • with me! - At home in the Ruhr area
    »with me« is a quasi-sociological art project on the subject of living and identity. People from the Ruhr area take photos of their home and, in “self-portraits without people”, give an insight into their living culture and their handling of art.

Swords

  • CONFINIUM ; Johan Tahon
    Johan Tahon moves his studio to the Schwerte art association for three weeks. He lets visitors experience how his sculptures are created, in which the most diverse border areas come together.

Participating institutions

  • gallery january (Bochum)
  • Art Association Bochum
  • Art Association Bochum Cultural Council
  • Virtual-visual (Dorsten)
  • Dortmund Art Association
  • Künstlerhaus Dortmund
  • Hartware MedienKunstVerein (Dortmund)
  • Art Association Duisburg
  • Kunsthaus Essen
  • Kunstverein Ruhr (Essen)
  • Art Association Gelsenkirchen
  • Support association Zeche Unser Fritz 2/3 (Herne)
  • Art Association Recklinghausen
  • Schwerte Art Association

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