Politics of Love

30.11.2024 – 02.02.2025

Participating artists: Mounira Al Solh, Francis Alÿs, Isaac Chong Wai, Anna Ehrenstein, Amna Elhassan, FAIRY BOT (Jon Frickey, Thies Mynther, Sandra Trostel), Robert Filliou, Parastou Forouhar, Green Go Home (Rirkrit Tiravanija & Tomas Vu), Johan Grimonprez, Elza Gubanova & Leon Seidel, Shilpa Gupta, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Soyon Jung, Hiwa K, Rebecca Katusiime & Emmanuel Oloya, Tilman Küntzel, Lulu MacDonald, Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya, Sabine Mohr, Dan Peterman, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, Wolf Vostell

We’re all against war. But what are we for? Peace, we say. What is peace?

Highlighting this key question, the Art-of-Peace Biennale was launched in 1985 on the initiative of Fluxus artist Robert Filliou at the Kunsthaus Hamburg and Kunstverein in Hamburg. Today, some 40 years later, in our time of mounting global crises, war violence and massive suffering, this question remains highly acute. While national and individual divisions are increasing, essential visions for joint solutions and coalitions of action, from which new concepts of networking and collaboration might take shape, are vanishing.

The international group exhibition Politics of Love counters the sharply defined contours of delimitations and power conflicts with many-voiced expressions of togetherness and inclusion. Taking Michael Hardt’s thesis of a socially engaged “politics of love” as a starting point, it addresses the diversity of intimacy, the common good and the richness of multi-perspectival experience. As a transformative power, love is the basis for coexistence in solidarity that connects us in our differences and multiplicities. Politics of Love conjoins works of emerging and established international artists, including retrospective encounters with participatory projects as well as current collaborative practices, which open up perspectives for a collectively created, more peaceful future.

Curated by Dr. Belinda Grace Gardner and Anna Nowak

Accompanying online publication
Audio guide in plain language

Open Call: Send us a postcard-sized artwork!
Information on how to participate

Accompaying programme

Fri, 29.11., 7 pm
Opening
Introduction: Anna Nowak & Belinda Grace Gardner
DJ Set: Chris Hausdorf

Thu, 5.12., 6–10 pm
City Curator Joanna Warsza in conversation with Anna Nowak
in the context of Panorama IX with Margaux Gazur & Felix Kubin
Introduction: Inga Wellmann

Sat, 7.12., 5 pm
Cooking with Mama
Performance by Hiwa K with Alima Ouedraogo & Michael Kress
at Hyper Cultural Passengers (HyCP), Veddel

Sun, 15.12., 2 pm
Workshop: Christmas card making for charity, family and friends
Registration: register@kunsthaushamburg.de

Wed, 18.12., 7 pm
Zur Rolle von Liebe und Fürsorge in bewaffneten Konflikten
Josephine Apraku & Dr. Philipp Schulz in conversation with Dr. Belinda Grace Gardner
in cooperation with Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hamburg e.V., supported by Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg

Sat, 11.1., 5 pm
Cooking with Mama
Performance by Hiwa K with Joanna Warsza & Anna Nowak
at Galerie Gemüse, Altona

Wed, 15.1., 7:30 pm
Talk about the Art-of-Peace Biennale
with René Block, Sabine Mohr, Anna Nowak & Milan Ther
at Kunstverein in Hamburg

Sat, 18.1., 12-6 pm
Aus dem Koffer – Zeichnungen auf Reisen aus Berlin, Hamburg, Köln, Stuttgart
Presentation of drawings
in cooperation with Peter Nikolaus Heikenwälder & Gesa Lange

Thu, 23.1., 7 pm
Eske Schlüters & Tillmann Terbuyken in conversation with Nina Kalenbach about Untitled History (temporary art project for the public space at Alter Elbpark Hamburg)

Sun, 2.2., 5 pm
Cooking with Mama
Performance by Hiwa K with Amna Elhassan & Lulu MacDonald
at Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Guided tours
Wed, 18.12., 6 pm
Wed, 15.1., 6 pm
Sun, 2.2., 3:30 pm