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

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yours, relationally (group show, Golden Pudel Club)

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

* What does it take to shift from learning about the living world to learning from and with the living world?  The symposium focused on considering 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. The one day event consisted of talks, film screenings and a performative walk. 

*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 gathered different perspectives and approaches that seek to tell more than only human stories. In doing so, it raises questions of responsibility and limits.

Participants: Terue Yamauchi (Artist & Filmmaker, Fukuoka (JP)) ; Prof. Jessica Ullrich (Kunstakademie Münster & Tierstudien) ; Antonia Ulrich (AAAA -Institute for Arborphilia Animals, Aesthetics and Activism, Hamburg) ;Prof. Bettina Uppenkamp (Prof. for Art and Visual History, HFBK) ; Helene Kummer (PhD Candidate, HFBK Hamburg)

Curation and Organisation:
Helene Kummer and 'being(s)' graduate school / PhD in Art Practice / HFBK Hamburg

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yours, relationally (group show, Golden Pudel Club)

As the title suggests, the works brought together for yours, relationally revolve thematically around the act of relating as well as each about specific relationships themselves. They unfold by creating a space in which these – more than human – relationships are acknowledged, developed, reflected upon, and narrated. Curated together with Emilia Keller.

Day after day, María-Pía Landea waits for squirrels to appear near her house, reflects on her own perspective of this developing relationship, and feeds them nuts. “They would take them with their paws” –  until one day they stop coming. Emerged from these encounters with squirrels, the artist’s work First I imagine, then I wait bears a longing for a bond with the furry beings that inhabit the artist’s neighbourhood and imagination, both familiar and yet unknown to her. Sanne Pawelzyk’s CATMAG – Cats are nice people too is a limited-edition art magazine “for cat lovers” and others, in which the artist compiles photographs from her life with her cat ‘Katze’. The images speak to their more than human cohabitation and relationship – in its connectedness and confines – as well as to the relation of their spaces, within and outside of their shared living sphere.

Charlotte Perka read a text titled Sticking Together -On Feeling Good and Feeling Otherwise. Throughout the duration of the exhibition she quietly initiated connections that were tied together.
Inspired and fascinated by a nocturnal animal, Terue Yamauchi photographically documented herself moving through Fukuoka at night, stripped bare yet trying to go unnoticed. The artist wonders: “like an unpopular animal, could I slip through the grids of human definitions?”. This work was created after the Japanese Popstar SMAP got arrested for being naked in a public park.
In the process of mourning the loss of her canine companion Nanuk, Stephanie Jacobs created a series of ceramics and words. While working with different mediums it gradually became clear to the artist that her relationship to Nanuk can’t be captured - not even by a portrait.