Detail of Christa Donatius, Im Zustand der Schwebung, 2025, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
Friday, 6 February 2026, 7 pm
Opening
System Error: Human?
Annual Exhibition of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg
Welcome: Anna Goldmund (Board, BBK Hamburg), Sibylle Mayr & Avid Saeed (Jury)
Introduction: Claudia Rasztar
Free admission
Every human being is a complex set of routines, beliefs and attempts at establishing order. Defects, disruptions and irritations are often viewed as threats – but perhaps this is actually where our true potential lies. It is precisely when something tilts or contradicts itself that spaces emerge for new perceptions.
For this year’s members exhibition of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Hamburg, a jury of five experts selected thirty artistic positions from 145 submissions. System Error: Human? compiles works that explore the fragile, the unfinished and the contradictory. Between analogue material and the digital code, between earth, fabric, metal and pixels, they negotiate questions of control, loss and new beginnings. They display breaks as transitions, cracks as openings, irritations as starting points for new forms of coexistence. The exhibition thus becomes a polyphonic plea for the productive power of the error – and for art as a field where orientation is continually being re-created.
Participating artists: Sevil Amini, Christian M. Beier, Sarah Bender-Kronberg, Matthias Berthold, Wolfgang Block, Roland Doil, Christa Donatius, Frieder Falk, Satenik Ghulijanyan, Şakir Gökçebağ, Frauke Hänke & Claus Kienle, Friederike Höppner, Katharina Holstein-Sturm, Ute Klapschuweit, Thomas Klockmann, Agatha Kosobucki, Kristina Küster-Witt, Max Messemer, Per Pegelow, Jens Rausch, Florian Reckert, Lena Schmidt, Janine Seelen, Shahram Shahmiri, Kuo Tian, Jenni Tietze, Annika Unterburg, Sebastian Unterrainer, Frederick Vidal, Andrea Ziegler
Jury: Anja Giese, Barbara Maahs, Sibylle Mayr, Maryam Naderi, Avid Saeed