Image credits see below
Over Land and Sea
Allora & Calzadilla, Louis d’Heudières & Nina Kuttler, Eliška Konečná, Teresa Solar Abboud
5.4.–8.6.2025
The group show Over Land and Sea tells of the migrant history of humanity, its present and future. In a tension between the tangible and the mythical, the animate and the industrial world, the works on display point to the vulnerability of human beings and, simultaneously, their inherent ability to change and transform. They encourage a humanistic reflection on the way we live today.
In the exhibition hall of the Kunsthaus, a hybrid world unfolds, in which fiction and reality interfuse. At the centre are the monumental kayaks by Teresa Solar Abboud. They draw parallels between bones – parts of the locomotor system, carriers of tissue – and ships – vehicles of migration, conveyers of people and knowledge. Through the interplay with the video work by Allora & Calzadilla, the sound installation by Louis d’Heudières and Nina Kuttler as well as the bas-reliefs by Eliška Konečná, a web of associations arises that widens the subjects underlying the sculptures to include ecological, social and moral questions in a way which is both concrete and sensual.
Curated by Anna Nowak
Accompanying programme
Fri, 4.4.2025, 7 pm
Opening
Introduction: Anna Nowak
DJ set: Laetizia
Wed, 16.4.2025, 7 pm
Nina Kalenbach in conversation with Eske Schlüters & Tillmann Terbuyken about the project Untitled History
Sat, 26.4.2025, 6 pm– 1 am
Long Night of Museums
Thu, 1.5.2025, 6–10 pm
Panorama XII with Louis d’Heudières, Nina Kuttler & Defetro
Opening Whisper Down the Lane
Sat, 10.5.2025, 1–6 pm
Symposium: On the Importance of Art for a Resilient Democracy
Thu, 22.5.2025, 3–6 pm
WE ARE OCEAN: Blaupause Hamburg
Project presentation and talk with Till Krause & pupils of Ida Ehre Schule
Fri, 23.5.2025, 7 pm
Atlantique (Mati Diop, 2019)
Film screening at Metropolis Kino
Mon, 26.5.2025, 7 pm
Seefeuer (Gianfranco Rosi, 2016)
Film screening at Metropolis Kino
Thu, 5.6.2025, 6–10 pm
Panorama XIII with Hannes Wienert & Naama
Fri, 6.6.2025, 7 pm
dépARTS im Gepäck:Artist talk with Katja Pilipenko & Maik Gräf
Results of the Paris Residency of Claussen-Simon-Stiftung
Moderation: Anna Nowak
Thu, 10. / 17. / 24.4.2025, 8. / 15. / 22.5.2025 & 5.6.2025, 5:30 pm
Alternative Harbour Tours
In cooperation with Hafengruppe Hamburg
Guided tours
Wed, 16.4.2025, 6 pm
with Jaana Heine
Wed, 7.5.2025, 6 pm
with Anna Nowak
Thu, 5.6.2025, 5:30 pm
with Hannah Köchy
Kindly supported by
Images 1, 3, 5, 7: Installation views Over Land and Sea, Kunsthaus Hamburg 2025, Photos: Antje Sauer
Image 2: Eliška Konečná, The Great Bath and The Great Feast, 2023, Courtesy Polansky Gallery, Prague / private collection Prague, Photo: Antje Sauer
Image 4: Allora & Calzadilla, Raptor’s Rapture, 2012, Video still, Courtesy the artists and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, © Allora & Calzadilla
Image 6: detail of: Eliška Konečná, The Great Feast, 2023, Courtesy Polansky Gallery, Prague / private collection Prague, Photo: Jan Kolsk