{"id":26507,"date":"2025-12-08T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/?p=26507"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:24:25","slug":"melike-kara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/melike-kara\/","title":{"rendered":"Melike Kara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swiper\"><div id=\"swiper-6a0881bf87040\" class=\" swiper-container\"><div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Melike_Kara_5_c-Sirin_Simsek-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Melike_Kara_12_c-Sirin_Simsek-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Melike_Kara_1_c-Sirin_Simsek-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Melike_Kara_13_c-Sirin_Simsek-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/<![CDATA[\n(function($, window) {\n\t$('#swiper-6a0881bf87040').swiper({\"pagination\":\".swiper-pagination\",\"paginationClickable\":true,\"nextButton\":\".swiper-button-next\",\"prevButton\":\".swiper-button-prev\",\"scrollbar\":false,\"loop\":true,\"before\":\"<div class=\\\"swiper\\\">\",\"after\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"8000\"});\n})(jQuery, window)\n\/\/]]><\/div><\/script>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Shots from the artist&rsquo;s studio, 2025, &copy; Melike Kara; Photos: &#350;irin &#350;im&#351;ek<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Melike Kara<br \/>\n<em>Whispers<br \/>\n<\/em>5.6.&ndash;23.8.2026<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>In the context of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phototriennale.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Triennal of Photography Hamburg 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p>Melike Kara&rsquo;s solo exhibition <em>Whispers<\/em> is presented as part of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg entitled <em>Alliance, Infinity, Love &ndash; In the Face of the Other<\/em>. It conceives photography not as a static image, but as a circulating, ever-changing medium of memory, identity and transformation.<\/p>\n<p>For the Kunsthaus Hamburg, the artist creates a large-scale installation in which, for the first time, she burns photographs from her own archive and, once turned into ash, integrates them into the space. What remains are traces &ndash; fragments of images eluding fixation. Building on Kara&rsquo;s long-standing exploration of her Kurdish heritage, the exhibition focuses on belonging and transformation. Visitors enter a fragile garden: paintings cover the floor; images made from coffee grounds permeate the space like sedimented traces of the past. Plants grow in certain areas; water collects in basins. The result is a sensory space that invites us to consider identity as something that is in a state of constant flux.<\/p>\n<p>Viewed within the context of the Triennial of Photography, the exhibition condenses the key themes of this year&rsquo;s festival: <em>Alliance<\/em> as a fluid, ever-evolving relationship between images, bodies and stories; <em>Infinity<\/em> as an unresolved, ongoing process of memory and change; and <em>Love<\/em> as a delicate form of closeness and belonging that requires care and openness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Kindly supported by<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27284 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Logos-Foerderungen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Logos-Foerderungen.png 1366w, https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Logos-Foerderungen-800x319.png 800w, https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Logos-Foerderungen-1100x438.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whispers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26507"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27330,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26507\/revisions\/27330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}