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Department Committees

The department committees ensure during the semester the required teaching in their fields. At their meetings, there is an exchange about research and teaching, planning and organization of seminars, excursions and events. They also discuss the allocation of funds for the specializations, the selection of visiting professorships, and the texts for the departmental appointment procedures.

Contact

Laura Kowalewski

Department: Sculpture

Chairperson: Prof. Thomas Demand
Prof. Michael Beutler / Prof. Martin Boyce / Prof. Thomas Demand / Prof. Andreas Slominski / Prof. Pia Stadtbäumer
Students: Marie Pietsch
14.10.21, 14.30 Uhr

Department: Stage Design

Chairperson: Prof. Raimund Bauer
Prof. Raimund Bauer
Students: Lili Süper

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Department: Design

Chairperson: Prof. Jesko Fezer
Prof. Jesko Fezer / Pro. Konstantin Grcic / Prof. Glen Oliver Löw / Prof. Valentina Karga / Prof. Ralph Sommer
Students: Jacob Mewes, Lara Molenda
Coopted, without the right to vote: workshop supervisors
Meeting: online, each first Thursday of the month (14.10.21 / 2.12.21 / 6.1.22) – 10 am

Department: Film

Chairperson: Prof. Udo Engel
Prof. Robert Bramkamp / Prof. Pepe Danquart / Prof. Udo Engel / Prof. Angela Schanelec / Prof. Bernd Schoch
Students: Emma Schueer, Paul Stümke
Coopted, without the right to vote: workshop supervisors
Dates of the meetings: 12. October, 12:30

Department: Graphic Art/Typography/Photography

Chairperson: Prof. Heike Mutter
Deputy: Prof. Ingo Offermanns
Prof. Wigger Bierma / Prof. Adam Broomberg / Prof. Oliver Chanarin / Prof. Christoph Knoth / Prof. Heike Mutter / Prof. Ingo Offermanns / Prof. Konrad Renner
Students: Gihong (Kiki) Park
Coopted, without the right to vote: workshop supervisors
Dates of the meetings: online, each forth Tuesday of the month (28.10.21 / 25.11.21 / December on demand / 27.01.22 ) – 2 pm

Department: Painting/Drawing

Chairperson: Prof. Werner Büttner
Deputy: Prof. Anselm Reyle
Prof. Abel Auer / Prof. Werner Büttner / Prof. Andrew Gilbert / Prof. Jutta Koether / Prof. Anselm Reyle / Prof. Jorinde Voigt
Students: Mirjam Walter
15.10.21, 10 am

Department: Theory and History

Chairperson: Prof. Dr. Astrid Mania
Deputy: Prof. Dr. Bettina Uppenkamp
Prof. Dr. Armen Avanessian, Prof. Dr. Clémentine Deliss, Prof. Martin Köttering, Prof. Dr. Hanne Loreck, Prof. Dr. Astrid Mania, Prof. Dr. Michaela Ott, Prof. Dr. Anja Steidinger, Prof. Dr. Nora Sternfeld, Prof. Dr. Bettina Uppenkamp, Prof. Dr. Friedrich von Borries
Students: Anne Meerpohl
Dates of the meetings: online, each third wednesday of the month (20.10.21 / 17.11.21 / 15.12.21 / 19.01.22) – 6 pm

Department: Time-based Media

Chairperson: Prof. Michaela Melián
Prof. Angela Bulloch / Prof. Simon Denny / Prof. Jeanne Faust / Prof. Annika Larsson / Prof. Michaela Melián
Students: Greta Rauer
Coopted, without the right to vote: Ulf Freyhoff, Ute Janssen
13.10.21, 10 am

Panels

Annette Wehrmann, photography from the series Blumensprengungen, 1991-95; photo: Ort des Gegen e.V.

Conference: Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments.

The international conference at HFBK Hamburg on December 2-4, 2021 – jointly conceived by Nora Sternfeld and Michaela Melián –, is dedicated to the history of artistic counter-monuments and forms of protest, discusses aesthetics of memory and historical manifestations in public space, and asks about para-monuments for the present.

Stories

Programme: "Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments. Contested Memory in Public Space"

Speakers & Schedule
Projects

Counter-Memorials and Para-Monument

How can politics and memory be brought together in public space? A localisation of the history of artistic counter-monuments and the search for para-monuments for the present. Text: Nora Sternfeld.
Counter-Monuments

Construing remembrance as an active process

An email conversation between Nora Sternfeld and Michaela Melián.
Lerchenfeld

23 Fragen des Institutional Questionaire, grafisch umgesetzt von Ran Altamirano auf den Türgläsern der HFBK Hamburg zur Jahresausstellung 2021; photo: Charlotte Spiegelfeld

Diversity

Who speaks? Who paints which motif? Who is shown, who is not? Questions of identity politics play an important role in art and thus also at the HFBK Hamburg. In the current issue, the university's own Lerchenfeld magazine highlights university structures as well as student initiatives that deal with diversity and identity.

Stories

Es ist ein langer Weg

Personell wie auch inhaltlich sind die Bereiche Gleichstellung und Diversität an der HFBK Hamburg in Bewegung. Lerchenfeld hat die Ansprechpartnerinnen zu einem Roundtable-Gespräch gebeten, um Bilanz zu ziehen und Ausblicke zu geben.
Diversity, News

Make Work Visible

Das feministische Kollektiv Cake&Cash, gegründet von HFBK Student*innen, hat in den vergangenen zwei Semestern den Galerieraum der HFBK Hamburg kuratiert. Nun zieht das Kollektiv in den Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof. Ein Gespräch über Institutionskritik aus der Institution, aktivistische Arbeit und fehlende Räume.
CCCC, News

Assembling/Disassembling the Curriculum

How diverse is the curriculum of the HFBK Hamburg? This was the question behind an intervention by the student group 3RD-SPACE for the HFBK lecture timetable in the summer semester of 2021. Our author not only talked to the group, but also posed this question to HFBK professors.
News

Diversity at the HFBK Hamburg

Diversity refers to the diversity of an organisation or society in terms of various individual or structural dimensions ...
University

Critical Diversity AG

Referat des Asta
Students Committee (AStA)

Diversity Workshops for Students Winter Semester 2021/22

Free workshops and trainings on diversity issues.
Diversity at the HFBK Hamburg

Grafik: Tim Ballaschke

Start of semester

After three semesters of hybrid teaching under pandemic conditions, we are finally about to start another semester of presence. We welcome all new students and teachers at the HFBK Hamburg and cordially invite you to the opening of the academic year 2020/21, which this year will be accompanied by a guest lecture by ruangrupa.

Stories

Semester Opening 2021

The traditional event marking the semester opening. The focus is on welcoming new members to the HFBK and saying farewell to colleagues who are retiring.
Academic year, News

2021/10/05: Semester opening at HFBK Hamburg

Talk with documenta-fifteen curators ruangrupa / Welcoming of Rajkamal Kahlon / Farwell of Werner Büttner
Press Releases

Information for First-Years

Important information for newcomers here >>>
Study, Newcomer

"Der Tyrann braucht zerbrochene Seelen"[1] - Susanne Leeb über Rajkamal Kahlon

Die neue Professorin für Malerei/Zeichnen an der HFBK Hamburg arbeitet mit dem Bildmaterial des Kolonialismus und adressiert Rassismus ebenso wie Schwarze Selbstermächtigung.
News

Oliver Laric

Guest professor of Sculpture
Room: R 44/50/51, Fi 42 R 104
Tel: +49 40 42 89 89-0
Mail: oliver.laric@hfbk-hamburg.de
Staff Directory

Dr. Samo Tomšič

Professor of Philosophy
Room: 133 Le
Tel: +49 40 42 89 89-0
Mail: samo.tomsic@hfbk-hamburg.de
Staff Directory, Teaching Staff

Rosario Talevi

Guest Professor of Design
Tel: +49 40 42 89 89-0
Mail: rosario.talevi@hfbk-hamburg.de
Teaching Staff

Studying with a child

HFBK offers the following support for student parents.
Study, Children

Lecture Timetable

New Lecture Timetable for wintersemester 2021/22 online
Study

Graphic design: Sam Kim, picture in the background: Sofia Mascate, photo: Marie-Theres Böhmker

Graduate Show 2021: All Good Things Come to an End

From September 24 to 26, the more than 150 Bachelor's and Master's graduates of the class of 2020/21 will present their final projects as part of the Graduate Show at the HFBK Hamburg. We would like to thank all visitors and participants.

Stories

Graduate Show 2022

Graduate Show information and events >>>
Graduation year, News

Final Cut 2021

24 September, 3 - 8 pm, 25/26 September, 11 am - 8 pm: Intramural Screening of all films in full length
24 September, 7 pm: Award of the HFBK Film Prize, Aula
Festival, News, Film, Screening

Digital room plan : Who exhibits where?

On the occasion of the Graduate Show, September 24-26, 2021, there will be a digital room plan for the HFBK Hamburg for ...
News

2021/09/24: Drei Preise und zwei Förderstipendien - die Eröffnung der Graduate Show

Ilo Toivio, Matthew Muir, Magnus Hvidtfeldt, Verena Buttmann und Akın Şipal konnten die Jurys mit ihren Arbeiten überzeugen.
Press Releases

360°-Aufnahmen zur Annual Exhibition und Graduate Show im 3D-Modell

Visit http://rundgang.hfbk.net to view the Annual Show and Graduateshows in 360 degrees in a 3D model of the HFBK buildi...
News

photo: Klaus Frahm

Summer Break

The HFBK Hamburg is in the lecture-free period, many students and teachers are on summer vacation, art institutions have summer break. This is a good opportunity to read and see a variety of things:

Stories

Vor mir der Süden: Pepe Danquart auf Reportage-Reise durch Italien

In seinem neuen Film re-inszeniert der HFBK-Filmprofessor Pepe Danquart eine Reportage-Reise durch Italien nach, die Pier Paolo Pasolini 1959 unternahm.
News

Zwischen den Welten: Zwischen den Welten: über die Trennung zwischen Kunst und Spiritualität

Der westlich geprägte Kunstdiskurs hat eine scharfe Trennung zwischen Kunst und Spiritualität eingeführt. Ein Plädoyer für mehr Differenzierung und mögliche Hybridformen.
News

Browsing: Die Linkliste zum Sufen

In the last year, some new websites have joined the HFBK cosmos, while others are worth revisiting.
News

Listening: die Mute/Unmute Podcast-Empfehlung

Mute/Unmute is a podcast and seminar by Prof. Dr. Astrid Mania, with the support of Noi Fuhrer and Anne Meerpohl. The id...
News

Reading: Leseempfehlungen für diesen Sommer

Ein Best-of der Readinglists vergangener Lerchenfeld Magazine und neu erschienener Publikationen.
News

Wie im Paradies: Interview mit Eschi Fiege und Oliver Hirschbiegel

The interview is only available in German.
News

ASA Open Studio 2019, Karolinenstraße 2a, Haus 5; photo: Matthew Muir

Live und in Farbe: die ASA Open Studios im Juni 2021

Since 2010, the HFBK has organised the international exchange programme Art School Alliance. It enables HFBK students to spend a semester abroad at renowned partner universities and, vice versa, invites international art students to the HFBK. At the end of their stay in Hamburg, the students exhibit their work in the Open Studios in Karolinenstraße, which are now open again to the art-interested public.

Stories

ASA Open Studios

Exhibition of the Art School Alliance exchange students and their Hamburg-based mentors
News, Art School Alliance, ASA

Art School Alliance

The HFBK's international exchange program with the goal of intensifying links and exchange with famous art universities all over the world
International, ASA

ASA Impressions

The Art School Alliance program at HFBK from the student's view
Art School Alliance

ASA@work

To celebrate its anniversary, the HFBK Hamburg has invited all its partners in the Art School Alliance (ASA) founded i...
hfbk250, Projects

ASA (N)open Studios 2021

Despite the ongoing pandemic last December, the residential studios of the Art School Alliance (ASA) in Hamburg's Karolinenviertel remained a place of international artistic exchange.
News

Studiengruppe Prof. Dr. Anja Steidinger, Was animiert uns?, 2021, Mediathek der HFBK Hamburg, Filmstill

Unlearning: Wartenau Assemblies

The art education professors Nora Sternfeld and Anja Steidinger initiated the format "Wartenau Assemblies". It oscillates between art, education, research and activism. Complementing this open space for action, there is now a dedicated website that accompanies the discourses, conversations and events.

Stories

Die neue Website der HFBK Kunstpädagogik: art-education.hfbk.net

The art education department of the HFBK Hamburg has a new web platform that breaks new ground in digital publishing.
Projects

Wartenau Versammlungen

All dates and info about the public event series Wartenau meetings.
Projects

Die Realität mit Fragen löchern - ein Interview mit Anja Steidinger

Anja Steidinger hat im Oktober 2020 die neu geschaffene Professur für Grundschulpädagogik an der HFBK Hamburg angetreten. Lerchenfeld sprach mit ihr über die Lehre als künstlerische Praxis
Projects

Schlüssel und Schwelle, Brücke und Riss

Text by Nora Sternfeld
Projects

Dr. Anja Steidinger

Professor for art education
Room: 210 Wa
Tel: +49 40 42 89 89-400
Mail: anja.steidinger@hfbk-hamburg.de
Staff Directory, Teaching Staff

Dr. Nora Sternfeld

Professor for art education
Room: 21 Wa
Tel: +49 40 42 89 89-0
Mail: nora.sternfeld@hfbk-hamburg.de
Staff Directory, Teaching Staff

Ausstellungsansicht "Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Übungen für ein anderes Leben" im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg; photo: Maximilian Schwarzmann

School of No Consequences

Everyone is talking about consequences: The consequences of climate change, the Corona pandemic or digitalization. Friedrich von Borries (professor of design theory), on the other hand, is dedicated to consequence-free design. In “School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life” at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, he links collection objects with a "self-learning room" set up especially for the exhibition in such a way that a new perspective on "sustainability" emerges and supposedly universally valid ideas of a "proper life" are questioned.

Stories

Finissage der „Schule der Folgenlosigkeit“

Bevor die „Schule der Folgenlosigkeit“ ihre Türen im MG&G schließt, laden wir vom 16.-18. Juli 2021 zu einem abwechs...
Projects

School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life

Research project about "inconsequences" at Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg
Exhibition, Projects, Scholarships

The new learning App

The learning app tests new ways of teaching
Projects

2021/03/18: Scholarship for Doing Nothing awarded

The three award-winning scholarship holders and all applications will be presented in the exhibition "School of No Consequences" at the MK&G until July 18, 2018
Projects, Folgenlosigkeit

2021/04/28: »Die Kunst der Folgenlosigkeit« im Wettbewerb für den besten deutschsprachigen Dokumentarfilm auf dem DOK.fest München

5.-23. Mai 2021
Projects, Folgenlosigkeit

In der Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Vorüberlegungen für eine Ethik

an essay by Friedrich von Borries.
Projects, Publications

Annual Exhibition 2021 at the HFBK

Annual exhibition a bit different: From February 12- 14, 2021 students at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, together with their professors, had developed a variety of presentations on different communication channels. The formats ranged from streamed live performances to video programs, radio broadcasts, a telephone hotline, online conferences, and a web store for editions. In addition, isolated interventions could be discovered in the outdoor space of the HFBK and in the city.

Stories

360°-Aufnahmen zur Annual Exhibition und Graduate Show im 3D-Modell

Visit http://rundgang.hfbk.net to view the Annual Show and Graduateshows in 360 degrees in a 3D model of the HFBK buildi...
News

Projects Sculpture

To the class projects >>>
Projects, Annual exhibition

Projects Painting / Drawing

To the class projects >>>
Projects, Annual exhibition

Projects Stage Design

To the class project of Prof. Raimund Bauer >>>
Projects

Projects Time-based Media

To the class projects >>>
Projects, Annual exhibition

Projects Design

To the class projects >>>
Projects, Annual exhibition

Projects Graphic Art / Typography / Photography

To the class projects >>>
Projects, Annual exhibition

Projects Theorie und Geschichte

To the class projects >>>
Projects, Annual exhibition

Film Seminar

To the class projects >>>
Projects, Annual exhibition

Sonstige Projekte

Annual exhibition 2021: to the inter-class projects >>>
Annual exhibition, Projects

Public Information Day 2021

How do I become an art student? How does the application process work? Can I also study to become a teacher at the HFBK? These and other questions about studying art were answered by professors, students and staff at the HFBK during the Public Information Day on February 13, 2021. In addition, there will be an appointment specifically for English-speaking prospective students on February 23 at 2 pm.

Stories

Application

Application period: 1 Februar to 7 March 2022 (4 pm)
Study Application

Advice Service for Study Applicants

Advice services by departments, contact for general information on application and study
Service

Departments

HFBK Hamburg is not divided into faculties. The interdisciplinary degree »Fine Arts« encompasses all of the subjects which can be found in the different departments.
Institutes, Study

FAQ

This page lists the answers to the most frequently asked questions about studying art at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) Hamburg.
Study, Application

Interview series: Talking to...

Since 2019, we have been interviewing the HFBK-professors with shot videos.
News

Students interviewing fellow students

Students interviewed some fellow students and asked them about studying Fine Arts at the HFBK. Many thanks to the interv...
News

Katja Pilipenko

Semestereröffnung und Hiscox-Preisverleihung 2020

On the evening of November 4, the HFBK celebrated the opening of the academic year 2020/21 as well as the awarding of the Hiscox Art Prize in a livestream - offline with enough distance and yet together online.

Semesterstart, Stories

2020/11/04: Semesterauftakt an der HFBK / Vergabe des Hiscox Kunstpreises 2020

No short description available.
Press Releases

HFBK Online Gallery

The HFBK Online Gallery creates a digital exhibition space in addition to the existing exhibition opportunities at the H...
HOOU

Konstantin Grcic

Professor for Industrial Design
Room: 330 Le
Tel: +49 40 42 89 89-0
Mail: Konstantin.Grcic@hfbk-hamburg.de
Teaching Staff

Interview with ruangrupa: "We see exhibitions as a device"

Interview with the curators of documenta fifteen for Lerchenfeld Magazine #55
documenta, Interview, News

Exhibition Transparencies with works by Elena Crijnen, Annika Faescke, Svenja Frank, Francis Kussatz, Anne Meerpohl, Elisa Nessler, Julia Nordholz, Florentine Pahl, Cristina Rüesch, Janka Schubert, Wiebke Schwarzhans, Rosa Thiemer, Lea van Hall. Organized by Prof. Verena Issel and Fabian Hesse; photo: Screenshot

Teaching Art Online at the HFBK

How the university brings together its artistic interdisciplinary study structure with digital formats and their possibilities.

Stories, Digital Teaching, Digitization

Lerchenfeld #54: Unmute Yourself!

Bedeutet künstlerische Lehre über Konferenztools die Rückkehr zum Frontalunterricht? Oder eröffnet die digitale Lehre au...
Teaching Art Online, Corona, Projects

Podcast series: An artwork a day

Every day a new podcast is added
Projects

Art in Times of Corona

Based on the idea of the Cadavre Exquis, students in Michaela Melián's class have created a video project entitled "Art in Times of Corona"
Corona, Projects, Art

Artistic Research Project "Commune"

The artistic research project Commune, conducted by Christoph Knoth and Konrad Renner (both professors of Digital Graphi...
HOOU

Lerchenfeld #52: Digital Thinking

Lerchenfeld spoke with HFBK-Professors Angela Bulloch, Thomas Demand, and Simon Denny about the influence of technology ...
Projects

Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU)

Seit drei Jahren ist die HFBK Hamburg aktiver Teil der Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU). Das hochschulübergreifende Projekt ...
Projects

VR in Art: Vortragsreihe zu den Themen Virtual und Augmented Reality und Immersion in der aktuellen Kunst- und Designproduktion

Die im Wintersemester 2019/20 startende Vortrags- und Gesprächsreihe nimmt die Möglichkeiten in den Blick, die sich aus ...

HFBK Online Gallery

The HFBK Online Gallery creates a digital exhibition space in addition to the existing exhibition opportunities at the H...
HOOU

Alltagsrealität oder Klischee?; photo: Tim Albrecht

HFBK Graduate Survey

Studying art - and what comes next? The clichéd images stand their ground: Those who have studied art either become taxi drivers, work in a bar or marry rich. But only very few people could really live from art – especially in times of global crises. The HFBK Hamburg wanted to know more about this and commissioned the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg to conduct a broad-based survey of its graduates from the last 15 years.

Stories

2020/04/22: Absolvent*innenstudie der HFBK

Ergebnisse der ersten umfangreichen Befragung zu den Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen von Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die an der HFBK Hamburg studiert haben, liegen vor. In der aktuellen Ausgabe des Lerchenfeld-Magazins werden sie vorgestellt und diskutiert.
Press Releases

Professionalization

The working world of artists has changed significantly in recent years. In response to this, the HFBK Hamburg aims to eq...
Study

What do you actually do? – Tanja Nis-Hansen

“This isn’t a normal situation,” says Tanja Nis-Hansen between sips of herbal tea. She’s talking about her studio setup—...
Graduate, Art and live, Projects

What do you actually do? – Mirjam Thomann

“I just want to say that I didn’t prepare for your visit,” says Mirjam Thomann as I step into her impeccably tidy studio...
Projects, Art and live, Graduate

What do you actually do? – Niclas Riepshoff

HFBK graduate Chloe Stead, together with the photographer and also HFBK graduate Jens Franke, met former HFBK students to talk about work, life and art.
Projects

What do you actually do? – Sung Tieu

“The whole of Berlin used to be like this,” murmurs Sung Tieu as she peers into an abandoned building covered with graff...
Graduate, Art and live, Projects

What do you actually do? - Hannah Rath

Hannah Rath’s I SAW I WAS I consists of two rectangular canvases, one white and one black, each screen-printed with the ...
Art and live, Projects

What do you actually do? – Katja Aufleger

Katja Aufleger’s studio-cum-apartment is in a former furniture shop on Urbanstraße, a busy high street that runs through...
Projects, Graduate

Symposium: Survival Rate 4%

Symposium report with Diedrich Diederichsen, Walter Grasskamp, Annette Tietenberg, Wolfgang Ullrich, Bettina Uppenkamp, hosted by Werner Büttner at HFBK Hamburg, July 14, 2018
hfbk250, Conference

Lerchenfeld #53: Von Mäusen und Menschen

Im vergangenen Jahr hat die HFBK Hamburg eine groß angelegte Befragung ihrer Absolvent*innen vorgenommen. Im Mittelpunkt...
Projects

Ausstellung Social Design, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Teilansicht; photo: MKG Hamburg

How political is Social Design?

Social Design, as its own claim is often formulated, wants to address social grievances and ideally change them. Therefore, it sees itself as critical of society – and at the same time optimizes the existing. So what is the political dimension of Social Design – is it a motor for change or does it contribute to stabilizing and normalizing existing injustices?

Stories, Discourse, Critical Design

Symposium: Wie politisch ist Social Design?

Exhibition Tour & Symposium at MKG and HFBK Hamburg
Projects

Lerchenfeld #51: Sind wir das Problem, oder die Lösung?

Begleitend zur Ausstellung „Social Design“ im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe fand im Oktober an der HFBK Hamburg ein Sympo...
Projects

How to work

Online-Research-Festival organized by Studio Experimental Design together with Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
Projects

Design

Research and teaching in the design department address shifts and instabilities in the social structure of commodities, ...
Departments

How to Gestaltungsberatung?

Seit 2011 bieten Studierende des Studios Experimentelles Design der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK) unter ...
HOOU, Design

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Conference: Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments.

The international conference at HFBK Hamburg on December 2-4, 2021 – jointly conceived by Nora Sternfeld and Michaela Melián –, is dedicated to the history of artistic counter-monuments and forms of protest, discusses aesthetics of memory and historical manifestations in public space, and asks about para-monuments for the present.
Stories

Diversity

Who speaks? Who paints which motif? Who is shown, who is not? Questions of identity politics play an important role in art and thus also at the HFBK Hamburg. In the current issue, the university's own Lerchenfeld magazine highlights university structures as well as student initiatives that deal with diversity and identity.
Stories

Start of semester

After three semesters of hybrid teaching under pandemic conditions, we are finally about to start another semester of presence. We welcome all new students and teachers at the HFBK Hamburg and cordially invite you to the opening of the academic year 2020/21, which this year will be accompanied by a guest lecture by ruangrupa.
Stories

Graduate Show 2021: All Good Things Come to an End

From September 24 to 26, the more than 150 Bachelor's and Master's graduates of the class of 2020/21 will present their final projects as part of the Graduate Show at the HFBK Hamburg. We would like to thank all visitors and participants.
Stories

Summer Break

The HFBK Hamburg is in the lecture-free period, many students and teachers are on summer vacation, art institutions have summer break. This is a good opportunity to read and see a variety of things:
Stories

Live und in Farbe: die ASA Open Studios im Juni 2021

Since 2010, the HFBK has organised the international exchange programme Art School Alliance. It enables HFBK students to spend a semester abroad at renowned partner universities and, vice versa, invites international art students to the HFBK. At the end of their stay in Hamburg, the students exhibit their work in the Open Studios in Karolinenstraße, which are now open again to the art-interested public.
Stories

Unlearning: Wartenau Assemblies

The art education professors Nora Sternfeld and Anja Steidinger initiated the format "Wartenau Assemblies". It oscillates between art, education, research and activism. Complementing this open space for action, there is now a dedicated website that accompanies the discourses, conversations and events.
Stories

School of No Consequences

Everyone is talking about consequences: The consequences of climate change, the Corona pandemic or digitalization. Friedrich von Borries (professor of design theory), on the other hand, is dedicated to consequence-free design. In “School of No Consequences. Exercises for a New Life” at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, he links collection objects with a "self-learning room" set up especially for the exhibition in such a way that a new perspective on "sustainability" emerges and supposedly universally valid ideas of a "proper life" are questioned.
Stories

Annual Exhibition 2021 at the HFBK

Annual exhibition a bit different: From February 12- 14, 2021 students at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, together with their professors, had developed a variety of presentations on different communication channels. The formats ranged from streamed live performances to video programs, radio broadcasts, a telephone hotline, online conferences, and a web store for editions. In addition, isolated interventions could be discovered in the outdoor space of the HFBK and in the city.
Stories

Public Information Day 2021

How do I become an art student? How does the application process work? Can I also study to become a teacher at the HFBK? These and other questions about studying art were answered by professors, students and staff at the HFBK during the Public Information Day on February 13, 2021. In addition, there will be an appointment specifically for English-speaking prospective students on February 23 at 2 pm.
Stories

Semestereröffnung und Hiscox-Preisverleihung 2020

On the evening of November 4, the HFBK celebrated the opening of the academic year 2020/21 as well as the awarding of the Hiscox Art Prize in a livestream - offline with enough distance and yet together online.
Semesterstart, Stories

Teaching Art Online at the HFBK

How the university brings together its artistic interdisciplinary study structure with digital formats and their possibilities.
Stories, Digital Teaching, Digitization

HFBK Graduate Survey

Studying art - and what comes next? The clichéd images stand their ground: Those who have studied art either become taxi drivers, work in a bar or marry rich. But only very few people could really live from art – especially in times of global crises. The HFBK Hamburg wanted to know more about this and commissioned the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg to conduct a broad-based survey of its graduates from the last 15 years.
Stories

How political is Social Design?

Social Design, as its own claim is often formulated, wants to address social grievances and ideally change them. Therefore, it sees itself as critical of society – and at the same time optimizes the existing. So what is the political dimension of Social Design – is it a motor for change or does it contribute to stabilizing and normalizing existing injustices?
Stories, Discourse, Critical Design

2.12.2021, 11:00 Uhr
Cancelled-Vortrag: “Late Adopters – wie die Coronakrise zum Katalysator für Strukturentwicklungen der internationalen Kunstmärkte wurde“ mit Dirk Boll

The date will probably be postponed to the summer semester 2022.Die Coronakrise hat die globalen Kunstmärkte in ihre dig...
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2. – 4.12.2021, 17:00 Uhr
Counter-Monuments and Para-Monuments. Contested Memory in Public Space

With contributions by: Heba Y. Amin (Artist), Ulf Aminde (Artist), Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock (Curator and Researcher), Max Czollek (Poet and Journalist), Talya Feldman (Artist), Eduard Freudmann (Artist), Julia Friedrich (Art Historian and Curator), Claas Gefroi (Architecture Theorist and Journalist), Ayşe Güleç (Curator, Art Educator, and Activist Researcher), Minna Henriksson (Artist and Artistic Researcher), Lee Hielscher (Researcher and Activist), Leon Kahane (Artist), Martin Krenn (Artist, Artistic Researcher and Curator), Tania Mancheno (Researcher), Olu Oguibe (Artist), Daniela Ortiz (Artist and Activist), Anja Steidinger (Artist, Professor of Art Education, HFBK Hamburg), Stephan Trüby (Architecture Theorist and Publicist), Mirjam Zadoff (Historian and Director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism)
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2.12.2021, Thursday 17:00 Uhr
Opening: INNENFUTTER

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