Calendar Archive
Past events from the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026
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About the exhibitions of the Photo SummerArtist Talk: Valérie Wagner Seite an Seite (Side by Side)
On June 19, photographer and artist Valérie Wagner will present her current anti-antisemitism project, SIDE BY SIDE, at St. Petri Church, where the project is currently on display alongside exhibitions at three other locations in Hamburg.
Sonic Bodies: "The Queer Love Cushion"
An evening of sound, softness, resistance, and connection: what happens when we meet – truly meet – in love, in alliance, in infinity? The Queer Love Cushion is an immersive, performative event format that invites the public into a lively…
From the Gay Community to Wider Society: How Social Change Can Work in the Opposite Direction Too – Taking Hamburg Leuchtfeuer as an Example
In the early years of the AIDS crisis, social attitudes around the issue were strongly influenced by stigmatisation and scaremongering – as evidenced in media coverage such as Der Spiegel’s infamous 1983 cover story or statements made by…
Inuuteq Storch and Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat in Photography
Inuuteq Storch (b. 1989) represented Denmark at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. It was the first time an artist from Greenland had been selected for the Danish pavilion. A selection from his Biennale exhibition will be presented in…
Guided tour in English through the exhibition „Cocktail Prolongé: F.C. Gundlach Special“
Included in the entrance fee to the exhibition, due to the limited number of participants, registration at the reception is required for the guided tours.
Finissage: (Un)Choreographed - Agnieszka Sejud
(Un)Choreographed shows a series of analogue photograms in which the artist performs inside the photographic darkroom. Sejud returns to the photogram as a direct, contact-based technique, leaving imprints of her body on the light-sensitive…
"Sara Sallam – Care: Reconsidering Photography" – Guided tour with curator Claire Müller
Further information will follow.
Guided tour in English through the exhibition „Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other“
Included in the entrance fee to the exhibition, due to the limited number of participants, registration at the reception is required for the guided tours.
Forbidden Feelings in Times of War
We invited you to a performative reading in which the unspoken and the unlived will be given voice. Since 2023, a group of women who came together in Hamburg after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine have been collecting feelings in…
"City Parade – Brave Moves: Courageous Joy" From Barmbek Nord to the Stadtpark
The inaugural Tanztriennale will kick off with a dance parade! On Sunday June 14 the very first parade dedicated to dance and the people of Hamburg will take place in Barmbek Nord. The City Parade will treat the city itself as a stage…
Image Collection on the History of Astrology and Astronomy by Aby Warburg in Collaboration with Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl and the City Curator of Hamburg
City Curator of Hamburg Joanna Warsza presents the only exhibition ever personally made by Aby Warburg for the Planetarium Hamburg. Its contents were long considered lost and were only rediscovered in the late 1980s. Presented as…
Cancelled: "Inner Mornings, Or Forms of Counterculture" – Young Artists Perspectives (Guided tour with art students)
Art students will guide visitors through the exhibition with their very own perspective on the works – personal, unconventional, and closely attuned to contemporary art. The guides will invite visitors to take part in casual conversations…
Self Sabotage – Soft Gathering with Live-Musik
Building on one of the installations from "Soft Contact and Slow Sabotage", the Soft Gathering invites visitors to enjoy a relaxed, communal conclusion to the evening. As part of a Tiny Room Concert, live acoustic music creates an intimate…
Public guided tour in English through the exhibition ABDULHAMID KIRCHER/AKOSUA VIKTORIA ADU-SANYAH
Included in the entrance fee to the exhibition, due to the limited number of participants, registration at the reception is required for the guided tours.
Der lächelnde Hase: QUESTIONING NORMALCY
With Madeleine Lauw, Carsten Rabe, Linda Hansen, Roxana Rios Focusing on prevailing discourses about the body, the project Questioning Normalcy by the curatorial duo Der lächelnde Hase in collaboration…
Developing with Light and Care (Cyanotype Workshop)
In this cyanotype workshop, children aged 8–13 will be able to experiment with paper and fabric, exploring light, shadow, and composition, and learning how images emerge through natural light and cyanotype chemistry. They will work both…
Unfixing the Archive – From Negative to Print
A shoebox full of prints, a tin of slides, a strip of negatives in a glassine envelope. Analogue images have a peculiar quality: they don’t simply disappear; they lie in wait. They wait. In the workshop ‘Unfixing the archive – From…
To Share: Thoughts, Ideas & Food
This public guided tour offers insights into various exhibitions of this year’s Triennial Expanded, while also encouraging shared discussion and exchange. Designed as a picnic tour, it visits different exhibition venues that the group…
WHAT SEPARATES US
An evening of contemporary performance exploring borders, conflict, migration, and the invisible spaces between human beings. Through movement, presence, and personal narratives, artists from Berlin and Hamburg come together to question…
Finissage: "Knotenkuss" & Artist talk with Felix Posner
Closing event & Artist talk with Felix Posner About the project: Felix Posner’s photographic practice focuses on subtle processes: on glances, gestures, and situations in which meaning only emerges through being together. One outcome of…
Sonic Bodies: dispari
During the Opening Days, the Sonic Bodies event series invites key figures from Hamburg’s cultural and music scene to the festival centre of the 9th Triennial to explore the themes of Alliance, Infinity and Love through performance, music…
"The Silent Distance" – Ula Ahmed, Masixole Ncevu and Roxana Rios
Drawing on their artistic work, Ula Ahmed, Masixole Ncevu, and Roxana Rios will engage in a multi-layered dialogue about forms of distance – geographical, identity-related, and interpersonal. The concept of “silent distance” understands…
Self Sabotage – Dynamic Panels
As part of the exhibition "Soft Contact and Slow Sabotage", artists Antine Karla Yzer and Verdiana Albano discuss the theme of self-sabotage as both a personal experience and a social phenomenon. Drawing on their artistic practice, they…
Between Love, Work, and Migration
How do we remain connected in a world shaped by love, work, and migration? In this guided tour through the exhibition with participating artists, we will explore how these themes intertwine.
Nomadic Camera: Photography, Displacement, and Dis:connectivities
This book launch and panel celebrates the publication of Nomadic Camera: Photography, Displacement and Dis:connectivities, a book that investigates the technical, medial ,and aesthetic relationships between photography and displacement…
Echo Chamber Germany – Photographic Perspectives the Rise of the Far Right: Guided tour with photographer Rafael Heygster
Echo Chamber Germany – Photographic Perspectives the Rise of the Far Right brings together the works of eight photographers that grapple with sites of right-wing violence, Germany’s culture of remembrance…
Oksana Yushko – Migratory Restlessness
In an open, free-flowing conversation with the artist Oksana Yushko, the curatorial team introduces the exhibition Oksana Yushko – Migratory Restlessness. The site-specific installation in the 40ft container on the Deichtorhallen forecourt…
"Ecotones" – Guided tour with exhibiting artists & artist talk
About the project: In ecology, an “ecotone“ is a spatial transition zone between two different ecosystems, wherein they meet and interact. In an increasingly urbanised and technologised society, people’s direct experiences of nature are…
Der lächelnde Hase: QUESTIONING NORMALCY
Madeleine Lauw and Carsten Rabe in conversation with Sina Niemeyer and Jay Ritchie Focusing on prevailing discourses about the body, the project Questioning Normalcy by the curatorial duo Der lächelnde Hase in collaboration…
Beyond the ID – Rewriting the Passport
This event is taking place as part of the project The Art of Border Sabotage – Echoes from the Edges, which belongs to the Triennial Expanded. The workshop translates questions of belonging, official documents, citizenship and alternative…
Between Love, Work, and Migration
How do we remain connected in a world shaped by love, work, and migration? In this guided tour through the exhibition with participating artists, we will explore how these themes intertwine.
City-Hof Obscura
On display are works by the artist Mirko Mielke, created between 2017 and 2019 during the demolition of the City-Hof complex. Rooms within the building, which was in the process of being demolished, were darkened to act as a camera…
Basics of Film Development – From the Latent Image to the Contact Print
Working with analogue photography in the darkroom is a different way of creating images and requires a more unhurried approach to the image. Anyone working with film must engage with the material – its sensitivity, its peculiarities, its…
Developing with Light and Care (Cyanotype Workshop)
In this cyanotype workshop, children aged 8–13 will be able to experiment with paper and fabric, exploring light, shadow, and composition, and learning how images emerge through natural light and cyanotype chemistry. They will work both…
To Share: Thoughts, Ideas & Food
This public guided tour offers insights into various exhibitions of this year’s Triennial Expanded, while also encouraging shared discussion and exchange. Designed as a picnic tour, it visits different exhibition venues that the group…
Sonic Bodies: yung_womb & Nissa Carrington (SLIC Unit)
During the Opening Days, the Sonic Bodies event series invites key figures from Hamburg’s cultural and music scene to the festival centre of the 9th Triennial to explore the themes of Alliance, Infinity and Love through performance, music…
Black Edelweiss, Performance
Brutus Labiche presents the performance Black Edelweiss as part of the exhibition Fabrics of Translocality. It explores the invisibilization and simultaneous glorification of the “Other” in dominant white spaces, which ultimately leads to…
Pan-Africanism and Abolitionism – From Prisons to Borders
This event is taking place as part of the project The Art of Border Sabotage – Echoes from the Edges, which belongs to the Triennial Expanded. The event offers an introduction to abolitionist and Pan-African perspectives on prison systems…
"Deutschlandweit_49/58/63" Finnisage
Closing event for the exhibition "Deutschlandweit_49/58/63", attended by the photographers Dr Britta Kohl-Boas, Oliver Jockers and Bastian Hertel.
Artist Talk "PHOTOMINO Europe"
A single image became the starting point for a creative chain reaction across Europe. A visual chain of inspiration comprising 27 photographs by 27 photographers from 27 EU countries. Each image represents a personal response to the one…
Alliance: Strategies of Resistance
This discussion will see members of the SHIFT photography network speak with Zeran Osman and Irène Mélix about the role of alliances, networks, and solidarity-based coalitions and explore how they can operate as sites…
One View on Love, Work and Migration
This artist talk brings together photographer Tobias Zielony and writer Enis Maci with participating artists from the exhibition. Together they discuss the interconnections between work, love, and migration, and how photography can shift…
Remembering Semra Ertan
This event is taking place as part of the project The Art of Border Sabotage – Echoes from the Edges, which belongs to the Triennial Expanded. This event invites participants to learn more about Semra Ertan (1957–1982) – poet, activist…
"On Vacation" – Artist talk with Luchezar Boyadjiev
Luchezar Boyadjiev’s artistic practice constitutes a counter-monumental gesture that demonstrates how art can reshape the public sphere in subtle and humorous ways. In conversation with City Curator Hamburg Joanna Warsza, Boyadjiev…
"Echo Chamber Germany – Photographic Perspectives the Rise of the Far Right" – Guided tour with photographer Rafael Heygster
Echo Chamber Germany – Photographic Perspectives the Rise of the Far Right brings together the works of eight photographers that grapple with sites of right-wing violence, Germany’s culture of remembrance…
"Cocktail Prolongé: F.C. Gundlach Special" – Drag tour with Paul Ninus Naujoks and Didine van der Platenvlotbrug
Paul Ninus Naujoks is a freelance writer, host, and artist from Hamburg. He is a powerful voice of our time: since coming out as a trans man at the age of 16 (in 2012), he has been deeply committed to advocating for trans perspectives…
Harburg Triennial Tour
The Friends of the House of Photography invite you to a joint walk through Harburg dedicated to photography. The tour connects three exhibitions and offers curatorial insights at three different locations in Harburg. 1st…
Der lächelnde Hase: QUESTIONING NORMALCY – Presentation of works
Presentation of works with artists Linda Hansen, Sina Niemeyer, Jay Ritchie und Roxana Rios Focusing on prevailing discourses about the body, the project Questioning Normalcy by the curatorial duo Der lächelnde Hase in collaboration…
Sonic Bodies: wenner pennt
During the Opening Days, the Sonic Bodies event series invites key figures from Hamburg’s cultural and music scene to the festival centre of the 9th Triennial to explore the themes of Alliance, Infinity and Love through performance, music…
Exhibition opening "PHOTOMINO Europe"
We warmly invite you to the opening of the »PHOTOMINO Europe« exhibition on June 11 from 7:00 PM.
Vernissage: LOVE [in] the CITY
Drei Positionen flanierender Fotografen, die das Hamburger Stadtbild mit ungewohnten Blicken dokumentieren: Claas Möller + Peter Bruns - Glaubens- und Sehnsuchtsorte in Hamburg Gerald Chors - Eine Stadt begann zu lächeln Michael Penner -…
Surprise-Triennial Talk: Have a drink with Mark Sealy, Cale Garrido & Bettina Freimann
In a relaxing atmosphere, you’ll have the chance to talk to artists and learn about their perspectives—or even their favorite drink. Joining you at our BE MY FRIEND Bar will be the Triennial team, including Mark Sealy, the artistic…
"Resonating Images from Peru"
The intimate portraits, documentary photos, and music recordings created by amateur researcher Hans Heinrich Brüning (1848–1928) continue to resonate strongly in Peru to this day. This collaborative exhibition shows how Peruvians are…
"Melike Kara, Whispers" Guided tour with curator Anna Nowak
In an interactive guided tour, curator Anna Nowak will offer insights into the creative process behind Melike Kara’s exhibition Whispers and its underlying themes. The large-scale installation, which the artist developed specifically…
Opening: Ort hoher Geheimhaltung (A place of high secrecy)
OHG – Ort hoher Geheimhaltung (A place of high secrecy) presents photographic works by Frederick Vidal that defy straightforward interpretation. They explore how meaning shifts at the moment the photograph is taken and how everyday…
BumBumDisko
Join us at ECHO, the latest exhibition by the herspective collective, as BumBumDisko brings its signature sound into the gallery. An evening where photography, atmosphere, and music come together—drop by, listen, and experience the…
Vernissage "Rafael Heygster - State of Exception"
In moments of exception, established orders begin to falter. It is in these situations that power becomes visible: expressed through rituals, actions, and events that assert authority, create belonging, and shape perceptions of reality.
Cultural policy advocacy – Risk: AI in journalistic photography; Importance: photographic cultural heritage; Future: media and visual literacy.
An event by Deutscher Fotorat Panelists include German Photographic Council executive board members Anna Gripp, Julia Laatsch, and Ingo Taubhorn and others Moderation: Ulrich Rüter Founded in 2021, the German Photography Council acts…
"Deutschlandweit_49/58/63" Artist Talk
During an artist talk, Britta, Oliver and Bastian will offer insights into the project, their artistic perspectives and the experiences they have gained over the past two years. Shortly before work begins on the planned book, they will…
Black Archive Germany: Cate Lartey in Conversation with Laurel Chokoago
Cate Lartey presents Black Archive Germany, a project that takes a combined artistic and documentary approach to examining the collecting, archiving, and visualising of Black, African, and Afro-diasporic lived realities in Germany. The…
"F.C. Gundlach. You’ll Never Watch Alone" – Guided tour with one of the curators
During the curator’s guided tour of the exhibition F.C. Gundlach. You’ll Never Watch Alone, key aspects of his photographic work will be explored through selected exhibits, in dialogue with works by his contemporaries, role models and…
Artist Talk
Freundeskreis der Photographie invites you to an Artist Talk with Valérie Wagner about her project “Side by Side” against anti-Semitism in the current exhibition at Oberhafenquartier.
"Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other" – It's Art, Baby!
It's Art, Baby! Guided Tour for parents with infants (up to 12 months) Register online €4 plus admission to the exhibition or Triennale Ticket
Shedding Light – Photography and Women’s Movements: Staging, Activism, Preservation
The work of Franki Raffles (1955–1994) combines photographic documentation of the working lives and lived realities of women with concrete activist positions. After her death, Raffles’ family kept her photographs safe for 20 years…
Screening "Noch ein Kind – Still a Kid", followed by a Q&A with Maxi Hachem (director), Abdulhamid Kircher & Nadine Isabelle Henrich
Still a Kid (54min, 2024), a film by Maxi Hachem, delves into the complex dynamics of a Turkish-German family across three generations. From their struggles with immigrating, to facing patriarchal violence and inherited trauma, the film…
Strange Land: A Thousand Solitudes
Strange Land: A Thousand Solitudes is an audiovisual performance by visual artist Randa Mirza that explores the intersections of memory, colonial history, and archival practices in the Arab world. Reimagined for the 9th Triennial of…
Sonic Bodies: "In Tune" by M.Bassy, with DJ Suro X Seanie T (DJ Set & Live Performance)
DJ Suro and Seanie T share a long-standing musical collaboration, driven by a mutual passion for genre-crossing sounds spanning hip-hop, reggae, soul, dancehall and afrobeat. Seanie T’s LP “Ruff, Rugged & Smooth” was composed and produced…
What Does Justice Look Like?
At the conclusion of the opening session for the symposium in November 2025, a central question emerged: what does justice look like? To continue this critical inquiry, this event, organised in partnership with the ECCHR, invites artists…
"Marungka Tjalatjunu" (Dipped in Black) / Rituals of Repair on Stolen Land Talk
In this conversation, Derik Lynch and Matthew Thorne will reflect on the making of Marungka tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black) and the reparative possibilities of collaboration across blackfella and whitefella worlds. Working through the…
Artist Talk with Marystela Camacho, Christine Chávez & Gisela Cánepa (Theme Day “Resonating Images from Peru”)
To mark the opening of the exhibition Resonating Images from Peru, the MARKK cordially invites you to an exciting programme of events on June 7. From 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM the curators Gisela Cánepa (PUC, Peru), Walther Maradiegue…
Curatorial Repair Is Not a Metaphor
In their talk, Orlan Ohtonen and Lisa Anderson will discuss the topics covered by the recently published book Curating & Repair, a collection of essays and dialogues that explores contemporary curatorial practices and exhibition-making…
Guided tour in German (Theme Day “Resonating Images from Peru”)
To mark the opening of the exhibition Resonating Images from Peru, the MARKK cordially invites you to an exciting programme of events on June 7. From 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM the curators Gisela Cánepa (PUC, Peru), Walther Maradiegue…
Curators‘ tour in Spanish (Theme Day “Resonating Images from Peru”)
To mark the opening of the exhibition Resonating Images from Peru, the MARKK cordially invites you to an exciting programme of events on June 7. From 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM the curators Gisela Cánepa (PUC, Peru), Walther Maradiegue…
Opening "PHOTOGRAPHER HAL - We are One"
We warmly invite you to the opening of the exhibition. Japanese artist PHOTOGRAPHER HAL will be present. For more than 25 years, the Tokyo-born Japanese artist PHOTOGRAPHER HAL has explored love and human connection as the central themes…
Opening: "Echo Chamber Germany – Photographic Perspectives the Rise of the Far Right"
Exhibition opening As part of Triennial Expanded, newly founded documentary photography network SHIFT presents its first collective exhibition, which features eight photographers engaging with the political shift to the right in Germany…
With the World as our Limit, with Émilie Houssa
Today, our world seems beset by violence on all sides; whether it’s verbal, physical, or in the media, it has crept into every corner of our daily lives. While the term may seem outdated, the very idea of counterculture can serve as both a…
Restitution: A Dialogue on Ethics and Artistic Practice Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy and artist Akram Zaatari in conversation
Restitution: A Dialogue on Ethics and Artistic Practice explores the shifting responsibilities of the cultural sphere. Moving beyond legalities, this conversation examines how archaeology, museums, and the arts can redefine what it means…
Expanded Bike Tour – Freundeskreis Photographie
Interested in fresh air, inspiring encounters, and discovering creative photography venues in Hamburg? Then join this special bike tour organized by the Friends of the House of Photography to the Triennial Expanded exhibitions. Explore…
Collaborative Curation (Theme Day “Resonating Images from Peru”)
To mark the opening of the exhibition Resonating Images from Peru, the MARKK cordially invites you to an exciting programme of events on June 7. From 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM the curators Gisela Cánepa (PUC, Peru), Walther Maradiegue…
Crit Club Hamburg: Is the Camera Closer to a Mirror or a Window?
Crit Club is a performance by Cem A. in which two teams debate an implausible question about art. In a field where disagreement often feels risky, Crit Club creates space for critical play. Rather than rehearsing praise or silence…
Sonic Bodies: Block Barley
During the Opening Days, the Sonic Bodies event series invites key figures from Hamburg’s cultural and music scene to the festival centre of the 9th Triennial to explore the themes of Alliance, Infinity and Love through performance, music…
Opening herspective: ECHO
ECHO explores resonance and exchange. Images connect, revisit motifs, and open new perspectives. At its core is the interplay of diverse voices. The herspective collective promotes the visibility of women in photography.
Screening of emerging European artists: FUTURES (2018–2026)
FUTURES is a European photography platform and a network of photography institutions across several European countries. Since 2018, the Triennial of Photography has been part of this network and annually nominates five artists or…
Opening: "A Brownie Hawkeye" & Artist Talk with Gwendolyn Phillips & Julia Phillips
Exhibition opening & artist talk on feminism, Black perspectives in photography, and diasporic narratives between the photographer Gwendolyn Phillips and her daughter Julia Phillips, who is herself an artist and lives and works in Chicago…
Opening: Un(Choreographed) - Agnieszka Sejud with DJ set Chinyere
(Un)Choreographed shows an ongoing series of chromogenic prints that are evidence of a secret darkroom performance. Opening 6.06.2026 18-22 Open 7, 13-14.06.2026 15-20
"Fabrics of Translocality" – Artist Talk
In their photographic and intermedial works, Ula Ahmed, Masixole Ncevu and Roxana Rios explore the complex entanglements between space, identity, and history. At the heart of their inquiries are experiences and forms of belonging that…
Opening: "We’ll Always Watch Together"
Parallel to its main exhibition You’ll Never Watch Alone and the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026, tin collaboration with the Folkwang University of Arts and the Fachhochschule Dortmund the Bucerius Kunst Forum presents the…
Between Love, Work, and Migration
How do we remain connected in a world shaped by love, work, and migration? In this guided tour through the exhibition with participating artists, we will explore how these themes intertwine. About the Project: Against the backdrop of…
Short Film Programme "On Waiting 2"
Waiting is not the same as pausing. It is a power strategy. It disciplines bodies and regulates mobility. In airports, administrative buildings, at the edges of the city, and in digitally mediated spaces, time is organised as a state of…
Opening: "Resonating Images from Peru"
The exhibition opening will be attended by Prof. Dr Barbara Plankensteiner (Director of MARKK), Prof. Dr Mark Sealy (artistic director of the 9. Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026), Ambassador Sandra Pinto – La Fuente (Consul General…
Get In, Next Exit: Trans*port
Together with Harry Hachmeister, Lio Kappel and Aimilia Theofilopoulos invite you to join them on a slightly different truck ride: a journey through trans* landscapes, images, and mental worlds. First stop: Odo’s Kaffeeklappe – for coffee…
Portfolio Walk – Freundeskreis Photographie
We warmly invite you to the Portfolio Walk and the ‘Best Portfolios’ awards ceremony as part of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026! What’s it all about? On Portfolio Day on 6 June, the Freundeskreis Photographie, in…
Between Love, Work, and Migration
How do we remain connected in a world shaped by love, work, and migration? In this guided tour through the exhibition with participating artists, we will explore how these themes intertwine.
Guided Tour with Abdulhamid Kircher and Nadine Isabelle Henrich
In an open, free-flowing conversation, artist Abdulhamid Kircher and curator Nadine Isabelle Henrich will introduce the exhibition and the emotional resonance of the works that comprise it. In his analogue photographic practice…
"Resonating Images from Peru"
The intimate portraits, documentary photos, and music recordings created by amateur researcher Hans Heinrich Brüning (1848–1928) continue to resonate strongly in Peru to this day. This collaborative exhibition shows how Peruvians are…
You Can’t Take Away a Smile
In this performative clown workshop for children of all ages with Marleen van Os (Stichting Clownszaken) and Loes Koop, participants are invited to take part in performative clowning and theatre games. Learning skills like juggling or…
"Deutschlandweit_49/58/63" Photo Walk with Bastian Hertel
Bastian Hertel will present his photographic perspective on the project "Deutschlandweit_49/58/63" and, based on this approach, ‘explore’ a district of Hamburg. Places are limited. Please register at . The meeting…
"Resonating Images from Peru"
The intimate portraits, documentary photos, and music recordings created by amateur researcher Hans Heinrich Brüning (1848–1928) continue to resonate strongly in Peru to this day. This collaborative exhibition shows how Peruvians are…
Image Collection on the History of Astrology and Astronomy by Aby Warburg in Collaboration with Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl with the City Curator of Hamburg
City Curator of Hamburg Joanna Warsza presents the only exhibition ever personally made by Aby Warburg for the Planetarium Hamburg. Its contents were long considered lost and were only rediscovered in the late 1980s. Presented as…
Jasmina Cibic: Hope as a Muscle
Jasmina Cibic’s work examines how art and culture operate as instruments of soft power and ideological construction, particularly in moments of political rupture. In this talk, she will present a series of recent photographic and film…
Watching the Birds
In this workshop, children will shape and decorate small birds out of salt dough, which they can take home as a talisman or leave them in the park near the Millerntorwache, where the birds become part of a shared temporary public art. The…
"Sara Sallam – Care: Reconsidering Photography" – Guided tour with artist Sara Sallam and curators Esther Ruelfs and Claire Müller
Further information will follow.
"Resonating Images from Peru"
The intimate portraits, documentary photos, and music recordings created by amateur researcher Hans Heinrich Brüning (1848–1928) continue to resonate strongly in Peru to this day. This collaborative exhibition shows how Peruvians are…
"Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture" – Guided tour with Émilie Houssa
Émilie Houssa (b. 1983) is an art historian and co-director of the Centre Claude Cahun in Nantes, an exhibition and education space dedicated to independent artistic practices. She previously taught art history and semiology in Montreal…
"Familia" – Guided tour with the artist Oksana Yushko
How do people who come from countries that have become enemies love each other? During your visit, artist Oksana Yushko will guide you through her archive of family photographs that has been growing since 2014, and tell you the stories…
Opening: "Familia"
Exhibition opening About the project: How do people who come from countries that have become enemies love each other? During your visit, artist Oksana Yushko will guide you through her archive of family photographs that has been growing…
Opening: "Soft Contact and Slow Sabotage"
Exhibition opening About the project: In an increasingly challenged meritocracy, one marked by crises, consumerism, and constant availability, we struggle to build profound connections. When do we allow ourselves to rest and take some…
"Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other" – Guided tour with exhibiting artists
Visitors are invited to join the artists for an encounter shaped by pause and reflection. Moderated by curator Mark Sealy, the event offers informal conversations in different sections of the exhibition, allowing time to listen, look…
Opening: "RECOILING MEMORY OF HOME"
RECOILING MEMORY OF HOME Salma Abusamra · Eythar Gubara Photography and installation Opening: Friday June 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM Introduction: André Lützen 9:30 PM – Music: Mazin Satti Exhibition: June 5 – June 21, 2026 Opening hours: Saturday…
Opening: "Breathing Room - How Are We Here and Elsewhere?"
Exhibition opening About the project: The starting point for Breathing Room is a series of conversations about belonging and a sense of place held between Vanessa Amoah Opoku and people from various diasporas. Before and after these…
Opening: "Ecotones"
Exhibition opening About the project: In ecology, an “ecotone“ is a spatial transition zone between two different ecosystems, wherein they meet and interact. In an increasingly urbanised and technologised society, people’s direct…
Short Film Programme "On Waiting 1"
Waiting is not the same as pausing. It is a power strategy. It disciplines bodies and regulates mobility. In airports, administrative buildings, at the edges of the city, and in digitally mediated spaces, time is organised as a state of…
Opening: "Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture"
Exhibition opening About the exhibition: 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…
Border Profiteers – On the Recycling of Bare Life
This event is taking place as part of the project The Art of Border Sabotage – Echoes from the Edges, which belongs to the Triennial Expanded. Border Profiteers – On the Recycling of Bare Life exposes how migration management has become a…
Opening: "Fleeting Glance" & Drag-Performance "Bar Indigo"
Exhibition opening & drag performance As part of the opening of Fleeting Glance, the bar of Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof will be transformed into a space where melancholy and physical tension intersect. The evening concludes with a…
Opening: "The Art of Border Sabotage – Echoes from the Edges"
Exhibition Opening About the project: The Art of Border Sabotage: Echoes from the Edges brings together artists that engage with border regimes, social indifference, and forms of belonging. In Uncontained: Breaking the Apparatus, Al Anders…
To the Rottenness I Say You Are My Father. And to the Worms my Sister and my Brother.
In connection with Melike Kara’s exhibition at the Kunsthaus Hamburg, artist Toni Ehrhardt will present a performance that approaches archaeology and history as fluid, inherently speculative narratives. He weaves together scientific…
"Cocktail Prolongé: F.C. Gundlach Special" – Panel Talk
This discussion between the curator and other experts will explore questions regarding the staging of the body. With Dr. Sabine Schnakenberg (curator of the F.C. Gundlach Collection at the Haus der Photographie and contributor to the…
Kasha’s Tent
In character as the fortune-teller Kascha, Katharina Bromka invites visitors to a personal one-on-one session in her tent, using her insights into love, society, and transience to predict your future. Her horoscopes are sometimes direct…
Opening: "Knotenkuss"
Exhibition opening About the project: Felix Posner’s photographic practice focuses on subtle processes: on glances, gestures, and situations in which meaning only emerges through being together. One outcome of this approach…
Opening: "It’s Never Love, It’s Always Work"
Exhibition opening About the project: Against the backdrop of Hamburg as a port city – shaped by the contradictions of labour movements, economic migration, and international, historically colonial trade – the exhibition interweaves human…
Opening: "Franki Raffles: Photography, Activism, Campaign Works"
Exhibition opening About the exhibition: Franki Raffles (1955–1994) was a feminist, activist, and social documentary photographer whose work focused on the realities of women’s lives. Her photographic series – often accompanied by quotes…
The Stadthaus under National Socialism: A Headquarters for Terror
This event is taking place as part of the project The Art of Border Sabotage – Echoes from the Edges, which belongs to the Triennial Expanded. From 1933–1943, the Stadthaus complex on Stadthausbrücke/Neuer Wall was a headquarters for Nazi…
Opening: "Fabrics of Translocality"
Exhibition opening About the project: Fabrics of Translocality showcases the photographic and intermedial works of Ula Ahmed, Masixole Ncevu, and Roxana Rios, all of whom navigate lives across different geographies. Their work examines how…
Opening: "Sara Sallam – Care: Reconsidering Photography"
Exhibition opening About the exhibition: Looking back, how are we to interrogate the violent practices of the colonial era today? How can wounds be made visible – in order to start the process of healing? In her first exhibition in…
Opening: "Not What You Saw"
Exhibition opening About the project: This is an ongoing project on female bodybuilders from South India who defy traditional gender roles and beauty norms by embracing physical strength, an attribute historically and culturally…
Strange Land: A Thousand Solitudes
Strange Land: A Thousand Solitudes is an audiovisual performance by visual artist Randa Mirza that explores the intersections of memory, colonial history, and archival practices in the Arab world. Reimagined for the 9th Triennial of…
"Nina Porter: Sample Question" – Curator’s tour with Sarah Messerschmidt
The curator of Nina Porter’s exhibition Sample Question, Sarah Messerschmidt, will guide visitors through the exhibition and provide insights into Porter’s practice and concept of the the exhibition.
Guided Tour with Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah (Artist) and Nadine Isabelle Henrich (Curator)
In an open, free-flowing conversation, artist Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah and curator Nadine Isabelle Henrich will introduce the exhibition and the artistic photographic processes involved. The prints in this exhibition were created under…
The Image Market in Times of Disruption
An event organised by the Office of Visual Arts of the Institut Français Germany in collaboration with Paris Photo. Facing technological, geopolitical, and ethical shifts, how is the photography and image market responding? What dynamics…
To the Rottenness I Say You Are My Father. And to the Worms my Sister and my Brother.
In connection with Melike Kara’s exhibition at the Kunsthaus Hamburg, artist Toni Ehrhardt will present a performance that approaches archaeology and history as fluid, inherently speculative narratives. He weaves together scientific…
Karimah Ashadu in Conversation with Curator Corinne Diserens
MUSCLE (2025), by artist and filmmaker Karimah Ashadu, is an up-close portrait of bodybuilders in the heart of Lagos’s slums – a work that progresses the artist’s interest in patriarchy and the socio-economic structures of West Africa.
"Cocktail Prolongé: F.C. Gundlach Special" – Guided Tour with Stevan Evans and Sabine Schnakenberg
In this conversation, Sabine Schnakenberg and Steven Evans will explore the respective curatorial challenges of displaying collections in contrast to presenting a living archive, alongside the tensions and contradictions such practices can…
Opening of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026
From 8:00 PM, we would like to celebrate the opening of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026 with you. Three exhibitions will open simultaneously: Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other (Hall for Contemporary Art)…
Opening: "Nina Porter: Sample Question"
Exhibition opening About the project: This exhibition will mark the first institutional solo exhibition of the UK artist Nina Porter. The presentation, to be held in the downstairs gallery of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, will comprise new…
Opening: "Melike Kara, Whispers" & Panorama XXIII with Jeannel & Sofía Catalán
Every first Thursday of the month, the foyer of the Kunsthaus Hamburg becomes a stage for a varied musical programme, and the doors remain open longer. To celebrate the opening of Melike Kara’s exhibition Whispers, Cologne-based singer…
Rush Sequence
Photo, video, and sound installation Photo & Video: Josephin Böttger Sound: Felix Kubin Rush Sequence (2026) is a further development of the Plasmatron project, which was created in 2025 based on a sound installation by Felix Kubin. June…
Short Film Programme "On Waiting 2"
Waiting is not the same as pausing. It is a power strategy. It disciplines bodies and regulates mobility. In airports, administrative buildings, at the edges of the city, and in digitally mediated spaces, time is organised as a state of…
Opening: "BUT I WORLD I SEE YOU*"
Exhibition opening About the exhibition: As part of the larger context of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026, the exhibition BUT I | WORLD | I SEE | YOU will present works by more than 40 international transgenerational artists.
Short Film Programme "On Waiting 1"
Waiting is not the same as pausing. It is a power strategy. It disciplines bodies and regulates mobility. In airports, administrative buildings, at the edges of the city, and in digitally mediated spaces, time is organised as a state of…
Opening: "Yes – Us Too! Gay Men in Hamburg from the 1970s to the 1990s"
Exhibition opening About the project: The AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s came as a shock: the disease was initially considered incurable and was usually fatal. Gay men were among the groups most at risk. Despite discrimination from…
Opening: "Capturing What Surrounds Us"
Opening of the exhibition ‘Capturing – What Surrounds Us’ Johanna Klier and Markus Dorfmüller have been working with the Hamburg Bauhefte for many years to document the city. Photographs and Bauhefte have been produced for such diverse…
20 Years of *Täglich Hamburg* Artist Talk
Photographers Nicole Keller and Oliver Schumacher will guide visitors through their exhibition, discuss the creation of their first book, and offer insights into their artistic work in the fields of Hamburg street photography…
Opening: "Hidden Spots of Architecture" - Maria NIFI Xerisoti
The exhibition features both independent work – architectural photography – and commissioned work – construction site documentation. The photographs were taken in locations including Rotterdam, New York, Malta, Hamburg and Liverpool.
Opening "Tobias Zielony: Overshoot"
For his new series Overshoot, Tobias Zielony returned to Naples, where he had already photographed the Vele di Scampia in 2009–2010, this time focusing on Aldo Loris Rossi’s futuristic buildings. His photographs reveal both the…