24/07/2025
Art & Place Magazine Issue 2: Die Gesellschaft der Stadtwanderer (Society of Urban Wanderers). Insight into activities at the Urban Art Biennale 2024.
• Edited by Javier Abarca .es and Mathieu Tremblin
• Published by Urbanario .es
• 21×15 cm, English
• Available at Le Grand Jeu
One of our highlights at the Art & Place Conference was the chance to showcase interesting work in printed publications to further explore the theoretical framework of our program.
The result is the Art & Place Magazine—a new series of small-format, visual publications, each focusing on some particular moment in the relation between artists and places.
The second issue in the series was produced in collaboration with French curator Mathieu Tremblin, and produced with the support of Le Grand Jeu and Wolklinger Hütte UNESCO World Heritage Site .
As part of the Urban Art Biennale 2024, Tremblin curated a programme of residencies in the post-industrial city of Wölklingen, located in south-western Germany near the French border. Artists carried out a series of over seventy informal artistic interventions.
The programme included works by Coco Bergholm (Germany) , Epos 257 (Czech Republic) , Antonio Gallego (France) .galllego, Deana Kolencikova (Slovakia) , Mathieu Tremblin (France) and the collective Wanderlust Social Club (Belgium, France), alongside performances by Pascal Ansell (United Kingdom) and the duo Léa Hussenot and Corentin Seyfried (France).
Most works emerged from a public call for ideas among local residents.
In the magazine, the miniature figures painted by Wanderlust Social Club serve as a visual thread to explore a small portion of the project’s output.
All interventions were carried out without formal permissions and have
been documented and geolocated in an open-source online map.
📸 The complete photo report from the Art & Place Conference Saarbrücken 2025 is now available on our website!
🖋️ See previous posts for more information, and read all about the conference on our website (link in bio).