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Fellow Travellers at ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
With Fellow Travellers we are creating a polyphonic and dynamic exhibition space at ZKM where artists, scientists, communities and citizens can collaborate and learn from each other, announces ZKM: ”Collectively we want to find new, practical ways to shape our planetary coexistence. In and through the landscapes, laboratories and presentations of Zheng Guogu, CATPC, Paulo Tavares / studio autônoma, Matters of Evidence, the Bio Design Lab & ZKM Orchard, the works of Tim Otto Roth, Jean Painlevé, Catalina Ossa Holmgren & Enrique Rivera and the archive of the Asociación de Arte Útil, we invite you on a journey to make connections and find solutions for the world around us”.
”Our shared human history is a testament to our ability to work together to achieve remarkable things. However, we have also managed to create the economic and power structures that have so drastically unbalanced the Earth today. It now appears that we are on the verge of collapse, triggered by the effects of rapid technological progress. Problems of climate, economics, regional conflicts, cultural identity, migration flows, and resource scarcity must be urgently addressed. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, life sciences, robotics, and technology also present us with enormous challenges yet to come.
So far, we have not succeeded in creating an alternative form of society that could bring our world back into balance. But even though great utopias like communism have failed, most of the people continue to share the ideals of a just, communal society. These intellectual companions, or “Fellow Travellers” as they were called in the 20th century, still exist today. However, this kind of fellowship is no longer based on a political doctrine, but on the goal of creating a culture and an environment worth living in. All over the world, artists and activists are using technological tools in their everyday lives, on a local level, to change the world around them. Geographic location is becoming less of a factor in the ability of communities to have agency. It should now be possible to enable a growing network of these multiple and diverse projects, generating and implementing ideas across and beyond the traditional centers of power.
Modernist art was based on the desire to change the world, but the influences of markets and museums have repeatedly reduced it to “art for art’s sake”. While socially and politically engaged art has often been critical and challenging, it is actual practical change that we should be concerned with now.
The exhibition Fellow Travellers at ZKM aims to capture this spirit and run with it. The artistic projects on display do not just present ideas or highlight problems. They all strive to overcome the traditions of representation and move into action and implementation by actively changing their environment. At a time when we fear for the future, these projects and their stories give us hope and inspiration. As such, this exhibition is not conceived as a static presentation, it is also intended to have an impact outside the museum—as a laboratory in which ideas and tools can be exchanged and new projects can grow and be added to: a hive of tactics and techniques for changing the world”.
At the heart of the exhibition is the “Useum”: a place that can be used by people to connect these ideas and projects and develop new solutions, a place where we can address the issues affecting our locality in correspondence with active communities in other specific places around the globe. It is a place for making and doing together in fellowship.
Concept, research and curation:
Alistair Hudson, Anett Holzheid, Daniel Pies, Gloria Aino Grzywatz
The exhibition is funded by Baden-Württemberg-Stiftung.
| Fellow Travellers Art as a tool to change the world September 21, 2024–June 8, 2025 |
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| Opening: September 20, 7:30pm, with performance The Open Boat by Lamin Fofana at 10pm |
| ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Lorenzstr. 19 76135 Karlsruhe Germany Hours: Wednesday–Friday 10am–6pm, Saturday–Sunday 11am–6pm |
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Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart announces annual programme 2025
In 2025, Hamburger Bahnhof will present eight exhibitions and an expanded programme, exploring themes such as artificial intelligence, indigenous knowledge, and collective dreaming. Popular events like Berlin Beats, the electronic music series, and the annual three-day Open House, which attracted 100,000 visitors in 2024, will return. The museum will also expand its educational outreach through the newly launched Rieckhallen Atelier and offer 1,000 free tours throughout the year.
The 2025 programme reflects Hamburger Bahnhof’s commitment to Berlin’s international art scene, featuring artists such as Klára Hosnedlová, Susan Philipsz, Saâdane Afif, and Annika Kahrs. Additionally, the museum will host debut exhibitions in Germany by Ayoung Kim, Delcy Morelos, and Toyin Ojih Odutola.
Over the past two years, the museum has undergone a major transformation in its displays and programming. It now includes four key collection presentations, such as the new Joseph Beuys exhibition and the reopening of the 5,000 square meter Rieckhallen, which features large-scale immersive installations. The museum’s circle of benefactors, Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e.V., founded in October 2023 to promote diversity and inclusion, will continue supporting the museum’s programming and collection growth. In 2024, the organization contributed €3 million for exhibitions and programmes, enabling the acquisition of new works for the collection, including pieces by Elmgreen & Dragset, Mona Hatoum, and Lee Ufan.
Directors Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath stated: “Hamburger Bahnhof is a vibrant space where art and audiences interact dynamically. With innovative exhibition formats, spontaneous art encounters, and over 100 days of distinct public events, every visit offers a unique experience. Our diverse programme invites voices from all walks of life to engage in meaningful dialogue.”
Ayoung Kim
February 28–July 20
Ayoung Kim’s first solo exhibition in a German museum spans a decade of her artistic practice. Using AI, VR, video, game simulations, and sonic fiction, she explores themes like migration, xenophobia, queerness, and geopolitics. Her exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof focuses on the symbiosis between data, humans, and the planet.
Klára Hosnedlová
April 25–October 26
For the 2025 annual Historic Hall Comission, Klára Hosnedlová explores themes of home, utopia, and life under various political systems. Using materials such as flax and glass, her monumental sculptural installation—unveiled during Gallery Weekend—draws inspiration from post-communist architecture and cultural references, pushing the boundaries of contemporary sculpture.
Delcy Morelos
June 13–January 11, 2026
In her first solo exhibition in Germany, Delcy Morelos will present a new large-scale, immersive installation exploring themes of the earth, indigenous knowledge, regeneration and the interconnectedness of nature and humanity. Her work will engage with the actions, sculptures and environments by Joseph Beuys on show in the permanent exhibition.
Susan Philipsz
From June 13
Known for her innovative use of sound, Susan Philipsz will create an ongoing site-specific installation for Hamburger Bahnhof as part of the Endless Exhibition. Her work explores the psychological and emotional impact of sound in relation to space, engaging with the site’s history to reshape the audience’s perception.
Toyin Ojih Odutola
July 11–January 25, 2026
Toyin Ojih Odutola’s first solo exhibition in Germany features her detailed drawings, known for exploring identity and personal narratives. Through her intricate depictions of figures, she delves into themes of self-representation and the journey of the individual. The show is a reflection on identity and personal histories.
Petrit Halilaj
September 5–May 31, 2026
Petrit Halilaj will present his first major institutional solo exhibition in Berlin. New, site-specific works will be shown alongside existing drawings, sculptures and installations. At the centre of the exhibition is a new, expansive, participatory installation that explores the potential of collective dreaming to bring forth open, emancipatory worlds.
Annika Kahrs
November 14–May 3, 2026
With a comprehensive survey of her practices, Annika Kahrs explores the social and cultural roles of music. Through video, sound installations, and live performances, she challenges the boundaries of sound, focusing on its communicative and structural dimensions.
Saâdane Afif
December 12–August 16, 2026
Saâdane Afif’s “The Fountain Archives” revisits the legacy of Marcel Duchamp’s iconic “Fountain” through a multi-part archival project. This complex artwork, gifted to the National Gallery in 2023, is now presented at Hamburger Bahnhof alongside other works that critically and humorously question the role of the art museum.
Hamburger Bahnhof publications
Each of the solo exhibitions planned for 2025 will be accompanied by a catalogue as part of the publication series started in 2023 by Hamburger Bahnhof. The catalogues include a curatorial introduction, in-depth interviews with the artists, an external essay, and numerous images, including exhibition views. The series, published by Silvana Editoriale, will comprise 18 volumes by the end of 2025.
January 1–December 31, 2025
Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Invalidenstrasse 50
10557 Berlin
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Friday 10am–6pm,
Thursday 10am–8pm,
Saturday–Sunday 11am–6pm
Knowledge Is a Garden/ Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Knowledge Is a Garden: Uriel Orlow in dialogue with the collection will happen between September 28, 2024–January 19, 2025The opening night is September 27, 6–11pm at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–6pm,
Thursday 11am–8pm
info@migrosmuseum.ch
With works by: Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Sammy Baloji, Lothar Baumgarten, Teresa Burga, Maria Eichhorn, Dani Gal, General Idea, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Eva Kot’átková, Susan Hiller, Zahra Malkani, Teresa Margolles, Senga Nengudi, Uriel Orlow, Elodie Pong, Ed Ruscha, Munem Wasif
”What possibilities emerge when we see knowledge, which is presumably fixed, as something growing? The title of the exhibition, Knowledge Is a Garden, derives from an African proverb: “Knowledge is like a garden: if it’s not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.”
Taking this saying as his starting point, Uriel Orlow unpacks the question of what a garden of knowledge could be and what this cultivation and growth means. In keeping with his interests, the artist sets up a dialogue between his own works and those of the museum collection, which for their part raise questions around the production of knowledge. This selection is expanded by loans—artists from parts of the Global South, who expand the previous geographical focus of the collection on Europe, USA and Latin America, and who engage with suppressed history and traditional knowledge in their artistic practice.
Knowledge Is a Garden is an artistic engagement with the repression of knowledge, the unjust appropriation of the same, and ultimately with new forms of producing and varying knowledge. Knowledge does not consist of neutral facts and information—and is never all-encompassing. Rather, it is always located, historical, and, above all, contested and vulnerable. The question of who gets to speak and whose voice is silenced is as urgent as ever—and marked by global inequality. The three loose thematic threads of the exhibition open up illustrative spaces for conceptualisation: the concern is with the entanglement of knowledge and language, and their loss; with the acquisition of knowledge and exploitation of raw materials in the Global South by countries of the Global North; and with wilfully not wanting to know and consciously looking away. Both Uriel Orlow’s own works and the pieces in the museum’s collection and loans can be related to one or several of these broader themes”, can be read in the official announcement.
Curated by Uriel Orlow and Nadia Schneider Willen; Curatorial Assistant: Louisa Behr
Additional exhibition
Stretching thresholds, holding streams
For the first time, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst has commissioned an artist working in the field of socially engaged art: Stretching thresholds, holding streams is a project initiated by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and developed with Sophie Mak-Schram and collaborators. A growing constellation of invested people from the surroundings of the Museum are being invited to think in and with the museum’s thresholds. Together—as makers, artists, activists, neighbours, and associations—they are working on a project that takes its starting point inside the museum and flows in and out of it, over a period of several months. Therefore, a central aspect of the project is the notion of a “stream.”
It symbolizes the flow of ideas, stories, influences, and ethics that move within, through and around the museum—connecting it to people, places and ways of knowing outside of it. Vitally, streams also denote both directions of movement and refer to how people enter and bring into the museum as much as vice versa. Within the museum, there will be things to see, places to sit comfortably, ideas to question, and different encounters to learn through and with. From September 28, 2024 onwards, streams will weave into and out of the museum at different paces: with changing physical layouts and activities that visitors can engage and reflect on as these streams unfold.