Concert by Les Essences

The Museum Küppersmühle invites you to a concert on 26.3.2026 at 18.30
with Les Essences
Sound and performance in dialog with image and space II

For the fourth time, the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and its guests are working with Ludger Engels to develop three concert performances to accompany the special exhibitions at the Küppersmühle Museum.
Art in dialog – artist talk with Susan Hefuna, Stephan Kunz and Walter Smerling

January 15, 2026 | 6.00 pm | Artist talk with curator Stephan Kunz, director Walter Smerling and the artist Susan Hefuna
Reading&Talk with Jean-Remy von Matt | Creativity is disobedience

January 22, 2026 7:00 pm | Jean-Remy von Matt reveals the awakening moments behind his art and career in conversation with Walter Smerling.
Exhibition tour with Frank Schablewski – “Painters, thieves and riff-raff” – in the exhibition Dieter Krieg

Sunday, July 6, 11.00 a.m. | “Painters, thieves and riff-raff” – the writer and language artist Frank Schablewski with a tour of the exhibition in many languages and poems to accompany the paintings by Dieter Krieg
Sound and performance in dialog with image and space – musicians of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra

May 21, 2025 6.00 pm and 7.30 pm | The focus of this cult series, which is taking place for the third time, is the experience of sound, but also, very directly, of one’s own body in space. How does sound and movement change the relationship to the artwork?
RUHRKUNSTBEWEGT: MUSEUM MOVES – Workshop
Half-day workshop from April 15 to 18
Urban Moves – Workshop: Hip Hop & House Dance in dialog with art

Workshop March 8/9 and March 15/16 from 12:00 to 16:00 | Through the intensive workshops, they learn about the history and cultural roots of these dance styles, while at the same time developing their own creativity and self-expression. In this way, the museum becomes a place of exchange, movement and artistic creation that appeals to young people at eye level and opens up new perspectives for them.
Sound and performance in dialog with image and space – musicians of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra

In three concert performances, musicians from the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra and director Ludger Engels explore new levels of experience that are developed from the themes and content of the exhibited works or enter into a direct dialog with them.
Schoolcontest Miquel Barceló – Vida y Muerte

FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE MUSEUM – A contest at the MUSEUM KÜPPERSMÜHLE on the occasion of the exhibition “Miquel Barceló – Vida y Muerte”.