space_relations—How to make friends
September 18–October 26, 2025
Düsseldorf 40233
Germany
Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf, in collaboration with Mischa Kuball, concludes its year-long project space_relations with the closing exhibition How to make friends. Over the course of 2025, the project unfolded as an open laboratory, bringing together more than 30 artists, theorists, and cultural practitioners across disciplines, testing models of collaboration and shared authorship. The project's conceptual team consists of Lea Schleiffenbaum (Berlin), Vanessa Joan Müller (Vienna), Yukiko Shikata (Tokyo), Marguerite Pilven (Paris), Mischa Kuball (Düsseldorf) as well as Wolfgang Schäfer, Janine Blöß, and Martha Martens from Weltkunstzimmer.
space_relations explores the interdependencies between urban space, society, and artistic practice. Throughout 2025, the project has brought together artists, theorists, and the public in a series of site-specific interventions, performances, and discursive formats. As its final chapter How to make friends celebrates the experimental nature of the project, which enabled new models of collaboration, international encounters and initiated networks across the city.
How to make friends assembles works and interventions that examine the concept of space as a relational practice: How do we shape spaces together? How can shared spaces foster encounters and collaborations? How do artistic strategies redefine public and institutional spaces?
The participating artists of How to make friends are:
Elvire Bonduelle, Rada Boukova, Bidisha Das, Daniela Georgieva, Wanda Koller, Robin Meier Wiratunga, David JongSung Myung, Daria Nazarenko & Moïse Fall, Yoshinari Nishiki, Denise Ritter, Mohamad Moe Sabbah, Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Luca Thiel, Louretta & Dr. Schmitt
How to make friends invites visitors to engage, participate, and reflect on the forms of togetherness we can create — within and beyond institutional walls.
Program
The exhibition will be accompanied by a program of talks, guided tours, and workshops that continue the collaborative spirit of space_relations.
September, 17, 2025, 8pm — Opening of space_relations: How to make friends
Weltkunstzimmer, Ronsdorfer Str. 77a, Düsseldorf
September 19, 2025, 4:30pm — space_relations x Urban Space Theory Walk
Meeting point: Weltkunstzimmer, Ronsdorfer Str. 77a, Düsseldorf
September 28, 2025, 4pm — Guided tour of the exhibition with Mischa Kuball
Weltkunstzimmer, Ronsdorfer Str. 77a, Düsseldorf
October 10, 2025, 8:30–10am — space_relations x CreativeMornings with Philipp Holstein and Mischa Kuball on space relations
Weltkunstzimmer, Ronsdorfer Str. 77a, Düsseldorf
October 15, 2025, 7pm — space_relations x WELTKUNSTZIMMER Residency, Opening of the residency presentation
Weltkunstzimmer, Ronsdorfer Str. 77a, Düsseldorf
October 16–17, 2025 — space_relations x if walls could tell, International Symposium curated by Zoran Eric, Belgrade, with a Keynote by Blanca de la Torre, Valencia
Weltkunstzimmer, Ronsdorfer Str. 77a, Düsseldorf
For more information, please visit: https://weltkunstzimmer.de/spacerelations/
Contact
Weltkunstzimmer Team, info@weltkunstzimmer.de
Funded by the LVR Department of Culture, the Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf, the Art and Culture Foundation of the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, and the Sparkassen Cultural Foundation Rhineland.
