DEEDS CALENDAR: Saâdane Afif – Five Preludes – Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart (Berlin) | until 13.09.2026

From 12 December 2025 to 13 September 2026, the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin presents the first institutional solo exhibition of Saâdane Afif in the city. The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the work of the interdisciplinary artist, who has lived in Berlin since 2003, featuring the multi-part work The Fountain Archives. This long-term artistic archive project engages with one of the most prominent chapters of 20th-century art history: Marcel Duchamp’s legendary readymade Fountain from 1917. Afif’s installation was generously gifted to the museum by Paul Maenz in 2023.

Image above: Saȃdane Afif, The Fountain Archives (Augmented Series), 2014-2020, © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025 / Saȃdane Afif / Mehdi Chouakri