Triennial Expanded

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.

The first principle of ecology – everything is connected – is the foundation of Ecotones, an exhibition that explores new relationships between humans and the natural world, offering perspectives that examine the potential of reconnection and coexistence with the more-than-human world.

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 individual and collective identities are forged in the spaces between here and there...

Slow Contact and Soft Sabotage tells of relationships simultaneously personal and equally socially relevant – those with ourselves and the world around us.

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.

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 is Knotenkuss (ongoing since 2024), a long-term engagement with the inclusive theatre collective Meine Damen und Herren.

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 and the visual staging of right-wing figures.

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 relationships, economic structures, and social realities.

Queer histories often persist not through official archives, but through recounted fragments, gestures, and fleeting encounters. Fleeting Glance turns to the unwritten stories of queer bodies in public space.

As a gay man who came out in the early 1970s, Chris Lambertsen photographed at Pride parades and many AIDS solidarity events in Hamburg, but his work also includes the visual record of personal moments, as well as portraits and nude photographs of gay men.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1947, Gwendolyn Phillips was the first Black female photographer to be employed by the Los Angeles Times on a permanent basis. During the 1960s and 1970s, she amassed an impressive photographic portfolio.

How do people love each other when they come from countries that have become enemies? The ongoing project Familia depicts Russian-Ukrainian couples photographed between 2014 and 2026 in Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, and Germany.

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 associated with masculinity.

Focusing on prevailing discourses about the body, the project Questioning Normalcy by the curatorial duo Der lächelnde Hase in collaboration with photographers Linda Hansen, Sina Niemeyer, Jay Ritchie, and Roxana Rios examines how conceptions of normality arise, how they are reinforced, and what forms of exclusion they produce. 

The Art of Border Sabotage: Echoes from the Edges brings together artists that engage with border regimes, social indifference, and forms of belonging.