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CHANEL Commission
Klára Hosnedlová: embrace

01.05.2025 to 26.10.2025
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Klára Hosnedlová’s monumental installation for the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof 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. 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” at Hamburger Bahnhof marks Klára Hosnedlová’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date. Within the industrial architecture of the museum's historic hall, the artist constructs a utopian landscape using flax fibres, embroidery, cast glass, sandstone, clay, iron, and concrete slabs. The work focuses on rural areas of today’s Czech Republic, shaped by artisanal and industrial production processes as well as the shifting of national borders. Concrete slabs and iron walls recall the architecture of the communist era, grounding the utopian vision in a complex historical context. With Hosnedlová (born 1990), Hamburger Bahnhof once again presents a site-specific work by a young artist pushing the boundaries of contemporary sculpture in the museum's iconic main hall.

Exhibition Catalogue

The exhibition will be accompanied by an edition of the Hamburger Bahnhof catalogue series, published by Silvana Editoriale Milano.

Curators

The exhibition is curated by Sam Bardaouil, Director of Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart and Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Curator of Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.


The CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof is made possible by
CHANEL Culture Fund.


The exhibition of Klára Hosnedlová is additionally supported by
Burger Collection, Hong Kong and the TOY family.

Supported by Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e. V.

A special exhibition of the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Historic hall at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
© Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart / Thomas Bruns

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