Ich, Walburga, Silvester (2025)
70•50 x2
photo print, aluminium, glass
As part of the
@hfbkphotography group exhibition „570km, 50 by 70cm“ in
@muzeumsztuki at
@fotofestiwal
The group exhibition by the photography class from HFBK Hamburg centers around a shared object: a standardized aluminum frame (50 × 70 cm, with glass), available in multiple identical copies. These frames were given to the class as a gift – a simple gesture that sparked the idea for this collective project. Each artistic position is invited to engage with the frame – not merely as a container for an image, but as a conceptual and material point of departure.
The project questions the conventions of photographic and artistic display and explores the frame as object, as border, as medium, and as metaphor. Through a collective conceptual approach, each work opens up a self-referential dialogue with the act of exhibiting itself. The process plays a central role. Rather than presenting finalized works, the project embraces the unfinished, the provisional, and the shifting nature of artistic production. The logistical and physical movement of the frames becomes part of the narrative too – working, transporting, installing, and reflecting are understood as intertwined steps in an open process.
Receiving the frames – and responding to them – becomes part of the story. What begins as a gift turns into an invitation.
