Goldsmiths Exhibition Exchange Project

Abendstund hat Gold im Mund | HFBK students' exhibition in London, March 2018; photo: Max Eicke

Abendstund hat Gold im Mund | HFBK students' exhibition in London, March 2018; photo: Fiona Grassl

Abendstund hat Gold im Mund | HFBK students' exhibition in London, March 2018; photo: Amber Hahn

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Exhibition exchange project between the Art Department of the Goldsmiths, University of London, and the HFBK Hamburg

In 2010, an exhibition exchange took place between the Goldsmiths and the HFBK. It was organized by Roman Liška, a student of both universities. Ten Goldsmiths students and eleven HFBK students exhibited in each others' universities and in bars in each other's cities, stayed at each others' houses and supported each other, and got to know each others' university systems.

This very successful exchange project has been extended as a regular cooperative event:

Both universities send a group of up to 10 students to the other university once a year. The visiting students will stay with the resident students taking part in the programme. An exhibition of the visiting students' work – lasting perhaps three days – will be held on the premises of the host university. The exchange programme also includes group tutorials with professors and tutors of the host university. Travel costs are covered by the visitors’ own university.

www.gold.ac.uk/art/

Exhibitions

The London Look

09. - 11. Februar 2022 in Hamburg, ICAT im neuen Atelierhaus

Riley Richards, Alexander Heard, Hannah Dempsey, Pepe Mason-Bradshaw, Phoebe Bowen-Hill, Hannah Sophia Guerriero, Saul Smith, Rebecca Stenfors, Han Gao, Jessie Kaulbach

From LONDON with Love

11.– 20. Februar 2022 in Hamburg, gallery at the new studio building

Ollie Elphick, Polly Plowden, Isaac Blakeborough, Evie Berwick, Mia Shaw, Felix Fuller-Kerley, Lowri Whiskerd, Dong Eun Tae, Sophie Edwards, Nicola Malcolm

Goldschmidt('s)

6.–8. February 2020 in Hamburg

Rosa Brentnall, Sebastian Coates, Elizabeth Deacon, Aidan Hendrickse, Eve Jefferies, Aimee Lyon, Janaki Mistry, Lova Ranung, James Sibley, Babette Whiting

stay together for the kids

21. March 2019 in London
Marc Botschen, Xin Cheng, Elisa Goldammer, Iris Helena Hamers, Conrad Hübbe, Wonek Lee, Xinyi Li, Sofia Mascate, Chloe-Rose Purcell, Anna Stüdeli

How Much is a Chunk?

7.–9. February 2019 in Hamburg
Lynn Chang, Jeno Davies, Eilidh Delves, Kirsty Felix, Honey Hambley, Ollie Jacob, Anna Monkman, Andia Newton, Reuben Martindale, Noah Verbeeten

Abendstund hat Gold im Mund

15.–16. March 2018 in London

Noémi Barbaglia, Robert Bergmann, Luca Borsato, Max Eicke, Mara Ittel, Yi Li, Sohorab Rabbey, Franziska Windolf, Lars Witte, Julia Annelies Wycisk

Have Fun Be Kind

8. February 2018 in Hamburg
Rachel Ashton, Rafael Escardo Espejo, Phoebe Evans-Clarke, Alice Fraser, Amber Hahn, Charlie Hodgson, Minho Kim, Antonio Lopez Espinosa, Lisa Vigorelli, Tara White

Focal Point Within The Small Garden

16. March 2017 in London
Marvin Almaraz Dosal, Fabio Cirillo, Elisabeth Moch, Daniel Jasser, Lila-Zoé Krauß, Nina Kuttler, Anne Pflug, Pia Scheiner, Saskia Senge, Nina Zeljković | Fotos »

Isthmus

9.–11. February 2017 in Hamburg
Kobby Adi, Grace Collins, Rufus Genn, Scarlett Hirst, Tamao Narukawa, Conrad Pack, Violeta Paez Armando, Francesco Palombi, Cuan Roche, Mark Sequeira

Koryaka 1

16. March 2016 in London
Pachet Fulmen, Denis Kudrjasov, Shira Lewis, Takeo Marquardt, Stella Rossié, Caspar Sänger, Maximilian Schuch, Jonathan Spörke, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Xiyao Wang | Fotos »

Carapace

18.–19. February 2016 in Hamburg
Clémentine Bedos, Abigail Brothers, Joseph Brown, Rosie Dowd-Smyth, Pietro Librizzi, Ione Milne, Paolo Mischenko, Jennifer Milner, Nan Moore, Lydia Wood

Cold Hands Warm Friends

18.–20. March 2015 in London
Marion Fink, Julie Gufler, Jonas Hinnerkort, Yu-Ling Hsueh, Charlotte Livine, Magdalena Los, David Reiber Otálora, Niclas Riepshoff, Wiebke Schwarzhans, Paul Spengemann | Fotos »

I Love The Water

18.–20. February 2015 in Hamburg
Kieran Carter, Michael Clements, Holly Hunter, Finn McKenna, Heather Reid, James Slattery, Daniel Tebano, Giulia Tommasi, Joshua Wirz, Margita Yankova

Journeys are made by the people you travel with

19. March 2014 in London
Charlotte Arnhold, Sungeun Choi, Gina Fischli, Jens Franke, Fion Pellacini, Judith Rau, Laura Schick, Pablo Schlumberger, Margot Zweers | Fotos »

To Fly To Serve

20.–21. February 2014 in Hamburg
Shristie Budhia, Minnie Casey, Maudie Gibbons, Jessie Harris, Sam Kenswil, Nayu Kim, Elsbeth King, Mark William Lewis, Jessica Mai Walker, Joseph Winter

Ausstellung

13.–16. March 2013 in London
Katja Aufleger, Tomma Brook, Asana Fujikawa, Rachel Hughes, Claire Macé, Dominik Mayer, Fidel Morf, Kathrin Sohn, Sung Tieu, Tilman Walther

BEEF

13.–15. February 2013 in Hamburg
Lauren Aldridge, Racheal Crowther, Rosie Hastings, Billy Howard, Martin Kozlowski, Daisy Parris, Charles Pryor, James Sturkey, Rosie Taylor, Jala Wahid

Top 10

15.–17. March 2012 in London
Andrea Becker-Weimann, Sarah-Christina Benthien, Barbara Dévény, Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, Constanze Kresta, Sung Won Moon, Alice Péragine, Ida Roscher, Yps Roth, Markus Ruscher

Kate Moss

15.–17. February 2012 in Hamburg
Maeve Brennan, Nicole Buning, Nicola Guy, Yujin Jung, Guthrie Mitton-McKellar, George Nesbitt, Jenny Nygren, David Shipway, Rebecca Voelcker, Jenny Wells

W. T. Fox - What The Fox

24.–25. March 2011 in London
Christiane Blattmann, Sonja Dürscheid, Lars Hinrichs, Konstanze Klecha, Annika Kahrs, Martin Meiser, Stefan Mildenberger, Julia Phillips, Aleen Solari, Johanna Tiedtke | Fotos »

Now I can Live

24.–27. February 2011 in Hamburg
Than Clark, James Connick, Isabel Denny, Elizabeth Greenaway, Drew Hoad, Dominic Humphries, William Joys, Beth Ka Lau, Hannah Regel, Anna Sebastian

Sie liebt dich

17.–20. March 2010 in London
Angela Anzi, Ina Arzensek, Till van Daalen, Marlene Denningmann, Max Frisinger, Verena Issel, Suse Itzel, Gitte Jabs, Nico Jungel, Sebastian Kubersky, Katharina Simons von Bockum-Dolffs, Anna Steinert | Fotos »

Komm, gib mir Deine Hand

16.–20. February 2010 in Hamburg
Mia-Nelle Drøschler, Sam Edkins, James Green, Rae Hicks, Emmie McLuskey, Marlon Rabenreither, Luis Rodríguez, Lauren Squires, Chloe Stead, Miho Tajima

The application deadline has already passed.

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Contact

Mareike Stolley
Room:04b Wa
Phone: +49 40 42 89 89-247
Mail:mareike.stolley@hfbk.hamburg.de

photo: Ronja Lotz

Everything for Everyone

In May and June, the HFBK Hamburg offers a varied program with exhibitions, lectures, artist talks and performances. Lots of good reasons to shake off spring tiredness and jump into the programme...

A disguised man with sunglasses holds a star-shaped sign for the camera. It says "Suckle". The picture is taken in black and white.

photo: Honey-Suckle Company

Let`s work together

Collectives are booming in the art world. And they have been for several decades. For the start of the summer semester 2023, the new issue of the Lerchenfeld Magazine is dedicated to the topic of collective practice in art, presents selected collectives, and also explores the dangers and problems of collective working.

Two visitors in front of a screen, video work by Max Pilger is running.

Graduate show 2018, master work by Max Pilger; photo: Lukes Engelhardt

Binge Watching

It's semester break at the HFBK Hamburg - the perfect time to go through our numerous recordings. We have compiled a small selection here.

Examination of the submitted portfolios

How to apply: study at HFBK Hamburg

From February 1 to March 6, 2023, 4 p.m., you can apply to study at HFBK Hamburg. Please find all important info here.

Jahresausstellung 2023, Arbeit von Toni Mosebach / Nora Strömer; photo: Lukes Engelhardt

Annual Exhibition 2023 at HFBK Hamburg

From February 10-12, students from all departments will present their artistic works at Lerchenfeld 2, Wartenau 15 and AtelierHaus, Lerchenfeld 2a. At ICAT, Tobias Peper, Artistic Director of the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, curates an exhibition with HFBK master students. Also 10 exchange students from Goldsmiths, University of London will show their work there.

Symposium: Controversy over documenta fifteen

With this symposium on documenta fifteen on the 1st and 2nd of February, the HFBK Hamburg aims to analyze the background and context, foster dialogue between different viewpoints, and enable a debate that explicitly addresses anti-Semitism in the field of art. The symposium offers space for divergent positions and aims to open up perspectives for the present and future of exhibition making.

ASA Open Studios winter semester 2021/22; photo: Marie-Theres Böhmker

The best is saved until last

At the end of the year, once again there will be numerous exhibitions and events with an HFBK context. We have compiled some of them here. You will also find a short preview of two lectures of the professionalization program in January.

Non-Knowledge, Laughter and the Moving Image, Grafik: Leon Lothschütz

Festival and Symposium: Non-Knowledge, Laughter and the Moving Image

As the final part of the artistic research project, the festival and symposium invite you to screenings, performances, talks, and discussions that explore the potential of the moving images and the (human and non-human) body to overturn our habitual course and change the dominant order of things.

View of the packed auditorium at the start of the semester; photo: Lukas Engelhardt

Wishing you a happy welcome

We are pleased to welcome many new faces to the HFBK Hamburg for the winter semester 2022/23. We have compiled some background information on our new professors and visiting professors here.

Solo exhibition by Konstantin Grcic

From September 29 to October 23, 2022, Konstantin Grcic (Professor of Industrial Design) will be showing a room-sized installation at ICAT - Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer at the HFBK Hamburg consisting of objects designed by him and existing, newly assembled objects. At the same time, the space he designed for workshops, seminars and office workstations in the AtelierHaus will be put into operation.

Amna Elhassan, Tea Lady, oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cm

Art and war

"Every artist is a human being". This statement by Martin Kippenberger, which is as true as it is existentialist (in an ironic rephrasing of the well-known Beuys quote), gets to the heart of the matter in many ways. On the one hand, it reminds us not to look away, to be (artistically) active and to raise our voices. At the same time, it is an exhortation to help those who are in need. And that is a lot of people at the moment, among them many artists. That is why it is important for art institutions to discuss not only art, but also politics.

Merlin Reichert, Die Alltäglichkeit des Untergangs, Installation in der Galerie der HFBK; photo: Tim Albrecht

Graduate Show 2022: We’ve Only Just Begun

From July 8 to 10, 2022, more than 160 Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates of the class of 2021/22 will present their final projects from all majors. Under the title Final Cut, all graduation films will be shown on a big screen in the auditorium of the HFBK Hamburg. At the same time, the exhibition of the Sudanese guest lecturer Amna Elhassan can be seen in the HFBK gallery in the Atelierhaus.

Grafik: Nele Willert, Dennise Salinas

June is full of art and theory

It has been a long time since there has been so much on offer: a three-day congress on the visuality of the Internet brings together international web designers; the research collective freethought discusses the role of infrastructures; and the symposium marking the farewell of professor Michaela Ott takes up central questions of her research work.

Renée Green. ED/HF, 2017. Film still. Courtesy of the artist, Free Agent Media, Bortolami Gallery, New York, and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich.

Finkenwerder Art Prize 2022

The Finkenwerder Art Prize, initiated in 1999 by the Kulturkreis Finkenwerder e.V., has undergone a realignment: As a new partner, the HFBK Hamburg is expanding the prize to include the aspect of promoting young artists and, starting in 2022, will host the exhibition of the award winners in the HFBK Gallery. This year's Finkenwerder Art Prize will be awarded to the US artist Renée Green. HFBK graduate Frieda Toranzo Jaeger receives the Finkenwerder Art Prize for recent graduates.

Amanda F. Koch-Nielsen, Motherslugger; photo: Lukas Engelhardt

Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext von Kunst und Kunsthochschule

Im Bewusstsein einer ausstehenden fundamentalen gesellschaftlichen Transformation und der nicht unwesentlichen Schrittmacherfunktion, die einem Ort der künstlerischen Forschung und Produktion hierbei womöglich zukommt, hat sich die HFBK Hamburg auf den Weg gemacht, das Thema strategisch wie konkret pragmatisch für die Hochschule zu entwickeln. Denn wer, wenn nicht die Künstler*innen sind in ihrer täglichen Arbeit damit befasst, das Gegebene zu hinterfragen, genau hinzuschauen, neue Möglichkeiten, wie die Welt sein könnte, zu erkennen und durchzuspielen, einem anderen Wissen Gestalt zu geben

New studio in the row of houses at Lerchenfeld, in the background the building of Fritz Schumacher; photo: Tim Albrecht

Raum für die Kunst

After more than 40 years of intensive effort, a long-cherished dream is becoming reality for the HFBK Hamburg. With the newly opened studio building, the main areas of study Painting/Drawing, Sculpture and Time-Related Media will finally have the urgently needed studio space for Master's students. It simply needs space for their own ideas, for thinking, for art production, exhibitions and as a depot.

Martha Szymkowiak / Emilia Bongilaj, Installation “Mmh”; photo: Tim Albrecht

Annual Exhibition 2022 at the HFBK

After last year's digital edition, the 2022 annual exhibition at the HFBK Hamburg will once again take place with an audience. From 11-13 February, students from all departments will present their artistic work in the building at Lerchenfeld, Wartenau 15 and the newly opened Atelierhaus.

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

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.

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.

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?