The spinnereischwelm moves on – yet remains right here.
For four years, spinnereischwelm at Römerstraße 7 has been an open home for encounters, artistic experiments, collective thinking, and celebrations. Together with you, we created more than 60 workshops, brought international and local productions to life, invented a new Schwelm-based artist, Elfriede Voss, hosted countless Culture Clubs, readings, and concerts – all free of charge, so that culture could remain accessible to everyone.
From Schwelm, our ideas have traveled to the EXPO in Dubai, the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, the Jesuit Culture Center in Alexandria, and further to Montreal, Johannesburg, Oulu, and Kuopio.
spinnereischwelm has always been more than just a place: it has been living proof that contemporary art and new discourses can emerge not only in big cities but also here – in Schwelm, together with you.
Now we are opening a new chapter. Our studio, archive, and storage will move to Südstraße in Schwelm. At the same time, spinnereischwelm is evolving into a mobile, hybrid concept: a space that travels, transforms, and carries its artistic and curatorial spirit to new places. With partners like the Schlossfabrik in Velbert, the Pina Bausch Center in Wuppertal, and the Falsche Farm in Diebis, we will keep the spirit of spinnereischwelm alive and give it fresh momentum!
Saying goodbye to Römerstraße is not easy. But we see this moment not as an end, but as a beginning. The cultural-political framework is challenging – yet our path continues. spinnereischwelm remains: as a studio, as a space for thought, as a network, as an invitation. Here in Schwelm – and far beyond.
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Spring 25: spinnereischwelm meets falsche farm!
We’re excited to be in an inspiring peer-to-peer exchange with Bianca Kruppa and Andi Hofstetter from Falsche Farm(www.falschefarm.de). As the artistic directors of spinnereischwelm, we’re sharing thoughts on how to create and sustain spaces for creative participation in rural areas—especially in these challenging times. It’s a conversation on equal footing, shaped by shared experiences, diverse perspectives, and the question of how artistic work can thrive beyond urban centers.
April 25: New Performance: Ballroom Bliss
‘You are part of the performance,’ deufert&plischke greeted the audience – the youngest eight, the oldest well over 80. Alone, in pairs, in groups. Quiet, wild, expressive, expansive or reserved. The dancing was exuberant and full of joy of movement... (Lilo Ingenlath-Gegic / Westdeutsche Zeitung)
What a wonderful premiere: two sold-out performances at the Pina Bausch Centre under construction. Ballroom Bliss will move on to Wuppertal, to Soweto in South Africa and to Oulu in northern Finland, and also to Bochum! We will keep you updated.
With Ballroom Bliss, deufert&plischke continue their unique artistic practice in which dance is not only an expression but also a creation of community. For over two decades, they have understood choreography as a social art form – as a space in which society is not only represented, but jointly created. Their latest production is dedicated to the transformative power of dancing together and opens up a realm of experience in which collective movement gives rise to new forms of togetherness.
Ballroom Bliss
Concept / Performance: deufert&plischke, spinnereischwelm
Production: Lena Berger
Management: Nilüfer Kemper
Ballroom Bliss is a co-production between deufert&plischke and the Pina Bausch Centre, made possible by funding from the Kunststiftung NRW and the Spitzenförderung des Landesministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen.
