Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Hörbar: EMERGE / Louis d’Heudières

Louis d’Heudières will play new material from an upcoming album for harps, field recordings, synthesis and autotuned voice.

Louis d’Heudières is a sound artist, composer and researcher based in Hamburg. Spanning live performance, installation and writing, their work speculatively (re)imagines pasts, presents and futures of human and non-human music-making. It is characterised by stream-of-consciousness descriptions of recorded sound; pseudo-intellectual ramblings underpinned by hobbling instrumental pulses; speakers talking to floors; transcendental climaxes squeezed through MIDI timbres; paranoid associations between musical details and religious hegemonies; decadent rituals pairing Wagnerian harmony with fine cheese.

EMERGE will present his new album "leere" consisting of field-recordings of an abandoned mall. The field-recordings are re-worked and the set is played partly improvised using all the original samples, which are looped, mixed together and treated with effects.

Sascha Stadlmeier (b. 1977) has been releasing electroacoustic music with his project EMERGE on international labels such as Drone Records, Tâalem, aufabwegen and Frozen Light since 2001. He is a composer working at the intersections of musique concrète, drone, and noise. Collaborations with other musicians from a very wide range of styles form an important part of his work. He has been touring Europe extensively and his music has been presented at many international festivals. While being a prolific composer and performer, Stadlmeier has also created various sound installations and a radiophonic composition for West German Radio's renowned Studio of Acoustic Art.

I feel it all

The group show features works by Josef Bauer, Tim Hardy, Angelique Heidler, Martin Laborde, Luna Mahoux, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Troy Montez Mitchie, Nicolai Olesen und Jasia Rabiej, Matt Gess with Désirée Nakouzi De Monte, and Andrea Parenti of Collezione Nancy Delroi. The photographic image serves as a point of departure towards various visual pathways and artistic methods. Addressing forms such as fashion photography as well as archival materials, the assumed veracity of photography splits into layers of fantasy, where memory is indistinguishable from desire, and absence morphs into emotional proximity.

The show is part of chess club’s programme as Project space-in-residence at the Kunstverein in Hamburg.

I feel it all

The group show features works by Josef Bauer, Tim Hardy, Angelique Heidler, Martin Laborde, Luna Mahoux, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Troy Montez Mitchie, Nicolai Olesen und Jasia Rabiej, Matt Gess with Désirée Nakouzi De Monte, and Andrea Parenti of Collezione Nancy Delroi. The photographic image serves as a point of departure towards various visual pathways and artistic methods. Addressing forms such as fashion photography as well as archival materials, the assumed veracity of photography splits into layers of fantasy, where memory is indistinguishable from desire, and absence morphs into emotional proximity.

The show is part of chess club’s programme as Project space-in-residence at the Kunstverein in Hamburg.

I feel it all

The group show features works by Josef Bauer, Tim Hardy, Angelique Heidler, Martin Laborde, Luna Mahoux, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Troy Montez Mitchie, Nicolai Olesen und Jasia Rabiej, Matt Gess with Désirée Nakouzi De Monte, and Andrea Parenti of Collezione Nancy Delroi. The photographic image serves as a point of departure towards various visual pathways and artistic methods. Addressing forms such as fashion photography as well as archival materials, the assumed veracity of photography splits into layers of fantasy, where memory is indistinguishable from desire, and absence morphs into emotional proximity.

The show is part of chess club’s programme as Project space-in-residence at the Kunstverein in Hamburg.

IM NEUROSENTEICH

IM NEUROSENTEICH

Painting, installation, drawing, photography, video, and sculpture

GROUP SHOW

Anne Linke | Barbara Lüdde | Charlotte Närger | Franziska Jakubik | Julia Schulze Darup | Linda Meli | Malina Raßfeld | Naomi Sam | Vanessa Hartmann

IM NEUROSENTEICH presents nine interdisciplinary artistic positions. Using water as a metaphor and a living space, the works explore fluid states between the body, the environment, and society – navigating between fragility, care, power structures, and the creeping tipping point. The group exhibition addresses currents, fragile systems, emotional tensions, and the brittleness of perceived stability.

Opening: Friday, July 10, 2026, at 7 PM | Exhibition: July 11 – 19, 2026

Opening hours: Friday, July 17, from 4 PM – 8 PM, Saturdays and Sundays from 2 PM – 7 PM, and by appointment.

Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture

How can the development of contemporary art be used to tell a story of the counterculture, which continues to influence artistic approaches to the present day? This question guides the exhibition Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture.

The interplay of three important collections – the Falckenberg Collection and the collections of the FRAC Pays de la Loire and the Musée d'arts de Nantes – reveals how artists develop resistant aesthetic strategies, open up alternative spaces and dissolve the boundary between the center and the margins of society.
The project opens up a dynamic dialogue: it reveals how counterculture is collected, disseminated, and understood in diverse contexts. This creates a multifaceted picture of art as a means of questioning social realities and opening up new perspectives. Drawing on Thoreau, Foucault, and Guattari, the exhibition understands counterculture as active, discursive, and transformative. In four thematic chapters—"Claiming the multiplication of points of view and voices," "See, show, divert and denounce," "Rereading history, another story," and "Shock, shake, upset, move the lines"—positions are presented that rewrite historical narratives, challenge social power structures, and make visible artistic strategies of provocation and resistance.

The exhibition is a collaboration with the Centre Claude Cahun, the photographic collections of the city of Nantes and the Regional Fund for Contemporary Art of the Pays de la Loire.