RuhrArtMuseums online now
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Twenty art museums from the Ruhr Metropolis have grouped together under the umbrella title of RuhrArtMuseums.
They build a unique museum landscape consisting of 20 national and international museums of art featuring works from the 19th century, through the Modern, and all the way to contemporary art. With "Mapping the Regions", RuhrArtMuseums will implement their first joint exhibition project, and with its "Collection Tours" programme it will develop new forms of education and mediaton. From January 29, 2010 the new RuhrArtMuseums website gives further information about the participating museums, the exhibition project and the mediation programme.
Only available in german: www.ruhr2010.de/ruhrkunstmuseen
Fresh on the table
Every Wednesday throughout the year 2010, we will deliver the best of all RUHR.2010 tips directly to your door. Stay informed about the fillet steaks and other delicacies from the RUHR.2010 Cultural Capital programme. In addition to our online program-section, you can find here all RUHR.2010 highlights of the day available for download in PDF (in English and German) for ten days each from Friday to Sunday. / MORE
José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission (centre), with Fritz Pleitgen and Oliver Scheytt, RUHR.2010 GmbH (right), and the mayor of the city of Essen, Reinhard Paß (left) during the RUHR.2010 Grad Opening / Photo: Manfred Vollmer
European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 now open!
The Ruhr is the European Capital of Culture 2010. The cultural capital year was officially kicked off yesterday at the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site Zeche Zollverein, the region’s main landmark, by German President Horst Köhler with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and other political heavyweights in attendance. More than 100,000 Ruhr residents braved icy temperatures to celebrate the grand opening until the early morning hours. / MORE
RUHR.2010 Grand Opening
"Come to the Ruhr": Grand Opening of RUHR.2010 and Ruhr Museum
"We are ready to go", says Fritz Pleitgen, Chairman of the RUHR.2010 GmbH, shortly before the start of the European cultural capital year and the Grand Opening of RUHR.2010 on World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein in Essen, formerly the world’s largest colliery. "The grand opening event will bring our motto to the point: an impressive industrial setting for an artistic and musical tale of change through culture and culture through change, with pop singer Herbert Grönemeyer’s new anthem for the Ruhr as the crowning finale." The dark horse, according to Pleitgen, however, remains the weather. / MORE
RUHR.2010 at the Deutsches Haus in NYC. Photographer Manfred Vollmer (left) presenting his photographs to Consul General Horst Freitag (right) / Photo: Florian Vollmer
Visiting the Metropolis: RUHR.2010 Exhibition in New York
New images breaking the cliché – that’s the objective of the "Mythos Ruhr" (Ruhr Mythologies) exhibition that will be touring the world’s metropolises and has now been opened at the Deutsches Haus in New York City. 22 large-format photographs by Manfred Vollmer, a photographer from Essen, showcase spectacularly illuminated sites of industrial culture in the Ruhr: the Henrichshütte mill in Hattingen, the dark side of the moon at the Oberhausen Gasometer, the Rem Koolhaas staircase at the Ruhr Museum and the gigantic pit lamp on top of Rheinpreussen tip in Moers. \n / MORE
Steven Sloane and Hans Werner Henze / RUHR.2010
The Henze Project: New Music for a Metropolis
For RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture, the musical scene of the Ruhr Metropolis has joined forces for an homage to the composer and musical philosopher Hans Werner Henze in a network for New Music. From January to December 2010, more than 40 partners will be presenting Henze’s musical oeuvre and social work from the early days to the present: opera, ballets, symphony concerts, chamber music and radio operas. A film retrospective, an orchestra festival, a symposium and a composition competition will be exploring Henze's achievements and influence. / MORE
RUHR.2010 show "A day in the Ruhr metropolis" (directed by Gil Mehmert), Photo: Michael Kneffel
European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 introduced in Brussels
Exactly a month ahead of the official kick–off of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 at the World Cultural Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein in Essen, the German Capital of Culture presented itself to the European public in Brussels. The launch event was hosted by the German federal government’s Commissioner for Culture and Media and the Brussels representative office of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. RUHR.2010 was represented by its Chairmen, Dr. h.c. Fritz Pleitgen and Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheytt. / MORE
Complete programme now available: Anticipation mounts for European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010
"We owe it to the Ruhr and its people to be bold and daring" (Fritz Pleitgen, Chairman of RUHR.2010 GmbH). Preparation turns to anticipation: After three years spent on developing the mega-event’s programme, it’s just a few more weeks until the European
Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 kicks off. RUHR.2010 has just launched a new book containing a detailed overview of its 300 projects and more than 2,500 events. The main theme: "Transformation through culture – culture through transformation". / MORE
