Bernard Faucon | The rooms of love | 1984 - 1987

I fall daily in love with impossibilities.

— Anne Sexton

Benicio del Toro

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam in 1998

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

— Franz Kafka

NEUERBURGSTRASSE 21

They ride along not knowing what connects them, and they will not know it until death.

— Daniil Kharms

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

— Søren Kierkegaard

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Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972

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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

— Anaïs Nin

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KIOSK 61

People haven't lost the ability to feel. They have lost the power to feel.

— Franz Kafka

SANAA | Zollverein Cube | 2014

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Don't ask them for their reasons. Just ask them for their feelings.

— Virginia Woolf

Installationsansicht, Zentrum für internationale Lichtkunst

Mischa Kuball | mies-mies | 2006/07

Though the sculptures are static, the mind of the viewer charges along vectorial paths to search out associations, depicted and implied. Like the [mathematical] equation there is unity, balance, and a captivating logic that holds the viewer on a course of discovery.

James Reineking, Physical Lines of Thought

— Michael H. Smith

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Ich freue mich, das Museum samt Park umzugraben. Uns im Museum in eine ›abseitige Unterwelt‹ zu führen. Ganz nah den vergessenen Gräbern tief in der Erde werden wir plötzlich wieder auf die Welt geworfen. Wir werden uns in den Armen liegen, wieder tief Luft holen. Was für ein toller Park. Wie schön ist unser Leben.

— Gregor Schneider; an Heiner Goebbels

Was die Ruhrtriennale auszeichnet, sind die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Künstlern und Räumen. Sie ermöglichen uns starke künstlerische Erfahrungen und haben für mich oberste Priorität; wo sonst hat man die Freiheit, kompromisslos etwas entstehen zu lassen. Viele festivalmachende Kollegen und Künstler aus aller Welt beneiden uns aber nicht nur um die unverwechsel- baren Räume und die Möglichkeiten, Kunst selbst produzieren zu können, sondern auch um unser Publikum, das großen Eindruck hinterlässt durch seine Neugierde, Offenheit, künstlerischen Wagemut und seine direkte Resonanz.

— Heiner Goebbels

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

— Marcel Proust