17.09.2025
space_relations How to make friends and Urban Space Theory Walk
Opening: Wednesday, 2025/9/17, 6 pm | Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf /DE Urban Space Theory Walk: Friday, 2025/9/19, 5:30 pm I Treffpunkt: Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf /DE
In collaboration with artist Mischa Kuball, Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf is concluding its year-long project space_relations with the final presentation How to make friends. Over the course of 2025, the project developed into an open laboratory in which more than 30 artists, theorists, and cultural practitioners from various disciplines came together to experiment with models of collaboration, temporary communities, and joint authorship.
space_relations explores the interrelationships between urban space, society, and artistic practice. Throughout 2025, the project brought together artists, theorists, and the public in site-specific interventions, performances, and discursive formats. As its final chapter, How to make friends celebrates the experimental nature of the project with new models of collaboration, interdisciplinary encounters, and the initiation of networks in the city and beyond.
The participating artists of How to make friends are: Elvire Bonduelle, Rada Boukova, Bidisha Das, Daniela Georgieva, Wanda Koller, Robin Meier, David JongSung Myung, Daria Nazarenko & Moïse Fall, Yoshinari Nishiki, Denise Ritter, Mohamad Moe Sabbah, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Luca Thiel, Louretta & Dr. Schmitt.
On Friday, September 19, Weltkunstzimmer, in co-curation with Lea Schleiffenbaum, Mischa Kuball, and Janine Blöß, invites you to a special city tour: The Urban Space Theory Walk opens up the city as a space for discourse. At four stations in public spaces and with artistic input (sensory-reflective strolling in several acts), experts provide discursive and artistic impulses on current issues relating to the city, space, and coexistence—followed by short discussions with the audience. The keynote speeches will be held in German, with English handouts available.
With discursive and artistic contributions by Eva Busch, Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse, Balz Isler, Alexis Rodriguez Suarez, and Mirjam Zadoff, topics such as multi-perspective narratives, spaces critical of power and memory, public welfare-oriented urban development, commons and cultural memory, alliances, solidarity, and approaches to artistic spatial practices will be negotiated.
Participation in the events is free of charge and registration is not required.