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re-story-ation {symposium} - HFBK Hamburg, 7.5.2026

Foto: Maximilian Glas

What does it take to shift from learning about the living world to learning from and with the living world?

The symposium invites us to consider artistic research as a relational practice of storytelling. Getting involved with the lives and stories of animals, trees, or the sea changes the temporalities and modes of research and art practice. Which active forms of engagement can open up spaces for mutual learning? What kinds of relationships emerge through accompanying and listening? What stories do these relationships hold, and how can they be told?

Taking up ecologist Gary Nabhan’s reflection : “The restoration we need to do is also a re-story-ation” — the event gathers different perspectives and approaches that seek to tell more than only human stories. In doing so, it raises questions of responsibility and limits:
How can these relationships become reciprocal?
How to deal with the tension between relation and representation?

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more-than-human drama (visual research), 2026. fake fur, styrofoam, metal tubes, branches, 3d-printed Polyactide, drawings and text on paper, HD video. installation views HFBK Hamburg

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eintagsfliege gestell zwei, 2024 (kunstfell, polyactice 3D-print, gips, notenständer) / installationsansicht @projektraum_rochade Foto : Lukas Giesler

‘believability’ 2023-24, 1-channel video, duration ✴︎ 00:11:30 / installation view @projektraum_rochade / Foto: Lukas Giesler

‘believability’ 2023-25, 1-channel video, duration ✴︎ 00:11:30 / Still

Installation view at 'fish along', solo show at Galerie Genscher, Hamburg, 29.6.-02.07.2023 {Photos: Helene Kummer}

nemo 3, 2023 / Polyactide 3D-print / detail shot: Joseph Ruben Heicks

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they come, rigged (2022), 3:30 min, Motion Capture Performer: Lena Eikenbusch, Soundtrack based on Giuni Russo's 'Gabbiano' 1997, {installation view at 'Gute Gerätschaft' group show at Frappant Galerie, Hamburg, Aug 2022, Photos: Julian Hülser}
on the right: Hye-Eun Kim, Commuter 4 (2022), {ceramics}

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Such as - You, Kind of (2022), 2-Channel Video, 11min

Starring: Justyna Chaberek, Cinematography: Zacharias Zitouni, Direction+CGI: Helene Kummer

{Installation View at HFBK Hamburg, Photos: Janosch Boerckel, on the right: 'Zugabe' (2021) by Chris Hausdorf}

Such as - You, Kind of (2022), {still images}

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Salad Fingers (2021), CGI-animation, Pflanzen-Scans 00:03:30, Installationsansicht: Feinkunst Krüger Hamburg

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Tier (untitled), 2020, 3D-printed PLA sculpture (85x20x60cm), custom carpets, prosa on A4

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Untitled (2020), CGI-animation, 00:03:00, video still

Untitled (2020), CGI-animation, 00:03:00, Installation view at "hiscox nominees" 2020, Photo by Andreas Hopfgarten

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Video Piece (CGI, Projection Mapping) for Biathlon der Sehnsucht (Warten auf den Snow) 2021, Regie: Lorenz Nolting, Stage Design: Martha Szymkowiak & Betty Kirmair, Kampnagel Hamburg, {Photo: Tillmann Engel}

Video Piece (CGI, Projection Mapping) for Biathlon der Sehnsucht (Warten auf den Snow) 2021, Regie: Lorenz Nolting, Stage Design: Martha Szymkowiak & Betty Kirmair, Kampnagel Hamburg, {Still}

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Extended Puppy Pose (i.i.i.) with Fabian Hesse, 2020, interactive installation, webcams, Kunstverein Hamburg, Humor nach #MeToo, Foto: Fred Dott

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Direct Diorama (i.i.i.) 2020 - collaborative installation with Fabian Hesse, Merlin Reichart

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Romantic Limits, 2019, collaborative exhibition with Moritz Führer, Paul Kolling, Johannes Klever

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Never Let me Go, 2019, 3D-printed wall sculptures (4 pieces)