HFBK

Exhibition

Overshoot

Exhibition

+ – Fifty Fifty

Filmscreening

+ – Final Cut 2026

Exhibition

+ – Graduate Show 2026

More than 200 graduates from the 2025/26 academic year are showcasing their final art projects at the HFBK Hamburg. Discover the next generation of promising artists in a comprehensive exhibition that spans the entire studio and seminar spaces, complemented by a diverse program of performances.

All graduation films produced with funding from MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein will be presented as part of the Final Cut screening in the Filmhaus cinema.

Click here for the floor plan.

Hülya Braasch (B.F.A. under Prof. Evi Bauer) and Daria Maiier (B.F.A. under Prof. Simon Denny) won the Karl H. Ditze prize for the best final Bachelor exam. Mark Morris (M.F.A. under Prof. Simon Denny) was awarded the Karl H. Ditze prize for the best final Master exam.

Zhongxian He and Sandra Makhlouf (both M.F.A. under Prof. Angela Schanelec) received the HFBK Film Prize, while Nima Latifi (M.F.A. under Prof. Omer Fast) was awarded an honorable mention.

Exhibition

Friday until Sunday, July 10–12, 2026, 2–8 p.m.
Admission is free

Open House + –

Thursday, July 9, 2026, from 5 p.m.
Exhibition on the opening evening 5–10 p.m., from 10 p.m.: admission for HFBK Family&Friends, admission for guests only when accompanied by members of the university

More than 200 students will present their final projects as part of this year’s HFBK Hamburg Graduate Show. In response to the exceptionally high number of graduates and the diversity of the works on display, the opening evening has been expanded: on Thursday, 9 July 2026, the exhibition will open to the public at 5 p.m.

The evening will be dedicated entirely to the exhibition, the artworks, and the opportunity for exchange, with no official opening speeches. Visitors will have more time to explore the exhibition, meet the artists, and engage with the wide range of artistic positions on view.

Between 7 and 8 p.m., the award juries will present the prizes for the outstanding final projects during individual tours of the exhibition, announcing the recipients and presenting the awards in person.

Guided tours + –

We offer public guided tours of the Graduate Show for a better understanding and in-depth examination of the final theses presented.

• 10 to 12 July 2026 daily 4 and 6 p.m. in German language

• 10 to 12 July 2026 daily at 4 p.m. in English language

We also offer guided tours in German Sign Language (DGS) in collaboration with Martina Bergmann: The tours are approx. 90 minutes long.

• Sat, 11 July, 5 p.m.

• Sun, 12 July, 3 p.m.

The meeting point for all guided tours is the entrance hall of the HFBK, Lerchenfeld 2.

For Kids + –

We also offer guided tours for children 6 years and older:

• Sat, 11 July, 4 p.m.

• Sun, 12 July, 4 p.m.

We will meet in the Mensavorraum, basement main building of the HFBK, Lerchenfeld 2.

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• Sat, 11 July, 3–6 p.m.

• Sun, 12 July3, 3–6 p.m.

We will meet in the Mensavorraum, basement main building of the HFBK, Lerchenfeld 2.

Awareness-Team + –

The awareness concept is firmly directed against sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic or comparable assaultive behaviour and actively counters it. If you feel uncomfortable or observe that someone is behaving in an abusive way, you can contact the awareness team in confidence.

You will recognize the awareness team by pink vests and pink caps.
Mobile: 0157 3190 5619 (call and textmessage)

In addition, room K51 in the main building, Lerchenfeld 2 is available as a place of retreat.

Information for visitors with reduced mobility + –

The main building of the HFBK at Lerchenfeld 2 is a listed building and therefore mostly but not completely barrier-free for visitors with limited mobility.

The barrier-free access with a step-free connection to the passenger elevator to all floors is located at the side entrance Uferstraße 1—along the part of the building that is parallel to the Eilbek Canal.

The new studio building at Lerchenfeld 2a is barrier-free accessible, the different floors can be reached via an elevator.

Public toilets for people with disabilities are located in the main building on the ground floor (step-free and accessible by elevator via side entrance) and in the studio house on the ground floor (accessible at ground level via main entrance from the street). Both toilets can be opened with the Eurokey.

The HFBK would like to make it possible for all visitors to have as smooth and barrier-free a visit as possible. Therefore, a person will be available during the opening hours of the exhibition to assist you before or during your visit. The mobility assistant will be available directly at the information desk in the entrance hall on the ground floor or by phone at 0162 952 96 74.

Subevents

Thu, 09.07.26

Eröffnung

17:00 Uhr

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

7:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Feige Flittchen on decks, dj set

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

8:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Lesung (DE)

Performance

Der Weg ist das Ziel, Prepparation

8:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2a, Foyer ICAT

Emiliano Gomez-Forte

Performance

+ – VOL.CAN(N)O

9:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, Auditorium (room 229)

Sophia-Maria Allgaier

Concert

Performance

+ – varietyroom* - The Artemis Elend Tribute Show

9:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Concert by Feige Flittchen, Wandl, Tim Adieu, Hoy Chorale

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

9:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Reading (EN)

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

10:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Wandl, concert

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

11:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Lion & Rosi, dj set

Fri, 10.07.26

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

1:00 am Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

L.A.tifa, dj set

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

2:30 am Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

rosettameier69, dj set

Performance Lecture

+ – Parrhesia

4:15 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120c

Janne Wagner

In English

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

4:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Lesung (DE)

Performance

+ – 1/2

5:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, in front of room K31

Rita Barbro Wilcke, Jule Heinrich

Reading with Kea Lisanne Hinsch, Josefine Green, Victoria Hvass

Performance

+ – varietyroom* - songs of derrival

5:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Lucia, Odelia, Yagmur, Nick, Milena, live music performance

Performance

+ – varietyroom*- Ich sehe auf Fotos wie ich wohl aussehe, erkenne mich aber nicht

5:45 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Felicitas Kunisch, Reading

Performance

+ – Es hilft nicht, kein bisschen. Aber es muss gesagt werden. Es hilft ja nichts.

6:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2a, room 201

Leonie Wahler

Activation of the installation/Reading with Jessica Eggers

Performance

+ – varietyroom* - pain harmony

6:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Laurine Sassine, reading

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

6:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Ashley Shugart, tap dance

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

6:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Reading (EN)

Performance Lecture

Parrhesia

6:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120c

Janne Wagner

Performance

+ – VOL.CAN(N)O

7:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, Auditorium (room 229)

Sophia-Maria Allgaier

Concert

Filmscreening

+ – varietyroom* - Blue Hours I & II

7:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Genevieve and Mars Lotus, screening

Sat, 11.07.26

Filmscreening

Filmscreening of Orientation Class Prof. Dane Komljen

2:00 pm Wartenau 15, Cinema (room 214)

Milena Benack, Kaan Çelimli, Lucia Choffat, Toni Einsiedel, Odélia Forster, Max Kassun, Naro Lee, Arslan Manasian, Bennet Nolte, Aleksandra Patrina, Alexander Schuster, Alim Shakirov, Amon Wendel, Caspar Zempel

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

3:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Reading (EN)

Performance Lecture

+ – As love is desire of life, it is longing of death / Nothing to declare

4:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2a, room 304

Daniela Aparício Ugalde, Sofia Seidi

Performative Lecture and Listening Session, with Gorditx Petrolerx

Performance

+ – Temporary Oven

4:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, front yard

Paul Gläser, Nicholas Jackson, Magnus Simon

performative installation

Performance Lecture

Parrhesia

4:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120c

Janne Wagner

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

5:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Mirjon Leka

Filmscreening

+ – varietyroom* - in tune

5:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Agnes Eeg-Olofsson, short film

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

5:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Lesung (DE)

Performance

+ – 2/2

6:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 44

Rita Barbro Wilcke, Jule Heinrich

Reading with Kea Lisanne Hinsch, Lucía Ugena

Performance

+ – Es hilft nicht, kein bisschen. Aber es muss gesagt werden. Es hilft ja nichts.

6:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2a, room 201

Leonie Wahler

Activation of the installation/Reading with Jessica Eggers

Filmscreening

+ – varietyroom* - m²" : the queer, the cleaner and the fool

6:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Eva Kuvay, short film

Performance Lecture

Parrhesia

6:15 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120c

Janne Wagner

Performance

+ – varietyroom* - Born again with Johnny Cash

6:15 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

with Noa Calcagno, El Burgess and Sam Furney. Choreography by Sam Furney, dance

Performance

+ – varietyroom* - Hard Times come again no more

6:45 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Albern Ernst, drag performance

Performance

+ – VOL.CAN(N)O

7:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, Auditorium (room 229)

Sophia-Maria Allgaier

Concert

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

7:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Reading (EN)

Performance

varietyroom* - A reading by a clown with the help of a person named Agnes with the title and the problem of the question of where the water is coming from

7:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Sun, 12.07.26

Performance Lecture

Parrhesia

3:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120c

Janne Wagner

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

3:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Reading (EN)

Performance Lecture

+ – Parrhesia

4:15 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120c

Janne Wagner

In English

Performance

+ – varietyroom* - Bedroom rumours

5:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Leo Niemals, live music performance

Performance

+ – T5 Transhall T-Dance

5:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 121

Nozomi Ngceni

Sound performance

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

5:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Lesung (DE)

Performance

+ – Es hilft nicht, kein bisschen. Aber es muss gesagt werden. Es hilft ja nichts.

6:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2a, room 201

Leonie Wahler

Activation of the installation/Reading with Jessica Eggers

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

6:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Der Geheimrat, live music performance

Filmscreening

+ – varietyroom* - Visiting Fellow

7:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Genevieve Lotus, Apollonia Stoisits

Genevieve Lotus, Apollonia Stoisits, short film

Performance

+ – varietyroom* - funny guy

7:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

Apollo, show tune

Performance Lecture

+ – Woher kommt das Wasser?

7:30 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 120a

Maren Stocklöw

Clown Performance / Reading (EN)

Performance

+ – varietyroom*

8:00 pm Lerchenfeld 2, room 11

After Hour Karaoke (HFBK Family & Friends only!)

Exhibition

+ – It’s never love, it’s always work

An exhibition by students of the HFBK Hamburg as part of Triennale Expanded at the 9th Hamburg Photography Triennial 2026

In the exhibition It’s Never Love, It’s Always Work, the photography class at HFBK Hamburg asks what separates love from labor in the midst of ongoing social and economic conflict. How are acts of care, support, and closeness integral to the work we do for others, often without naming it as such? And what does this mean for the way we live and work together: for intimacy, relationships, and migration?

Across different media, including photography, drawing, sculpture, and installation, the participants explore how images and objects can carry narratives at the intersection of the personal and the political. The stories that emerge form a constellation, held in tension by the motifs of labor and love. They tell of care as something that appears not only within the working day, but also in the relationships, dependencies, and gestures that shape our lives.

Set in Hamburg, a port city shaped by histories of labor struggle, migration, trade, and colonialism, the exhibition links human relationships to economic and social life. Accompanied by a program of talks with invited speakers, It’s Never Love, It’s Always Work becomes a platform for dialogue: an open space for the forms of labor that bind us to one another.

Collectively developed by the participants, supervised by Özlem Altın.

Supporting Program:

• 06. Juni, 15 Uhr Between Love, Work and Migration, Führung (auf Deutsch) / Guided Tour (in German) 

• June 6, 4–5 p.m., trans*port, Live Interview with Harry Hachmeister

• 06. Juni, 17 Uhr, Between Love, Work and Migration, Führung (auf Englisch) / Guided Tour (in English) 

• 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

HFBK boutique, Mönckebergstr. 1 & Satellit Pop-Up-Space Mönckebergstr. 3

It’s Never Love, It’s Always Work—Part II opens in HFBK boutique on June 18, 6pm.

More info

Subevents

Fri, 05.06.26

Eröffnung

17:00 Uhr

Sat, 06.06.26

Guided Tour

+ – Between Love, Work and Migration

3:00 pm HFBK boutique

Guided tour in Gernan language

Artist Talk

+ – trans*port

4:00 pm HFBK boutique

Live Interview with Harry Hachmeister

Guided Tour

+ – Between Love, Work and Migration

5:00 pm HFBK boutique

Guided Tour (in English) 

Fri, 12.06.26

Artist Talk

+ – One shot on Love, Work and Migration

6:00 pm HFBK boutique

Tobias Zielony, Enis Maci, Omid Arabbay, Vixtoria Salomonsen, Moses Omeogo

Tobias Zielony and Enis Maci in conversation with Omid Arabbay, Vixtoria Salomonsen and Moses Omeogo

Exhibition

+ – mit klang

Exhibition

DANCING BAREFOOT

Exhibition

+ – Eingestellte Gegenwarten

Exhibition

KUGELFANG

Exhibition

roses

Exhibition

+ – Worlds Away

(in)finitely connected – stories of an urban multi-species society

Exhibition

+ – Thomas Demand

Exhibition

+ – Whisper Down the Lane: Sanna Leone

Exhibition

Fleeting Glance – as part of the 9th Triennial of Photography

Exhibition

FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons

Exhibition

+ – Werdegang

Exhibition

When a whole group is coming too late

Exhibition

Solastalgie. Waldbaden mit Plastikdelfin.

Exhibition

INVISIBLE CITIES – STANDARD TIME

Exhibition

UNDERCURRENT

Exhibition

+ – Scarecrow Tactics

Exhibition

Passants parmi les pierres

Exhibition

+ – Klassenverhältnisse – die zweite Staffel

Exhibition

Primavera 2026: Young Australian Artists

Exhibition

Manifesta 16 Ruhr

Exhibition

Tribute to Bicce

Exhibition

+ – 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.

Exhibition

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