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The Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst ("Edith Russ House") is an
art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
in the city of
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, Gurkaran Singh,
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, dedicated to
new media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technology, technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video g ...
. The gallery was founded due to an endowment from Edith Russ, a secondary school teacher in Oldenburg. It does not have a permanent collection but presents temporary exhibitions and associated events. The building is close to the Peter-Friedrich-Ludwig-Hospital, a cultural centre and former hospital, located to the southwest.


See also

* List of tourist attractions in Oldenburg *
New media New media describes communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content. In the middle of the 1990s, the phrase "new media" became widely used as part of a sales pitch for ...


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* Year of establishment missing Buildings and structures in Oldenburg (city) Tourist attractions in Oldenburg (city) Contemporary art galleries in Germany Culture of Lower Saxony New media art {{Germany-art-display-stub