In our third year Aljoscha Begrich continue the project WEGE, creating works for the routes between the Ruhrtriennale’s disparate venues. Three new productions open up a view of the space of the in-between. In 2021, local artists started the project by opening the Ruhr region in their own ways, themes and forms, while in 2022, three artists from Mexico, Argentina and Iran presented projects on routes they had ever passed, expanding them with stories and questions from a broader perspectives. Three performance artists have been invited to devise projects together with the audience. In contrast to previous years, when everybody had to explore the routes on his own, the post-covid time allows an experience of WEGE projects in groups together with the artists, so that they can meet and exchange reactions – in between Bochum, Essen and Duisburg.

Argentinean urban explorer Gaby Blanco will contrast mining between South America and Germany in her walk through Essen. The mines in the Ruhr area are sealed and remembered in the Museum of Mining, while in the north of Argentina a state of emergency has prevailed for months because of the bitter protest against lithium mining. The coveted raw material recently also prompted Chancellor Scholz to visit South America, because lithium is the backbone of "green growth". What are the ways of dealing with it? In the differences and similarities, Gaby Blanco questions the fundamental approach to nature: can modern man see anything other than areas of conquest and exploitation? It is time to understand ourselves as part of nature with rituals, to ask where we are and where we are going.