Exhibition 'Radikale Hoffnung' Responds to AfD's Humiliation of Roma in Gelsenkirchen

In Gelsenkirchen, the far-right AfD party handed Roma brooms and ordered them to clean the streets. In response, the exhibition 'Radikale Hoffnung' (Radical Hope) is now showing how resistance can look. The Ruhr region, symbolically tied to German labor struggles from 19th-century miners' uprisings to protests against mine closures in the 1960s and 70s and strikes during deindustrialization, provides the context. The exhibition aims to bring people into the museum by connecting to their immediate experience, translating social conflicts into aesthetic terms and scaling local incidents to global relevance. It questions where the working world begins and ends in an era when work and leisure often blur.