All so Near: Textile-Bodies, China Girls and Archi-Finance an exhibition at Künstlerlhaus FAKTOR , Hamburg, 20-22 April 2018 with Amélie-Brisson-Darveau, Johanna Bruckner & Cora Piantoni When fisherman Joachim von Lohe opened a brewery outside the Hamburg walls and beyond the Pinneberg county border in 1536, the story goes two Hamburg residents eying the building site with circumspection found it to be ‘all too near’. Altona, now a district of Hamburg, became a Danish city in the 17th century. It benefited from favourable tax laws, developed through commerce and a tolerant religious legislation. The 19th century saw Altona embrace industrial production, while cultivating fashionable promenade and houses over the Elbe. In the second half of the 20th century, having merged with Hamburg during the Third Reich, Altona espoused the fate of a large European port metropolis, where the development of container terminals paralleled prestigious urban redevelopment schemes such as the HafenCity. Its history offers a mirror of the northern fortunes of Hanseatic cities, whose heritage and present identities are explored by Brisson-Darveau, Bruckner and Piantoni through film, sculpture and installation, at a time when people, objects, ideas, have become ‘all so near’. As such the exhibit will reflect on economic and social patterns of interconnectedness that bind Hamburg to the world in the present age.
@Cora Piantoni
@Amélie Brisson Darveau
@Johanna Bruckner