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Light Art in the Drawing Room
The world’s 1st Biennale for International Light Art will be taking place in the east of the Ruhr metropolis from 28th March to 27 May in the cultural capital year 2010. Under the motto open light in private spaces light art...
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Festival of creative industry as a pilot project in 10 Ruhr cities. As an official project of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 it will be presenting the previously unknown creative scene in the Ruhr metropolis in all its...
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From April 24 to October 24, 2010, the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 will be presenting an exhibition of photographs entitled "Ruhr Views", at the Zollverein colliery in Essen. It will include works by world famous...
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The project is being supported by the Catholic dioceses of Essen, Münster and Paderborn, the Rhineland and Westphalian evangelical churches and RUHR.2010 GmbH within the framework of TWINS2010.
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A sensational historic exhibition will be open to the general public in the Essen cathedral treasury from February 2010 onwards. The "musica et scholica enchiriadis" is the oldest testimony to the invention of harmony in the...
/ MORERUHR.2010 goes Istanbul
25 common projects and a single vision: There was a lot of handshaking last Friday morning at a joint press conference in the Turkish capital Istanbul which, like the Ruhr metropolis can also boast of the title “European Capital...
/ MOREEmscher Island Outlines Future of Ruhr Metropolis
40 artists show their outlines for the future of the Ruhr metropolis on Emscher Island, the largest art project in the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010. Opening end of May 2010, visitors will have 100 days to explore the...
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