Ruhrtriennale

The Ruhrtriennale is the international arts festival hosted by the Ruhr metropolitan area. The venues of the Ruhrtriennale are the region’s outstanding industrial monuments, transformed each year into spectacular sites for music, fine art, theater, dance, and performance. At the center of all this are contemporary artists seeking a dialog with industrial spaces and between the disciplines.

A new artistic director every three years provides the festival with ever-new impulses.  From 2015 to 2017 Johan Simons is artistic director of the festival.