Karten-Ansicht
Katalog-Ansichtonline seit:18. September 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:18. September 2022
Frauke Rohenkohl deals with industrial motion sequences based on the value chain of leather products and translates them in a sophisticated way into a spatial body made of steel and aluminum that is open on three sides. This building structure has sliding elements suspended from rails as image carriers of various photographic and archival materials. The photographs were taken by Frauke Rohenkohl on trips to Kanpur in India and to Pirmasens in southern Palatinate. The visitors experience metaphor-like, partly exemplary insights into present and former centers of leather goods and shoe production. The visual worlds, which are divided into several chapters and never remain at an absolute standstill, are complemented by a video work created in collaboration with Christiane Muñoz and a sound piece by Jonas Brust.
online seit:16. September 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:19. September 2022
After the end of the exhibition on September 25, 2022, documenta fifteen will give away exhibition materials that are no longer needed, in accordance with the idea of sustainable material cycles.
Interested projects and individuals can apply for exhibition materials via the e-mail address materialcycles@documenta.de.
The material can be collected from 26.09 / in week 39.
Visions - Videoart collage in 32:9
Galeria Kollektiva is showcasing a variety of videoart, projected on a 13m x 4m wall. The focus lies on, but is not limited to, digital generative artworks that interplay with the different perspectives one can find through the huge windows of the space.
The projection starts everyday at 20:15 and can be seen from the outside and inside.
A full list of all artists can be found under galeria.kollektiva.info
Galeria Kollektiva
Schillerstraße 30,
34117 Kassel
online seit:6. September 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:12. September 2022
For the second time, the storytales festival will take place at the Schlachthof in Kassel. It centers around literature for children and youths and is organised by the Buchkinder Kassel e.V.
https://www.storytales-festival.de/
REASON FOR THE FESTIVAL
Stories can show various forms of living and loving and thereby make children feel seen as well as show them worlds full of possibilities. This can foster their sense of self and support their ability to act. However, just a few stories are being told over and over again, and not every child or young person can relate.
OUR APPROACH
The storytales festivals aim is to show the variety and uniqueness of stories and their creators. It wants to shine a light on many differnt topics and present positive possibilities of identification without ignoring problems.
BUCHKINDER KASSEL E.V.
The storytales festival is held by the Buchkiner Kassel e.V. which was founded in 2015. Enabling children to tell their own stories and helping them find creative ways to do so, is the core value of the Buchkinder Kassel e.V.. It is a place for storytelling and creative experimenting.
online seit:18. August 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:12. September 2022
We want to invite you to the "Archive of Encounters"!
In a participatory process we will test our assembly software nota as an archiving and mediation tool for ephemeral art. From August 22nd to 28th, we will be guests on the upper floor (entrance Treppenstraße) of the centrally located ruruHaus of documenta fifteen and invite artists, exhibition visitors, and scholars to arrange and record their specific experiences and memories of documenta fifteen in our software nota.
student-forum is a project of ruruHaus activation
Three generations show their artworks together side by side.
Lilith Ickrath -1997 Linolprint /
Sebastian Ickrath – 1965 Relief /
Joachim Ickrath – 1940 Painting
In search of an emancipatory rurality, we will go on a bike tour to places in Northern Hesse that organise themselves as commons. With artistic-participatory formats, we will make practices of historically grown and newly established commons visible in rural North Hesse. In this way, we add rural perspectives to the socio-ecological transformation discourse that all too often privileges urban contexts.
The pop up exhibition *innen aims for giving FLINTA-artists from a broad spectrum of different art forms a platform to present and connect themselves. A main goal is to build sustainable structures for a common benefit, which is also to be achieved by a progressive confrontation of art forms provoked by the exhibition's interdisciplinarity.
By blending art forms in one room, we try to produce a creative impact for both artists and visitors.
We are very excited to present you a selection of live music, video art, paintings, poetry, fashion, photography and live painting
online seit:21. July 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:12. September 2022
For "An Inner Place", Jan-Hendrik Pelz portrayed people who were forced to flee as a result of war or terror.
Non-Player Character
online seit:6. July 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:19. October 2022
„... hope that the dead ones will forgive me for this day of my happiness.“ (Silvio Rodriguez)
Enrique Keil has lost some important people in recent years. Who hasn't? It's time to send grateful, melancholic and joyful signs of life to our dead. David Bowie, shortly before his death, fantasized about returning to the sites of his life as a dead man, asking mischievously, "You never knew that I could do that?" Is it possible to sing an "Ade" in a lilting way? How does love sound in Schwyzerdütsch/swiss German? Who dares to demand "Let The Happiness In" in a melancholic way? What is fulfilling about a death at the Mediterranean Sea? The sea in general: "No sabe el mar que es domingo" - it doesn't even know that it's Sunday. Yet "die Sonne scheint, als wäre niochts dabei.”/the sun shines as if nothing were wrong. We want to mourn "llorando"/weeping but not "que adentro nazcan cosas nuevas"/that new things grow in us. Do we?
Songs for all who are afraid of death. For all who have to live with losses. For all those for whom death is part of life.
Enrique Keil lives and loves Kassel. He was an actor at the Staatstheater Kassel until August 2021. This is his fifth song program as a singer.
Heiko Pape plays guitar and is one of the most distinguished bass players in Germany. He also lives in Kassel.
***To make sure you always know what these songs from Argentina, Germany, England, Cuba, Switzerland, Spain and Uruguay are about, parts of the songs will be translated into German before they are performed and, it's documenta time, summarized in English.***
Dates in July: 7. , 9., 21., 22. July 2022
always at 8:30 pm
Dates in September: 8., 16., 17., 22., 23. September 2022
always at 8:30 pm
Admission: Regular: 20€ / Reduced: 15€
online seit:4. July 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:12. September 2022
BAU KUNST ERFINDEN | BUILDING ART INVENTION
is a transdisciplinary platform for research and education and pools expertise from the fields of visual art, architecture, urban planning, design, mechanical engineering and materials research. How to weave and braid with solid wood? How to transform light into energy and energy into light? How can concrete grow green? How to combine old crafts with new technologies? How do microstructures interact with macrostructures? We explore how space can be sustainably designed, planned, and built for the future. We combine artistic practice with scientific research. We believe in the power of collaboration. BAU KUNST INVENTION is part of the Depatment of Visual Arts & Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Design at the University of Kassel. Since october we are working together with ruangrupa (Reza Afisini and Iswanto Hartono) in the artistic basics around lumbung and real time and realtimedevelopment.
performative interactive installation
by Pawimol Samsen and Chayanon T.charoen
A multisensory exhibition about the changeability of an apparently dead material.
by Thiemo Frömberg
online seit:28. June 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:15. August 2022
online seit:20. June 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:20. October 2022
online seit:17. June 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:12. September 2022
online seit:11. June 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:7. October 2022
Where? Glasshouse k.format, Kurt-Schumacher-Str 26a in Kassel
When? 18.06. - 01.07.2022, daily: 1 pm - 5pm and by appointment
Opening: 18.6.2022 day festival : starting at 10 am, Vernissage at 5 pm
another world is possible - young artists and activists call for a climate-just, solidary future. This demand, however, requires a researching perspective at the climate (justice) issues of the present time: Global exploitation and especially lignite mining in the Rhenish lignite area Garzweiler are central topics of the exhibition. For 500 years, colonized people, especially in the global South, have been fighting against exploitative and capitalist violence. As part of this climate justice movement, the activist resistance in Lützerath - a village in North Rhine-Westphalia destroyed by lignite mining - is an example of how utopias can already be lived today: by people working collectively for the survival of the village and a caring community.
Art reflects and creates social realities; or questions them. Therefore Lützerath is also an important part of the Ekosistem of documenta fifteen.
This is an invitation to all people not only to enter the intersection between art and activism, but also to visit the real places of resistance to experience the power of the collective. Both art and activism create open spaces where social unfolding, renegotiation, and ultimately change become possible. These open spaces, in which real utopias are already being lived today, will be discussed, made visible and experienced in another world is possible.
A World Where Many Worlds Fit!
"Otro mundo es posible. Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos."
(Quoted from the Zapatista social revolutionary movement).
Participating People:
Jana Bauch, Yvonne Feder, Seila Fernández Arconada and Bernard Fairhurst for Functional Collaborative Futures Collective, Marie Höltje, Minji Kang, Leila Kleemann, Mariesol Kleff, Amarin Lawton, Jin-Seok Lee, Hannah Linden, Yusri Mohammed and Nadine Schomburg for ClimateFaces, Daniela Medina Poch, Nina-Sophie Raach, Robert Rickli, Gregor Schneider
TEMPORARY HOME 2022
Project dates: 17 June – 17 July 2022, open Thursdays–Sundays
temporary home will open its doors in Kassel for the third time as part of the ruruHaus programme of documenta fifteen. This year, the collective will temporarily move into a glass pavilion with terrace in Kassel’s city centre. temporary home acts as an inclusive collective and interdisciplinary platform and as a practical experiment of being with one another. As Donna Haraway writes, “To be one is always to become with many.”
The basis of temporary home 2022 is the idea of collective process and a gathering of perspectives. What influence do external circumstances have on our life as a community? How have the developments of recent years (the pandemic, isolation, the increasing digitalization of everyday life, the progression of the climate crisis and war) shaped us on macro and micro levels? In what ways, if at all, do we wish to relate to these factors within the temporary home project?
During the month-long project, temporary home invites you to come by, join in, linger over a coffee on the terrace or an aperitif in the evening. Our experiment offers an open space for conversations, lectures, performance, shared meals, concerts, workshops, dance, gardening, and more. We want to share skills, care, and knowledge as common resources.
The content of temporary home is accompanied by an exhibition from our collective, with artworks by Liz McTernan, Verena Meyer, Max Rödel, and Lisa Tiemann.
Shared experience and experimentation are in the foreground of temporary home, as well as the serendipitous connections that can arise from being and doing together.
For programme updates, visit the link in our bio on Instagram:
@temporary_home_2022
Where to find us at documenta fifteen:
Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 27
34117 Kassel
All events and readings with and around the Kassel-based Rotopol publishing house for graphic storytelling
During the documenta, the ruruhaus underground hosts the Kassel ecosystem + friends to organize events, workshops, readings and lectures or to meet for gathering.
The history of pawn broking can be traced through at least the last 3000 years. It is a practice thought to be rooted in ancient China, but later found around the world, where it became especially organized as small businesses - pawn shops, in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. It is a practise that has played a big part in shaping the economical systems of today. Traditionally, a pawn broker has been granting loans to people on the basis of a deposited object that was kept as pawn, and estimated by it’s monetary value which determined the size of the loan. If the loan was not repaid, the pawn broker would have the option of keeping the object instead. With some variations, that is still the way pawn broking is practiced today.
The Pawn Broker is a platform for investigations in the relations between objects and people, working with the concept of pawn broking through certain key ideas:
Value of affection
Affection is a feeling that connects you to your surroundings. For us it holds just as much weight to feel affection for things, any thing, as to anything else. It is not always clear why you feel affection for a certain thing. It is something subjective, a matter between the thing and you. We believe in the value of affection - for things.
Backing up your backup
Sadly, things can break and things can get lost. To keep them safe you need to back them up. But how can you trust that the backup is safe? - By backing it up! Backing up in multiple dimensions and places ensures that they exist somewhere in some form even in the distant future. We aim to make things available, retrievable, forever.
Vehicles for traveling through time
You probably have been fantasizing about time travel at some point in your life, and perhaps you even found a way to do it. We suggest things as vehicles for traveling through time. Anything deposited with us will be kept through time, meaning that they can appear at any point in the future to come. You - in the future will have access to the exact thing, that has traveled forward in time, while you are moving backwards by meeting it.
Cloning authenticity
Some things are made of peculiar shapes, imperfections, signs of time and wear. All these details are perhaps what makes the thing so special to you. The things are like living organisms, that is why we like to use the term “cloning” for our approach to reproducing them. We do not simply reproduce the surface material aspect of the things, we incorporate the underlying and inherent aspects of them, their DNA …-.-
Pawn
Our concept of pawn is based on that of a mutual commitment. The pawn ties us together as a mediator, a thing between us. By depositing something with us, we commit to reassuring it and you commit the thing to be a part of The Pawn Broker community.
A community of things - for things
The community for things is made out of all the different deposited things and their stories. It is a realm of objects where the personal becomes shared, and the things themselves are liberated to create new bonds. It is a community connecting people with things, people with people, and things with things.
The Pawn Shop
In the summer of 2022 we are launching a physical platform; a mobile, modular space called The Pawn Shop. This is a place for activities based around the peculiarities of personal objects and the stories they hold. Through variable non-monetary systems of value, the objects themselves are examined carefully, and integrated into a sphere of interaction without any fixed results. The space in itself is changeable, in terms of what shape it takes and where it is located. While The Pawn Broker will be presenting certain activities, it is at the same time an open space, for others to initiate ideas, that could benefit from or even challenge the particular framework of The Pawn Shop.
The Pawn Broker was founded by visual artists Villiam Miklos Andersen, M.B. Pedersen, and architect Lauge Floris.
The Pawn Broker is supported by Danish Arts Foundation, Den Hielmstierne-Rosencroneske Stiftelse, Neustart Kultur and ruruHaus.
online seit:4. June 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:7. June 2022
Five Car Stud 2.0: Coordinated inauthentic behavior
In this exhibition, the artist Henrik Langsdorf refers in the form of a video installation to the work "Five Car Stud" by the US artist Edward Kienholz, which was shown at documenta 5 in 1972. Kienholz's installation depicts a racist scene of violence. Langsdorf explores the question of where we are today - 50 years later - with regard to violent hate crimes and racism in general. Thematically linked to this is "HAPPYLAND: No First Aid", his contribution to the exhibition "First Aid" at the Hugenottenhaus from June 18 to September 24, 2022. A version of the work developed for "First Aid" is also part of the exhibition at Galeria Kollektiva.
Henrik Langsdorf works in the fields of video installation, public art and design. In 2019, he participated in the Congo Biennale in Kinshasa with his work "Ville Fantôme: from Utopia to the present." His video installation "Rudolf Duala Manga Bell - a German story" was shown at ruruhaus/documenta fifteen in Kassel and at MARKK Museum in Hamburg. He is the initiator of Blind Spots in the Sun, a series of art interventions dealing with colonialism and racism in Germany. He lives and works in New York, Kassel and Nairobi.
online seit:27. May 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:12. September 2022
online seit:27. May 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:12. October 2022
online seit:27. May 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert:8. September 2022
Station of Commons is an ongoing collaborative Helsinki and Geneva based initiative on digital commoning practices by Grégoire Rousseau, Minerva Juolahti, Alain Ryckelynck, Eddie Choo Wen Yi, Constantinos Miltiadis, and Juan Gomez. Initiated in February 2020, Station of Commons investigates the possibilities of reappropriating technology within public space. The point of departure of the research questions both centralized knowledge and data centers operated by major organizations and its underlying social implications. Station of Commons operates as an easily integrable online platform for sharing local resources.
Read more about Station of Commons in THIS LINK!
lumbung radio is an online community radio project that is part of documenta fifteen. It starts already slowly in April and is broadcasting 24/7 during the 100 days of documenta fifteen, and hopefully also afterwards, from and to the whole planet. Read more about the network in the posts!
Listen to the radio in THIS LINK!
»A Landscape« – Local Knowledge Kassel East, A project by MAP Markus Ambach Projekte with Al Wali, Blüchergarten, Braumanufaktur Steckenpferd, Essbare Stadt, GemüseSelbstErnte am Waldauer Fußweg, KGV Schwanenwiese, Meister Florian, Mike Euler, MiLa Unterneustadt, Renèe Tribble/ TU Dortmund, SOLAWI Gärtnerei Fuldaaue, Rene Wagner, ZK/U, u.a.m. Klick here for Tourmap: https://t1p.de/prtxd
The curatorial approach of ruangrupa for documenta fifteen focuses on principles of collectivity, resource building and equitable distribution.
Therefore, we would like to build a network of collectives and initiatives which deals with the distribution and reuse of materials. In this context, not only sharing material resources is important, but also the exchange of knowledge, motivation, and experience.
Our aim is to support the existing network and to give a platform to the involved groups.
We also wish to improve our own practice: The temporary character of art exhibitions entails a short-term implementation of resources. For this reason, we want to get involved in the material cycle.
As part of the ruruHaus activation we are planning the Beecoin project together with ZK/U, Center for Art and Urbanism, from Berlin. This includes the monitoring of the well-being of bee colonies by installing sensors in beehives (scales, temperature sensors) and also the exchange with the beekeeping community in and around Kassel.
The Beecoin project is an artistic research project that focuses on the well-being of bees, their and our ecological environment. Open-source sensor kits generate data from beehives, tell us about their well-being, and can be transferred into a crypto-economic system, giving us a new look at the value of reproducing bee colonies.
The project builds on the Hiveeyes / BeeObserver research, where a monitoring infrastructure and DIY kits were developed. These DIY kits contain sensors to measure, for example, the weight and temperature of the hives.
On the occasion of KW 35 – Kassel Week of Museums from September 2 to 5, 2021, ruruHaus opens its doors and becomes a platform for local initiatives, collectives and individuals. In various formats, including lectures, talks, music and radio broadcasts, the venue will be activated. During the four days, everybody is warmly invited to participate and jointly fill the “living room” of documenta fifteen with life. The former department store offers space for exchange and encounters and is an experimental field for collaborations.
KW35
online seit:23. August 2021
zuletzt aktualisiert:15. August 2022
"Culture in motion" is an open, socio-cultural event concept that not only offers a platform for associations, institutions and initiatives from the socio-cultural sector.
for associations, institutions and initiatives from the socio-cultural field, but also builds bridges between their concepts and offers and the population.
"Culture in motion" takes place in public space. Art, culture and social issues are the key elements for uncovering the diverse cultural sites in the city of Kassel, for playing them and for making them visible in the long term.
KolorCubes e.V. and the creative brewery Steckenpferd are responsible for the concept and its implementation.
From July 2–11, 2021, ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics organized FUSSBALLABALLA, a programme around the European Football Championship 2020, as part of documenta fifteen. FUSSBALLABALLA is a non-commercial critical public viewing format of ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics for the neighborhood that has been running during European and World Cup tournaments since 2014. During the event, football matches are screened in unusual settings and accompanied by a discursive program before, during and after the matches. This edition of FUSSBALLABALLA was implemented in collaboration with Kassel initiatives Dynamo Windrad e.V., Streetbolzer e.V and the ruruHaus.
For the first time the Eurocup will be held decentrally spread over european and neighboring countries and cities. The gradual decomposition of the nation-state idea and the emergence of more complex, culturally rich and diverse social groupings is - deliberate or not - reflected during this mainstream event by its new decentral nature. Nevertheless, the tournament is stuck in its traditions and compositions, it confirms dated stereotypes and hardly looks at critical aspects connected to its activities.
Fußballaballa will dive into the insufficiencies of ‘the state’ as a social container, and how horizontal communities, that have no or little representation, despite being strong groups with unique social norms and cultural values, deal with it. So apart from the fun of the game, Fußballaballa will screen films, host conversations and performances questioning the idea of how groups find their face and space within the dominant narratives of the football world.
Jan van Esch & Matthias Einhoff
It all started when a nice lady gave us the old illuminated letters of the Kaufhalle. Kaufhalle was the first store that was located in the house of the current ruruHaus. Then we searched at Ästhetische Werke, a vintage furniture store in Kassel, for other letters related to Kassel's history and used them to form the words ruruHaus as a new sign above our living room.
A first version of the website ruruHaus.de was launched on March 29. The website was an experiment in what a community laboratory and a shared living room can feel like in digital space, and will grow over time — just like ruruHaus itself.
The open-ended process behind the website is led by kmmn_practice, a student collective that has been working in and with ruruHaus since 2020. The collective was also one of the winning teams of the student competition ruangrupa initiated for the development of documenta fifteen’s visual identity. With ruruHaus.de, kmmn_practice realizes their vision of a participatory platform. Its ideas are put into action by programmer Christoph Benderoth.
A 6-panel LED display currently located in the second floor windows of the ruruhaus.
Visit ForstFeldGarten, the biggest community garden in Kassel. Every thuesday afternoon (13:00 - 19:00) we meet and take care about the land and keep on fostering this biotop throughout the seasons, focussing on the 2500 sqm sized Forest Garden area and on permaculture principles. The project also welcomes visitors who just want to get a taste of it, are interested in a tour of the garden or want to take part sporadically.
The garden is located here > http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/docutopia-symbioticsynergysolution_113474#17/51.29654/9.53696 and is run by Essbare Stadt e.V. (Edible City) and neighbors from the area.
https://essbare-stadt.de/
The ruruHaus-community garden is somewhat hidden away on the parking deck behind the house. Vegetables, herbs, flowers and other plants grow in several raised beds and pots. After in spring 2021 several parties began to play with the idea of a garden, it is now tended to, watered and harvested by many individuals.
One of the columns facing Königsstraße in front of ruruHaus functions as a visual archive, as communication with passers-by and as a public experimental space for kmmn_practice.