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30.11.2024 – 02.02.2025

Politics of Love

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Politics of Love

30.11.2024–2.2.2025

Participating artists: Mounira Al Solh, Francis Alÿs, Isaac Chong Wai, Anna Ehrenstein, Amna Elhassan, FAIRY BOT (Jon Frickey, Thies Mynther, Sandra Trostel), Robert Filliou, Parastou Forouhar, Green Go Home (Rirkrit Tiravanija & Tomas Vu), Johan Grimonprez, Elza Gubanova & Leon Seidel, Shilpa Gupta, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Soyon Jung, Hiwa K, Rebecca Katusiime & Emmanuel Oloya, Tilman Küntzel, Lulu MacDonald, Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya, Sabine Mohr, Dan Peterman, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Wolf Vostell

We’re all against war. But what are we for? Peace, we say. What is peace?

Highlighting this key question, the Art-of-Peace Biennale was launched in 1985 on the initiative of Fluxus artist Robert Filliou at the Kunsthaus Hamburg and Kunstverein in Hamburg. Today, some 40 years later, in our time of mounting global crises, war violence and massive suffering, this question remains highly acute. While national and individual divisions are increasing, essential visions for joint solutions and coalitions of action, from which new concepts of networking and collaboration might take shape, are vanishing.

The international group exhibition Politics of Love counters the sharply defined contours of delimitations and power conflicts with many-voiced expressions of togetherness and inclusion. Taking Michael Hardt’s thesis of a socially engaged “politics of love” as a starting point, it addresses the diversity of intimacy, the common good and the richness of multi-perspectival experience. As a transformative power, love is the basis for coexistence in solidarity that connects us in our differences and multiplicities. Politics of Love conjoins works of emerging and established international artists, including retrospective encounters with participatory projects as well as current collaborative practices, which open up perspectives for a collectively created, more peaceful future.

Curated by Dr. Belinda Grace Gardner and Anna Nowak

Accompanying online publication
Audio guide in plain language

Open Call: Send us a postcard-sized artwork!
More information on the project

Accompaying programme

Fri, 29.11., 7 pm
Opening
Introduction: Anna Nowak & Belinda Grace Gardner
DJ Set: Chris Hausdorf

Thu, 5.12., 6–10 pm
City Curator Joanna Warsza in conversation with Anna Nowak
in the context of Panorama IX with Margaux Gazur & Felix Kubin
Introduction: Inga Wellmann

Sat, 7.12., 5 pm
Cooking with Mama
Performance by Hiwa K with Alima Ouedraogo & Michael Kress
at Hyper Cultural Passengers (HyCP), Veddel

Sun, 15.12., 2 pm
Workshop: Christmas card making for charity, family and friends
Registration: register@kunsthaushamburg.de

Wed, 18.12., 7 pm
Zur Rolle von Liebe und Fürsorge in bewaffneten Konflikten
Josephine Apraku & Dr. Philipp Schulz in conversation with Dr. Belinda Grace Gardner
in cooperation with Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hamburg e.V., supported by Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg

Sat, 11.1., 5 pm
Cooking with Mama
Performance by Hiwa K with Joanna Warsza & Anna Nowak
at Galerie Gemüse, Altona

Wed, 15.1., 7:30 pm
Talk about the Art-of-Peace Biennale
with René Block, Sabine Mohr, Anna Nowak & Milan Ther
at Kunstverein in Hamburg

Sat, 18.1., 12-6 pm
Aus dem Koffer – Zeichnungen auf Reisen aus Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Stuttgart
Presentation of drawings
in cooperation with Peter Nikolaus Heikenwälder & Gesa Lange

Thu, 23.1., 7 pm
Eske Schlüters & Tillmann Terbuyken in conversation with Nina Kalenbach about Untitled History (temporary art project for the public space at Alter Elbpark Hamburg)

Sun, 2.2., 5 pm
Cooking with Mama
Performance by Hiwa K with Amna Elhassan & Lulu MacDonald
at Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Guided tours
Wed, 18.12., 6 pm
Wed, 15.1., 6 pm
Sun, 2.2., 3:30 pm

Kindly supported by

Image 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13: Installation views: Politics of Love, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2024/25, Photos: Antje Sauer
Image 2: Robert Filliou, Untitled, 1985, Archiv Block, Photo: Uwe Walter
Image 4: foreground: Sabine Mohr, Das dritte versuchen, das Eine finden, 1985, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024; background: Parastou Forouhar, The Eyes, 2018, ongoing; Courtesy the artist; Photo: Antje Sauer
Image 6: FAIRY BOT (Jon Frickey, Thies Mynther, Sandra Trostel), Zoopticon – Songs from a Posthuman Ark, 2023, Video still, Courtesy the artists
Image 8: Soyon Jung, Die Herrschaft des Konkreten (10 Euro), 2023, Courtesy Jahn und Jahn, München/Lissabon, Photo: Soyon Jung
Image 10: Wolf Vostell, ICH ERKLÄRE DEN FRIEDEN ZUM GRÖSSTEN KUNSTWERK!, 1979, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Courtesy The Wolf Vostell Estate, Photo: Antje Sauer
Image 12: Detail of: Shilpa Gupta, Tree Drawings, 2013, Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Photo: Jens Ziehe

03.10.2024 – 02.02.2025

Whisper Down the Lane:
Altay Tuz

Altay Tuz, Untitled (Waiting Room), 2024, Photo: Antje Sauer

Whisper Down the Lane:
Altay Tuz

3.10.2024–2.2.2025
Kunsthaus foyer

In the experimental and communicative exhibition format Whisper Down the Lane, the roles and functions of hosting and being hosted become fluid. In line with the eponymous children’s game in which information is passed on in a whisper, the exhibiting artists themselves choose the next person. Whisper Down the Lane is a process-orientated project in which the Kunsthaus transfers part of the curatorial responsibility to the artists themselves, with the aim of creating alternative institutional modes of access and rendering local network structures visible both in terms of personal ties and with regard to artistic approaches.

Altay Tuz, being the third artist in the series, invited by Fritz Lehmann, is presenting his large-format photograph Untitled (Waiting Room). His practice deals with spaces as carriers of social and cultural meaning. The work shown at Kunsthaus foyer depicts a leather armchair in the waiting room of a doctor’s office in Hamburg and is part of a series that deals with various places of waiting – experienced as a threshold state in which the promise of change goes hand in hand with stagnation. Besides the material aesthetics of such places, Altay Tuz is interested in the practice of waiting both as a universal human experience and in relation to his own reality as an artist and non-EU citizen in Germany.

Altay Tuz (*1993, Denizli, TR) studied sculpture at the HFBK Hamburg and previously photography at the Mimar Sinan Art Academy in Istanbul. His artistic works have been exhibited at Westwerk, Hamburg (2023), Elgiz Museum, Istanbul (2018), Mardin Biennial, Mardin (2018), Thessoloniki Photo Biennial, Thessaloniki (2018) and PH21 Gallery, Budapest (2017), among others. He lives and works in Hamburg.

Thu, 3.10.2024, 6–10 pm
Opening
in the context of Panorama VII

04.04.2024 – 01.03.2030

Katharina Duve

My Hand Seeks the Way

Image 1-3: Installation view: Katharina Duve – My Hand Seeks the Way, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2024, Photos: Antje Sauer
Image 4: Nina Rippel, Der geflüsterte Film (film still)

Katharina Duve
My Hand Seeks the Way

From 4 April 2024
Kunsthaus foyer

Situated between the street and the exhibition space, the foyer of the Kunsthaus is a place of transition; a threshold where modes of perception shift and questions about accessibility become evident. Following on from that observation, the Hamburg-based artist Katharina Duve has designed a new work for the stairs of the space.

My Hand Seeks the Way (2024) draws on an experimental film by Nina Rippel from 1992, which deals with the richness of human sensory impressions based on the perceptual world of blind people. Quotes from Rippel’s Der geflüsterte Film (“The Whispered Film”), her text Das Nicht-Sichtbare als Evidenz – Betrachtungen einer filmischen Praxis (“The Non-visible as Evidence – Reflections on a Cinematic Practice”) as well as poetic reflections by Katharina Duve herself were flocked onto eight seating elements made from felt in Braille and black letter. Thus, the work invites people with and without visual impairments to engage in an exchange about the complexity of perception through touch. Because not seeing does not mean perceiving less, but rather referring to an alternative spectrum of perceptions.

 Katharina Duve (*1980, Schwerin, GER) works in the fields of film, costume and performance. She is part of the filmmakers’ group Auge Altona, a collaborator of the music group Deichkind and a member of the performance collective geheimagentur. Since 2022, she has been a professor of Time-based Media at HAW Hamburg. Her artistic works have been shown at the Falckenberg Collection (2023), the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (most recently in 2022), the Tate Modern, London (2017) and Brut, Vienna (2017), among others. She lives and works in Hamburg.

11.11.2023 – 31.12.2026

Jil Lahr

Sticky Business

Installation view: Jil Lahr. Sticky Business, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2023, Photos: Antje Sauer

Jil Lahr
Sticky Business

From 11 November 2023
Kunsthaus Hamburg

Like in the cabinets of curiosities from the early phase of the museum history, Jil Lahr mixes objects of different origins and purposes to create space-related installations, drawing on an extensive collection. Removed from their original settings, the objects of global everyday life trigger new associations, which often reveal the bizarre and humorous nature of massproduced items. By taking them out of their conventional context of use, the artist addresses Western consumerism and refers to entertainment culture.

For the toilets of the Kunsthaus, Jil Lahr has developed the permanent installation Sticky Business. She intuitively redesigned the rooms using stickers that depict stones from her own archive. The natural objects, charged with personal memories, float in space and provide a wry commentary on the functional interior.