Münsterland Innovation Region

Under the title "SEARCHING PERFECT SHAPES", the two artists Beate Gärtner and Michelle Adolfs invite you to a special exhibition from 2.45 p.m. that opens up new aesthetic spaces by means of virtual reality and augmented reality. Throughout the Klosterpark, 3D sculptures can be experienced digitally, entering into a new relationship with architectural features and the natural space. Using a smartphone or tablet, the artworks can be brought onto the screen, superimposed on the live camera image. The result is a game with visual axes and concrete forms that open up an expanded world in motion. The artists sound out digital in-between worlds and show a creative rethinking of sculpture - weightless and interactive.

The project "MyVR_Planet.DA" - part of this year's KunstKommunikation project scholarship - finds its first work conclusion here. The basic principle is a reduction with an abstract language of forms; they are small interventions in our field of vision - everyone controls their own experience. The artists have worked with the works in the tradition of Heinrich Neuy's Bauhaus. In autumn, another exhibition will follow at the Heinrich Neuy Bauhaus Museum in Borghorst, where the digital objects can be experienced haptically with the help of 3D printing.

On 25 September, a neighbourhood walk will take place on the topics of climate adaptation, energy-efficient building renovation, mobility, local supply and quality of stay in Nottuln. The municipality of Nottuln cordially invites all interested citizens.

The municipality of Nottuln is currently working with the Energielenker office from Münster on a first integrated energy district concept. This is an individual, forward-looking plan of action tailored to local conditions. The spectrum of contents and goals is wide: it ranges from energy-efficient refurbishment, energy-efficient heat supply and electricity use, the use of renewable energies to environmentally friendly mobility and an increasingly important climate adaptation in the neighbourhood.

Topics such as quality of stay, accessibility or local supply are also relevant. Each part of the municipality has different requirements and possibilities.

The municipality of Nottuln would therefore like to invite citizens to contribute their own ideas and comments during a neighbourhood walk.

Programme

17:00 Meeting in front of the town hall

17:30 hrs Stiftsplatz, topic "Climate adaptation

6:00 p.m. Kirchstraße 1, topic "Energy-efficient building renovation

18:30 hrs Park & Ride Rhodepark, topics "Mobility, local supply and quality of stay".

19:00 hrs Catholic parish hall, presentation and subsequent discussion.

The walk will be framed by a story that illustrates what the future could look like in the neighbourhood. The planning office and the administration look forward to a lively exchange at all the stops.

A total investment volume of 4.2 billion euros is available for forward-looking, sustainable and innovative projects in North Rhine-Westphalia from the ERDF/JTF NRW 2021-2027 programme "Making Future - Shaping Transformation". It is fed by 1.9 billion euros in EU funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Just Transition Fund (JTF), as well as co-financing from the state of NRW and the projects' own contributions. Information on this will be provided at this event.

Who does not know it, the thread of life, the red thread? Who is not interwoven with others? We encounter threads in myths, in language and also in art, where they are often used as metaphor, model or medium. The theme of this exhibition is therefore the symbolic meanings of threads for people and human life.

Thus, FÄDEN brings together works by contemporary women artists, exemplary spinning and weaving utensils as well as graphics with motifs from selected Greco-Roman myths. These works, deliberately brought together from different contexts and categories, are "interlinked" in such a way that they offer visitors - to stay with the metaphor - numerous connecting threads to engage with the use and meaning of thread as a symbol of personal and social narratives. Spaces of thought and association open up between the poles of fate and responsibility, trust and scepticism, individuality and collectivity, and power and powerlessness. The exhibition thus builds bridges from antiquity via the present into a possible tomorrow.

Since 2018, the Draiflessen Collection has owned the "Stichting Ariadne's Naaikussen". This collection of almost 2,000 historical needlework and sewing utensils, a collection of textile samples and a specialist library was assembled over several decades by Clementine Kuttschrütter, née Brenninkmeijer. The treasures date predominantly from the 18th and 19th centuries and are artistically crafted from precious materials. In addition to items still in use today such as needles, scissors, thimbles or elaborate sewing boxes, they also include such items as yarn balls, sewing clamps or shuttles for frivolity work, whose practical significance and aesthetics we can experience anew.
The first presentation of "Ariadne's Naaikussen" in the rooms of the Draiflessen Collection introduces highlights and marks the start of the scholarly treatment of this outstanding collection. It is also a tribute to the passionate collector, who would have turned 90 this year.

The advent of printmaking in the 15th century revolutionised the dissemination of images. Whereas earlier, for example, altarpieces and paintings were only accessible to a select audience, the new media of woodcut and copperplate engraving suddenly made it possible to produce images relatively quickly, cheaply and in large editions.

The exhibition shows how printmaking, with its special narrative form, helped to make images and the stories they contained accessible to a wider public. At the same time, the motifs and depictions were increasingly devoted to profane themes, although the artists and art of the time were still strongly influenced by religion. What purpose did these secular images serve, what zeitgeist did they reflect and how did the artists manage to convey not only an image but also a message to the contemporary viewer on just a few square centimetres of paper? However, while the viewers of the time understood all the hints in the pictorial language very well, this knowing seeing is often lacking today.

STORYTELLING therefore invites visitors to (re)discover the answers to these questions.

Experience the art of tomorrow today: In 2024, the district of Steinfurt will continue to support up to four participatory and site-specific art projects that invite people to "join in and think" for a year as part of the KunstKommunikation project scholarship at the DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst. The "Outlook!" exhibition brings together those project designs that were selected for final judging in the multi-stage selection process. For better illustration, the visually prepared exposés will be supplemented by numerous objects and models.

The exhibition will open on 14 October at 6 pm. At the same time, the projects selected for implementation in the coming year will be publicly announced. There is already the opportunity to attend the opening of the 36th joint exhibition "Art in the Region" in the West Wing at 5 pm.

The convention brings together scientists, students and founders to promote the transfer of scientific knowledge into successful start-ups and to raise awareness of spin-offs as a means of knowledge transfer. In the course of various workshops, possibilities will be shown as to how existing knowledge and technology-based start-ups have taken this path. Experts will report on their start-up experiences and discuss current trends in their sectors. The main topics revolve around GovTech, Sustainability, AI, Innovating Health, Entrepreneurial Skills and Science-to-Start-up Culture.

Would you like to take part in our project?

The project group NATURScheune Hof Schmetkamp would like to convert the building and the grounds into an extracurricular place of learning.

A place of learning for many people
whether big or small, old or young
...in nature, from nature.

The group has been active since 2021, and the future users have also been involved. have been involved. The plans for the conversion are ready. The self-sufficient technology has been decided, funding applications are in the works.

The project is by Sendenhorster for Sendenhorster!