In an interactive walk through the exhibitions Image Collection in the History of Astrology and Astronomy and From the Cosmos to the Commons, Natalya Stupka, curatorial assistant of the project City Curator Hamburg, will provide insights into the topics of the exhibitions and discuss the works on view.
Please book your time slot for this walk in the Planetarium Hamburg and the Stadtpark at the counter of the Planetarium during the opening hours or online via this link, entrance 2,- €.
Meeting point: the lobby of the Planetarium Hamburg.
From the Cosmos to the Commons
at Planetarium Hamburg & Stadtpark
The exhibition at the Stadtpark orbits around Aby Warburg’s ideas, bringing them into our time, into our distressful political reality and into one of the largest and oldest public spaces in Hamburg. The exhibition traces how humans have looked for orientation systems in the world both in astrological and astronomical ways, negotiating necessary tensions between the spiritual and the political, the circular and the compostable, the magical and the rational, the self and the other. Four works situated directly at the Planetarium and twelve scattered around the park guide us through planetary thinking, planetary boundaries and a sense of planetary belonging on an Earth where no one place is more central than any other and no life should be more important than another one.
Artists: Salwa Aleryani, Agnes Denes, María Edwards, Shahira Issa, KITE, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Timo Nasseri, Ben Nurgenç, Olu Ogunnaike, Sibylle Peters & Felix Jung, Raqs Media Collective, Eske Schlüters, Xul Solar, Hoda Tawakol, Heidi Voet
Curated by Joanna Warsza
The Planetarium hosts a “hidden treasure”: an exhibition on astrology and astronomy designed by Aby Warburg together with his collaborators Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl shortly before his death in 1929. Its contents were long considered lost and were rediscovered among a pile of rubbish only in the late 1980s by Uwe Fleckner. Set out as an elliptical journey, Warburg’s exhibition inquires into how the spiritual and the rational – both essential to human wellbeing – can be brought together and “how mankind down the ages has tried to interpret and explain the stars and their mysterious movements”.
Curated by Uwe Fleckner
