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The Ruhrtriennale, in its third and final year under the artistic direction of Heiner Goebbels, places its focus on boundary-breaking world premieres and new productions by international artists.

Ruhrtriennale 2014

August 15 – September 28, 2014

Artistic Director: Heiner Goebbels

At the heart of Ruhrtriennale lie large scale music theatre productions and the relationship of the visual arts with dance, performance, film and concerts. 

For the first time the Ruhrtriennale will open in Duisburg, where an excpetional work of 20th century music theatre will be staged: De Materie by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, which opens up new perspectives beyond opera. 

Surrogate Cities Ruhr in the Kraftzentrale in the Duisburg Landschaftspark is the exceptional event of 2014. The orchestral cycle by Heiner Goebbels is the musical portrait of an imaginary city, which Mathilde Monnier will direct specially for the Ruhrtriennale as a choreography for the Ruhrgebiet with over 140 performers from the region and the Bochumer Symphoniker. 

What characterizes the Ruhrtriennale are the interactions between artists and spacesThe visual artists Matthew Barney, Gregor Schneider, Tino Sehgal, Harun Farocki and the Brazilian artistic duo cantoni crescenti will extend the Ruhrtriennale’s spaces with their installations, choreography and films.

Heiner Goebbels: “Visual artists show us the potential spaces which film can open up to us beyond what the film industry offers as entertainment. And while doing this the artists take a sharp look at what is a live issue not just for the Ruhr: industrial production in the 21st century. With River of Fundament the American artist Matthew Barney stages a richly visual and sonic Gesamtkunstwerk to the decaying locations of American industrial culture. And in the graphic visual forms in which Harum Farocki allows us to look at working conditions all around the world, Labour in a Single Shot becomes visible which, for all its distortion, at times reveals a personal love of detail in a very touching way. Boris Charmatz presents a filmic version of Levée des conf lits in the Museum Folkwang, which demands everything of the dancers and which he filmed on the Halde Haniel from a helicopter last summer.”

Please find the complete programme here.

Image: Louis Andriessen, Die Materie. (c) Klaus Grünberg