Heidelberger Kunstverein

Heidelberger Kunstverein A space for contemporary art and critical discourse since 1869. Co-producing, exhibiting, mediating and contextualizing contemporary art.

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RACHEL KHEDOORI01.11.2025 - 25.01.2026📸 Installationsansicht ’Rachel Khedoori‘, Heidelberger Kunstverein | HDKV, 2025 ©R...
18/12/2025

RACHEL KHEDOORI
01.11.2025 - 25.01.2026

📸 Installationsansicht ’Rachel Khedoori‘, Heidelberger Kunstverein | HDKV, 2025 ©Rachel Khedoori. Fotos: Lys Y. Seng. Courtesy der Künstlerin und Heidelberger Kunstverein.

ERÖFFNUNGmit Performance von Mwangi HutterFreitag, 26. September, 17:30 - 20:30 UhrZur Ausstellung „Against the Grain“ v...
23/09/2025

ERÖFFNUNG
mit Performance von Mwangi Hutter

Freitag, 26. September, 17:30 - 20:30 Uhr

Zur Ausstellung „Against the Grain“ von Mwangi Hutter (Teil des Festivals Wunder der Prärie / Theaters of War(s))

Ausstellungslaufzeit: 26. September - 05. Oktober

In der Performance und Installation Against the Grain von Mwangi Hutter gerinnt die Aggression unseres überfluteten medialen Alltags in subtile Handlungsabläufe. Aus einer in die Erstarrung driftenden Szenerie sendet Mwangi Hutter eine verheißungsvolle Botschaft – wach zu bleiben, Mitgefühl zu kultivieren und Menschlichkeit zu wahren. Das Werk ist ein eindringlicher Spiegel unserer kriegerischen Zeit, der zum Nachdenken und Handeln anregt und uns ermutigt, uns nicht von der Welt erschöpfen zu lassen.

Mwangi Hutter verstehen ihre künstlerische Identität als „eine Persönlichkeit aus zwei Körpern, zwei Geschichten, zwei kulturellen Hintergründen“ – ein lebendiges Beispiel für die Auflösung konventioneller Identitätsvorstellungen. Sie arbeiten interdisziplinär mit Video, Fotografie, Malerei, Installation, Performance, Sound und Skulptur. Ihre Werke hinterfragen gesellschaftliche Konventionen, Geschlechterrollen, kulturelle Herkunft und Identität. Die künstlerische Fusion betont die Überwindung von Grenzen und schafft eine Ästhetik der Interdependenz und Selbsterkenntnis.

Ihre Arbeiten wurden auf der Biennale von Venedig, der documenta in Kassel, der Biennale von São Paulo, der Biennale von Havanna, im Brooklyn Museum in New York, im Centre Pompidou in Paris, im Mori Art Museum in Tokio sowie in der Johannesburg Art Gallery in Südafrika ausgestellt.

Die Ausstellung Against the Grain findet im Rahmen der 13. Ausgabe des Live-Art Festivals Wunder der Prärie von zeitraumexit (Mannheim) statt und ist Teil des Festivalprogramms zum Thema Theaters of War(s).

Weitere Infos zum Programm und den anderen Veranstaltungen -> zeitraumexit

(c) Mwangi Hutter

RHEA DILLONGESTURAL POETHICSOn view until 7 September 2025The exhibition presents recent works by the London-born artist...
30/06/2025

RHEA DILLON
GESTURAL POETHICS

On view until 7 September 2025

The exhibition presents recent works by the London-born artist, poet, and writer Rhea Dillon (b. 1996).

Curator: Søren Grammel
Co-Curator: Fabienne Finkbeiner

Photography: Heidelberger Kunstverein, Courtesy of Rhea Dillon & Heidelberger Kunstverein.

With the kind support of the City of Heidelberg, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.

Upcoming exhibitionRHEA DILLON | GESTURAL POETHICSOpening on 14 June 2025, 6 pmExhibition runs from 15 June to 7 Septemb...
04/06/2025

Upcoming exhibition

RHEA DILLON | GESTURAL POETHICS

Opening on 14 June 2025, 6 pm

Exhibition runs from 15 June to 7 September 2025

Gestural Poethics presents recent works by the London-born artist, poet, and writer Rhea Dillon (b. 1996).

Her practice engages with the lived experiences of Black individuals and communities, placing the existential question of belonging at the intersection of ongoing reflections on racialised histories, systemic discrimination, and the enduring legacies of colonialism within Western societies and institutions.

Her artistic inquiry, pursued across various media—from sculpture and painting to poetry and olfactive work—draws on post-minimalist and conceptualist approaches, while actively engaging with postcolonial theory and critique.

The Heidelberger Kunstverein is pleased to present Rhea Dillon’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, offering a focused engagement with a central strand of her multifaceted artistic practice.

Curated by Søren Grammel

With the kind support of the City of Heidelberg, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts and the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.

Upcoming studio exhibitionStephanie Misa & Joscha Steffens: OculusOpening: Saturday, 15th March 2025, from 6pmArtist Tal...
08/03/2025

Upcoming studio exhibition

Stephanie Misa & Joscha Steffens: Oculus

Opening: Saturday, 15th March 2025, from 6pm

Artist Talk: Sunday, 16th March 2025, 2pm

“Seeing things” is a tricky phrase. It may mean grasping objects visually as evidence that they are really in the world. But it may also mean sensing phenomena that are not of this world. The exhibition Oculus delicately moves around this enigmatic instance of seeing things, and it takes the artists Stephanie Misa and Joscha Steffens to historical situations that at once clarify and confound the moment of vision. What things do we see? Is it only things that we see? With the careful mediation of fact through the instruments of science and the sensitive appreciation of fiction through the speculations of art, the exhibition tries to dissipate the binary limit of fact and fiction to anticipate what may well be a third material condition of reflection and action.

The locus of this process is Heidelberg, where the Philippine National Hero Jose Rizal studied ophthalmology in 1886 at the Universitäts-Augenklinik and assisted the clinic’s director, Dr. Otto Becker, in several eye surgeries. At that time, the augenspiegel (ophthalmoscope) was a new device that enabled the physician to see the interior of a living eye. It was also in this city that Rizal wrote parts of his novel Noli Me Tangere (1887), which partly ignited the Philippine revolution against Spain. He stayed with the politically progressive Pastor Karl Ulmer in Wilhemsfeld, a town close to Heidelberg.

These two initiations coming together through visions and investigations, specifically through the aperture and threshold of Rizal, speak to the framework of the Philippine presence as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2025. Taken from the chapter on Sisa in Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere, the phrase “the imagination peoples the air” shapes the ethos and theory of such a presence. It evokes the intuitions that make writing and reading possible and surround both the historical atmosphere and the ecology of the species and spirits.

Exhibition Duration: 15th March 2025 - 18th May 2025

Curator: Patrick Flores

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