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On Sunday, August 24 2025, we will start at Bottrop’s BernePark, where three beautiful works will be on display: “CATCH AS CATCH CAN,” “dasparkhotel,” and “Theater der Planzen.” We will continue on to “Zauberlehrling,” the “Slinky Springs to Fame” bridge, “Neustadt,” and then to Duisburg’s inner harbor, where you can visit this year’s exhibition by…

Our next bike tour will take place on Friday, 4 July, starting at 5 p.m. It will lead through Dortmund to the works ‘Pool Lines’ and ‘Public Hybrid,’ then continue past Phoenix Lake to ‘Zur kleinen Weile.’ After about 18 kilometres and plenty of sightseeing along the Emscher River, we will reach Dortmund’s Nordmarkt. From…

On the demolished Königsgrube pumping station in Herne-Röhlinghausen, a hybrid landscape, a quarry forest biotope, a sound installation and a water feature are being created in a small park near the Hüller Bach stream, which flows into the Emscher further north. We are in the centre of the Ruhr area, where coal was mined from…

From 1 March, you can once again book cycle tours and overnight stays on the Emscher Art Trail.

The catalogue for the Emscher Art Trail 2019 to 2024 is available in bookshops from 26.2.2024.

We are delighted to celebrate the opening of a new work on the Emscherkunstweg after a lengthy construction phase!  The work »Pool Lines« by Mexican artist Sofía Táboas is being created between an industrial estate and allotment gardens in Dortmund’s Schüren district. Two large triangles together form a third triangular shape, the walls of which…

The conversion of the Emscher into a clean and natural river is completed with the new delta into the Rhine. The artist takes this as the occasion for her performance on 14 May.

On the former pumping station »Herne-Königsgrube« arises Markus Jeschaunig's new work for the Emscher Art Trail

a video work by Alina Schmuch

»Brutology« by Montserrat Gardó Castillo and Petr Hastik celebrates its premiere at Emscherkunstweg on 2 September.

Next to the artwork »Zur kleinen Weile« by raumlabor, Meine Wunschdomain set up their art oracle on 20th of august.

On 30.07.2022 we will celebrate a summer festival around the artworks of the Emscher Art Trail with workshops, craft activities, workshop courses, talks on art in public space and a colourful culinary offer.

Hello World. A new work of art has been added to the Emscher Art Trail. On 24 June 2022, the new production »Emscher Folly« by Nicole Wermers was ceremonially opened in the spectacular setting between the Duisburg Alte Emscher sewage treatment plant and the Bruckhausen steelworks.  Nicole Wermers has created a sculpture out of over…

ANDREAS STRAUSS DASPARKHOTEL_INSIDE-OUTSITE

WITH MISCHA KUBALL IN THE BERNEPARK

Montserrat Gardó Castillo and Petr Hastik are currently developing the piece »BRUTOLOGY« at the invitation of the Emscherkunstweg. In preparation for the site-specific performance, which will be staged for the first time on 3 September 2022 on the Emscherkunstweg in Dortmund-Huckarde, four virtual roadmovies will take place in April. In the online sessions, scheduled for Friday,…

Mischa Kuball's Light Installation runs again

Festive Opening

Videowork by Ani Schulze

Julius von Bismarck in collaboration with Marta Dyachenko

After a renovation, the work of art now shines in fresh splendor.