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
Curated by Dr. Belinda Grace Gardner and Anna Nowak
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.
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Installation view: Politics of Love; Kunsthaus Hamburg 2024/25; Photo: Antje Sauer