# @cgtneurope on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYMpjCmEfKj
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65297026-cgtneurope-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-11T12:02:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

## Caption

Fifty artists from 17 countries have taken over a UNESCO World Heritage ironworks in Germany for the Urban Art Biennale 2026.⁣
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It’s a hugely unusual site for art – an industrial relic, long closed for business – but it gives artists a huge canvas to create upon. They’ve responded with a whole range of artworks: a message painted in giant letters across a rooftop, visible only from 45m up; white industrial fabric stretched across century-old furnace halls; a van, tyres and debris coated in paint like a Pompeii of the fossil fuel age. ⁣
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All this inside a sprawling 60,000 sq m maze of chimneys and rusting machinery that hasn't changed since production stopped in 1986.⁣
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The Volklingen Ironworks is the only intact example of its kind left in western Europe and North America. Now it's one of the continent's most dramatic art venues.⁣
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Read more on CGTN Europe website. ⁣
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#art #industry #unesco #germany⁣

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art, germany, industry, unesco

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