Deichtorhallen Hamburg –
Falckenberg Collection
Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture
How can the evolution of contemporary art serve as a lens through which to understand the history of counterculture – a phenomenon that continues to influence artistic approaches today? This question serves as a guiding force behind the exhibition Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture.
Through the interplay of three major collections – the Falckenberg Collection and the collections of the FRAC Pays de la Loire and the Musée d’arts de Nantes – the exhibition makes visible the ways in which artists develop resistant aesthetic strategies, open up alternative spaces, and blur the line between the mainstream and the margins of society.
The result is a fascinating dialogue that shows how counterculture is collected, conveyed, and understood in different contexts. What emerges is a multifaceted picture of art as a means of questioning social realities and opening up new perspectives.
Drawing on Thoreau, Foucault, and Guattari, the exhibition understands counterculture as something active, discursive, and transformative. Across four thematic sections – “Claiming the multiplication of points of view and voices”, “See, show, divert and denounce”, “Rereading history, another story”, and “Shock, shake, upset, move the lines” – the exhibition presents artists who rewrite historical narratives, challenge social power structures, and make visible artistic strategies of provocation and resistance.
The exhibition is developed in cooperation with the Centre Claude Cahun and the photography collections of the city of Nantes and the Regional Pays de la Loire Contemporary Art Fund.
Artists
With works by Soufiane Ababri, Vito Acconci, Halil Altındere, Roy Arden, Maja Bajević, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Jerry Berndt, John Bock, Christian Boltanski, Olaf Breuning, Chris Burden, Victor Burgin, Camille Orso Caël, Claude Cahun, Mircea Cantor, Claire Chevrier, Larry Clark, Allana Clarke, Michael Clegg & Martin Guttmann, Robin Collyer, Jordi Colomer, Jeremy Deller, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, William Eggleston, Erró, Gilbert & George, Walker Evans, VALIE EXPORT, Öyvind Fahlström, Christelle Familiari, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fischli & Weiss, Lee Friedlander, General Idea, Nan Goldin, Hans Haacke, Clarisse Hahn, Raymond Hains, Dennis Hopper, Peter Hujar, Charles Johnstone, Mike Kelley, Jürgen Klauke, Astrid Klein, Karen Knorr, Arthur Koepcke, Jiří Kovanda, Ange Leccia, Sharon Lockhart, Urs Lüthi, Carlos Martiel, Paul McCarthy, Jean-Luc Moulène, Henrik Olesen, Kristin Oppenheim, Daniela Ortiz, Adrian Paci, Gina Pane, Pierre et Gilles, Peter Piller, Bernard Plossu, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Walid Raad, Gerhard Richter, Sophie Ristelhueber, Martha Rosler, Anri Sala, Santiago Sierra, Andrea Stappert, Tomoko Takahashi, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patrick Tosani, Endre Tót, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Heidi Wood, Artur Żmijewski.
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