Calendar
All events of the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2026
An overview of all events of the Fotosommer
View exhibitons of FotosommerDer 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…
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…
"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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
"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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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.
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…
"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…
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…
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…
"Sara Sallam – Care: Reconsidering Photography" – Guided tour with curator Claire Müller
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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.
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…
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…
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…
Artist 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.
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…
Chiara Bersani: Seeking Unicorns
This is a performance designed for non-theatrical spaces: spaces whose light and history ask to be listened to and inhabited. Spaces in which the unicorn tries to find itself in a new form, in which it renounces the fairy tales…
Chiara Bersani: Seeking Unicorns
This is a performance designed for non-theatrical spaces: spaces whose light and history ask to be listened to and inhabited. Spaces in which the unicorn tries to find itself in a new form, in which it renounces the fairy tales…
Curator‘s talk: Between Bordesholm and Peru – Hans H. Brüning‘s Cultural Legacy
Brünings’ birthplace of Bordesholm is also dedicating a special exhibition to the amateur researcher and photographer in parallel to one being shown as part of the 9th Triennial. In this curators’ discussion at the venue for…
Opening: Shifting Atmospheres
Opening of the exhibition with an introduction by Frank Böttcher (founder and organizer of the Hamburg Extreme Weather Congress)
Opening: "nicht hier i nie tam"
Kate Kuklinski explores questions of roots, identity and belonging. Starting from her own family history in Upper Silesia, she examines what happens when a person's roots, socialisation and external perception no longer align, creating a…
Blue Prints: Cyanotype
In this workshop with artist Maik Gräf at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, participants aged 8–14 will explore cyanotype, a unique printing technique that uses sunlight to create images. Inspired by the exhibition, they will produce their…
"Melike Kara, Whispers" Guided tour with Jaana Heine
In an interactive guided tour, Kunsthaus-curator Jaana Heine 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…
Panorama XXIV with 23qs & Laetizia
The doors of the Kunsthaus stay open longer on the first Thursday of every month for the Panorama event series. From 6 pm, the foyer of the institution becomes a stage for a changing music programme conceived by Nguyen Phuong-Dan. In July…
Queer Readings of Brüning’s Archive: Workshop Discussion on the exhibition Resonating Images from Peru
Building on the exhibition Resonating Images from Peru, this workshop discussion aims to open up space for queer perspectives on Hans H. Brüning’s archive, as well as on art, history, and social experiences in Peru more broadly. Through…
Opening: (in)finitely connected – stories of an urban multi-species society
Group exhibition featuring Hannah Agel, Michaela Anderl, Megan Auer and Jane Zajaczek, focusing on Hamburg’s urban nature, non-human actors, and multispecies urban society. Curated by Raum für Kunst & Ökologie. Opening: Friday July 3rd…
Opening: (in)finitely connected – stories of an urban multi-species society
Group exhibition featuring Hannah Agel, Michaela Anderl, Megan Auer and Jane Zajaczek, focusing on Hamburg’s urban nature, non-human actors, and multispecies urban society. Curated by Raum für Kunst & Ökologie. Opening: Friday July 3rd…
Finissage Concert with Sultan Molu, Ali Temiz
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. Sultan Molu and Ali Temiz will perform a twenty-minute concert featuring songs and musical…
Planetary Mural by Cecilia Vicuña
Come join a walk through the public art exhibition Fire at the Church of St. Nicholas with the City Curator of Hamburg Joanna Warsza. The exhibition is dedicated to the element of fire, the apocalypse, and repair, and presents a series of…
Finissage - LOVE [in] the CITY
hree positions of strolling photographers who document Hamburg's cityscape with unusual glances: Claas Möller + Peter Bruns - Places of Faith and Longing in Hamburg Gerald Chors - A City Began to Smile Michael Penner - The Promise The…
100 Years of F.C. Gundlach. Curator-led tour of the exhibition F.C. Gundlach. "You’ll Never Watch Alone"
On 16 July, we will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of F.C. Gundlach’s birth. To mark the occasion, we invite you to join us for a curator-led tour of the exhibition F.C. Gundlach. You’ll Never Watch Alone. Through a selection of…
Radical Regeneration Workshop
Workshop on Climate Anxiety and Resilience with journalist and author Elisabeth Weydt (German and English)
Book Reading Prof. Dr. Anita Engels "Organizing the Change NOW"
Human-induced climate change is accelerating—while the climate transition is stalling. Anita Engels asks: What concrete steps can I take if I want to see a climate transition? Her answer is: organize.