Annette Wehrmann, photography from the series Blumensprengungen, 1991-95; photo: Ort des Gegen e.V.

Conference: Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments.

The international conference at HFBK Hamburg on December 2-4, 2021 – jointly conceived by Nora Sternfeld and Michaela Melián –, is dedicated to the history of artistic counter-monuments and forms of protest, discusses aesthetics of memory and historical manifestations in public space, and asks about para-monuments for the present.

23 Fragen des Institutional Questionaire, grafisch umgesetzt von Ran Altamirano auf den Türgläsern der HFBK Hamburg zur Jahresausstellung 2021; photo: Charlotte Spiegelfeld

Diversity

Who speaks? Who paints which motif? Who is shown, who is not? Questions of identity politics play an important role in art and thus also at the HFBK Hamburg. In the current issue, the university's own Lerchenfeld magazine highlights university structures as well as student initiatives that deal with diversity and identity.

Grafik: Tim Ballaschke

Start of semester

After three semesters of hybrid teaching under pandemic conditions, we are finally about to start another semester of presence. We welcome all new students and teachers at the HFBK Hamburg and cordially invite you to the opening of the academic year 2020/21, which this year will be accompanied by a guest lecture by ruangrupa.

Graphic design: Sam Kim, picture in the background: Sofia Mascate, photo: Marie-Theres Böhmker

Graduate Show 2021: All Good Things Come to an End

From September 24 to 26, the more than 150 Bachelor's and Master's graduates of the class of 2020/21 will present their final projects as part of the Graduate Show at the HFBK Hamburg. We would like to thank all visitors and participants.

photo: Klaus Frahm

Summer Break

The HFBK Hamburg is in the lecture-free period, many students and teachers are on summer vacation, art institutions have summer break. This is a good opportunity to read and see a variety of things:

ASA Open Studio 2019, Karolinenstraße 2a, Haus 5; photo: Matthew Muir

Live und in Farbe: die ASA Open Studios im Juni 2021

Since 2010, the HFBK has organised the international exchange programme Art School Alliance. It enables HFBK students to spend a semester abroad at renowned partner universities and, vice versa, invites international art students to the HFBK. At the end of their stay in Hamburg, the students exhibit their work in the Open Studios in Karolinenstraße, which are now open again to the art-interested public.

Studiengruppe Prof. Dr. Anja Steidinger, Was animiert uns?, 2021, Mediathek der HFBK Hamburg, Filmstill

Unlearning: Wartenau Assemblies

The art education professors Nora Sternfeld and Anja Steidinger initiated the format "Wartenau Assemblies". It oscillates between art, education, research and activism. Complementing this open space for action, there is now a dedicated website that accompanies the discourses, conversations and events.

Ausstellungsansicht "Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Übungen für ein anderes Leben" im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg; photo: Maximilian Schwarzmann

School of No Consequences

Everyone is talking about consequences: The consequences of climate change, the Corona pandemic or digitalization. Friedrich von Borries (professor of design theory), on the other hand, is dedicated to consequence-free design. In “School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life” at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, he links collection objects with a "self-learning room" set up especially for the exhibition in such a way that a new perspective on "sustainability" emerges and supposedly universally valid ideas of a "proper life" are questioned.

Annual Exhibition 2021 at the HFBK

Annual exhibition a bit different: From February 12- 14, 2021 students at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, together with their professors, had developed a variety of presentations on different communication channels. The formats ranged from streamed live performances to video programs, radio broadcasts, a telephone hotline, online conferences, and a web store for editions. In addition, isolated interventions could be discovered in the outdoor space of the HFBK and in the city.

Public Information Day 2021

How do I become an art student? How does the application process work? Can I also study to become a teacher at the HFBK? These and other questions about studying art were answered by professors, students and staff at the HFBK during the Public Information Day on February 13, 2021. In addition, there will be an appointment specifically for English-speaking prospective students on February 23 at 2 pm.

Katja Pilipenko

Semestereröffnung und Hiscox-Preisverleihung 2020

On the evening of November 4, the HFBK celebrated the opening of the academic year 2020/21 as well as the awarding of the Hiscox Art Prize in a livestream - offline with enough distance and yet together online.

Exhibition Transparencies with works by Elena Crijnen, Annika Faescke, Svenja Frank, Francis Kussatz, Anne Meerpohl, Elisa Nessler, Julia Nordholz, Florentine Pahl, Cristina Rüesch, Janka Schubert, Wiebke Schwarzhans, Rosa Thiemer, Lea van Hall. Organized by Prof. Verena Issel and Fabian Hesse; photo: Screenshot

Teaching Art Online at the HFBK

How the university brings together its artistic interdisciplinary study structure with digital formats and their possibilities.

Alltagsrealität oder Klischee?; photo: Tim Albrecht

HFBK Graduate Survey

Studying art - and what comes next? The clichéd images stand their ground: Those who have studied art either become taxi drivers, work in a bar or marry rich. But only very few people could really live from art – especially in times of global crises. The HFBK Hamburg wanted to know more about this and commissioned the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg to conduct a broad-based survey of its graduates from the last 15 years.

Ausstellung Social Design, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Teilansicht; photo: MKG Hamburg

How political is Social Design?

Social Design, as its own claim is often formulated, wants to address social grievances and ideally change them. Therefore, it sees itself as critical of society – and at the same time optimizes the existing. So what is the political dimension of Social Design – is it a motor for change or does it contribute to stabilizing and normalizing existing injustices?

Conference: Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments.

Programme: "Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments. Contested Memory in Public Space"

Counter-Memorials and Para-Monument

Construing remembrance as an active process

Diversity

Es ist ein langer Weg

Make Work Visible

Assembling/Disassembling the Curriculum

Diversity at the HFBK Hamburg

Critical Diversity AG

Diversity Workshops for Students Winter Semester 2021/22

Start of semester

Semester Opening 2021

2021/10/05: Semester opening at HFBK Hamburg

Information for First-Years

"Der Tyrann braucht zerbrochene Seelen"[1] - Susanne Leeb über Rajkamal Kahlon

Oliver Laric

Dr. Samo Tomšič

Rosario Talevi

Studying with a child

Lecture Timetable

Graduate Show 2021: All Good Things Come to an End

Digital room plan : Who exhibits where?

2021/09/24: Drei Preise und zwei Förderstipendien - die Eröffnung der Graduate Show

360°-Aufnahmen zur Annual Exhibition und Graduate Show im 3D-Modell

Summer Break

Vor mir der Süden: Pepe Danquart auf Reportage-Reise durch Italien

Zwischen den Welten: Zwischen den Welten: über die Trennung zwischen Kunst und Spiritualität

Browsing: Die Linkliste zum Sufen

Listening: die Mute/Unmute Podcast-Empfehlung

Reading: Leseempfehlungen für diesen Sommer

Wie im Paradies: Interview mit Eschi Fiege und Oliver Hirschbiegel

Live und in Farbe: die ASA Open Studios im Juni 2021

ASA Open Studios

Art School Alliance

ASA Impressions

ASA@work

ASA (N)open Studios 2021

Unlearning: Wartenau Assemblies

Die neue Website der HFBK Kunstpädagogik: art-education.hfbk.net

Wartenau Versammlungen

Die Realität mit Fragen löchern - ein Interview mit Anja Steidinger

Schlüssel und Schwelle, Brücke und Riss

Dr. Anja Steidinger

Dr. Nora Sternfeld

School of No Consequences

Finissage der „Schule der Folgenlosigkeit“

School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life

The new learning App

2021/03/18: Scholarship for Doing Nothing awarded

2021/04/28: »Die Kunst der Folgenlosigkeit« im Wettbewerb für den besten deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilm auf dem DOK.fest München

In der Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Vorüberlegungen für eine Ethik

Annual Exhibition 2021 at the HFBK

360°-Aufnahmen zur Annual Exhibition und Graduate Show im 3D-Modell

Projects Sculpture

Projects Painting / Drawing

Projects Stage Design

Projects Time-based Media

Projects Design

Projects Graphic Art / Typography / Photography

Projects Theorie und Geschichte

Film Seminar

Sonstige Projekte

Public Information Day 2021

Application

Advice Service for Study Applicants

Departments

FAQ

Interview series: Talking to...

Students interviewing fellow students

Semestereröffnung und Hiscox-Preisverleihung 2020

2020/11/04: Semesterauftakt an der HFBK / Vergabe des Hiscox Kunstpreises 2020

HFBK Online Gallery

Konstantin Grcic

Interview with ruangrupa: "We see exhibitions as a device"

Teaching Art Online at the HFBK

Lerchenfeld #54: Unmute Yourself!

Podcast series: An artwork a day

Art in Times of Corona

Artistic Research Project "Commune"

7.12.2021, 11:00 Uhr
Online-Vortrag: Ask the gallerist – Tim Geissler von der Galerie Jahn & Jahn, München

7.12.2021, 19:00 Uhr
Non-knowledge, Laughter and The Moving Image presents: Michelle Williams Gamaker