Time:
Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 6 p.m.

Location:
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Main Building, room 207
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8
99423 Weimar

Host: Public Art and New Artistic Strategies
Language: English and German

On what occasions and in what formats are new works and projects created in public space? Based on examples from the practice of Urbane Künste Ruhr, the lecture and subsequent discussion will be dedicated to fundamental questions about the relationship between art and society outside the institutional exhibition spaces. The Urbane Künste Ruhr programme includes decentralised exhibition projects such as the »Ruhr Ding-Trilogie«, which was completed in 2023, the permanent sculpture trail  »Emscherkunstweg« and, since September 2024, the »Grand Snail Tour«, a long-term project that will tour the 53 small and large cities in the Ruhr region until October 2027. Equipped with a market trailer as an action and exhibition space, it initiates artistic encounters of exchange and co-production.
http://www.urbanekuensteruhr.de 

About Britta Peters:
Britta Peters works as a curator with focus on art in public spaces. She has been the Artistic Director of Urbane Künste Ruhr since January 2018. Previously, she was the curator of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 in a team with Marianne Wagner and Kasper König as the Artistic Director. With a background in Cultural Studies, she has curated various major exhibition projects in Hamburg, including as director of Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof from 2008 to 2011. After the exhibition Demonstrationen. Vom Werden normativer Ordnungen 2012 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, in 2014 she curated the project Krankheit als Metapher. Das Irre im Garten der Arten at various locations in Hamburg. Peters has participated internationally in numerous committees, events, and publications on the topic of art in public space and has taught as a visiting professor at the Academy of Art in Münster.