The international festival of contemporary art “Ruhrtriennale” (Ruhrtriennale) has started in Bochum, taking place in the cities of the Ruhr region of Germany. Former industrial sites are used as stage venues: mine complexes that have become monuments, metallurgical factories and other places associated with the rich industrial past of this region. The main artistic feature of the festival is the creation of interdisciplinary productions that combine painting, music, theater.
The current artistic director of the “Ruhr Triennale” Barbara Frey (Barbara Frey) is sure that without culture, dialogue is impossible either within society or between countries. “We have become slaves to social networks that set the pace that no one else can keep up,” she notes. According to Fry, sometimes the only space where we can afford to think and slow down is the space of culture: when we sit in a theater, when we look at an installation, when we empathize during a concert, turning off our mobile phones. And the biggest festival in Germany’s largest federal state (in North Rhine-Westphalia) is the perfect place to get in touch with culture.
The Ruhr Triennale turns 20 this season. The festival was first held in 2002, and this season it will be held from August 11 to September 18: more than 30 productions and projects for every taste, five world premieres. One of the brightest artifacts of the current art forum is the installation “The Huddle” by the famous Berlin artist Katja Aufleger (Katja Aufleger): the “crowd” of excavators is placed in a triangle, they threaten one another, but at the same time they are trying to conduct a dialogue.
Katya Aufleger in front of her work
The festival opened on the evening of September 11 with the premiere of the musical performance “I go where there are only shadows” (“Ich geh unter lauter Schatten” – see the title photo) at the main festival site – in the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum, in the past – a power plant of the early 20th century . The festival also takes place in the former coal mine “Zolverein” in Essen, in the “Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord”, the former mine “Zwekel” in Gladbeck and other places.
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