Situation\Condition\Position
Artistic practice is always dependent on and shaped by the conditions in which it can unfold. The conflicts and crises worldwide, triggered by wars, repressive regimes or environmental catastrophes, influence and threaten artists and shape their artistic work both on a formal and content-related level. Global, local and individual contexts interplay and are closely interwoven. In this field of tension, artistic strategies assert and (trans)form themselves and articulate an important perspective on social conflict zones. How does art reflect the conditions under which it is created? How do contexts of global and local conflicts become visible in artistic production? What are the perspectives and positions that emerge against the background of these examinations?
Based on these questions, the group exhibition Situation\Condition\Position brings together eleven international artistic positions that take a very personal look at the sociopolitical conditions surrounding them. They deal with mechanisms of oppression and violence that have grown historically and are deeply rooted in our present. Their research-based, documentary, and participatory approaches not only create visibility of crises, but make them physically tangible.
"The works show artistic strategies of not being afraid taking up the struggle to develop a position especially under the conditions of crisis and conflict", the jury explained its selection, which can only offer an excerpt of the topics dealt with at the university. Vulnerable and reproachful, powerless but also utopian: in addition to the diversity of content and form, the different attitudes and motivations of the artists are particularly characteristic for the exhibition.
With works by: Benyamin Bakhshi, Kyle Egret, Saba Emadabadi, Chung-hsien Ho, Rahel grote Lambers, Filipe Lippe, Mahjong Friends, Laura Mahnke, Monika Orpik, Daniel Suárez, Sudabe Yunesi.
Curated by Sjusanna Eremjan in collaboration with Stefan Aue.
Abstracts to the individual positions
Jury
The positions were selected on the basis of an internal open call by a jury consisting of visiting professors from the HFBK: Reza Afisina and Iswanto Hartono (DAAD Guest Professors), Lada Nakonechna (Guest Lecturer as part of the programme “Science Bridge for Ukraine”), and Gilly Karjevsky (Guest Professor of Social Design).
Dates
Opening: Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6 p.m.
Duration: from April 21 to May 14, 2023, daily 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. except Mondays.
Location: ICAT at HFBK, Lerchenfeld 2A, 22081 Hamburg.
Contact
- Sjusanna Eremjan
- Phone: +49 40 42 89 89-214
- Mail:sjusanna.eremjan@hfbk.hamburg.de