Lippe + (Kunst@Aue)
Watergatekeeper's house and Lippe riverbank / Montage: Haus Vogelsang GmbH
The Ruhr region, once the largest industrial conurbation in Europe, is now witnessing something of a green miracle. The hackneyed images of the Ruhr cityscape - smoking chimneys, coal-black faces and motorways passing through residential deserts - are currently being countered by the creation of a new vision of the Aue countryside by the landscape architects of Haus Vogelsang GmbH.
One project centres on the area around the village of Ahsen an der Lippe and the former lock-keeper's house on the Vogelsang estate, which has been in existence since 1374. As a prelude to European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010, the landscape architects will literally be providing the newly green metropolis with a face in the form of eyes, mouth and a nose made up from bushes, trees and meadowland - a "Google Earth face" so big that it will only be recognisable from the clouds.
This is one of numerous landscape projects which Haus Vogelsang GmbH is supporting and implementing together with Düsseldorf Academy of Art. In the middle of this widely renaturised meadow landscape, the lock-keeper's house on the Vogelsang estate is to become an artistic "hotbed" for unconventional ideas. Students, artists and lateral thinkers will be developing their creative concepts from and within the existing landscape, enriching this nature and leisure reserve of the Lippe-Stever lowland with cultural and artistic adornments.
Spring 2010
Lippe meadows near Haus Vogelsang, Datteln
Partner: Haus Vogelsang GmbH
You can find further information (in German) at:
HVG GmbH