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In Front of My Door
Annual Exhibition of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg
at Kunsthaus Hamburg
15.2.–23.3.2025
Participating artists: Christian M. Beier, Sarah Bender-Kronberg, Wolfgang Block, Frieder Falk, Lela Gabunia, Şakir Gökçebağ, Lotte Hauss, Sibylle Hauswaldt, Florian Huber, Kathrin Jakubzik, Ute Friederike Jürß, Renke Maspfuhl, Rolf Naedler, Uwe Nitsche, Antje Oertling, Stefan Oppermann, Liv Pedersen, Jens Rausch, Florian Reckert, Caroline Saltzwedel, Andreas Schlesinger, Dagmar Schuldt, Shahram Shahmiri, Adriane Steckhan, Elke Suhr, Susanne Thurn, Katja Windau
What is going on right outside my door? Not somewhere or sometime, but here and now. This year’s annual exhibition of BBK Hamburg showcases what artists from the city are observing in the media and their immediate surroundings and what provokes their thoughts.
Florian Reckert takes photos of landscapes into which he digitally integrates military aircraft or soldiers: what kind of an environment do we seek to live in? Christian M. Beier’s woodcuts depict demonstrations: what do we stand up against and for publicly? Lotte Hauss presents baseball bats adorned in gold lettering to smash problems with: is violence an acceptable solution?
In the exhibition, artists from the Professional Association reflect on current social developments and examine their historical, cultural and social contexts. The title at the same time alludes to the two sides of a door: when it is closed, it separates what is in front of it from what is behind it; when open, it encourages dialogue and a change of perspective.
A jury of experts has selected 27 members of the BBK Hamburg for this exhibition from a total of 93 applications.
Jury: Birgit Bornemann, Christine Brey, Jens Kappenberg, Anke Vorwick, Ricarda Wyrwol
Friday, 14.2.2025, 7 pm
Opening
Welcome: Johann Walther Seidensticker (BBK Hamburg), Christine Brey
Introduction: Dr. Franziska Storch
Performance: Lotte Hauss
Wednesday, 26.2.2025, 7 pm
Reading & talk Lubi Barre (in English)
Moderation: Christine Brey
Thursday, 6.3.2025, 6–10 pm
Panorama XI
Thursday, 13.3.2025, 7 pm
Artist talk
Moderation: Christine Brey
Sunday 23.3.2025, 3–6 pm
Finissage 4K
Guided tours
Wednesday, 26.2.2025, 5:30 pm
Sunday, 16.3.2025, 3 pm
Image 1: Sibylle Hauswaldt, Tableau Vorstadt, 2015, Detail
Image 2: Lela Gabunia, Wellenrachen, 2022/23, Photo: Anna Kakabadze
Image 3: Sakir Gökcebag, Nebeneinander, 2022, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
Image 4: Florian Reckert, Unreal reality II (Wargames), 2024
Image 5: Susanne Thurn, FOR ALL THAT 1-4, 2024, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024