Hamburger Bahnhof on Tour
Doors open: 8 pm
The Old, Live 2026
Bass Flute: Rebecca Lane
Voice: Kristia Michael
Composition, Electronics: Lucie Nezri
Twelve texts were written in response to The Old – a group of works that references Jeff Koons’ famous series The New, and that engages with the decline of objects, bodies, and societal models. Drawing from a chorus here, a verse there, composer Lucie Nezri draws on a personal cut-up of these texts to bring them to life.
Melancholic Beat, Live 2026
Voice, Fixed Media: Ugnė Uma
It was in 2004, on the occasion of his exhibition Melancholic Beat, that Afif commissioned song texts for the first time, written in dialogue with his works. The four texts were written at the time by the artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar; they now will be performed by Ugnė Uma.
The performance Melancholic Beat, Live 2026 is a commission by the Museum Folkwang in Essen as part of the exhibition Saȃdane Afif. Affiches / Plakate, 13 March until 4 October 2026.
Location: KM28, Karl-Marx-Strasse 28, 12043 Berlin
With the monthly event series “Hamburger Bahnhof On Tour,” the museum is placing a special focus on networking with Berlin cultural actors for its 30th anniversary: from February to July 2026, Hamburger Bahnhof, in collaboration with Freunde* Guter Musik Berlin e. V., will host six concerts and performances by the Berlin artists Annika Kahrs and Saâdane Afif at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum SIM, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum, Ev. Heilige-Geist-Kirche, in the Roter Salon der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, KM28, and the Kantine am Berghain.
An event by Freunde* Guter Musik Berlin e. V.
in cooperation with
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Roter Salon der Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
KM28
Kantine am Berghain
Curator: Gabriele Knapstein
Made possible by Hauptstadtkulturfonds. Supported by FREUNDE der Nationalgalerie and Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e. V.
