Highlights 2010
Highlights 2010
Mischa Kuball: New Pott - 100 Lights / 100 Faces
28. October 2010 to 30. April 2011
Kunstsammlung der Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
Campusmuseum. Collection of modern art
100 Lights / 100 Faces is an artistic research trip through the social and historical spectrum of the Ruhr metropolis. Mischa Kuball visits around 100 families from 100 nations between Duisburg and Dortmund and asks them to tell their stories of migration and life. A photographer and film director documents the meetings in these families’ very personal surroundings. A lamp designed by Mischa Kuball represents a light-sign of the meeting and the exchange of personal stories and remains with the respective families. A ‘twin’ of each lamp will be exhibited to accompany the respective photos, thus enabling viewers to withdraw into the private and individual context of the respective life history.
100 Lights / 100 Faces tries to show all facets of the Ruhr metropolis’ cultural diversity and to develop an artistic tale of the complex issue of migration. The symbolic ‘lights’ with photos and multi-media-based documentations and with them a direct, personal insight into the phenomenon of migration, will be shown at the Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. In addition, a platform will be established in the Internet in cooperation with 2010lab.com, telling the stories in moving pictures and texts.
More Information on the website of the RuhrKunstMuseen.
Ruhrlights: Twilight Zone
Yves Netzhammer "Raumscherben", Sternwarte Bochum, Foto: RUHR.2010 / Ralp Lueger
Internationale Lichtkunst an der Ruhr
(International light art on the Ruhr), 3.9. – 26.9.2010
From dawn to midnight, free entry
The international light-art festival ‘Ruhrlights: Twilight Zone’ lends new visibility to the special landscapes of the Ruhr. In a partnership programme of the cities of Duisburg, Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Hattingen, Bochum, Witten, Hagen and Dortmund staged in September 2010, the Ruhr region will be highlighted 10 as a special natural landscape and recreation space.
Internationally renowned light artists such as Peter Kogler, Yves Netzhammer, Siegrun Appelt, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Tatzu Nishi, Klaus Obermaier and others are invited to present and express this particular landscape’s qualities in new ways.
At select places along the river Ruhr the artists will create works that enable new sensory inputs and alter the visitors’ emotional experiences. Light art will draw attention to designated places, put them in motion and tell a different story from the everyday one.
The closing event on September 26 will unite the northern waterway, the Rhein-Herne canal, which is transformed into the KulturKanal in the year of the Capital of Culture, and the river Ruhr in Duisburg’s inner harbour. In the closing ceremony with mobile concerts by the Duisburger Philharmoniker, walk-in light architecture and multi-media performances, new pictures will begin to leave lasting impressions in our memory.
More information at www.ruhr2010.de/ruhrlights
LichtKunstRaum sanktreinoldi
Jun Yang „Things we have in common" / Foto: Benito Barajas
Opening: Friday, May 14, 2010
Duration: May 15 to July 27, 2010
Angela Bulloch (CAN/D), Andreas Oldörp (D) and Yun Yang (CN/A) at the cultural capital project LichtKunstRaum sanktreinoldi in Dortmund
Buildings of industrial culture that are often quite spectacular characterize the image of the Ruhr region. However, can the identity of the Ruhr metropolis be determined exclusively by these testimonies to industrialisation? Church buildings show another side of the culture and architecture that have shaped this region.
On the occasion of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010, the protestant church of St. Reinoldi in Dortmund invites three internationally renowned artists to play on the historical and current particularities of this protected monument and its complex levels of relevance in the triad of art, religion and society.
In the context of LichtRaumKunst sanktreinoldi there will also be symposiums, music events and contemporary dance.
Direction: Pastor Michael Küstermann, Dortmund
Curator: Matthias Wagner K, Berlin
More information: www.ruhr2010.de/lichtkunstraum and www.sanktreinoldi.de/ruhr_2010.php
