Detail of: Nadira Husain, The Haunted Museum, Extension, 2025, Courtesy the artist
Printer’s Proof
100 Years of griffelkunst
30.8.–14.9.2025
Free admission
Special opening hours
Thursday and Friday, 11 am–8 pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–6 pm
Closed on Mondays
Open printing workshop
Thursday to Sunday, from 3 pm
To mark the 100th anniversary of Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg e. V., the Kunsthaus exhibition hall will be transformed into an open printing workshop for a fortnight.
Griffelkunst publishes editions of original graphic artworks and multiples, and makes them available to its numerous members. The association thereby contributes significantly to broadening participation in art and, likewise, to promoting artists and the medium of printmaking. Our intention is to honour this special commitment with a participatory project.
The programme is complemented by a special exhibition that blurs the boundaries between production, collecting and curating: Hamburg artists, some of whom have themselves previously created an edition for griffelkunst, were invited to contribute favourite pieces from their private collections to the presentation. Based on these works, the exhibition provides an intimate insight into the collecting practices of those involved and at the same time offers an impressive overview of griffelkunst’s many years of work.
The project is being realized in cooperation with the printing workshops at HAW Hamburg under the direction of Professor Ellen Sturm.