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Sieh mal

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Manifesta 16 Ruhr

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Pauli-Preis 2026

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POSITION.

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+ – Unheimliche Verschiebungen

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Hoi Polloi

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Halber Apfel - Zeichnungen

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Tribute to Bicce

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Les étoiles de la peinture

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+ – Of Fragments and Gaps: Students at Lerchenfeld, 1933–1945, between Persecution, Conformity, and Perpetration

The current opening hours of the library can be found here.

The exhibition of archival materials in the display cases of the HFBK Library opened on 25 June 2026.⁠ ⁠It accompanies the launch of Dr Alina Just’s newly published study Gestaltung und Gleichschritt. Die Geschichte der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg im Nationalsozialismus (Forum Zeitgeschichte, Band 34, Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 2026) and offers a glimpse into the holdings of the university archives. With its focus on students, the exhibition aims both to emphasize this perspective and to highlight open research questions.

To demonstrate the potential of addressing this research gap, individual students affected by exclusion and persecution are presented as examples within this presentation. These are discoveries that have emerged unsystematically from research conducted in the university archive, primarily by external researchers. The reason for this lies in the historically evolved structure of the HFBK university archive: the student files are sorted in purely alphabetical order from 1905 to 1945—an extensive body of source material that has, in its entirety, remained completely unexplored to this day.

Through the seven case studies presented here—individuals whose life paths were severely impacted or even cut short by university expulsion, displacement, and deportation—the presentation aims to adopt the perspective of those who play a decisive role in shaping the essence of an art academy to this day: the students.

Concept: Sabine Boshamer, Marlene Kirsten, Julia Mummenhoff
Exhibition design and Reproductions: Tim Albrecht
Thank to: Dietrich Banse and Geschichtswerkstatt Uelzen, Peter Degkwitz, Corry Guttstadt, Alina Laura Just, Alisa Navot (Israel), Felix-Nussbaum-Gesellschaft (Osnabrück), Nora Sternfeld, Itamar Wexler (Tel Aviv), Ingo Wille.

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FINSTERN STERN

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Exil

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A R T I N T R A N S I T - T H E E X P E R I E N C E OF E L S E W H E R E

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The Appearance of Value

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Liebe Grüße, Jenny

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Liebe Grüße, Jenny

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POSE TO ROSE

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+ – Wer schnupft am Schönsten?

As part of Wer schnupft am Schönsten? at HFBK boutique, Elisa Maria Zeisler constructs a room that houses an immersive installation. The installation draws on the extensive history of Bavarian snuff tobacco clubs (Schnupftabakmeisterschaften), tracing back to the 1960s – a community the artist entered by founding her own club in 2024 in Hamburg. Bringing the neon-coloured sports jerseys of her club into the microcosm of an old-fashioned Bavarian tavern, richly decorated with embroidered cloths and taxidermy trophies and populated by men in Lederhosen, Zeisler opens a dialogue between tradition and novelty. The work reflects on the tension between the scene’s conservative, patriarchal undercurrents and the voices of a younger generation.

The set itself becomes the subject of the work through its spatial arrangement: half of the exhibition space remains empty, revealing the otherwise hidden back of the set. This makes the set visible as a construction and, at the same time, exposes the boundary between the depicted world and its staging.

The video work shown alongside the installation documents the artist’s journey into the world of snuff tobacco clubs, driven by her long-standing interest in stepping into psychological and physical spaces usually hidden from the general public. Zeisler’s artistic practice recreates these niche spaces within a gallery, allowing viewers to step inside and experience them firsthand.

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Projektionen auf den Osten

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Temper

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Widerstand und Wunden. Eine Ausstellung zu genderspezifischer und s**ualisierter Gewalt

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+ – In Minor Keys - 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

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das blaue vom himmel

Tobacco Echoes

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+ – Geste und Kostüm. Das barocke Portrait damals und heute

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Tell Me Where Home Is

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+ – Adler, Orden, Wahlurne. Redesigning Democratic Representation