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Exhibition
It’s never love, it’s always work
HFBK boutique, Hamburg
Aimilia A. Theofilopoulos, Andy Chen, Carmine Auricchio, Emma Maiwald, Florian Gatzweiler, Khingwei Bai, Leonidas Kosmidis, Lio Kappel, Marcela Vetter, Moses Omeogo, Oksana Yushko, Omid Arabbay, Pikhān Khu, Qing Lan, Ruth Brauchle, Sergej Hufnagel, Sude Nur Tosun, Vixtoria Salomonsen, Vladislav Sili, Yoav Perry
An exhibition by students of the HFBK Hamburg
It’s never love, it’s always work is a group exhibition by students from the photography class at the HFBK that explores the tension between work, love, and migration.
Set against the backdrop of Hamburg as a port city—shaped by the contradictions of the labor movement, economic migration, and international, historically colonial trade—the exhibition weaves together human relationships, economic structures, and social realities. This gives rise to a tapestry of narratives that exists within the tension between its two recurring themes: work and love. Against the backdrop of a present fragmented by social and economic conflicts, the exhibition thus poses the central question: Can the two be separated from one another? And how does the answer to this question affect our personal and collective realities; how does it affect intimacy, relationships, migration, care work, and artistic creation itself?
Collectively developed by the participating students, with the guidance of Özlem Altin.
Supporting Program:
June 6, 4–5 p.m., trans*port, Live Interview with Harry Hachmeister
June 12, 6–7 p.m., One shot on Love, Work and Migration, Artist Conversation with Tobias Zielony, Enis Maci & artists featured in the exhibition
Friday05.06.26
Eröffnung
5 p.m.