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21/03/2023

"Etwas auf Halde legen" is a German saying for stockpiling something. The phrase originates from mining, where excavated earth was put in interim storage on heaps. The Ruhr area has about 250 of these. The former dumps have since been renaturalised, turned into public local recreational areas, and had gigantic arti installations installed on them. Each of them has its very own character and peculiarities, but they all sahre their all-around panoramic view of the entire Ruhr valley.

Follow to find the five most beautiful heaps for your next trip to urbanana! Use the link in our bio to our blog urbanana mag.

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15/03/2023

The cloud-based art management database forms the heart of , a start up from Düsseldorf connecting the art world with the digital sphere. "We are developing it as a central virtual place where digital art collections, catalogues raisonnés, and artists’ estates can be created and managed, based on art-history standards. The pieces of art entered there can then be experienced in the real world via the augmented reality technology."

Author talked to founder Nathalie Krall about the future of art history and the possibilities of augmented reality applications.

Read the whole interview on our urbanana mag, link in bio! 😍

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06/03/2023

Young-Jae Lee became director of the Margaretenhöhe (Margaretenhöhe Ceramic Workshop) in 1987. Her pieces have been part of many art exhibitions and Young-Jae Lee’s spindle vases are traded in the 10,000-euro-range. Nevertheless, the 72-year-old simply considers herself a potter, rather than an artist. While her utilitarian tableware is, in fact, a little more affordable than her vases are, that does not make the bowls, dishes, drinking cups, jugs, pitchers, and plates traditionally applied with six different glazes any less original.
ilona met Lee in her workshop on the grounds of the Zeche Zollverein in Essen to talk to her about her first contact with ceramics as a material and the freedom in restriction. Link to the article in our bio! 🥰

20/01/2023

Every passionate music fan dreads the moment when it inevitably becomes clear that things can’t go on like this. The last corner of the room is filled with a record shelf and the crammed cellar forces an answer to the question of what is worth keeping and what should be sorted out at some point. For the Cologne music fan Matthias Schumacher, this time also came one day. The solution was found one evening over a beer: I’m founding a music archive!

In our new episode of “sound of urbanana: Talks!” Matthias talks about growing up as a theater kid, his wild rock’n’roll years, and how the Music Archive came to be…

Listen to the new podcast by .immerhin on our urbanana mag, urbanana.de or on Spotify.

📸 .immerhin

17/01/2023

For almost 30 years, from Ibbenbüren have succeeded in doing what many bands wish for: they are among Germany's most successful bands, are played on the radio, sell out large halls and their albums reach high places in the charts. At the same time, however, they have remained a self-determined, authentic and credible punk band that refuses to be bent. Now they return after an almost five year break with one of the best albums of their career: "Today is a good day".

In our new episode of "sound of urbanana: Talks!", singer Ingo and drummer Eike talk about the band's beginnings in Münsterland, burning passion for music in rural areas, how the street art of Ehrenfeld influenced the new album. And about their irrepressible love for subculture.

Listen to the new podcast by .immerhin on our urbanana mag, urbanana.de or on Spotify.

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10/11/2022

The next secret concert (Geheimkonzert) is already dated for the 24 November 2022 in Dortmund! 🎶🎤

Interested to see rising artists from NRW in a secret location in Dortmund? Just follow the link in Rausgegangen Dortmund‘s post below 🤫

We’re excited to see many of you there! 🤗

Tickets gewinnen für RAUSGEGANGEN GEHEIMKONZERTE - urbanana Special in Dortmund ► Alle Infos auf Rausgegangen!

20/10/2022

Pssst… What if we say that urbanana is presenting a secret concert series with rausgegangen?

The special thing: the concerts will be played exclusively by new and extraordinary artists from NRW. We won’t tell you more yet!

Follow the link in the original post to save your spot at the concert 💃🏻

11/03/2022

To all the photographers and those who still want to become one out there 🤩Register now for the online photo workshops by Canon Deutschland on industrial culture and learn how to get the most out of the lost places and landmarks in the Ruhr region with your EOS. 📷❤
More info on the link below!

Vom rein dokumentarischen Reportagestil über poppige Instagram-Fotos im HDR-Look bis hin zu bildgewaltigen Panoramen und reduzierten Schwarzweißaufnahmen à la Lost Places, zeigen wir dir in diesem Online-Workshop (16.03.22 und 23.03.22) wie du mit deiner EOS außergewöhnliche Aufnahmen zur Sujet Industriekultur kreierst. Nicht verpassen: https://canon.sm/3hUgBUj

03/02/2022

A blue so uniquely intense and radiant 🔵 It is the blue of the French artist Yves Klein, also known as monochrome blue or International Klein Blue. Even before his big breakthrough, the artist created several large-scale reliefs in this color at the Musiktheater im Revier. Our content creator Nathan captured them & Christiane Wanken from the Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen took the time for our new blog post to tell us more about the background of these special artworks. Find the video on our website or on YouTube:

https://urbanana.de/de/2022/01/28/yves-klein/

Sein Blau machte Yves Klein weltberühmt. Im Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen sind einige seiner größten Kunstwerke zu sehen.

20/01/2022

And the nominees for the urbanana-Award 2022 are..... 🥁
..pretty freaking cool!

Many thanks to all of the creative, innovative projects that have applied for the urbanana-Award 2022. Now our independent jury has to decide which 6 projects of the 40 nominees will win 4,000 euros each! Also, one of them will win the special prize provided by . What a tough decision!! Quite frankly, we don't want to trade places with the jury members right now, but for that we love to take look at all of these awesome nominees!

Check them out (Link to the nominees below, the English version will follow soon):
Which favourite you are rooting for?

Stay tuned, at the end of March we will announce the winners ✨

https://urbanana.de/de/urbanana-award/urbanana-award-2022-nominierte/ #

07/01/2022

Clubs, party, electro - We can't wait to give you some nightlife vibes with the exhibition "Elektro. From Kraftwerk to Techno" at the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf. Author Ilona visited it for urbanana mag and accompanied co-curator Alain Bieber, who knows: "The exhibition is definitely danceable!"

You long to know more? No need to wait, let's get reading and have fun! ✨

The exhibition will run until May 15, 2022. It will cast light on the techno genre's origins and showcase the connections between electronic music, contemporary design and art. Find out more in our latest post:
https://urbanana.de/2022/01/06/musique-non-stop-2/

On a journey through time at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Ilona Marx is transported back to the musical era of the 90s.

06/01/2022

Always keep your eyes on the prize, friends! Until tomorrow you can apply for one of these (or slightly different) beauties designed by Bananensprayer. They are made of real stone of the Cologne Cathedral, cool, huh?

And even better: You can win 4,000 euros and/or the special prize provided by Gourmet Festivals. All you have to do is fill out our easy peasy application. (By the way, this can be done in a few minutes & even without a letter of recommendation).

Let's do this! 🥰
https://urbanana.de/urbanana-award/

04/01/2022

Happy New Year, folks! 🎉 We hope you had a wonderful start into 2022! But wait a minute... The countdown is still on!!

Until 7 January you can still apply for an urbanana-Award with your projects & ideas and easily win 4,000 Euro start-up aid and the special prize provided by the Gourmet Festivals! Find the application form below. No need to hesitate, filling it out is so fast!

What are we actually looking for? Your ideas how to make life in the cities of North Rhine-Westphalia even more attractive. And we're especially looking forward to hear from projects from the gastronomy this year.

Good luck to all of you and we are happy to hear from you!
Get started now: https://form.typeform.com/to/h5LzA4

24/12/2021

We wish you wonderful and healthy holidays with your loved ones in or wherever you are. ✨🍌🎄💝 See you again soon!

📸 | / Chris Weiher | / Achim Meure

20/12/2021

Congratulations to DynAmaze for being awarded as the best travel startup of 2021! We are happy others recognize the great potential of our winners, too, and as you can see: The award is a good start to push your projects forward 😁

Apply now for the urbanana-Award 2022 and win 4.000 Euro or the special prize! More info on our web site or tomorrow at our Q&A (Tue, 6.pm. ) Links: https://linktr.ee/goingurbanana

10/12/2021

Welcome to Situation Kunst - Museum unter Tage! This art museum is indeed a special one. Unlike most of its kind, the spaces in Situation Kunst are seen as an environment. Each artist is given a room to design it with his or her works. But not only that, even the architecture and the park of Haus Weitmar in Bochum are designed to suit the artworks. A triangle of architecture, nature and art.

Follow author Nathan and accompany curator Eva Wruck on a tour of the site in our latest blog post. Find the link to the YouTube video above or on our website. English subtitles available.
https://urbanana.de/2021/12/09/situation-kunst/

An art museum where everything fits together, even the trees? Welcome to "Situation Kunst" in Bochum-Weitmar!

09/12/2021

Hello dear creative businesses and self-employed people from Düsseldorf! Until 19 December, you can apply for a rent-free shop window space to introduce yourselves and your products! Interested? More information below 👇 Good luck!! 🤙

Gute Nachrichten: Das KomKuK-Fenster geht in die Verlängerung. Ab sofort und noch bis zum 19. Dezember 2021 können sich in Düsseldorf ansässige Kreativunternehmen und Selbstständige erneut mit ihren Produkten für einen mietfreien Schaufensterplatz im ehemaligen Sternverlag bewerben. Die Fenster werden für den Zeitraum Mitte Januar bis Ende März 2022 vergeben.

Sofort dabei? Hier geht’s zur Online-Bewerbung:
https://www.duesseldorf.de/wirtschaftsfoerderung/komkuk/friedrich2468.html

Wichtig: Die Gewinner*innen der Schaufensterplätze werden noch vor Weihnachten 2021 von einer Jury bestimmt und persönlich benachrichtigt. Für die Gestaltung werden mehrere Termine in der ersten Januar-Hälfte angeboten. Die neu gestalteten Fenster sollen am Freitag, 21. Januar 2022, eröffnet werden.

Vielen Dank an alle Partner und Unterstützer des Projekts:


Motel One
Die Friedrichs
Hochschule Düsseldorf - HSD
CreativeMornings DUS
THE DORF
VIVID Magazin
urbanana
Düsseldorfer Perlen
CREATIVE.NRW
Das gute Ding
Labor Fou
Take a Butcher's Gallery
PrettyPortal



Fotocredits: ©Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf/Lars Heidrich

06/12/2021

In the seventh episode of “Deep Talk NRW”, Kaput - Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop was drawn to Dortmund, between former coal mining factories we suddenly found ourselves at the gates of Tresor West. The local counterpart to that legendary Berlin club. The operator of both nightlife institutions is Dimitri Hegemann.

Kaput talked with him about his first steps in Berlin in the seventies and eighties, the "Wiedervereinigung" (German reunification) and all the opportunities which opened up. They finally lead him to his well known club: Tresor. These days he brought this special vibe back to his roots, back to NRW.

Watch all episodes of Deep Talk NRW: https://urbanana.de/kaput-x-urbanana/

Together with the “Kaput - Magazine for Insolvency & Pop”, urbanana speaks to people from the club and pop culture scene about urban issues.

02/12/2021

Jetzt noch schnell mitmachen und ein Ticket für das digtiale X. Festival vom Digital Tourism Think Tank gewinnen! Damit verpasst ihr auch bestimmt nicht unseren Talk zum Thema "Atmospheric Design in City Tourism" am kommenden Dienstag! Ganz viel Glück! 🍀

Zehn Tage virtuelle Talks, Interviews und Workshops verteilt auf zwei Wochen, das ist das X. Festival, eines der größten internationalen Events für die Tourismusbranche, das dieses Jahr vom ​​29. November bis 10. Dezember online stattfindet. Besonderer Augenmerk gilt dem Panel „Atmospheric ...

30/11/2021

What is it that creates the special atmosphere in cities? And can we influence how a city is received by its inhabitants and guests? These and other questions will be discussed on 7 December at the X. Festival (1.25 pm).

Be there when our project manager Laura Vennes discusses new approaches and inspirations with Tobias Hartmann & Max Schweder from the artist project Cylvester, Ines Rainer from CREATIVE.NRW & Sabine Rottmann from ruhr:HUB and Nora Will from Visit Düsseldorf.

The X. Festival by Digital Tourism Think Tank 💻 💭 started yesterday. Get your ticket now for the festival and our session on 7 December:
https://www.xfestival.travel/programme/atmospheric-design-in-city-tourism

29/11/2021

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Einst gab es in Flingern nur Ackerland. Erst Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde hier gebaut. Auf der Birkenstraße ist noch ein Teil des damals entstandenen Arbeiterwohnviertels sichtbar. Die Durchgangsstraße teilt Flingern in Nord und Süd. Vom Wehrhahn aus erst still und grün, kreuzt sie die Ackers...

19/11/2021

For all of you who haven't had the opportunity yet to get the new POLY city magazine for the Ruhr area: Take your chance at the Art Cologne!
And even better: More beautiful magazines made by kultur.west are waiting for you to take them home!

Wir sind so stolz auf unser neues »POLY« Magazin, da nehmen wir es mal direkt zur Art Cologne mit! Und damit sich der englischsprachige Ruhrgebiets-Guide nicht allein fühlt, kommt er gemeinsam mit dem kultur.west »Sonderheft Kunst« in unsere Papiertaschen. Die gibt es dann kostenfrei am kultur.west Stand in der Passage 3/11 auf der Art Papers.

Neugierig? Dann schnell klicken: »POLY« https://www.kulturwest.de/specials/poly-2022/ und das »Sonderheft Kunst« https://www.kulturwest.de/specials/kunst-special-herbst-2021-2/

Art Cologne: 17.-21. November, https://www.artcologne.de/

Bild © kultur.west

29/10/2021

To all podcast lovers and music fans, club friends and curious people! You can now find our audio episodes of urbanana mag on Spotify! German, English, or both? Under the following link you can find all the episodes of
- Maxim
- Acting in concert
- Grapefruits Fanzine
- Stefanie Schrank.

Look forward to many more!

https://open.spotify.com/show/2Cxv1LDB1hTPhsBdQPQ51U

Listen to sound of urbanana: Talks! on Spotify. In our new podcast "sound of urbanana: Talks!" we introduce you to the protagonists* of the music scene in North Rhine-Westphalia's cities. Whether singer, music journalist, sound technician or super fan, our authors from our blog "urbanana mag" have s...

20/10/2021

urbanana city mags are back! We are excited to start a new chapter with by kultur.west, by Stadtrevue and by THE DORF!
Stay tuned next week and find out where to get your copies! For a dreamy autumn afternoon go to urbanana.de and be inspired by urbanana's makers and shakers, culinary delights and cultural goodies.

https://urbanana.de/our-fetish-authenticity/urbanana-city-magazines/

15/10/2021

Various magical places hide behind façades, gardens and gates. ✨ We introduce them to you in our urbanana mag. One of the many special places is .
The former swimming pool in Düsseldorf's Golzheim district has recently been transformed into a cultural venue with various exhibitions, concerts and performances.

Behind an inconspicuous building from the 1960s, a staircase leads to the underground and to the pool. From above the pool is only made visible by hemispheres made of transparent Plexiglas. Dive in and learn more in our article by Alexandra Wehrmann on our urbanana mag.

https://urbanana.de/2021/10/14/the-pool/

08/10/2021

Every person in Germany is throwing away 4.7 kilograms worth of clothing every year. A start-up from Düsseldorf has set out to change this. With , the founders are making a counterstatement to fast fashion. The future belongs to slow fashion and repairs, not only to save your favourite pieces of your closet but also to support us in living a sustainable lifestyle.

How does the concept work? Our urbanana mag author Markus tells you in our new blog post on .

Photo: Melanie Osterried

https://urbanana.de/2021/10/07/regional-rebels-for-a-good-cause/

01/10/2021

Did you know the Ruhr Area is home of about 150 herbs? On a "Kräutertour de Ruhr", you learn everything about them and afterwards know which ones you can use for culinary purposes and which ones you should leave alone. Our author Britta took part in the tour with Ursula. In October, several courses will start again, so take the chance and prepare for a herbal autumn!

You can find out more on our blog urbanana mag on our website!

https://urbanana.de/2021/09/20/die-kraeuter-des-ruhrgebiets/

Author Britta goes on a tour along the trail of Ruhr area herbs that is going to lead her up to the Halde Rheinelbe in Gelsenkirchen.

22/09/2021

Currywurst in Köln-Ehrenfeld oder Haute Cuisine in Gelsenkirchen - Im Panel Talk diskutieren wir mit Start-ups über das Gründen in NRW!

Was macht die Region für Gründer:innen so attraktiv? Was kann die Food-Startup-Szene in NRW? Wie ist sie vernetzt? Und von welchen Förderstrukturen und Netzwerken profitieren Start-Ups in urbanana? Solltest du besser in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf oder in Köln-Ehrenfeld gründen? Zumindest ein paar dieser Fragen versuchen wir im Panel Talk zu klären.

Mit dabei sind Expert:innen aus der Food- und Startup-Branche, die urbanana bereits als ihre persönliche Obstschale auserkoren und erfolgreich gegründet haben:

Mario Grube, Geschäftsführer von Pottkorn/Mahlgrad GmbH

Dennis Pfahl, Gründer von MÜCKE Craft Beer

Verena Decker, Gründerin der Feldhelden Rheinland

Isabelle Terbrügge, Gründerin der Feinisa GmbH

Eine Veranstaltung von urbanana
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21/09/2021

We tasted some delicious ideas today! During the "Ideenfutter" Expo, organised by Foodhub NRW, the regional food industry came together and discussed topics like trends, digital transformation or how to grow your own business. Whether start-ups, companies and network institutions that deal with products, services or supplies… Let’s summarise: Inspiration and opportunities are in every corner, just grab them and make them yours!

The event is of course a great preparation for our panel talk tomorrow at ruhrstartupweek by ruhr:HUB! Tune in tomorrow evening at 6pm to find out more about the start-up scene of North Rhine Westphalia! Get the link to register in our bio!

https://www.eventbrite.de/e/not-only-bananas-entdecke-nrw-als-food-start-up-region-tickets-168561250237

09/09/2021

Kaput – Magazin für Insolvenz & Pop ---> Journalism against algorithm visited the “knife city” Solingen for our video series Deep Talk NRW and found an abandoned railway station - home to the Waldmeister e.V. Raum für Kultur. A DIY-Club that shows that you don’t need a mega city to enjoy special cultural events. Just take your friends, look out for free spaces and build it all up by yourself.
Lina Holzrichter (Lyschko) and René Regier (Cow Club Solingen) tell us the story of their utopia right at the Alter Walder Bahnhof, Solingen.

Watch the videoooo 👇


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF3mxK9Blu8&t=8s

Alter Walder Bahnhof - is a quiet lost and abandoned railway station in the rural part of Solingen. A place where you hardly expect one of the most exciting ...