The McDonald Agape Lecture in Theology and the Visual Arts 2025 will take place on 8 July 2025 at Inner Temple, London, and ...

The Ruhr, called “the beating heart of German football” by Nationalelf and Bayern Munich legend Franz Beckenbauer, is the largest urban area in Germany and has a population of five million ...

transforming Germany’s post-industrial Ruhr Area into a dynamic stage for artistic and social exchange. Running until October 4, the nomadic biennial will activate former church buildings—structures ...

Following a successful Bid led by prominent local cultural professionals and the support of key political stakeholders, Manifesta 16 will seek to engage with the Ruhr Area’s unique social and urban ...

While Yüksel is in a relatively safe seat, his SPD colleague Markus Töns is in trouble in Gelsenkirchen, a town with higher unemployment in the northern rim of the Ruhr area, which could flip to ...

Gelsenkirchen, in Germany's western Ruhr area, is the poorest city in the country. Garbage lies about in the streets and parks, and vacant and derelict apartments are a frequent sight. Every ...

In books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a brutally black furnace of heavy industry, as ugly as the coalpits on which it is built. It has also been ...

Germany’s Stone Techno Festival has revealed its line-up for 2025. The three-day event, which is set to take place next summer from July 11 - 13 in the Ruhr Area of western Germany, returns for its ...