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Aerial view of a park with a round tower in the foreground, a straight path through wooded area and a large meadow with a pond in the background.
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Aerial view of a park with a round tower in the foreground, a straight path through wooded area and a large meadow with a pond in the background.
© Kampnagel

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.

Tickets:

City Park free entry, Planetarium: 2 Euro

Dates

Saturday

8/9/25

2:00 PM

/ Admission free

Saturday

8/9/25

3:00 PM

/ Admission free

Saturday

8/16/25

2:00 PM

/ Admission free

Saturday

8/16/25

3:00 PM

/ Admission free

Saturday

8/23/25

2:00 PM

/ Admission free

Saturday

8/23/25

3:00 PM

/ Admission free

Saturday

8/23/25

4:00 PM

/ Admission free

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.

14.00A guided tour with curators Joanna Warsza & Uwe Fleckner (EN/DE)
15.00A Sculpture Seen from the Sky. A Peace Gathering by Sibylle Peters & Felix Jung (EN/DE)

Sat 16.08.

14.00A guided tour with curator Joanna Warsza & project manager Nasim Weiler (EN/DE)
15.00Ben Nurgenç, A walk and listening session with a self-built mobile composting vehicle (EN/DE/TR)

Sat 23.08.

14.00A 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


CURATION Joanna Warsza, Uwe Fleckner ARTISTS Salwa Aleryani, Agnes Denes, María Edwards, Shahira Issa, KITE, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Timo Nasseri, Sibylle Peters und Felix Jung, Ben Nurgenç, Olu Ogunnaike, Raqs Media Collective, Xul Solar, Eske Schlüters, Hoda Tawakol, Heidi Voet

From the Cosmos to the Commons marks the beginning of the five-year programme conceived by City Curator Joanna Warsza. Since 2024, the project City Curator Hamburg has been hosted by Kunsthaus Hamburg.