About The Triennale

Music, dance, theatre, performance and fine arts in the former industrial buildings of the Ruhr Area: that‘s the Ruhrtriennale. The venues of the Ruhrtriennale are the region’s outstanding industrial monuments, transformed each year into spectacular sites for impressive arts productions. At the center of all this are contemporary artists seeking a dialog with industrial spaces and between the disciplines. World premieres and new works are the essence of the program which makes visiting to the Ruhrtriennale an incomparable event. Every season, festival productions from the Ruhr region go on tour around the world.

From 2015 onwards, this art festival will be taking place under the artistic direction of the Dutch director Johan Simons. The theme of his programme in these three years will be “Seid umschlungen” (be embraced) – a gesture of social, political and geographical embracement.