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Future Continuous
Hamburg Grants for Visual Arts 2025
6.12.2025 – 25.1.2026
Kunsthaus Hamburg
Participating artists: Francesca Bertin, Maxime Chabal, Wassili Franko, Katharina Kohl, Lila-Zoé Krauß, Nina Kuttler, Ruxin Liu, Katja Pilipenko, Sohorab Rabbey, Kristina Savutsina
The Hamburg Grants for Visual Arts of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg provide fascinating insights into the city’s production of art and its recent developments. The final exhibition, entitled Future Continuous, presents the works produced by the recipients of 2025 during their scholarship period, accompanied by the Kunsthaus Hamburg. In spatial, sound and video installations, they address pressing topics of our time, ranging from the examination of ecological interdependence or how we deal with artificial intelligence to an exploration of the history of psychiatry and questions revolving around intimacy and collective care.
The Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg has been supporting promising Hamburg artists with these grants since 1981. In 2025, the accompanying exhibition will adopt a new focus: the emphasis will be on supporting artistic production, promoting visibility and creating fruitful relationships – among the participating artists themselves and in dialogue with external curators, authors and the public. Year upon year, this will be giving rise to new possibilities and connections well worth discovering.
Alongside the exhibition a publication will be issued, published and distributed in cooperation with the internationally renowned Mousse Publishing. The catalogue contains essays by various curators and authors, texts on the artists’ new productions as well as a photo series and will be available from December 2025 via Mousse and in the Kunsthaus Hamburg shop.
The exhibition is curated by Jaana Heine.
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition
Installation views Future Continuous – Hamburg Grants for Visual Arts 2025; Photos: Antje Sauer
Image 2: Kristina Savutsina, Kramatorsk Wall (working title), 2023–ongoing, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Courtesy the artist, Camera: Georg Kußmann
Image 3: Lila-Zoé Krauß, Dream VI: [Station 161], 2025, Courtesy the artist
Image 4: Maxime Chabal, Story of the Eye, 2025, Courtesy the artist
Image 5: Wassili Franko, [DevLog], 2025, Courtesy the artist
Image 6: left: Sohorab Rabbey, Deep Down the Elbe, Up Above the Teesta, 2025, Courtesy the artist; right: Ruxin Liu, Mainstream People, 2025, Courtesy Ruxin Liu
Image 7: Katharina Kohl, ROSWITHA, 2025–ongoing, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Courtesy the artist
Image 8: Nina Kuttler, The Mighty Rush of Gloom, 2025, Courtesy the artist
Image 9: Francesca Bertin, I WISH – YOUR BREATH, 2025, Courtesy the artist
Supported by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Culture and Media
