B1|A40

Die Schönheit der grossen strasse

12 jun 2010
8 aug 2010

'B1|A40' stops and gets off: in a dialogue with artists such as Atelier van Lieshout, Finger or Rita McBride, with planners and local protagonists, the exhibition is generated in the direct context of the A40 and will set the motorway in scene from June 12 to August 8, 2010 as the big tale of the region. By way of example it creates six spaces where visitors are able to immerge into the big topics of the A40 urban space. At the same time, network projects demonstrate how, from a planning point of view, urban space can be rethought along these experiences.

Vergroot

Duisburg - bron

Kaiserberg Junction, Duisburg

New landscapes

In the shadow of the A40, numerous new landscapes have emerged unnoticed. At the Kaiserberg motorway junction, the ‘spaghetti knot’ of streets choreographs a space of unimagined complexity with uses that do not fit the image of a motorway at all: zoo and allotment garden, pony yard and fish farm, wetlands and village idyll coexist in neighbourly harmony under the sonorous din of the motorway.

A latent lack of interest in difficult urban spaces in the vicinity of traffic structures produces a vacuum of state organisation and presence in the middle of the city. A space that residents bring under social control largely at their own initiative. The locals have come to terms with this difficult space by charming, often civic-oriented self-regulation, they have come to use and appreciate it.

For B1/A40, the Kaiserberg junction landscape park has been created here, inviting to an excursion into the countryside. A walking trail leads to places between village idyll, biospheres and acoustic pressure, amongst which art projects have established themselves.

Opening June 12

With barbeque and drinks from 15.30

The map below

Navigation information
Motorway exit 14, Duisburg- Kaiserberg
Public transport: Bus stop Werthacker, Bus 944
Navigation: 47058 Duisburg, Schwiesenkamp 80 (Werthacker) or Carl- Benz- Str. 11 (zoo car park / walking trail)

Legend
1 + 2 Walking trails
3 Honey from the pump station | Finger
4 Street art Museum
5 + 6 The resistance of small happiness | Jeanne van Heeswijk
7 Delicate Arch | Rita McBride
8 A 40 Spezial: Delikatfisch Braun
9 A 40 Spezial: Werthacker
10 A 40 Spezial: Horses by the motorway
11 A 40 Spezial: Landscape of bridges on the Ruhr
12 A 40 Spezial: Zoo above the motorway