Starting on November 14, 2025, Hamburger Bahnhof will present Berlin artist Annika Kahrs with the most comprehensive selection of her works to date at the intersection of art and music. In her videos, Kahrs explores the cultural and social functions of music: in an abandoned church in Lyon, at a parade by a cross-generational orchestra in an Italian village, or in Berlin department stores. The video and sound installations in the east wing and the historic passageways, as well as the live performances “For Two To Play On One” (2012) in the Hamburger Bahnhof Forum, create resonant spaces that surprise visitors again and again as they walk through the museum. More than ten video works, sound installations, and performances from the last 15 years are presented at selected locations in the Hamburger Bahnhof, the Musical Instrument Museum, and in public spaces.
Image above: Annika Kahrs, how to live in the echo of other places, 2022, Installation view video projection, Hamburg © Helge Mundt
Annika Kahrs (born 1984 in Achim, Germany) explores the boundaries of what is considered music. Her performances, films, and sound installations reveal the significance of music and sound in social, cultural, and political structures. Kahrs has exhibited at venues including the 16th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art (2022); LAXART, Los Angeles (2021); Flat Time House, London (2019); Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2018); Hamburger Kunsthalle (2017, among others); 5th Thessaloniki Biennale for Contemporary Art (2015); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2012); Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Brazil (2013); Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2011). She has received awards and scholarships, including Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2023) and the George Maciunas Award (2012), donated by René Block.
A performance series on the occasion of the exhibition and celebrating the museum’s 30th anniversary will take place throughout the city in February 2026.
A publication in the exhibition catalogue series of Hamburger Bahnhof, published by Silvana Editoriale Milano, accompanies the exhibition.
The exhibition is curated by Ingrid Buschmann, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.
WHEN?
Opening: Thrusday, November 13, 2025, 7 p.m.
Opening Hours:
Tue, Wed, Fri: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Thu: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Sat + Sun: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
WHERE?
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 50
10557 Berlin-Mitte
