Photography – Installation – Sustainable Building
This year the Ernst Barlach Haus is contributing all of three projects to the 10th Hamburg Architecture Summer and of course the museum itself – built in 1961/62 from designs by Werner Kallmorgen – is a contribution to the Architecture and Building Culture Festival.
1. Depth of Focus
D E P T H O F F O C U S
Ursula Becker-Mosbach. Architecture Photography around 1960
18 June – 17 September 2023
From the 1950s onward the architecture photographer Ursula Becker-Mosbach (1922–2002) documented important building projects in Hamburg. Her photographs not only bear important witness to the technological, industrial and urban-planning changes the city underwent in the post-war years, but are also highly developed aesthetic compositions in their own right.
The exhibition Depth of Focus, realised in cooperation with the Hamburgisches Architekturarchiv, brings together 75 photographs from the years 1952 to 1968.
Press Images Depth of Focus
PRESS CONFERENCE
Friday, 16 June 2023, 11am
OPENING
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 11am
CURATOR'S TOUR
Tuesday, 4 July and 8 August 2023, 6pm
EXHIBITION TOUR
Sunday, 23 July 2023, 2pm, with Sabine Kock and Susanne Geese, Hamburgisches Architekturarchiv
Sunday, 27 August 2023, 2pm, with the children of the photographer: Klaus, Frank, Donald and Franziska Becker
FINISSAGE
Sunday, 17 September 2023, 2pm, with Sven Bardua, Industrial archaeologist
FAMILY DAY
Sunday, 2 July 2023, 11am–5pm, free entrance for parents with children
SUMMERFEST IN JENISCHPARK
Sunday, 3 September 2023, 11am–6pm, free entrance
2. Van Garden
V A N G A R D E N
An installation by Franziska Opel
18 June – 17 September 2023
In her installation Van Garden, in the glass atrium of the Ernst Barlach Haus, Franziska Opel (*1984) uses modules familiar from the urban environment: serrated, sharp-edged aluminium tubes used to fence off private premises. In Van Garden they appear to be transformed into shimmering plants, attractive and aggressive at the same time. They introduce an unruly disarray into the museum while examining the mechanisms of private insulation in Hamburg’s well-to-do west.
Press Images Van Garden
PRESS CONFERENCE
Friday, 16 June 2023, 11am
OPENING
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 11am
CURATOR'S TOUR
Tuesday, 4 July and 8 August 2023, 6pm
ARTIST TALK
Sunday, July 16, 2023, 2 pm, Van Garden - of Barriers, Fences, Constructions, Franziska Opel talks about her work.
FAMILY DAY
Sunday, 2 July 2023, 11am–5pm, free entrance for parents with children
SUMMERFEST IN JENISCHPARK
Sunday, 3 September 2023, 11am–6pm, free entrance
3. BUILDING FRUGALLY
BUILDING FRUGALLY
A wood-and-clay pavilion
18 June – 17 September 2023
‘Frugality’ means ‘simplicity’. The collective FRUGAL BAUEN, founded in 2022 by students at the HafenCity University, aims to contribute sustainable methods to the climate-conscious changes in current building practice. Experiments with ecological materials have brought about a temporary pavilion that is an invitation to spend some pleasurable time together. The pavilion is available on request (send mail) for projects of your own: school workshops, lectures, temporary exhibitions or neighbourhood initiatives.
Until 2 July 2023 an exhibition documents the work of FRUGAL BAUEN in the Hauptkirche St. Katharinen.
Instagram: @frugal.bauen, www.frugal-bauen.com, info@frugal-bauen.com
Press Images Building Frugally
PRESSCONFERENCE
Friday, 16 June 2023, 11am
OPENING
Sunday, 18 June 2023, 11am
CURATOR'S TOUR
Tuesday, 4 July and 8 August 2023, 6pm
WORKSHOPS IN THE PAVILION
Saturday, June 24 and August 26, 2023, 11am-3pm each day: Straw Fire - Creating with Straw
Tuesday, July 18 and Saturday, August 12, 2023, each 11am-3pm: House builders - animal houses and furniture made of clay and natural findings (for children 6 and older)
Register here
FAMILY DAY
Sunday, 2 July 2023, 11am–5pm, free entrance for parents with children
SUMMERFEST IN JENISCHPARK
Sunday, 3 September 2023, 11am–6pm, free entrance
Our press material is available in German. If you need information in English, please contact us at mail to the Ernst Barlach Haus.