Dortmund

22.07.2011
A thriving, enjoyable mixture: Juicy Beats festival in Dortmund
Beth Ditto, The Notwist, Boys Noize – the annual Juicy Beats-Festival in Dortmund is always brimming with national und international top acts. But maybe these artists wouldn’t be necessary for this unique event in the huge Westfalenpark in Dortmund: the 20.000 guests perhaps would have come here more ...
16.07.2011
Proto Anime Cut
"Cool Japan" has become a dictum in recent years. Anime and Manga are part of a global pop culture whose imaginative style enthuses many young people in this country. Kurator der Ausstellung "Proto Anime" Stefan RiekelesSimply take a look at the numerous Cosplayers and Emo more ...
10.07.2011
Art campaign „Unbehaust“ (Houseless): 100 tents in the Dortmund city garden
Camping in the city? No - the art campaign „Unbehaust“ ("Houseless", 1.-3. July 2011) was a „social sculpture“ with which dramaturge Daniel Kasselmann wanted to raise awareness for latent and urgent social issues – in cooperation with the street paper "bodo", and the Dortmund theatre and its more ...
09.07.2011
Go digital! The new edition of "Ultra", a grafitti magazine made in Dortmund, is available in the real and the virtual world
This time, the new issue of the graffiti magazine „Ultra“ (which has its home base in Dortmund), is a little piece of art – it's available printed and in an iPad version. With its high-resolution photos and digital animations, it sets new standards.The relevance of Dortmund more ...
09.07.2011
Shop window #2 in the Museum Ostwall - photographs by Matthias Koch make transition visible
You could stand in the photos. At least, that is how some of the partially large-size works by Matthias Koch appear - as of now, they are on display in the second "shop window"of the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund. Koch seems to be a documentarist, yet, he is an artist. A courageous one. more ...
05.07.2011
Hell is on the seventh floor
A reknowned star like DJ Hell in the Dortmunder U – why should that be less important than the media art exhibitions in the Museum Ostwall or in the HMKV in the floor below the den VIEW-Club? Every now and then, even Dortmund catches a whiff of coolness – and the U tower plays an more ...
01.07.2011
It was like an alien landscape – US-Poet Katherine Thorpe and the Ruhr area
Katherine Thorpe has recently graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Germany, where she is at work on a poetry manuscript about industrial architecture in the Ruhr area. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in a variety of literary journals, more ...
27.06.2011
Oasis in concrete
In order to explore how an urban future with more inspiration, communication and an optimised eco-balance could be realised, the mobile laboratory of the Women's International Film Festival on a parking lot in Dortmund's city centre. The artist collective Labsa e.V. and selected project more ...
24.06.2011
"Street art works like advertising" - interview with Mark Gmehling: Part 2
Part 1 of the interview covered the biography of artist and designer Mark Gmehling. Part 2 is about the area of tension between artist and advertising as well as the scene in Dortmund.Christian Caravante: How is your engagement for brand products? Is there a reserved attitude much like the motto: more ...
07.06.2011
Behind the scenes of the exhibition "Gone to Croatan"
Getting out, disappearing, covering your tracks – this topic has a long tradition and is a frequently used subject in contemporary literature. Well-known epitomes of that motif are pop musicians Radiohead with their song How To Disappear Completely, Sean Penn with his film Into The Wild, or more ...
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