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Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

The Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart is a prominent component of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz) Institutional Alliance and is the largest national gallery within this framework. It houses multiple collections of contemporary art and is renowned for its diverse and thought-provoking exhibition programme. Its programme showcases established artists from the international art scene, as well as emerging talents at the early stages of their professional careers.

Featured Activities

Circulating Narratives – Entangling Communities: Case Studies in Global Performance Art (2020-)

The Transfer Project "Circulating Narratives – Entangling Communities: Case Studies in Global Performance Art" explores how diverse histories inform performative practices and shape communities as embodied knowledge. In collaboration with Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, the project will primarily focus on the intersections between Southeast Asian and ‘Western’ performative practices while addressing the blind spots in traditional historiography in 'the West'.

Conference | Embodied Histories – Entangled Communities. Southeast Asian and Western Approaches to Narratives and Performance Art (2019)

The conference “Embodied Histories – Entangled Communities” has opened up new perspectives on storytelling, narrativisations of history and their embodiment in performative arts and practices in Southeast Asia. Central questions were how, in very different ways, these practices offer new potentials to be presented, understood and collected, and how diverse audiences are mobilised by performative arts in relation to the conditions of community building inside and outside the realm of cultural institutions.

Lab | 'Social Sculpture – Temporal Communities' (2021)

The practice-based laboratory inquired how embodied creative practices, such as performance, can unfold alternative narratives, practices of embodying histories and the transfer of embodied knowledge. The laboratory has featured a program of practice-led workshops led by artists, who took the exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof as a starting point for experimentation.

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