Experience culture. Poetry Slam in Hamburg

Neue Philharmonie Hamburg / Dmitry Ishkhanov

The Neue Philharmonie Hamburg was founded in 2003 and is made up of freelance professional musicians from all over the world. Its artistic portfolio focuses on symphonic music from the Baroque to the Modern periods. In addition, the Neue Philharmonie Hamburg also regularly appears in smaller formations, such as chamber music ensembles.

PERFORMERS

Neue Philharmonie Hamburg orchestra

Dmitry Ishkhanov piano

PROGRAM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento F-Dur KV 138

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Konzert für Klavier und Orchester A-Dur KV 414

- Interval -

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonie A-Dur KV 201

Neugrabener Markt

On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays there is always fresh produce from the region in the Marktpassage.

O | Circus, Artists, Images, Words, by Claudia Reiche

Photo exhibition, installed with video, mixed media & book

Book release at the opening, November 6, 6pm

Who still knows traveling people who practice the art of the circus in a centuries-old family tradition? This way of life has become rarer, especially in times when borders and walls have taken on new, deadly significance—particularly for people on the move. The photo exhibition shows pictures taken by Claudia Reiche in the 1980s of artist families and fellow travelers of the ‘Circus Royal’, which toured in and around Hamburg at the time and also made guest appearances at the adjacent Heiligengeistfeld. Descendants are still traveling in the circus and show business today – these situations are also captured with the camera.

A fundamental question that runs through the entire exhibition in literary form in a manifesto is how deviant lifestyles are perceived. Today, ‘circus’ stands less for flying humans and the dream of a liberated life. Instead, ‘stones fly’ at the ‘circus’, which has become popular as a symbol of the unfathomable other, even of a feared or celebrated evil. Clown costumes are popular as horror masks, politicians are mocked or elected as incompetent clowns. In other words, ‘circus’ is everywhere and circus is disappearing more and more. So where is the circus ring?

Guest at the Millerntorwache: Claudia Reiche: O | CIRCUS

The Millerntorwache is a branch of the Museum of Hamburg History, run by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S.

Claudia Reiche
is an artist, media scholar, and curator. She deals with questions of mediality, psychoanalysis, film, and visual cultures, as well as the epistemological, aesthetic, and political implications of digital technologies. She has been teaching in the theoretical and artistic fields for many years and publishes her work. She also creates web projects, film and photography works, and exhibitions, and is active in feminist and queer projects.

On the Origins of the 21st Century or the Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography

Through five curated sections, this cluster of exhibitions examines the role of intimacy, gender, and sexuality through visual cultures in the context of political regime changes in Europe from the 1980s until today. Artworks that engage with the Fall of the Berlin Wall and its consequences shed light on the emergence of a power vacuum, in a moment often referred to as the end of history, and the struggles emerging within new hegemonies informed by gender and sexuality. The title references Jean-Luc Godard’s f ilm Origins of the 21st Century, which anticipates developments in visual culture that synthesise violence and the erotic into an era of the “hardcore” at the turn of the millennium – a time when uncensored images increasingly begin to enable and establish new political spaces. The exhibition seeks the origins of this hardcore visual culture not in cinema, but in video and television media, locating them as the dominant tools of discourse and power in a then- accelerating postmodernity.

Curated by Angela Harutyunyan, Charles Teyssou und Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Dina Akhmadeeva, Elisa R. Linn, Erika Balsom.

With works by:

Sona Abgaryan, Jürgen Baldiga, Annemirl Bauer, Maria Grazia Belmonti, Anna Mária

Beová, Bärbel Bohley, Günter Brus, Anna Carini, Michel Carrouges, Shu Lea

Cheang, Mahmoud Dabdoub, Lutz Dammbeck, Rony Daopoulo, Anna Dauíková, Paola De

Martiis, De-Zentralbild, Mark Dion, Peter Friedl, Nikolay Georgiev, Wiktor Grodecki, Diana

Hakobyan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Jayne-Ann Igel, Libue Jarcovjáková, William E. Jones, David

Kareyan, Tigran Khachatryan, Pierre Klossowski, Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt, Raja Lubinetzki,

Materialien aus dem Archiv GrauZone, Paul McCarthy, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Bjarne

Melgaard, Annabella Miscuglio, Clara Mosch, Namenlos, Ladies Neid, Shz Numa, César

Olhagaray, Geraldo Paunde, Ulrich Polster, Núria Quevedo, Loredana Rotondo, Ronald M.

Schernikau, Sarah Schulman, Harout Simonian, Gabriele Stötzer, Sandra Teitge, Tsomak, Ralf-

Rainer Wasse, Jürgen Wittdorf, frau anders, Rosa von Praunheim

Organised by Milan Ther, with Christian Bätjer, Dr Martin Karcher, and Sarah Messerschmidt

OPEN ART: "Florida - Between Nature and Neon Lights"

Florida, a place of longing: The 32nd OPEN ART exhibition, “Florida – Between Nature and Neon Lights,” at the Überseequartier focuses on both the well-known and hidden sides of the US state.

For the first time, Überseequartier and tour operator CRD Touristik are exhibiting around 50 large-format photographs from Hamburg photographer Jörg Modrow's numerous trips to the Sunshine State: They show impressions of cities such as Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Orlando's theme parks and tourist attractions, as well as almost forgotten places and the wild nature of the Everglades and the Keys.

The outdoor exhibition will be accessible free of charge around the clock on Überseeboulevard in Hamburg's HafenCity until mid-April 2026.

Orchester im Treppenhaus

In the next instalment of its »Dark Room« series, the multi-award-winning ensemble will present the »Polar Concert in the Dark« together with star saxophonist Asya Fateyeva: The audience is led into darkness, where they experience a live radio play about polar explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, who in 1911 engaged in a bitter and deadly race across the icy expanses of Antarctica in their attempt to be the first humans to reach the South Pole.

PERFORMERS

Orchester im Treppenhaus chamber ensemble

Asya Fateyeva saxophone

Timmo Niesner narrator

Martin Kautz narrator

Thomas Posth conductor

PROGRAM

»A polar concert in the dark«

Philip Glass
Konzert für Violine und Orchester

Lili Boulanger
D’un Vieux Jardin

Lili Boulanger
Cortège

Nadia Boulanger
Vers la vie nouvelle pour piano

Nadia Boulanger
Petites pièces pour piano (Auswahl)

Bearbeitungen für Kammerorchester