Long Night of Museums 2023

Saturday, 22 April 2023, 6 pm – 1 am
Long Night of Museums Hamburg
Eccentric 80s: Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen,
Rabe perplexum, and Contemporary Accomplices

Motto 2023: Eccentric 80s


Special programme accompanying the exhibition Eccentric 80s: Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen, Rabe perplexum, and Contemporary Accomplices

Tabea Blumenschein (1952–2020), Hilka Nordhausen (1949–1993), and Rabe perplexum (1956–1996) acted ex-centrically in several senses: outside the centre of attention, deviating from social norms and often also from institutionalised art. The results of their productions – performances, readings, films, concerts or murals – were sometimes fleeting, ephemeral and thus less marketable at the time. The contemporary artists Ergül Cengiz (*1975) (3 Hamburger Frauen), Philipp Gufler (*1989) and Angela Stiegler (*1987) question the positions of the 1980s from today’s perspective. Their structurally buried work will be activated on the basis of archive material, exchange with companions and their own artworks: Together with the art historians Burcu Dogramaci and Mareike Schwarz, an exhibition project has been created in which artistic and art-historically situated knowledge is combined.

Beyond several guided tours, the Kunsthaus Hamburg will offer an art work shop and will host a lecture performance as well as a live DJ set. Kunsthaus Bar is open all night.


18 – 1 Uhr
Kunsthaus Bar

18:30 Uhr
Short guided tour: Hilka Nordhausen (in German) 

19 –22 Uhr
Mail Art: Eccentric postcards – design & ship 

19:30 Uhr
Draft: Der Traum vom Staubsaugerroboter: 
Lecture performance by Cake & Cash Collective 

20:30 Uhr
Short guided tour: Tabea Blumenschein (in German) 

21:30 Uhr
Short guided tour: Rabe perplexum (in German) 

22 – 1 Uhr
DJ Frank – Sie rufen an, ich lege auf

Admission only with the tickets for the Long Night of Museums Hamburg 2019. Available at Kunsthaus Hamburg, all other participating museums and online.