Urbane Künste Ruhr has been confronted with a challenge that seems impossible to fulfill: to artistically explore the Ruhr Area, a former industrial region of 4,400 square kilometers with five million inhabitants in western Germany.
The Ruhr Ding: Schlaf marks the end of a three-part exhibition series presented throughout the region by the Urbane Künste Ruhr under Britta Peters’ artistic direction.
Neustadt revives miniature versions of lost architecture
Sculptures of buildings in the Ruhr region that have been torn down come back to life as art objects in an outdoor installation created by Julius von Bismarck and Marta Dyachenko.
Here comes Neustadt
21 sculptures were en route for days on a river barge from Berlin to Duisburg, created in the studio of artists Julius von Bismarck (photo) and Marta Dyachenko. Two additional sculptures were cast in concrete on the spot. All of them represent buildings that have long since been demolished some stood in the Ruhr region for more than a hundred years.
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