Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) is considered one of the most important and enigmatic figures in postwar German art. Though based in Hamburg, it was during a two-year stay in New York in the late 1960s that the conceptual artist discovered what would become her life-long project: the spatializing and visualization of time in its various forms—as lifetime, time working and writing, and historical time. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers have the exclusive privilege of working with the Hanne Darboven Foundation, the foundation entrusted with the artist’s estate.
Julia Gaisbacher: Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg
Book launch, film and discussion
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
April 30, 2025 at 6.15pm
In 2022 and 2023, Julia Gaisbacher visited Hanne Darboven's studio houses, took hundreds of photographs and made a film about the ensemble of buildings in Rönneburg, Hamburg-Harburg. This two-part group of works called Am Burgberg will be presented for the first time in Hamburg, at the Warburg-Haus. The photographs and the film provide sensitive insights into the conceptual artist's studios in the south of Hamburg. The five houses served Hanne Daroboven as a place to live and work for 40 years. In addition, the unique ensemble of buildings still functions as a treasure trove for thousands of objects and works of art. Gaisbacher's precisely composed black and white photographs of the rooms, whose seemingly chaotic abundance is diametrically opposed to the strict order of Daroboven's works on paper, create an artistic dialog between the generations across time and space. The book and film presentation is framed by a lecture by Dietmar Rübel and a conversation between Julia Gaisbacher and Petra Lange-Berndt.
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