EMSCHERKUNST – art & landscape
13.07.2010
Film artist Saschko Frey delivers first camera footage of selected EMSCHERKUNST.2010 project locations visited by the artist Tadashi Kawamata.
The biggest art project of the European Capital of Culture 2010, EMSCHERKUNST.2010, starts at the end of May and will run for 100 days. Its extremely
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04.07.2010
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:
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04.07.2010
For the exhibition EMSCHERKUNST.2010, Stephan Huber has developed three short, ten minutes long Kasperltheater (that is a German/Austrian version of Punch and Judy) plays which are performed daily on a mobile stage at various locations in the Ruhr area. These ribald, surreal plays are rooted more
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03.07.2010
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.
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09.06.2010
Jean Blaise is a tireless creative artist. The director of the centre for art and culture "Lieu Unique" (meaning unique location) in the French city of Nantes has become famous for his invention of the "Nuit Blanche" (meaning white night). The night of culture, a haven and
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28.05.2010
The biggest art project of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 EMSCHERKUNST.2010 starts on 29th of May. The exhibition will be opened by the Minister-President of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of a gala ceremony to be held.
It is scheduled to last 100 days and, under the name
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23.03.2010
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
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08.02.2010
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
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04.02.2010
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
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02.12.2009
The artist duo M+M, Martin de Mattia and Marc Weiss, inspect the film locations of their current art film project.The two work at the crossover between educational art and film, focussing on surround film installations which weave together narrative fragments without any chronological order. All of
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