Exhibition and performance project in Hamburg curated with Lisa Klosterkötter
https://www.gegenwart.jetzt
With Gegenwart we attempt to make the fleeting phenomenon of the present more tangiblewithin the framework of an exhibition and performance project, aiming to establish it as a recurring major exhibition in Hamburg. At regular intervals over three years, we want to look at the changing and transforming present – each time with a different thematic focus. The first edition of the project in 2020–21 was dedicated to the phenomenon of youth. This thematic focus is based on the fact that the phenomenon of youth is a specific agglomeration and a concrete expression of the here and now. In this context, youth is understood as a place and an episode in which the present becomes visible in a remarkable way. We do not assume the existence of the youth, but rather, emphasize with doing their performative production in discourses and practices. Often, the notion of youth is accompanied by several attributes, expectations and norms of being young. The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu does not see youth as a naturally given phase of life: "Youth is only a word". Much more, it is a battlefield of political, ideological and moral-ethical conflicts, a metaphor for social change, progress and the future. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the program had to be divided into two parts: a prologue in 2020 and the main part in 2021.
Gina Fischli
Exhibition, Galerie Gemüse, Lange Str. 3
Esben Weile Kjær, Pride is temporary
Performance, Sankt Pauli-Elbtunnel, entrance north
Elif Saydam
Edition in an ice cream van with a contribution by Paula Erstmann
Viewpoint platform at the Sankt Pauli-Elbtunnel, entrance souths
