HEIMAT: Yesterday and tomorrow!?
A snapshot of a diverse generation. Young people from the Ruhr area show what home means to them.
Home is not the same for everyone
In the workshop, young people from different countries who now live in the Ruhr area learned photography and captured what home means to them: pictures from their old and their new home, places, faces, memories.
The result is a travelling exhibition that starts conversations: about belonging, about diversity and about who actually decides what home is.
- Awarded the Dortmund Heimat-Preis 2022, first place
- Shown at the NRW state parliament, Dortmund police headquarters and the Westfalentag
- Side programme: talks, guided tours and workshops with school classes
Where HEIMAT has been
- 2021
Opening
The exhibition is created in the photo workshop and goes on the road for the first time.
- 2022
Heimat-Preis Dortmund
First place with 48 percent of the votes, presented at Hörder Burg.
- 2023
NRW state parliament and police headquarters
HEIMAT hangs in the heart of democracy and at the Dortmund police headquarters.
- 2025
69th Westfalentag
Presented to a large audience, many conversations about living together.
- 2026
Käthe-Kollwitz-Gesamtschule Lünen
Three project days with more than 700 pupils.
The people behind the exhibition
Oğuz Kalaycı
Team HEIMATNaoual
Team HEIMATMia
Team HEIMATÜmithan Yağmur
Team HEIMATShow HEIMAT at your place?
School, church, town hall, festival: the exhibition travels with a side programme. Tell us place and dates and we will get back to you.