In an interactive walk through the exhibitions FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons and its satellite projects the City Curator Hamburg and the Kunsthaus Hamburg teams, will provide insights into the topics of the exhibitions and discuss the works on view.
14:00: Walk through the exhibition FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons with Joanna Warsza
at the St. Nikolai Memorial
15:00: Visit to Sunflower Fields with the team City Curator Hamburg
at Hammaburg-Platz
16:00: Walk through the exhibition Nobody Ran of Andrey Klassen
at the project space Admiralitätstraße 75 with the curator Anna Nowak
Our summer 2026 public art exhibition FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons in collaboration with the St. Nikolai Memorial is dedicated to the element of Fire, the apocalypse and the repair. FIRE presents a series of public art commissions of both Hamburg-based as well as the international artists, dealing with the political, ecological, and spiritual reading of fire in the times of political urgency. It addresses the current pervasive feeling of impending catastrophe, asking, how to turn poison into medicine, confusion into strength, loss into renewal and resilience.
The exhibition takes place at the St. Nikolai Memorial; a former church located in the heart of Hamburg and destroyed by flames two times in its history. Never rebuilt after the World War II, it is now a place of remembrance and encounter, offering a space to learn about what causes wars. Each day, it welcomes thousands of visitors, linking the memory of destruction and the irreparable damage with hope and the collective will to mend.
In that context the contemporary works of public art, presented in the most democratic, accessible and complex manner, ask how to find a way out from the vicious cycle of destruction and renewal towards a non-violent planetary co-existence.
FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons am Mahnmal St. Nikolai
Curated by Joanna Warsza, City Curator Hamburg
21.6. – 21.9.2026
Satellite projects:
Nobody Ran by Andrey Klassen, Kunsthaus Hamburg at the project space Admiralitätstraße 75
Curated by Anna Nowak, Managing and Artistic Director Kunsthaus Hamburg
7.6. – 20.9.2026
Sunflower Fields by Agnes Denes, Environmental Art installation at the Hammaburg-Platz
Curated by Joanna Warsza, City Curator Hamburg
21.6. – 21.9.2026
