Name: Outreach Residency at MiR.LAB: Artist Talk and Showing with Hemmesmann | Fuchs & Lovers
Start: 2026-07-07T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-07T21:00:00+02:00
Location: MiR Lab - am Rundhöfchen

An evening between research, performance, and urban space

With the Outreach Residency at MiR.LAB, a space for contemporary stage art, artistic research, and direct encounters opens up in Gelsenkirchen. The Artist Talk and the subsequent Showing with Hemmesmann | Fuchs & Lovers provide insight into an open process where performance, social participation, and questions of accessibility are considered together.

A laboratory for experimental music theater

The MiR.LAB sees itself as a research laboratory of the music theater in the region. Formats are created here that intertwine music theater, digital culture, and participatory art. The residency in 2026 is designed to be deliberately open-ended and invites the artistic ideas to be thought about not just in observation, but in their emergence.

Hemmesmann | Fuchs & Lovers in focus of the artistic research

The focus is on a collective that deals with public spaces, communal play arrangements, and the relationship between performance and everyday life. The current research for a theater parcours in downtown Gelsenkirchen connects with themes such as care work, caregiving, and accessibility. This brings to the fore an art practice that not only shows but makes relationships visible.

Between conversation and showing

The Artist Talk on July 7, 2026, at 7:00 PM provides the opportunity to directly experience the artistic space of thought. The subsequent showing makes work methods, material, voice, and spatial reference visible. It is in such formats that a special exhibition atmosphere arises, where art becomes experienceable as a process and not just as a finished result.

Why a visit is worthwhile

Anyone interested in contemporary performance, cultural education, and experimental formats will find a very close art experience here. MiR.LAB connects aesthetic experience with urban society and opens the view to an art that grows through exchange. A visit is worthwhile for anyone who wants to experience current stage art not just as consumption but in its emergence.

Conclusion: The Outreach Residency at MiR.LAB promises an evening full of artistic openness, conversation, and performative discovery. Those who appreciate contemporary theater, research, and cultural participation should experience this event live in Gelsenkirchen.