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Hamburg Grants for Visual Arts 2025
6.12.2025 – 18.1.2026
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 final exhibition of the Hamburg Grants for Visual Arts provides an exciting insight into the city’s art production and its current developments, while also offering a stage for promising artistic positions. On display are the new works produced by the ten recipients during the grant period, accompanied by the Kunsthaus Hamburg.
The main focus of the format is on promoting fruitful connections between the participating artists as well as in dialogue with external curators, authors and the public. Year after year, new opportunities and synergies arise that are worth discovering.
Since 1981, the Hamburg Grants for Visual Arts have been awarded to ten artists annually by the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg. In 2025, the Kunsthaus Hamburg is relaunching the format in order to support artistic production, create visibility for the participating artists beyond the city and to promote Hamburg as a hub for art. As in the past, the exhibition will be accompanied by a publication.
Image 1: Maxime Chabal, Ghost Image, 2024, installation view
Image 2: Katharina Kohl, Das Gedächtnis der Hilanderas, 2023
Image 3: Katja Pilipenko, In Search of Lost Security, 2022, Installation view ICAT – Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer, Hamburg; Photo: Jaewon Kim
Image 4: Lila-Zoé Krauß, Inge, raise us from the dead!, 2021, film still