Inga Krüger
Permanently open trousers
Am Rothoborn 1 33098 Paderborn
Stop: Heiersstraße
accessible with lines 2, 3, 6
or
Stop: Michaelstraße
accessible with line 5
27.6., 5 pm / 30.8., 3 pm / 5.10., 6:05 pm
Permanently open trousers (2025)
In her performance Permanently open trousers, Inga Krüger dedicates herself to the shortest river in Germany. Like the river, her narrative style meanders, creating a special connection with the audience. The audience is not only carried along by her flow of words, but is also actively taken on a mental journey, as conscious inconsistencies and word plays create a sense of anticipation for the next twist in the performance.
The artist speaks amplified, but above all she amplifies what speaks at a place. For this, she positions herself in front of the city library, right next to the babbling Pader, with a view of the Kaiserpfalz and the cathedral. Equipped with a microphone, Inga Krüger takes in the place in a unique, wordy way and questions the relationship between humans and the river. With empathy for the short river, she delves into its history, location and use with a good mix of knowledge and beneficial ignorance.
Inga Krüger sees language as a vehicle for thinking and understanding the world around us and interprets the performative act of speech as a form of urban occupation. Permanently open trousers is a performative intervention on the Pader that encourages a brief and refreshing look at
the flowing water.
Inga Krüger
Inga Krüger (she/her) was born in 1988 in Iserlohn. She lives and works in Düsseldorf today and performs internationally. The performance artist uses spaces as sources of inspiration and props as anchor points for her spoken word art. Krüger studied at the Münster Art Academy under Suchan Kinoshita and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her work has been recognised with numerous awards, including the Förderpreis of the Westfälischer Kunstverein and the travel stipendium from the NRW government to the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her performances have been seen most recently at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the Emscherkunstweg and the Neue Aachener Kunstverein. Other projects have been realised with Den Frie Copenhagen, Wiels Brussels and the Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne.
Die Performance wird in Kooperation mit den Städtischen Museen und Galerien Paderborn durchgeführt. Sie wird gefördert vom Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh im Rahmen des Programms »Stadtbesetzung«.
