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Together, these professionals will transform post-war churches across the Ruhr Area into places of art, solidarity and new forms of collective imagination. For Manifesta 16 Ruhr, we have chosen an intergenerational and interdisciplinary Artistic Team.",{"children":1681,"direction":37,"format":889,"indent":47,"type":52,"version":35,"textFormat":47,"textStyle":49},[1682],{"detail":47,"format":47,"mode":48,"style":49,"text":1683,"type":51,"version":35},"Josep Bohigas, renowned Barcelona-based architect and urbanist, is the First Creative Mediator. Known for reimagining public space and housing, he now shapes the Urban Vision for Manifesta 16 Ruhr and will work in two churches. Gürsoy Doğtaş, curator and art historian renowned for his work at the intersections of institutional critique, structural racism and queer studies, will develop the public programme and will commission works within three churches in Gelsenkirchen.",{"children":1685,"direction":37,"format":889,"indent":47,"type":52,"version":35,"textFormat":47,"textStyle":49},[1686],{"detail":47,"format":47,"mode":48,"style":49,"text":1687,"type":51,"version":35},"The team also consists of an intergenerational group working in three tandems. In Essen, German René Block, pioneering curator of the Fluxus movement, works in a tandem with Leonie Herweg, Berlin-based curator and co-founder of GROTTO. In Bochum, Anda Rottenberg, one of Poland’s most influential curators and former director of the Zachęta National Gallery, partners with Krzysztof Kosciuczuk, curator and writer with experience from documenta 14 to Muzeum Susch and regular contributor to Frieze and Artforum. In Duisburg and Gelsenkirchen, Henry Meyric Hughes, one of Europe’s most experienced curators and former head of the British Council’s Visual Arts Department and Director of Hayward Gallery in London, works with Michael Kurtz, British critic and curator, who writes for Art Monthly, e-flux and ArtReview.",{"children":1689,"direction":37,"format":889,"indent":47,"type":52,"version":35,"textFormat":47,"textStyle":49},[1690],{"detail":47,"format":47,"mode":48,"style":49,"text":1691,"type":51,"version":35},"Their creative artistic engagement with these churches will unfold through three conceptual lenses: Proximity, Transformation and Curation as a form of geopolitical investigation. The idea of Proximity is understood not only in spatial terms but also as a political and social condition — encompassing the intimacy of neighbourhood relations, the solidarities of care and the shared temporalities of local life. The project seeks to “unveil” these proximities by activating informal networks and everyday solidarities that persist despite urban fragmentation. This is not an attempt to romanticise the neighbourhood but to reclaim it as a communal space of agency in an age of disconnection.",{"children":1693,"direction":37,"format":889,"indent":47,"type":52,"version":35,"textFormat":47,"textStyle":49},[1694],{"detail":47,"format":47,"mode":48,"style":49,"text":1695,"type":51,"version":35},"Transformation refers to the potential redefinition of public space through experimentation, testing how these abandoned spaces can be transformed and how something meaningful and relevant can be created. Manifesta 16 Ruhr does not aim to monumentalise these former churches, nor to restore them as mere heritage sites. 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