ruhrtriennale_2020_programmbuch

IN-BETWEEN TIME
This notion of a time in-between was the theme we chose when we started
planning the Ruhrtriennale three years ago. It contains a certain scepticism
about the present and the hope of change. We saw in-between time as a
chance to help influence things. None of this has changed.
In this third year we are concerned with restrictions of freedom that creep
up by stealth but are becoming increasingly obvious. We are concerned
with fear as an instrument of control and we are concerned with the sense
of loss and dislocation felt by many people who no longer belong to any
social context. The photographer Fatih Kurceren has created some moving
photographs on these themes.
At the same time the artists in this programme have been looking for
signs of a new way of thinking and feeling, of new possibilities and new
ways of sharing, of cohabitation and inclusion. Here we will once again
focus more firmly on perspectives from outside Europe.
Many artists from the previous two years will return: in the Jahrhunderthalle
our Artiste associé Christoph Marthaler will produce a music theatre
project for a large orchestra about people who have disappeared, and
about the loss and reappropriation of utopias. William Kentridge presents
a remarkable new work of images and music about the life that happened
and the life that never happened: about life that could have been lived but
wasn’t. Serge Aimé Coulibaly will premiere a creation about fear and violence
that has been developed in several African countries and in Europe.
In his new creation Mariano Pensotti tells about corrupt résumés. In his
two films which we additionally show Pensotti follows individuals in Buenos
Aires and in Athens in single episodes. Together they make up a theatre
audience. The story of the oppression and the energy of a young woman
that Kornél Mundruczó has to tell us will certainly move many of you.
The American artist Olu Oguibe will portray former coalminers and
the South African artist Candice Breitz will create a video installation for
the Ruhrtriennale and the Museum Folkwang about aggrieved men and
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