HFBK-Film Prize of the Hamburg Cultural Foundation

Akın Şipal, Nachruf, D/TR 2021, 14 min; photo: Filmstill

Mariam Mekiwi, »‘abl ma ‘ansa / Before I Forget«, D/EG 2018, 31 Min.; film still

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The HFBK Film Prize, totalling 5,000 euros, was awarded for the first time in 2012.

This prize is offered by Hamburg Cultural Foundation (from 2016 to 2020 offered by Berenberg Bank) to support new talents. It is intended to assist young filmmakers in becoming independent and in planning their next film project after completing their studies at the HFBK Hamburg, and to bring new talent to the attention of the film industry.

The HFBK Film Prize is to be awarded annually in conjunction with the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg’s Final Cut film screening. The winner is chosen by an external jury of experts.

Award Winners

2021

Akın Emanuel Şipal

Jury

Verena Gräfe-Höft, Producer and CEO Junafilm
Mark Peranson, Head of programming Berlinale, author and filmmaker
Angelika Ramlow, Film scholar, staff member of Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art

2020

Ferdi Ortaeri

Jury

Irene von Alberti, Regisseurin und Produzentin
Jens Balkenborg, Filmkritiker
Linda Söffker, Leiterin der Sektion Perspektive Deutsches Kino der Berlinale

2019

Faezeh Nikoozad

Jury

Katharina Duve (Absolventin der HFBK Hamburg, Filmemacherin und Mitbegründerin des Filmkollektivs AUGE ALTONA)
Anja Ellenberger (Freie Kuratorin mit Schwerpunkt Film)
Julia Teichmann (Freie Filmjournalistin, Programmkuratorin bei verschiedenen Filmfestivals)

2018

Mariam Mekiwi

Jury

Esther Buss (Kritikerin)
Jens Geiger (Filmfest Hamburg)
Jules Herrmann (Filmemacherin)

2017

Rosana Cuellar, Willy Hans

Jury

Alejandro Bachmann (Kurator, Autor, Österreichisches Filmmuseum)
Hermine Huntgeburth (Drehbuchautorin, Regisseurin)
Peter Zorn (Produzent, Kurator, Medienwissenschaftler, Werkleitz)

2016

Maya Connors, Benjamin Wölfing

Jury

Michael Baute (Autor, Dozent, Kurator)
Maike Mia Höhne (Filmemacherin, Kuratorin der Berlinale Shorts)
Florian Krautkrämer (Medientheoretiker)

2015

Hana Kim

Jury

Alexandra Gramatke (Geschäftsführung KurzFilmAgentur)
Monika Treut (Regisseurin, Produzentin, Autorin)
Florian Wüst (Künstler, Filmkurator)

2014

Heiko Volkmer, Helena Wittmann

Jury

Jenni Zylka (Autorin)
Olaf Möller (Autor, European Editor Film Comment New York)
Werner Ružička (Leiter der Duisburger Filmwoche)

2013

Il Kang, Bernhard Hetzenauer

Jury

Marieanne Bergmann (Freie Beraterin für Filmprojekte, bis 2012 Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig‐Holstein)
Sarah Khan (Autorin)
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt (Filmkritiker / Schauspieler)
Timo Schierhorn (Filmemacher)

2012

Victor Orozco Ramirez

Jury

Michael Girke (Buchautor, Filmkritiker und Kurator, Herford)Birgit Glombitza (Leitung Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg)
Reinhard Hinrichs (bis Okt 2011 Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein)
Jana Schulz (Schauspielerin u.a. Schauspielhaus Hamburg)

Renée Green. ED/HF, 2017. Film still. Courtesy of the artist, Free Agent Media, Bortolami Gallery, New York, and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin/Cologne/Munich.

Finkenwerder Art Prize 2022

The Finkenwerder Art Prize, initiated in 1999 by the Kulturkreis Finkenwerder e.V., has undergone a realignment: As a new partner, the HFBK Hamburg is expanding the prize to include the aspect of promoting young artists and, starting in 2022, will host the exhibition of the award winners in the HFBK Gallery. This year's Finkenwerder Art Prize will be awarded to the US artist Renée Green. HFBK graduate Frieda Toranzo Jaeger receives the Finkenwerder Art Prize for recent graduates.

Amanda F. Koch-Nielsen, Motherslugger; photo: Lukas Engelhardt

Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext von Kunst und Kunsthochschule

Im Bewusstsein einer ausstehenden fundamentalen gesellschaftlichen Transformation und der nicht unwesentlichen Schrittmacherfunktion, die einem Ort der künstlerischen Forschung und Produktion hierbei womöglich zukommt, hat sich die HFBK Hamburg auf den Weg gemacht, das Thema strategisch wie konkret pragmatisch für die Hochschule zu entwickeln. Denn wer, wenn nicht die Künstler*innen sind in ihrer täglichen Arbeit damit befasst, das Gegebene zu hinterfragen, genau hinzuschauen, neue Möglichkeiten, wie die Welt sein könnte, zu erkennen und durchzuspielen, einem anderen Wissen Gestalt zu geben

New studio in the row of houses at Lerchenfeld, in the background the building of Fritz Schumacher; photo: Tim Albrecht

Raum für die Kunst

After more than 40 years of intensive effort, a long-cherished dream is becoming reality for the HFBK Hamburg. With the newly opened studio building, the main areas of study Painting/Drawing, Sculpture and Time-Related Media will finally have the urgently needed studio space for Master's students. It simply needs space for their own ideas, for thinking, for art production, exhibitions and as a depot.

Martha Szymkowiak / Emilia Bongilaj, Installation “Mmh”; photo: Tim Albrecht

Annual Exhibition 2022 at the HFBK

After last year's digital edition, the 2022 annual exhibition at the HFBK Hamburg will once again take place with an audience. From 11-13 February, students from all departments will present their artistic work in the building at Lerchenfeld, Wartenau 15 and the newly opened Atelierhaus.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?