Eröffnung Das öffentliche Grün

In the organizer's words:

The group exhibitionThe Public Greenis dedicated to Bochum's city park, which is celebrating its 150th birthday this year. As one of the oldest publicly accessible parks in the Ruhr region, it was created in 1876 on the site of the former Allmende, the city's communal pastureland. Where cows, sheep and goats once grazed, people now stroll, play, flirt, dream and much more. The exhibition grows out of the museum and into the park, viewing it as a multi-layered biotope full of stories and asking how space and resources are shared today.

With works by Anikẹ Joyce Sadiq, Black Archive Germany, bureaumilieux, Dagie Brundert, Émile Ratier, Fokus Grupa, FreelingWaters, Helena Wittmann, INLAND, Irène Mélix, Lin May Saeed, Lütfiye Güzel, Maria Renee Morales Garcia, Marina Naprushkina, Marleen Rothaus, Olu Ogunnaike, Peter Piller, Randomroutines, Taka Kagitomi and Thomas Geiger.

Before the opening of the exhibition The Public Green on April 24, 2026, the parade of the Fidena Puppet Theater Festival will take place at 6 p.m. Free admission, all interested parties are invited to bring their puppets and animals.
The parade starts at Husemannplatz and moves to the Kunstmuseum Bochum. The parade ties in with the former use of the Stadtpark site as communal pasture and farmland and turns the city center into a shared space for encounters between people, animals and art for a moment.