12.06.2025

11. bis 19. Juli 2025: Summer-LAB UBUNTU – „Keine Kunst ohne uns!“

Vom 11. bis 19. Juli 2025 verwandeln sich das Pina Bausch Zentrum und sein Vorplatz in Wuppertal in einen lebendigen Treffpunkt: Das UBUNTU Summer-LAB – „Keine Kunst ohne uns!“ bringt Menschen aus allen Teilen der Stadtgesellschaft zusammen.

27.05.2025

Charles Petersohn & The Zu Zu Family live im Pina Bausch Zentrum „under construction“

In Kooperation mit dem LOCH Wuppertal und dem Pina Bausch Zentrum bereitet der Musiker, DJ und Veranstalter Charles Petersohn derzeit das Release Konzert am Samstag, 31. Mai, 20:00 Uhr im Pina Bausch Zentrum „under construction“ vor.

13.05.2025

Pina Bausch Professur: „Black Ritual and Durational Action“ von Performance-Künstler und Bildhauer Miles Greenberg

Vom 13. bis zum 15. Mai findet die Ausstellung „Restless Sanctuaries“ im SANAA-Gebäude auf dem Folkwang Campus Welterbe Zollverein statt. 15 internationale Folkwang Studierende aus allen künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen präsentieren individuelle sechsstündige Dauerperformances.

Photo Wilfried Krüger, © Pina Bausch Foundation
Photo Wilfried Krüger, © Pina Bausch Foundation

The Project

The dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch made history: in dance, theatre and throughout the arts. Her unique work and artistic legacy enjoy the status of national cultural heritage. To keep this heritage alive, and provide new ways to access it, the Pina Bausch Centre is planned at Wuppertal’s former municipal theatre, the Schauspielhaus.

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Prof Ernst-Andreas Ziegler, founder of Wuppertal’s Junior Uni, on Pina Bausch as a role model

The architectural competition

The architectural competition for the new Pina Bausch Centre was announced in April 2022. It was a high-profile competition that attracted renowned national and international architecture practices, most of whom collaborated with landscape designers for their proposals.

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Architectural Realisation

The Schauspielhaus, Wuppertal’s former municipal theatre, was Pina Bausch’s favourite venue. She created the majority of her works for this stage. Now protected as a historic monument, yet still highly modern in feel, five decades after the building was first opened it has been offered a new future as part of the planned Pina Bausch Centre. On the basis of the plans for its use, Wuppertal council’s facilities management has created a project sketch for the architectural realisation of the idea.

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© Diller Scofidio+ Renfro LLC, New York

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