Herne

24.05.2013
100 Lights / 100 Faces - Tina Jelveh from Iran
Tina's parents came as political refugees to Germany and remained in Herne ever since. Tina studies Protestant theology.This story is part of the art project 100 lights / 100 faces. It reflects the social, historical, and multicultural reality of the Ruhr Metropolis. The variety and complexity more ...
22.12.2010
EMSCHERKUNST.2010 - artist duo M+M helps Ruhr families finding their identity
Which emotions are transported by the statement „I love you“ told by a father to his son, and what changes when the father tells his wife the same?  Martin de Mattia und Marc WeissThe artist duo M+M, Martin de Mattia and Marc Weiss, are looking for an adequate setting for their current art more ...
16.09.2010
"Symphony of a Thousand" - Ruhr.2010 celebrates Mahler and itself
100 years after the premiere to the very day, the Ruhr metropolis managed to perform Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in a way that the composer would probably have wanted it himself without explicitly ever stating that in writing.At the premiere, there were 858 singers and 171 musicians on stage. more ...
04.07.2010
EMSCHERKUNST - Bogomir Ecker 03
The world's smallest ocean is just 500 meters long, 250 meters wide, and situated in Herne. To be more specific: The Herner Meer ("Herne ocean") is a kind of harbor basin of the Rine-Herne-Canal above the lock Herne Ost. Bogumir Ecker wants to set "water marks" there: more ...
03.07.2010
EMSCHERKUNST - Oberhausen Castle
It is possible to intertwine art, design, and architecture not only in houses, but in bridges, too. An epitome of that feat is the pedestrian / bicycle bridge over the Rine-Herne-Canal. Saschko Frey follows the artist Tobias Rehberger who attended to the big sculpture on the Emscher island. more ...
23.03.2010
EMSCHERKUNST.2010 - ooze 02
2003, architects Eva Pfannes and Sylvain Hartenberg started their office Ooze Architects, with offices in Paris and Rotterdam. They work in the crossover area of architecture and landscaping, between arts and design. They have created an art installation for EMSCHERKUNST.2010 dealing with the more ...
08.02.2010
EMSCHERKUNST.2010 - Ooze 01
At first sight, the joint project Between the Waters – The Emscher Community Garden by Marjetica Potrč and Ooze Architects reminds you of an artificially created kitchen garden. The Emscher is connected with the Rhine-Herne-Canal symbolically and factually by a strip of ornamental and useful more ...
04.02.2010
EMSCHERKUNST.2010 - Silke Wagner 02
Silke Wagner has chosen an extraordinary location for the realisation of her project suggestion for EMSCHERKUNST.2010: The digestion tower on the premises of the former sewage plant in Herne has been cleaned, cored, and reconstructed – so, the unusual egg shape of the tower could develop more ...
11.01.2010
IBA-Emscherpark: industrial areas - just aesthetic elements?
The end of he coal and steel industry meant a lot of urban waste, a declining economy and a conglomeration of more than 150 nationalities. Then, the construction exhibition IBA-Emscherpark started with a sophisticated aesthetical approach – an anachronism or a vision come true? It’s a more ...
06.12.2009
2050 is just around the corner
Ok – in 2050, the residential areas planned in the course of the Ruhr2010 will have grown (up, you might say). The boundaries to other projects have disappeared, islands have turned into landmarks within the region. But does this constitute the end of all planning desires more ...
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