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 focuses on four bodies of work with wall and floor works 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 performers from Berlin and New York. With the use of felt in connection with sound, Naama Tsabar corresponds with works by Joseph Beuys, which are also shown in parallel in the Kleihueshalle. The exhibition is the first in a series of contemporary presentations in dialogue with the presentation of Beuys’ works in the collection.

Naama Tsabar (b. 1982, lives and works in New York) reveals hidden spaces and systems in her interactive works, re-defining gendered narratives and shifting the viewing experience to a moment of active participation. Her sculptures and installations can be played upon by the audience or in collaborative performances. In the transformational process between sculpture and instrument, between form and sound, the intimate, sensual, corporeal potential of her works becomes tangible. By collaborating with local groups of performers defined as female or non-binary, Tsabar is writing a new feminist and queer history of fluency.

Performances

The performances during the Berlin Art Week are an integral part of the exhibition. Naama Tsabar, in collaboration with musicians and performers from New York, Los Angeles and Berlin, developed a composition that will be performed in the exhibition and musically activate the works on display from the series Works On Felt, Inversions and Melodies of Certain Damage. The entire exhibition space will become a sound space in which the audience can move freely around the performers.

Composed and performed by Julia Biłat, Gabriela Burdsall, Arone Dyer, Tatiana Heuman, Naïma Mazic, Rasha Nahas, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues, Sarah Strauss, Naama Tsabar

• Thursday, 12 September 2024, 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm
• Saturday, 14 September 2024, 7 pm, 8 pm and 9 pm

Tickets are available via Reservix.

In collaboration with Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e. V. Supported by Artis and Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e. V.

Publication

Accompanying the exhibition is the fourth edition of the Hamburger Bahnhof catalogue series, published by Silvana Editoriale Milano, comprising 100 pages, available at the Hamburger Bahnhof bookstore and through the Buchhandlung Walther König webshop for €12. ISBN: 9788836655175

The publication was made possible by Freunde der Nationalgalerie.

Curator

The exhibition is curated by Ingrid Buschmann, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

The exhibition is supported by Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e. V.

A special exhibition of the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin