34 pages Edited by Javier Abarca and Mathieu Tremblin Text(s) by Javier Abarca Photographs by Mathieu Tremblin 21 x 15 cm Language: English Paperback Publisher: Urbanario 2025
Art & Place Magazine #2 offers a glimpse into Die Gesellschaft der Stadtwanderer—an open-ended project at the crossroads of walking, observation, and urban intervention. Curated by Mathieu Tremblin for the Urban Art Biennale 2024 in Völklingen, it brought together nine artists from across Europe to explore the city through informal, unsanctioned artistic gestures.
Over seventy actions unfolded across the post-industrial landscape of Völklingen, a city shaped by its proximity to the steelworks and its position on the French-German border. Artists—including Coco Bergholm, Epos 257, Antonio Gallego, Deana Kolencikova, Léa Hussenot & Corentin Seyfried, and the Wanderlust Social Club—engaged directly with the urban fabric, often drawing inspiration from ideas proposed by local residents.
The interventions ranged from poetic to playful, subtle to subversive—always performed without official approval, and always rooted in the spirit of dérive. Each was documented and geolocated on an open-source online map, creating a dispersed, living archive of ephemeral acts.
This zine captures a fragment of that archive. Here, the miniature figures by Wanderlust Social Club act as guides, leading readers through selected moments from the project—traces of a temporary community formed through walking, watching, and quietly rewriting the rules of the street.
