





From the Cosmos to the Commons – Vom All zum Allgemeingut
Public Art Exhibition at the Planetarium Hamburg and Stadtpark
Every Saturday: Guided tours with Hamburg’s new city curator through the City Park and the Planetarium, marking her first exhibition on astrology and astronomy.
Every Saturday: Guided tours with Hamburg’s new city curator through the City Park and the Planetarium, marking her first exhibition on astrology and astronomy.
Saturday tours with the new city curator Joanna Warsza and her inaugural exhibition From the Cosmos to the Commons, at the City Park and the Planetarium Hamburg, including a »hidden treasure« – the exhibition on astrology and astronomy designed by Aby Warburg – together with his collaborators Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl – shortly before his death in 1929. Its contents were long considered lost and only rediscovered among a pile of rubbish in the late 1980s by Uwe Fleckner, who is curating its re-creation. Set out as an elliptical journey, Warburg’s exhibition asks how the spiritual and the rational, both essential to human wellbeing, can be brought together, and considers »how mankind down the ages has tried to interpret and explain the stars and their mysterious movements”.
From the Cosmos to the Commons in the Stadtpark presents a series of artworks that orbit around the original Warburg exhibition and the topics of astrology and astronomy. The artworks explore the human need to look into the sky in order to make sense of our place on Earth. They expand on the ideas examined by Warburg, looking at the dire state of the world today, and ask what it means to live in a planetary way, negotiating the spiritual and the political, the circular and the compostable, the magical and the rational. In a special constellation, art in public space raises its gaze to the cosmos in order to rethink the common good on Earth.
An accompanying exhibition From Stars to Signals, curated by Anna Nowak, is on view at the Kunsthaus Hamburg till 17.08.
Program
Sat 09.08.
14.00 | A guided tour with curators Joanna Warsza & Uwe Fleckner (EN/DE) |
15.00 | A Sculpture Seen from the Sky. A Peace Gathering by Sibylle Peters & Felix Jung (EN/DE) |
Sat 16.08.
14.00 | A guided tour with curator Joanna Warsza & project manager Nasim Weiler (EN/DE) |
15.00 | Ben Nurgenç, A walk and listening session with a self-built mobile composting vehicle (EN/DE/TR) |
Sat 23.08.
14.00 | A guided tour with curators Joanna Warsza & Uwe Fleckner and designer José Délano (EN/DE/ESP) |
15.00 | »Nut and the Cosmic Womb« an Artist Talk with Hoda Tawakol & Anna Nowak (EN/DE) |
16.00 | »An antropofagian grill, Eating Sunflower Fields of Agnes Denes« with José Délano |
21.06. – 24.08., Planetarium
Image Collection on the History of Astrology and Astronomy Aby Warburg, in collaboration with Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl.
Curated by Uwe Fleckner