Exhibition · Ruhrtriennale · 2026

Archiving Future

Danylo Symonovych — Dramaturg & Project Lead

A workshop weekend: participants at work on their pieces. (Photo: Dennis Zimmermann)

Sketching ideas on a tablet during a workshop. (Photo: Dennis Zimmermann)

Trying out a camera during a workshop. (Photo: Dennis Zimmermann)

Working with images on a laptop during a workshop. (Photo: Dennis Zimmermann)

An overhead projector casts an image onto the exhibition wall.

Photographs and a small screen arranged together on an exhibition wall.

A colourful collage surrounded by drawing and workshop materials.

An open collage album displayed on a chair beside a plant.

A visitor leafs through an album in the exhibition. (Photo: Rainer Schlautmann)

A visitor watches a video work on a screen.

Visitors around an overhead projector in the exhibition. (Photo: Rainer Schlautmann)

Visitors in the exhibition. (Photo: Rainer Schlautmann)

Visitors discuss a work in the exhibition. (Photo: Rainer Schlautmann)

Visitors around a display case in the exhibition. (Photo: Rainer Schlautmann)

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About the project

Memory and
the future.

What survives of an ordinary Tuesday? Eleven teenagers and young adults from the Ruhr answer in photography, video, projection, sound and interactive installation.

Over four workshop weekends with photography and sound experts, they asked which stories, objects and gestures deserve to be kept, passed on or reinterpreted. The result is an archive where personal experience meets visions of the future.

My role

I contributed to the concept, led the dramaturgy, co-ran the workshops, developed the exhibition format, worked closely with the participants and coordinated the project through to realisation.

Project details

When: 4–20 September 2026
Where: Trafohaus, beside PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
A project by: Ruhrtriennale, in collaboration with Folkwang Pupils’ Art Lab, an initiative of Folkwang University of the Arts.
Supported by: RAG-Stiftung
Stiftung Mercator

Exhibition page on the Ruhrtriennale website

Team

Dramaturgy & Project Lead: Danylo Symonovych
Concept, Creation: Deniz Bolat
Workshop leaders: Ilkin Guliyev · Philipp Neumann · Alparslan Kabasakal · Farnaz Shahryari
Folkwang Pupils’ Art Lab project coordination: Florian Käune · Katharina Ley
Invited experts: Klaus Javier Gastelum Behrens · Lorenza Kaib · Roman Pfeifer
Pedagogy: Britta Schünemann · Ulrike Czermak
Production management · Ruhrtriennale: Sophie Stroux
Technical project management · Ruhrtriennale: Helmut Schandl
Technician: Henning Arend

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