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auf montage
Karla Zipfel
Applications open on September 1, 2026
Dr. phil. in art. / PhD in Art Practice
In addition to the theoretical dissertation in written form or an artistic work accompanied by a theoretical text, leading to the degree of Dr. phil. in art, the HFBK offers the PhD in Art Practice—a degree program unique in Germany—in which a research-based artistic work is created as part of a three-year curriculum at the HFBK. The application periods for both doctoral programs begin on September 1.
Michal BarOr, Ruins 2, 2023
Dariia Kuzmych, From conversations about similarity of pain, 2024
Julia Stolba, Jelkas Traces. Making of a Graphic Novel, exhibition view, 2025; photo: Stefan Wahler
Helene Kummer, nemo 05, 2025
Vanessa Gravenor, Cover, Duck &, exhibition view Research for Tomorrow, 2023; photo: Răzvan Năstase Cercetare
Zhichao Zhu, Muddy Waters, DE/CN 2026, Filmstill
Karla Zipfel
Jenny Schäfer
7:00 pm
Cornelia Sollfrank, Eda Aslan
Jakob Floess a.o.
6:00 pm
Gesa Troch
Porous Container is a site-specific installation that negotiates craft and mass production, individuality and universality, intimacy and conformity. Two works confront one another through their layered connotations and distinct modes of expression—ceramic and textile.
In contrast to the coolness of household appliances and consumer electronics on the ground floor of MediaMarkt, the textile evokes the organic, the warm, and the soft. The associations woven into fabric and cloth are manifold, extending from the domestic and the private to forms of labour historically coded as feminine, as well as to notions of connectedness, resilience, coverings, and skins. The denser a fabric, the more opaque and resistant it becomes. Lace, by contrast, is deliberately perforated, its openings serving both decorative and artistic purposes. In her installation, Gesa Troch brings together dyed, densely woven fabrics and prints of delicate, perforated lace collected from members of her family. Although these two manifestations of textile appear almost contradictory in function despite sharing the same material basis, they also point to the medium’s ambivalent readings. On the one hand, textile labour has long been devalued through its association with femininity—a devaluation that continues to be reproduced. On the other, it constitutes a highly sophisticated and ancient art and craft tradition worthy of recognition. The material’s ubiquitous presence in the form of clothing also recalls global production chains that often stand in stark contrast to any appreciation of human labour. The industrial manufacture of lace, for instance, bears little resemblance to lacemaking, crocheting, or weaving, and is frequently carried out under precarious conditions for both workers and the environment.
The second component of Porous Container consists of ceramic objects that imitate spent fireworks batteries—the kind commonly found scattered across urban spaces in the first days of the new year. Large quantities of soggy cardboard remnants, dispersed throughout the city.
For some, they embody the celebration of a significant transition: the turn of the year, together with the wishes, hopes, and dreams associated with it. For others, they represent a danger; the loud explosions evoke memories of violence, while wildlife and the environment suffer from the overwhelming noise. In their structure of circular tubes that remain after detonation, they resemble the repetitive ornamentation of woven textiles. Cracker transforms these otherwise softened cardboard objects, encountered in public space after New Year’s Eve, into initially rigid yet ultimately fragile ceramic forms.
Troch’s installation reads as a counterpoint to its loud surroundings, which themselves point to mass production and consumer culture. The now-silent fireworks batteries, together with the references to textile practices and craftsmanship, invite reflection on the contexts and codings of their materialities in relation to their setting at the entrance to Hamburg’s main shopping street. The exhibition title likewise refers to these ambivalent inscriptions of material: a container initially suggests a standardized vessel made of a hard material—robust and interchangeable. Once it becomes porous, however, it begins to lose its original function, becoming permeable and unstable. This porosity becomes the connecting element through which the works communicate with one another.
6:00 pm
Jakob Scheidt
6:00 pm
Ayala Berger, Anna Grath, Alisa Sizykh, Daniela Aparicio, Simon Denny a.o.
7:00 pm
Franziska Opel, David Fletche
mit Lesung
Babak Behrouz, Doro Carl, Maja B. Hoffmann, Helene Kummer a.o.
Rosanna Graf, Lisa Klosterkötter, Gesa Troch, Billy Bultheel
A project by Rosanna Graf, Lisa Klosterkötter and Gesa Troch: Performance Concert with Billy Bultheel, as part of FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons
Amin Motallebzadeh
Dates: September 3 at 5:00, 6:00, and 7:00 PM
September 5 at 3:00 and 5:00 PM
Registration required: info@kvhbf.de
Jenny Schäfer a.o.
5:00 pm
Frieder Bohaumilitzky
Eda Aslan a.o.
5:00 pm
Dorothee Diebold
6:00 pm
Anmeldung unbedingt erforderlich: https://app.guestoo.de/public/event/ecb53b92-43f8-4a28-9fcf-b3aef3843a02?lang=de
Frieder Bohaumilitzky
Kuno Seltmann, Merabi Danelia, Daniel Eckoldt, Emely Mair
We will open our exhibition container on Thursday, August 28th at 5 pm in the backyard of the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, celebrating 40 years of friendship between Hamburg and Shanghai.
The week after, our project will start its journey to China and can be seen again in Shanghai in November at the Future Lab.
Leyla Yenirce
6:30 pm
Annette Kelm, Lene Markusen, Mark Morris a.o.
5:00 pm
Johanna Amelsberg, Joy Barczak, Nele Bolbrinker, Carina Brausendorf, Merrit Claußen, Paula Cukrowski, Vincent Gramss, Lavinia Gueye, Jan Hanna, Lea Hasenkamp, Jonathan Heinemann, Eva Hentschel, Jingxi Hu, Abbas Khaled, Johanna Klecker, Judith Kobusch, Lola Molina Sauerteig, Clara Palmberger-Süße, Elisa Pontow, Isabel Primavesi, Louise Vind Nielsen, Maja Vanneste, Hannah Wobst, Rojda Yildiz, Lina Zabel, Nora Sternfeld
Ein öffentliches Programm von Studierenden der HFBK Hamburg in der Ausstellung FIRE der Stadtkuratorin Hamburg von 10–13 Uhr und 15–18 Uhr
Was wären öffentliche Räume für das, was nie wieder gut werden kann? Das Vermittlungsprogramm widmet sich der Ausstellung FIRE der Stadtkuratorin Hamburg am Mahnmal Sankt Nikolai. Dabei begegnen wir dem Schmerz und den brennenden Fragen in Geschichte und Gegenwart, die ihre künstlerischen Arbeiten aufwerfen.
Ein Vermittlungsprogramm von Johanna Amelsberg, Joy Barczak, Nele Bolbrinker, Carina Brausendorf, Merrit Claußen, Paula Cukrowski, Vincent Gramss, Lavinia Gueye, Jan Hanna, Lea Hasenkamp, Jonathan Heinemann, Eva Hentschel, Jingxi Hu, Abbas Khaled, Johanna Klecker, Judith Kobusch, Lola Molina Sauerteig, Clara Palmberger-Süße, Elisa Pontow, Isabel Primavesi, Louise Vind Nielsen, Maja Vanneste, Hannah Wobst, Rojda Yildiz, Lina Zabel
mit Hendrik Stille
Im Rahmen des Seminars “Museum der Untröstlichkeit” von Nora Sternfeld an der HFBK Hamburg
Zu den künstlerischen Arbeiten der Ausstellung FIRE von Hala Alnaji, Saodat Ismailova, Nikita Kadan, Hamedine Kane, Annette Kelm, Lene Markusen, Mark Morris, Neda Saeedi, Mikołaj Sobczak, Cecilia Vicuña & Coco Bergholm.
Kuratiert von Joanna Warsza, Stadtkuratorin Hamburg
In einem dialogischen Rundgang durch die Ausstellungen FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons gibt Natalya Stupka Einblicke in die Thematik der Ausstellungen und stellt die künstlerischen Positionen vor.
Im Anschluss präsentiert der Künstler Mark Morris sein Werk The Chain Reaction.
Die ortsspezifische Skulptur knüpft an die Präsenz Alfred Nobels in Deutschland und an sein Labor in Geesthacht bei Hamburg an, wo ab 1867 die Erfindung und Verbreitung des Dynamits stattfand. Symbolisch macht das Werk die Ambivalenz von Materialien sichtbar, die sowohl unsere Welt erschaffen als auch umgestalten können.
Nele Borchert, Elena Bulycheva, Milo Dillenschneider, Bahar Ensafi, Emmylou Fertschai, Elisa Gonschior, Marlene Kargl Nadiia Mykhailiuk, Julia Quitmann, Merle Richter, Xen Roscher, Bente Steffens, Cathrin Zumhasch
Dariia Kuzmych
Manjari Goteti, Sanna Leone, Genevieve Lotus, Hyunjin Choi, Sarah Lotus
Kayoung Kim, Julia Sylvana Koch, Johannes Kuhn a.o.
7:00 pm
Christine Krammer, Mette Björndal, Hermes Hemmis, Lennart Häusser a.o.
7:00 pm
Ayşe Ateş, Julia Nordholz
7:00 pm
Luise Donschen, Nicolaas Schmidt a.o.
Luise Donschen, Morgen vor langer Zeit, DE 2026, 93 Min.
Nicolaas Schmidt, September Afternoon, DE 2026, 70 Min.
Lola Bott, Francisca Markus, Charlotte Perka, Cristina Rüesch a.o.
4:00 pm
Temorscha Zoltani
6:00 pm
Maik Gräf
6:00 pm
14 students of the orientation class show their 16mm films
6:00 pm
as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin
more info
6:00 pm
Megan Auer a.o.
6:00 pm
Anne Duk Hee Jordan
Lena Schramm
7:00 pm
Sven Scharfenberg
6:00 pm
Ayşe Ateş a.o.
6:00 pm
3 Hamburger Frauen
7:00 pm
Franz Wanner
7:00 pm
Anne Linke, Charlotte Närger, Julia Schulze Darup, Malina Raßfeld, Naomi Sam a.o.
7:00 pm
Kristina Savutsina a.o.
7:00 pm
Julia Schulze Darup
11:00 am
The annual university-wide screening of the graduation films currently being produced at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts will take place from July 10 to 12 during the Graduate Show under the title “Final Cut.” As part of this event, the HFBK Film Prize, sponsored by JEF – Not a Foundation, will be awarded to one of the participating HFBK graduates.
With the kind support of MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
5:00 pm
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.
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.
Friday until Sunday, July 10–12, 2026, 2–8 p.m.
Admission is free
5:00 pm
Feige Flittchen on decks, dj set
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Lesung (DE)
Emiliano Gomez-Forte
Sophia-Maria Allgaier
Concert
Concert by Feige Flittchen, Wandl, Tim Adieu, Hoy Chorale
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Reading (EN)
Wandl, concert
Lion & Rosi, dj set
L.A.tifa, dj set
rosettameier69, dj set
Janne Wagner
In English
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Lesung (DE)
Rita Barbro Wilcke, Jule Heinrich
Reading with Kea Lisanne Hinsch, Josefine Green, Victoria Hvass
Lucia, Odelia, Yagmur, Nick, Milena, live music performance
Felicitas Kunisch, Reading
Leonie Wahler
Activation of the installation/Reading with Jessica Eggers
Laurine Sassine, reading
Ashley Shugart, tap dance
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Reading (EN)
Janne Wagner
Sophia-Maria Allgaier
Concert
Genevieve and Mars Lotus, screening
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
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Reading (EN)
Daniela Aparício Ugalde, Sofia Seidi
Performative Lecture and Listening Session, with Gorditx Petrolerx
Paul Gläser, Nicholas Jackson, Magnus Simon
performative installation
Janne Wagner
Mirjon Leka
Agnes Eeg-Olofsson, short film
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Lesung (DE)
Rita Barbro Wilcke, Jule Heinrich
Reading with Kea Lisanne Hinsch, Lucía Ugena
Leonie Wahler
Activation of the installation/Reading with Jessica Eggers
Eva Kuvay, short film
Janne Wagner
with Noa Calcagno, El Burgess and Sam Furney. Choreography by Sam Furney, dance
Albern Ernst, drag performance
Sophia-Maria Allgaier
Concert
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Reading (EN)
Janne Wagner
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Reading (EN)
Janne Wagner
In English
Leo Niemals, live music performance
Nozomi Ngceni
Sound performance
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Lesung (DE)
Leonie Wahler
Activation of the installation/Reading with Jessica Eggers
Der Geheimrat, live music performance
Genevieve Lotus, Apollonia Stoisits
Genevieve Lotus, Apollonia Stoisits, short film
Apollo, show tune
Maren Stocklöw
Clown Performance / Reading (EN)
After Hour Karaoke (HFBK Family & Friends only!)
Omid Arabbay, Carmine Auricchio, Khingwei Bai, Ruth Brauchle, Andy Chen, Florian Gatzweiler, Sergej Hufnagel, Lio Kappel, Pikhān Khu, Leonidas Kosmidis, Qing Lan, Emma Maiwald, Moses Omeogo, Yoav Perry, Vixtoria Salomonsen, Vladislav Sili, Aimilia A. Theofilopoulos, Sude Nur Tosun, Marcela Vetter, Oksana Yushko
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.
5:00 pm
Guided tour in Gernan language
Live Interview with Harry Hachmeister
Guided Tour (in English)
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
Marvin Fassmann, Sophia Leitenmayer, Jorin Kehn, Heiko Wommelsdorf
4:00 pm
Omid Arabbay
Lisa Klosterkötter
Tobias Zielony
6:00 pm
hypervisible arms, Kiek Nieuwint a.o.
2:00 pm
11:30 am