Delicate fabric panels stretch

across the space, bringing the idea of a festival tent, a canopy, or a pavilion into the gallery. Luzie Katzorke, in collaboration with Omid Arabbay, has created a textile space that frames the festive starting point of the exhibition On Festivity.

As another collaborative work

Luzie Katzorke and Omid Arabbay, together with Shekeba Arabbay, activate their installation Schuhe aus bei Mama through a culinary experience.

Nora Strömer presents a new

collection of T-shirts featuring collected slogans that transform festive moments into approachable, humorous statements and are also performatively activated at the artist festival.

Jil Lahr’s bar furniture,

taken from an ever-growing, tireless collection of objects that evolve into site-specific arrangements and staged settings, is variously activated throughout the exhibition, becoming one of the meeting points in the space.

Long-term collections also play

a significant role in Lulu MacDonald’s ceramic sculptures. Since her youth, she has been archiving ceramics that imitate culinary forms and figures, evoking her own narratives of festive occasions.

Mark Morris transforms the found

photo archive of a patisserie into a wall installation made of cardboard boxes. As if they were a takeaway on the way to the party, they bring together imaginative creations that, together with birthday candles, evoke the moment of planning, joyful anticipation and fantasy.

A festival apparatus—one might

think of a table firework, a party box, or potential games. Marie-Theres Böhmker’s participatory sculpture explores the different functions of a celebration and can transform into a tablet holder, a standing table, or a gathering point.

The relics of the Young Valley Soil

collective consist of costumes from a performance that explores the ambivalent feelings of envy and the complexities of friendship and hospitality. In a multi-course dinner with performative interventions, themes of bitterness, grief, and discomfort were addressed, along with the (metaphorical) act of digestion.

Founded at HFBK, the collective Café Miao

engages with festive events and their occasions through interdisciplinary artistic means, spanning painting, set design, costume, performance, text, music, and choreography in the form of thematic soirees.

Paula Erstmann practices cooking

an artistic approach and explores the celebration of festivals through culinary means, artistically investigating the backgrounds of tradition and cultural contexts and placing them in new settings. Ten years ago, together with Lisa Alice Klosterkötter, she founded the project space HFBK Hugs, which established itself as a social space and meeting point for collective celebrations, exchanges, experiencing art, and discussions within Hamburg’s emerging scene at the time. Some relics from this project and other artist festivals that the two organized together can be found in this exhibition.

Pablo Schlumberger’s paintings tell,

with both a laughing and a crying eye, the story of intoxication, excess, loneliness, and abandonment. Drawing on familiar visual motifs from art history, they explore the entanglement of perhaps stereotypical notions of an artist’s existence—limitlessness, ecstasy, and opulence.

Benyamin Bakhshi’s seemingly forgotten wine

glass stands precariously at the edge of the window sill, held right at its tipping point, evoking an unease—should one secure it or place it into the hands of its rightful guest?

On another level, all those gathered

are brought together sonically through Julia Koch’s collaged sound piece. Using intuitive recordings, spoken text fragments, and diverse sounds, she adapts and samples the artistic positions of the exhibition.