An Art Walk with Audio Library at HafenCity Hamburg

4 June 2021 to 30 September 2021

Marlon de Azambuja, Eduardo Basualdo, Marc Bijl, Liesel Burisch, Angela Jiménez Durán, Omer Fast, FORT (Jenny Kropp & Alberta Niemann), Kapwani Kiwanga (special project), LU’UM (satellite site), Joiri Minaya, Mundhalle artists (satellite site), Franziska Nast, Tamu Nkiwane, Camillo Ritter, Dennis Rudolph, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Mark Wallinger, Svenja Björg Wassill.

THE GATE explores Hamburg’s identity through its famous image slogan as the ‘Gateway to the World’.The two-part urban space exhibition harnesses the multiplicity of interpretations of this metaphor and follows the trail to the place where the city is focused on itself, namely HafenCity. The sense of tradition and the drive for innovation are to be reconciled in Europe’s largestinner-city urban development project, where the latest vision of the ‘Gateway to the World’ is being rendered as a built-up space. Each of the formats featured in the two parts of THE GATE showcase HafenCity as a continually evolving organism in which buildings and people mutually influence one another.The five overarching sections on Control, Limbo,Paradise, Potency and Overseas are the elements linking a locally based Audio Library and an art trail comprised of 16 stations throughout HafenCity.

Most of the artworks were created specifically for THE GATE and are sited at various points of entry into and out of the district. The gateway metaphor is their starting point for an exploration of aspects of the urban space that usually receive little attention in the everyday life of a city. Indeed, it is precisely these invisible, unconscious or unwanted elements that play such a decisive role in the way an urban space is perceived and accepted by its users. Each of these artworks is a ‘gateway’ in its own right, to be explored individually and in no particular order. Many of the works have been placed in public spacesso they can be visited at any time. Others are showcased in public indoor spaces and can be viewed free of charge during regular opening hours.

IMAGINE THE CITY
Shanghaiallee 21
20457 Hamburg