City Arts

Zollverein; Photo: Matthias Duschner/Stiftung Zollverein

Dance and Drama in the Steelworks: New Life for Industrial Relics

Many former breweries, factories, power stations and coalmines are now places where historic industrial architecture is juxtaposed with contemporary art and culture.More ...

In Search of, and with, Mischa Kuball

Light Magic. By Susanne NusserMore ...
Night view of the Kunsthaus with the BIX installation; Copyright: 2003 Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz

Realities United – A Different Type of Façade Artist

Jan and Tim Edler cover façades with light and information.
By Iris BraunMore ...
Werkbundkiste, 1958; Copyright: Die Neue Sammlung - Staatliches Museum fuer angewandte Kunst / Design in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Muenchen (Foto: Sophie-Renate Gnamm)

100 Years Deutscher Werkbund (German Association of Craftsmen)

Munich, October 1907. Twelve artists, architects and businessmen founded the Deutscher Werkbund (German Association of Craftsmen), an organization which marked a new era as one of the most important cultural institutions in the 20th century in Germany. By Elisabeth SchwiontekMore ...
Anwohnerpark-Kunstwerk (local residents park artwork) project in Cologne, part of plan06; Copyright: osa – office for subversive architecture

Public Space as a Laboratory – New Approaches to Informal Urban Design

Quite a number of young artists, architects, and urban and landscape planners deal with central design and lifestyle questions in a playfully subversive way. By Kay von KeitzMore ...
Bill Fontana 'Klangbrücke Köln/San Francisco', 1987; Copyright: Bill Fontana

The Sound of the City

Artists have been exploring the acoustic design of our cities since the 1960s. And yet this aspect of urban life is largely ignored in architecture, construction and urban planning. By Golo FöllmerMore ...

Alternatives for Urban Voids

In recent years, many artists have been interested in the processes and consequences of shrinkage in urban areas. By Florian MatznerMore ...

City of the Future – an Artistic Challenge

Since the early 90s artistic works in public space have been tackling social, political and economic conditions under the name of New Genre Public Art.   By Heike Strelow More ...

Urban Changes

Images of India through the lenses of young photographers from the South Asia region under the directorship of Andrea Künzig

Project "13ter Shop"

[Kolja Mensing/Florian Thalhofer]

Residual – Artistic interventions in the city

Artists from Mexico and Germany build awareness for the waste problem and its environmental and societal consequences.