Upcoming Dates

• • 21.06.2025 – 24.08.2025
  • Planetarium Hamburg
  • Exhibition

  Image Collection on the History of Astrology and Astronomy
  Aby Warburg in Collaboration with Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl

• • 20.06.2025 – 17.08.2025
  • Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • Exhibition

  From the Cosmos to the Commons
  Between Stars and Signals

• • 22.06.2025
    12:00 – 17:00
  • Warburg-Haus
  • Sensual Symposium

  From the Cosmos to the Commons
  Towards the Planetary Public Sphere

Projekte

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  Five Years – Five Elements
  A Series of Summer Exhibitions

  Five summer exhibitions around five basic elements — Cosmos, Fire, Air, Earth and Water — with one guiding us each summer. These elements are our common denominators across diverse cultures and contexts on the planet. They are essential life forces upon which both human and non-human beings rely for survival. Yet they are more often exploited rather than cherished. While we all need to breathe the air, it is not the same air we breathe. In this summer series artists pave the way towards the possible planetary public sphere, speaking from Hamburg out into the world.

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  Counter-Monuments
  Performing the Public Collection of Hamburg

  Hamburg is a city where monuments have become counter monumental, leading to the creation of many, fascinating counter-monuments. Meantime many pieces from this exceptional city collection seem forgotten or obliterated. What could they tell us now and what do they stand for? At the core of the Counter-Monuments series of performative activations lies the question of how to critically, sensitively and timely engage with the public sphere in which many different voices and experiences can be seen and heard in a multidirectional manner in a post-migrant society? Various projects are accompanied by the work of care and maintenance of the sites together with the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg. Many of Hamburg counter-monuments have also raised questions of how to live an anti-fascist life, something we need to be asking again and again today. Since monuments themselves do not remember anything, it is for us, humans, to express, affirm, and problematise our values with and against them.

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About

The City Curator is an independent curatorial format for public art that was initiated in Hamburg in 2013 and has since seen several follow-up editions both nationally and internationally. Its aim is to draw attention to Hamburg’s important and often overlooked collection of public art, as well as to address relevant social and political issues through temporary art interventions in public spaces. Since 2024, Joanna Warsza is the new City Curator of Hamburg.
The project City Curator Hamburg is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Media Hamburg and has been hosted by the Kunsthaus Hamburg since 2024.