Interdisciplinary art festival

http://www.kunstverein.de

Hamburg is booming, say the city marketing agencies. Hamburg sucks, say a lot of artists. Into this crossfire of interests WIR NENNEN ES HAMBURG (We Call It Hamburg) crashes. The one side wants to draw more attention; the other doesn't want to allow itself to be used as a drawcard for spectacles. This debate is old and new at one and the same time. In the works this debate is not yet apparent. Meike Behm, Yilmaz Dziewior and Corinna Koch from the Kunstverein in Hamburg and Amelie Deuflhard, Nadine Jessen and András Siebold from Kampnagel have done interviews, listened, argued, and now it's being served: WIR NENNEN ES HAMBURG. From 11 October 2008 to 4 January 2009 you can make your own picture, or have it made, of the diversity of artists, choreographers, directors and musicians taking part in the festival. Of course there are still other artists to be discovered -- outside the festival. Our focus is on artistic positions that stand out because of their particul ar interest in interdisciplinary topics and ways of proceeding. On the whole, at WIR NENNEN ES HAMBURG it is not so much individual artists who stand in the foreground, as the attempt to provide insight into present-day cultural production in Hamburg by drawing on more than 250 positions. In doing so, tribute will also be paid to those artists who have played, or are playing, a significant role in the emergence and development of the Hamburg art scene. 

Participating artists: 

Jürgen Albrecht | Moritz Altmann | Monica Antezana | Atelier Goldstein | Nicolas Anatol Baginsky | Katrin Bahrs | Thomas Baldischwyler | Michael Baltzer | Michael Bauch | Arvil Baud | Suse Bauer | Claus Becker | Patrick Bebelaar Stefanie Becker | Achim Beitz | Rolf Bergmeier | Jenny Beyer | Jaakov Blumas | Andreas Bode | Claus Böhmler | Peter Boué | Boy Division | Verena Braun | Heike Breitenfeld | Mariola Brillowska | Thorsten Brinkmann | Antje Bromma | Dani Brown | Thorsten P. Bruch | Ina Bruchlos | Nele Budelmann | Arne Bunk | Boran Burchhardt | Tim Burchardt | Sebastian Burdach | Baldur Burwitz | Werner Büttner | Tatiana Calasans | Patric Catani | Armin Chodzinski | Kyung-Hwa Choi-Ahoi | Lukasz Chrobok | Martin Conrad | Michael Conrads | Stephen Craig | Charlotte Crome | Adelaida Cue Bär | Carola Deye | Die Strolche | Die Vögel | Goesta Diercks | Cordula Ditz | Michael Dörner | Drei Hamburger Frauen | Jürgen von Dückerhoff | Susanne Dupont | Henrik Eiben | Mel usine Eichhorn | Dörte Eißfeldt | Elbipolis Barockorchester | Julia Eltner | Reinhold Engberding | Titus Engel | Juri Englert | Klaus Erichsen | Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg | Fanatically Feminist feat. Lady Bitch Ray | Patrick Farzar | Jeanne Faust | Maria Fisahn | Lili Fischer | Jochen Flinzer | Jens Foerster | Nadja Frank | Frank Spilker Group | F.S.K. | Beate Fuchs | Wolfgang Fütterer | Galerie C&V | Geelke Gaycken | Hartmut Gerbsch | Till Gerhard | Frank Gerritz | Monika Gintersdorfer | Lucia Glass | Sakir Gökcebag | Ari Goldmann | Dorothea Goldschmidt | Tatjana Sarah Greiner | Ole Grönwoldt | Hinrich Gross | Benita Grosser und Imanuel Grosser | Verena Grothe | Annette Grotkamp | Romeo Grünfelder | Almut Grypstra | Katharina Gschwendtner | Anna Gudjónsdóttir | Gudny Gudmundsdottir | Sun Guo | Esther Haase | Karin Haenlein | Ole Henrik Hagen | Christian Hahn | Hajusom! | Egbert Haneke | Daniel Hausig | Peter Heikenwälder | Nele Heitmeyer | Simone Henneken | HGich.T | Bianca Hobusch | Frenzy Höhne | Sylvia Hohlbaum | Annegret Homann | Henrik Hold | Manfred Holtfrerich | Jan Holtmann | Achim Hoops | Alexander Höpfner | Kathrin Horsch | Kimberly Horton | Florian Hüttner | Julia Hummer | Wil van Iersel | Adam Jankowski | Berndt Jasper | Joan As Police Woman | Anna Belle Jöns | K8 Hardy | Kabu Kabu | Volko Kamensky | Zvika Kantor | Naho Kawabe | Stefan Kern | Marte Kiessling | Akane Kimbara | Johnny King | Hector Kirschtal | Knut Klaaßen | Sibylle Klein | Henning Kles | Jan Köchermann | Jonas Kolenc | Kommando Himmelfahrt | Corinna Korth | Armin Krämer | Inge Krause | Frau Kraushaar | Michael Kress | Sylvi Kretzschmar | Klaus Kröger | Lutz Krüger | Martin Krützfeldt | Felix Kubin | Klaus Kumrow | Martin Kunze | Clemencia Labin | Volker Lang | Melody Laverne Bettencourt | Jeong Eun Lee | Jochen Lempert | Christina Lenschow | Uwe Lewitzky | LIGNA | Melissa Logan | Markus Lohmann | Maria Magdalena Ludewig | Frank Lüsing | Peter Lütje | André Lützen | Peter Lynen | Gosia Machon | Royston Maldoom ...