Thu 03.12.2026 DJ set with...: Thibaut de Ruyter

What does an exhibition about global trade flows, industrial production and the ‘New Silk Roads’ sound like? In the next instalment of ‘Spinning Records with…’, Thibaut de Ruyter explores the INDUSTRIAL. Silk Roads 3000 exhibition through music. The evening will take place at the MONO Listening Café.

As co-curator of the exhibition, de Ruyter knows its stories, settings and connections like no other. For the evening, he translates these into a personal selection of records, moving between industrial sounds and ethno-pop, machine rhythms and musical finds from different regions. The result is a soundtrack that opens up new ways of engaging with the exhibition and extends its themes onto vinyl.

The event is being held in collaboration with Black Plastic and the MONO Listening Café.

Guest

Thibaut de Ruyter is a curator and critic based in Berlin. A trained architect, he has been designing exhibitions on both a conceptual and spatial level since 2009. His interests range from the archaeology of new media and the relationship between art and architecture to the art scenes of Central Asia and the post-socialist countries — themes that also shape his curatorial work.

About the format

In the event series ‘Spinning records with …’, the Kunsthalle Dortmund invites a variety of guests to open up new musical perspectives on the themes of the current exhibition through their personal selection of records.