Oberhausen

Christo Big Air Package Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 2013 Chriso
04.04.2013
“The Big Air Package has no message, no message whatsoever”, Christo points out. His spectacular projects – which he created together with his wife Jeanne-Claude until her death in 2009 -  were and are about pure visual aesthetics. And of course they are all about reality, more ...
03.07.2011
For the second time, the Film Forum Zadar will take place in Croatia in August. Its exceptional position in Europe has meanwhile been recognised by the film industry. Founder and director is the Oberhausen-based film maker Sergej Stanojkovski. Part 2 of the Interview.2010LAB.tv: You know the Ruhr more ...
02.07.2011
For the second time, the Film Forum Zadar will take place in Croatia in August. Its exceptional position in Europe has meanwhile been recognised by the film industry. Founder and director is the Oberhausen-based film maker Sergej Stanojkovski. An Interview.2010LAB.tv: You founded the Film Form more ...
16.05.2011
The 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is over, and the weather was – as usual – almost as good as the programme. And as usual, the expectations regarding the festival were almost utopian – can or must it meet them at all? A recapitulation.First: the presumptuous more ...
15.05.2011
Nature and culture – Culture and industrial change. These are the two connections that the exhibition "Magic Places" at the Gasometer Oberhausen represents. The curators Wolfgang Volz and Peter Pachnike staged spherical music, strong images and sculptures.Regenwaldbaum im Gasometer, Foto: Wolfgang more ...
17.02.2011
He wishes he was older sometimes. Older than now - older than 23. Then he wouldn't always be the youngest. And his age wouldn't matter at exhibitions or vernissages - places where Alpay Efe presents his pictures. Maybe it's the combination of age, nationality, style and talent that make the more ...
21.12.2010
The invitation said „location equipped with heating“ – but that wasn’t true: during the final press conference of RUHR.2010 in the Gasometer Oberhausen on December 9, it was not much warmer than outside in the snow, and the managing / artistic directors had to deliver their all in all positive, more ...
05.07.2010
Guests being hosts? Living in an exhibition? No contradiction - it's just the project GastGastgeber Niederlande (GuestHost Netherlandas). Dutch architects transform vacant buildings or areas of the Ruhr metropolis into unusual accommodation facilities. Although the Netherlands are guests in more ...
03.02.2010
Angels live in Los Angeles and you dream in Hollywood - but where is the land of opportunities? For film-maker Sergej Stanojkovski it is clearly the Ruhr Area. The internationally-acclaimed director lives and works in the city of Muehlheim an der Ruhr.The know-how of the creative in that region is more ...