Annette Messager is known for her multidisciplinary practice involving sculpture, fabric, photographs, taxidermy, drawings, and everyday objects. Drawing on memory and imagination, she explores fairy tales and mythology through methods of collection and assemblage. Her hybrid works connect with romantic, grotesque, and surreal traditions. Messager received the Golden Lion in 2005 for best national pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture in 2016.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Tel Aviv Museum (2022), Institut Giacometti (2018), MCA Sydney (2014), and Centre Pompidou (2007).

Moderation: Sven Beckstette, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

The talk will be held in French and German. Supported by the Office of Visual Arts of the Institut français Germany and the French Ministry of Culture.

Free admission.

The event will take place at the Aktionsraum. Entrance via Invalidenstraße, to the right of the main entrance.