Since early 2023, Hamburger Bahnhof has been publishing two distinguished series of catalogues to accompany solo exhibitions by contemporary artists.
Lavishly illustrated with numerous images of artworks and installation views from Hamburger Bahnhof, both series provide a compelling overview of significant artistic voices of our time and are designed to become coveted collector’s items. Due to the generous support of Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e. V., the publications can be made available for the affordable price of €12 (first series) and €20 (second series). They are published bilingually (German/English) by Silvana Editoriale.
The first series (minimum 100 pages) highlights emerging and mid-career artists. In addition to a curatorial introduction and an external in-depth contribution, each volume includes an extensive interview with the respective artist – providing a vital primary source for the future.
Volume 1: Christina Quarles. Collapsed Time
Christina Quarles. Collapsed Time introduces the work of LA-based painter Christina Quarles on the occasion of her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. For more than a decade, Quarles has been painting figures that are at once confined within the limits of the canvas, yet propelled to defy the boundaries that contain them. This has been the artist’s way of reflecting on what she refers to as “the experience of living in a gendered, racialized body”. Several of Quarles’ paintings and drawings, including a site-specific, large-scale painting, appear within an architectural installation that was conceived for the exhibition. The works are in dialogue with a selection from the National Gallery’s collection at Hamburger Bahnhof by artists such as Vito Acconci, Nam June Paik, and Charlotte Posenenske.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath, Jillian Hernandez, Christina Quarles
17 x 24 cm, 104 pages, 38 illustrations, German/English, paperback, ISBN 9788836655151, €12
Volume 2: Eva Fàbregas. Devouring Lovers
Eva Fàbregas. Devouring Lovers introduces the work of Barcelona-based artist Eva Fàbregas on the occasion of her largest solo exhibition to date. Eva Fàbregas takes over the historical hall of Hamburger Bahnhof with a monumental, site-specific installation that expands the boundaries of sculpture, inviting visitors to a sensual, spatial experience. Biomorphous sculptures transform the museum’s architecture, which is characterized by industrial iron girders, into an organically grown space, blurring the borders between technically generated, and the human and non-human worlds.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Eva Fàbregas, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Daisy Lafarge, Paul B. Preciado
17 x 24 cm, 108 pages, 60 illustrations, German/English, paperback, ISBN 9788836655182, €12
Volume 3: Nadia Kaabi-Linke. Seeing Without Light
Nadia Kaabi-Linke. Seeing Without Light features a selection of artworks by the Berlin-based artist spanning more than two decades. Through paintings, works on paper, sculptures, photographs, and mixed-media installations Kaabi-Linke confronts historical erasure, and explores the hidden traces of violence that unnoticeably shape our understanding of the past and the present. For her solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, the artist has created a new video and sound installation that was shot in Ukraine in the spring of 2023. Titled Bud’mo (a popular Ukrainian toast that loosely translates to “let us be”), the work is a poetic yet sobering acknowledgment of tragedies perpetrated by man and of cycles of life and death. Central to the exhibition is Blindstrom for Kazimir (2023), a conceptual installation that refers to a number of paintings, now preserved at the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv, which were censored and confiscated by Soviet intelligence during the 1930s. Through this work, the artist examines the role of censorship and violence in Central Europe’s art and political history.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Paul Ardenne, Sam Bardaouil, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Timo Kaabi-Linke, Daria Prydybailo
17 x 24 cm, 112 pages, 50 illustrations, German/English, paperback, ISBN 9788836655168, €12
Volume 4: Naama Tsabar. Estuaries
Naama Tsabar’s art overcomes the boundaries of sculpture, music, performance and architecture: Hamburger Bahnhof presents the installation and performance artist with her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition Estuaries focuses on four bodies of work with wall and floor pieces that also function as musical instruments and can be activated by the audience. The performance, created especially in the exhibition, is developed in close collaboration with a group of female identifying or gender non-confirming musicians and dancers from Berlin, New York and Los Angeles and will be premiered on the opening weekend. The exhibition presents on about 420 sqm four series of over twenty works that correspond with each other both visually and sonically throughout the exhibition space. Naama Tsabar reveals hidden spaces and systems in her interactive works, re-defining gendered narratives and shifting the viewing experience to a moment of active participation.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Ingrid Buschmann, Fiona McGovern, Naama Tsabar
17 x 24 cm, 100 pages, 50 illustrations, German/English edition, paperback, ISBN 9788836655175, €12
Volume 5: Alexandra Pirici. Attune
Alexandra Pirici’s new, expansive work Attune explores the ways in which we – and our more-than-human counterparts – resemble, influence, and attune to one another to bring forth complex structures. Transforming the vast historic hall of Hamburger Bahnhof into a vibrant imaginary landscape, Pirici interweaves active sculptural elements with live performance and musical pieces of her own choreography and composition. In this immersive, at once archaic and futuristic environment, in which chemical reactions, mineral formations, and physical phenomena perform alongside living bodies, the wonder of self-structuring matter comes to the fore.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Cecilia Alemani, Catherine Nichols, Alexandra Pirici, Raluca Voinea
17 x 24 cm, 116 pages, 32 illustrations, German/English edition, paperback, ISBN 9788836656578, €12
Volume 6: Marianna Simnett. WINNER
Marianna Simnett’s WINNER is a multichannel film installation, conceived as a three-act dance for film told through the lens of football. It is commissioned on the occasion of the 2024 European Football Championship, hosted by Germany. WINNER echoes the dramaturgy of the game and dissects its socially constructed power hierarchies, crowd psychology, and constant pressure to perform. Through the element of dance, the work restages and radically transforms football’s most impassioned moments: elation and triumph, brutality and ferocity, suffering and defeat. Simnett’s vivid hallucinatory world extends beyond the screen into the exhibition space, subverting the architecture of football and transporting it into the museum.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Sam Bardaouil, Jonathan A. Bourget, Graham Greene, Charlotte Knaup, Marianna Simnett
17 x 24 cm, 116 pages, 59 illustrations, German/English edition, paperback, ISBN 9788836656608, €12
Volume 7: Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024: Pan Daijing. Dan Lie. Hanne Lippard. James Richards
In 2024, the Preis der Nationalgalerie goes to Pan Daijing, Dan Lie, Hanne Lippard, and James Richards, the first time the award has gone to four artists. This new format for presenting the award looks at the exhibition as a collective conversation, seeking to expand the collection of the Nationalgalerie through the acquisition of four new productions. The prize-winners produce new works which will then be shown in this joint exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof. Pan Daijing works with sound, performance, installation, choreography and film, the art of Dan Lie addresses questions of ecology and non-human life forms, Hanne Lippard primarily uses her voice as her artistic medium, while the film-maker James Richards combines experimental techniques with a finely tuned sense for spatial arrangement.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Sam Bardaouil, Pan Daijing, Tom Engels, Till Fellrath, Estelle Hoy, Dan Lie, Hanne Lippard, Agnes Rameder, James Richards, Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Wong Binghao (Bing)
17 x 24 cm, 208 pages, 86 illustrations, German/English edition, paperback, ISBN 9788836657889, €18
Volume 8: Mark Bradford. Keep Walking
Mark Bradford’s expansive artistic practice is firmly rooted in the dynamics of movement within the prism of racial identity. It embodies an unyielding quest for liberation, where the ceaseless rhythms of bodies become both a testament to oppression and an assertion of resilience. Through textured canvases, satirical videos, and sculptural installations imbued with layers of history and social critique, Bradford disrupts established narratives, urging contemplation on the intricate interplay of identity and societal frameworks. Emerging from the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles, his art transcends aesthetics to probe deeply into the socio-political terrain, fostering a profound dialogue on the complexities inherent in contemporary society. The exhibition Keep Walking is inviting visitors to physically engage with these works, becoming aware of their own movement through space and reflecting on the resilience of marginalised communities in the face of systemic violence and oppression.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Michael Auping, Sam Bardaouil, Mark Bradford, Connie Butler, Till Fellrath, Carter E. Foster, Ernest Hardy, Teka Selman
17 x 24 cm, 152 pages, 73 illustrations, German/English edition, paperback, ISBN 9788836656585, €12
Volume 9: Andrea Pichl. Wertewirtschaft / Values of Economy
Andrea Pichl focuses on norms and standards in everyday architecture, working with the societal ideas reflected in these guidelines. In her exhibition Wertewirtschaft / Values of Economy, she examines the exchange of money and goods between East and West Germany during the German division and afterwards. Pichl removes items and spaces from their original context and scrutinizes them: Which image of humanity and notion of social coexistence imbue them? How do invisible structures such as state power, flows of capital and historical upheaval manifest themselves? Where does the public sphere end and the private one begin? When does a utopian vision turn into dystopian reality?
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Sven Beckstette, Gabriele Knapstein, Andrea Pichl, Peter Richter
17 x 24 cm, 112 pages, 62 illustrations, German/English, paperback, ISBN 9788836656561, €12
Volume 10: Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over
Ayoung Kim’s first solo exhibition in a German museum spans over the most recent years of her artistic practice. Using artificial intelligence, virtual reality, video, game simulations, sculpture and sonic fiction, Kim creates expansive fictional universes with their own temporal and spatial laws. Her works are often linked together by speculative narratives that are still connected to the actual world that we live in. The viewers themselves are transformed into first person players, controlling the narrative from their own point of view. Her subjects are humans, mythological beings and virtual entities who cross the boundaries between different possible realities, making possible and impossible worlds collide across different times and spaces. The exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof does not only enable its audiences to enter Kim’s virtual landscapes but extends those into the museum space where visitors can lose and reencounter themselves over and over again.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by 1172, Sam Bardaouil, cosmos, Ayoung Kim, Charlotte Knaup
17 x 24 cm, 112 pages, 61 illustrations,German/English , paperback, ISBN 9788836660803, €12
Volume 11: CHANEL Commission: Klára Hosnedlová. embrace
Klára Hosnedlová’s monumental installation for Hamburger Bahnhof’s historic hall explores themes of home, utopia and everyday life within different political systems. This is Hosnedlová’s most ambitious and expansive sculptural work to date, featuring tapestries up to nine meters high, site-specific objects, organic reliefs and large-scale embroideries. Most of the embroidery motifs are drawn from film and video recordings of performative interventions staged by the artist in Berlin. The content reflects architecture, films and novels that define the cultural memory of the border regions of what is now the Czech Republic over the past centuries. embrace marks the beginning of the CHANEL Commission, which enables artists to realise large-scale projects in the main hall of Hamburger Bahnhof.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With a curatorial introduction by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, an extensive interview with Klára Hosnedlová as well as an essay by Ursula Ströbele.
17 x 24 cm, 108 pages, 39 illustrations, German/English, paperback, ISBN 9788836660797, €12
The second series (minimum 250 pages) accompanies major retrospectives of significant artists and offers a comprehensive exploration of the œuvre and its critical reception. Each catalogue serves as an overview work spanning more than five decades of artistic practice.
Volume I: Lee Ufan
The volume provides an insight into the work of the Korean artist Lee Ufan (born 1936, lives and works in Kamakura, Japan and Paris), one of the most important representatives of the Mono-ha school in Japan and the Dansaekhwa movement in Korea, which developed in parallel to other minimal art movements. Lee’s philosophical writings shaped the artists’ collective Mono-ha (School of Things), which was active in Tokyo from 1968 to 1975. Mono-ha is one of the most influential styles of post-war art in Japan. In their sculptures and installations, the artists combined raw materials such as stones, branches or earth with industrial materials such as steel or glass. In the Dansaekhwa movement, Korean artists began to explore abstraction and materiality in the mid-1970s, especially in monochrome painting. Hamburger Bahnhof presents the first comprehensive retrospective of the painter and sculptor Lee Ufan in Germany.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Luisa Bachmann, Sam Bardaouil, Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Vlasta Ciháková, Lisa Hörstmann, Yoshiaki Inui, Lee Ufan, Joseph Love, Yusuke Nakahara, Haruo Sanda
17 x 24 cm, 264 pages, 100 illustrations, German/English edition, paperback, ISBN 9788836656448, €20
Volume II: Semiha Berksoy
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart is presenting the first comprehensive retrospective of the Turkish painter and opera singer Semiha Berksoy (1910–2004) in Germany. Berksoy studied at the Hochschule für Musik [Music Academy] in Berlin from 1936 to 1939, and enjoyed a distinguished career as a visual artist and an opera singer. Spanning over six decades, the exhibition focusses on Berksoy’s connection with Berlin, and explores the intersection of her two passions, emphasizing her unique, spontaneous, and bold approach to painting. It introduces central themes in Berksoy’s practice: the attachment to her mother, the painter Fatma Saime, the ideological ties with Turkish cultural figures such as poet Nâzım Hikmet, her iconic opera roles, and the places and events that defined her prolific career. With more than 80 paintings and works on paper, along with a wide array of archival documents, film clips, and sound recordings, the exhibition highlights Berksoy’s significant impact on the cultural landscape in Turkey and beyond.
Edited by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
With texts by Şahap Balcioğlu, Sam Bardaouil, Gülsüm Baydar, Semiha Berksoy, Perihan Çambel, Cem Erciyes, Emily Finkelstein, Ayşe Güngör, David Hesse, Doğan Hızlan, HG Masters, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Deniz Pehlivaner Gündüz, Agnes Rameder, Dieter Ronte, Fritz Stege, Vedat Nedim Tör, M. Turhan
17 x 24 cm, 280 pages, 164 illustrations, German/English edition, paperback, ISBN 9788836660360, €20
