HFBK

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+ – Hallen 07 Art Festival

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Heime, Häuser, Brutstätten

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+ – Scarecrow Tactics

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in touch - Goldrausch 2026

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+ – Klimax Klima

Climate change is one of the most urgent and existential crises of our times. It is no longer a dystopian vision of the future but a very present phenomenon. In actual fact, more than just the temperature is undergoing a change – the political and social climate is also changing noticeably, in Germany and also internationally.

Can art, which often recognises seismographic changes, make change visible? In the summer of 2024, students from HFBK Hamburg, the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich came together in Neuhardenberg to explore the opportunities for art in times of climate change during a photography summer workshop. The accompanying exhibition was held at Neuhardenberg Castle in the summer of 2025.

Can forests be archived before they are destroyed? How is the soil condition related to climate change? How do we deal with invasive species? What is alien to us? What is familiar? The students addressed these and other questions for an entire year. In the exhibition at the ICAT at the HFBK Hamburg, which features works that have been partially updated, they attempt to find answers by artistic means.

under the supervision of Prof. Armin Linke, Prof. Heidi Specker, Prof. Tobias Zielony and Prof. Thomas Weski

Opening times: Daily from 2 to 6 pm, except Mondays

Special opening times during Hamburg Art Week: 4–6 September 2026, 11 am–8 pm

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Passants parmi les pierres

+ – Peers and Patterns

An exhibition on interpersonal and interspecific ecologies

Ecosystems typically describe the interaction between organisms and their environment. The dynamics of these relationships are in a state of constant flux, repetition, and negotiation. The relationship between humans and nature has long served as a motif for artistic exploration and is continually being redefined. The exhibition at ICAT aims to explore both interspecies and interpersonal relationships and to present ecosystems as symbols of interconnected networks of coexistence. Botanical imagery and human-animal constellations, in particular, prove to be rich metaphors for encounters, kinships, and collaborations. Likewise, all other forms of living beings (or “creatures,” cf. Haraway) are part of these relationships and structures.

The science theorist Donna Haraway explores the coexistence of species in depth and writes: “Creatures—human and nonhuman—become one with one another, composing and decomposing one another, across all scales and registers of temporality and materiality; in sympoietic entanglements, in ecological, evolutionary, and developmental earthly secularizations and desecularizations.”

Seven students at the HFBK Hamburg are exploring different areas within the branching network of interpersonal and interspecific ecologies and are finding various aesthetic expressions in the form of installation, sculpture, culinary art, graphic design, and film. The exhibition space adapts the idea of a system that is constantly in motion and changing, and, through the use of magenta-colored light, evokes the atmosphere of a greenhouse.

Curated by Anne Meerpohl

Opening times: Daily from 2 to 6 pm, except Mondays

Special opening times during Hamburg Art Week: 4–6 September 2026, 11 am–8 pm

Subevents

Thu, 03.09.26

Eröffnung

18:00 Uhr

+ – Performance

7:00 pm

Performance by Milo Dillenschneider

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Wie die Teile fallen

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+ – Klassenverhältnisse – die zweite Staffel

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+ – Most (Un)Important

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Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists

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Sieh mal

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Manifesta 16 Ruhr

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Pauli-Preis 2026

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+ – Unheimliche Verschiebungen

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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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POSE TO ROSE

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Projektionen auf den Osten

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Temper

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

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das blaue vom himmel

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+ – Adler, Orden, Wahlurne. Redesigning Democratic Representation