Britta Peters of Urbane Künste Ruhr in Germany is one of the speakers at the Land Art Lives conference on Oct. 3, 2024.

Britta Peters works as a curator specialising in art in public spaces. She has been the Artistic Director of Urbane Künste Ruhr since January 2018. Previously, she was the curator of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 in a team with Marianne Wagner and Kasper König as the Artistic Director. With a background in Cultural Studies, she has curated various major exhibition projects in Hamburg, including as director of Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof from 2008 to 2011. After the exhibition Demonstrationen. Vom Werden normativer Ordnungen 2012 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, in 2014 she curated the project Krankheit als Metapher. Das Irre im Garten der Arten at various locations in Hamburg. Peters has participated internationally in numerous committees, events, and publications on the topic of art in public space and has taught as a visiting professor at the Academy of Art in Münster.

Urbane Künste Ruhr is a polymorphous, decentralised institution for contemporary art in the Ruhr region and has been under the artistic direction of Britta Peters since January 2018. Founded after the European Capital of Culture year Ruhr 2010, Urbane Künste Ruhr initiates projects in public spaces (including the Emscherkunstweg), exhibitions, programmes for guest artists and events, often in collaboration with local and international partners.

Source: Urbane Künste Ruhr