A light brown wooden construction stands in a white, sterile room. Two large screens are built into the construction, on one of which people can be seen dancing together from behind.
© Independence Cha Cha
A light brown wooden construction stands in a white, sterile room. Two large screens are built into the construction, on one of which people can be seen dancing together from behind.
© Independence Cha Cha
International Summer Festival 2024
Visual Arts

Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Ângela Ferreira, Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Anri Sala and more

Untranquil Now: A Constellation of Narratives and Resoncances

Artistic Gestures, Configurations, Performances and Projections

Past dates

A gloomy graphic in black, gray and pink with the words INTERNATIONAL SUMMER FESTIVAL running across it. In the middle is a swirl.
International Summer Festival 2024
»Untranquil Now« at hamburger-kunsthalle.de
A person attached to a rope walks vertically down a tall, glass building. Her stride seems relaxed and determined.
Trisha Brown
Man Walking Down the Side of a Building
A woman with cheeks painted gold receives the embrace of a woman behind her. Both seem to be very much in the moment with their eyes closed.
Latifa Laâbissi / Manon de Boer
Ghost Party (1), 2021-2024
A man with theatrical make-up on his face and long, slicked-back hair holds a DIN A4 sheet of paper in his left hand, gesticulates with the other and appears to be reciting something. Behind him is a camera crew.
Tacita Dean
16mm Colour Films: Craneway Event / Event for a Stage
A person with a long, black braid sits cross-legged on a white blanket. Around the person are large bowls filled with water, microphones are sticking into these bowls and the person is operating a small mixer with their left hand.
Tomoko Sauvage
Waterbowls

In collaboration with Hamburger Kunsthalle, Summer Festival presents video works, performances, installations, and a cinema screening at various locations in Hamburg. The works are realized as part of the exhibition UNTRANQUIL NOW at the Kunsthalle, which explores forms of displacement of the stage and the relationship of artworks to memory, heritage, and intimacy. In the Kunsthalle itself, additional video works by Summer Festival artists Lucinda Childs, Trisha Brown, and Anri Sala, are on dispaly as well. These include Childs’ postmodernist manifesto CARNATION (1964), and her works CALICO MINGLING (1973) and KATEMA (1978), which were created from unaffected, simple movements and gestures.

Anca Munteanu Rimnic: RITE FOR FALL

RITE FOR FALL is a site-specific performance that will be showcased throughout this year’s Summer Festival in in an empty shop at Neuer Wall 42. In the glass-box architecture of the former lighting shop, Berlin-based artist Anca Munteanu Rimnic causes a quivering haystack to interact with performers, creating a series of dramatic miniatures that serve as a grotesque condensation of human life. With fragmentary images and sounds, the work intervenes in the bustling inner city, turning passersby into spectators and the city into a stage. The result is an artistic intervention on Hamburg's most exclusive shopping street amidst luxury and lifestyle.

Neuer Wall 42, August 08 to 24 / Tuesday-Saturday 2pm to 6pm (Opening reception: August 08, 5pm)

Ângela Ferreira: Indépendance Cha Cha, 2014/2024

Attention! This event will be postponed to November.

The large-scale wooden sculpture by the Portuguese-South African artist borrows its modernist form from the facade of a petrol station in Lubumbashi, designed by the Belgian architect Claude Strebelle in the 1950s. Incorporated are videos of two singers expressing their fear of descending into the mines, as well as the band from Hôtel du Parc in Lubumbashi performing “Indépendance Cha Cha,” a significant anthem of the African Francophone independence movements in the 1960s.

Untranquil Now: A Constellation of Narratives and Resoncances – artistic gestures, configurations, performances and projections

This exhibition focuses on works, that authorize complexity, in which bodies and modes of perception become the agents of contradictory states and troubled histories. Being transdisciplinary, the exhibition and performance & film program present artworks that explore forms of displacement of stage, to become modernist building, social housing, roof, public place, park, abandoned site, archaeological excavation, industrial platform, and the presence of human or animal characters. Proposing a web of historical resonances or coincidences, the exhibition establishes relations to memory, heritage, and intimacy.

ARTISTS: John Akomfrah, Francis Alÿs, Richard Artschwager, Au Sow Yee, Rosa Barba, Yto Barrada, Éric Baudelaire, Lothar Baumgarten, Wang Bing, Dara Birnbaum, Manon de Boer & Latifa Laâbissi, Trisha Brown, Chen Chieh-jen, Lucinda Childs, Tacita Dean, Ângela Ferreira, Peter Friedl, Coco Fusco, Dora Garcia, General Idea, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Dan Graham, Hsu Chia-Wei, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Limbo Accra, Gordon Matta-Clark, Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Raqs Media Collective, Dieter Roth, Athi-Patra Ruga, Anri Sala, Tomoko Sauvage, Alexander Schellow, Nida Sinnokrot, Hyun-Sook Song, Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Paola Yacoub, among others.

CURATOR: Dr. Corinne Diserens, Leona Marie Ahrens (Assistant Curator)

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Gallery of Contemporary Art, May 31, 2024 - January 19, 2025, Tuesday–Sunday 10am to 6pm (Thursday to 8pm)

Supported by Freunde der Kunsthalle e.V., Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, Mondriaan Fund, OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Förderstiftung Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Anca Munteanu Rimnic / RITE FOR FALL is supported by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg in the frame of „Kunst im öffentlichen Raum“, Ilse und Dr. Horst Rusch-Stiftung.