Zwischen Erfinden und Erfassen - Suchbewegungen im Duisburger Innenhafen

With Arhun Aksakal, Cosima von Bonin, Stella Flatten, Marlin de Haan, Paula Pedraza, Franziska Pierwoss & Jonas Leifert, Ramona Schacht & Luca Bublik, John Smith, Nesrin Tanç, Alfredo Thiermann, Iris Touliatou, Anna R. Winder

Traces of the Middle Ages, remnants of industrial history, postmodern architecture and local recreation come together in Duisburg's inner harbor to form a collaged urban landscape. The little brother of Duisburg's large inland port, its function as Europe's former largest grain transshipment point is hardly noticeable today: In the 1990s, the harbor canal was transformed as part of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park and reinvented as a residential and leisure area according to a master plan by architect Sir Norman Foster. At the same time, the city archive, the Center for Remembrance Culture, the NRW State Archive and the Garden of Memories by artist Dani Karavan provide a high density of institutions dedicated to historical contexts.

The exhibition takes a contemporary look at the inner harbor with mostly newly created sculptural, conceptual, performative, sound and video works by international artists and explores processes of invention, superimposition and failure.

An exhibition by Urbane Künste Ruhr for the Ruhrtriennale 2025
Some projects were developed as part of the Guest of Urbane Künste Ruhr program.