Walid Raad
Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter
A performance tour through the Kunsthalle's collection – and into the abysses of the art and finance world, including angels and the undead.
Past dates
8/10/23 - 8/13/23
10:00 AM
8/10/23
6:00 PM
8/11/23
4:00 PM
8/12/23
12:00 PM
8/12/23
4:00 PM
8/13/23
12:00 PM
8/13/23
4:00 PM
8/15/23 - 8/20/23
10:00 AM
8/17/23
6:00 PM
8/18/23
4:00 PM
8/19/23
12:00 PM
8/19/23
4:00 PM
8/20/23
12:00 PM
8/22/23 - 8/27/23
10:00 AM
8/24/23
6:00 PM
8/25/23
4:00 PM
8/26/23
12:00 PM
8/26/23
4:00 PM
8/27/23
12:00 PM
8/27/23
4:00 PM
In 1992, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, owner of the second-largest private art collection in the world, transferred his art collection to Spain. Prior to this transfer, the Baron considered Hamburg as a destination, to reunite his Caspar David Friedrich painting titled “Ostermorgen“ (Easter Morning) with its artistic twin titled “Frühschnee” (Early Snow) located at Hamburger Kunsthalle. Unable to reunite the twins, the Baron nonetheless donated several artworks to Hamburg – so bizarre that the museum never displayed them. That is, until Lebanese-American artist Walid Raad requested to see and was permitted to exhibit them for the first time. Raad’s exhibition merges several historical and fictional realms, revealing images of clouds that appeared mysteriously on the back of several Old Masters, cups that attract specific types of arthropods, and angels that self-restore.
WALID RAAD (*1967 in Lebanon, lives in New York) works in performance and visual arts. He exhibits in major museums worldwide and engages the images and stories made possible by historical and violent events in the “Arab world”. First developed for the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, COTTON UNDER MY FEET is now being adapted for the Hamburger Kunsthalle and can be experienced both as an exclusive live performance with Walid Raad and independently with an on-site audio guide.
