Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg

"Hanne Darboven. Am Burgberg" is a long-term exploration by Julia Gaisbacher of Hanne Darboven's home and workplace at the address "Am Burgberg" and, at the same time, continues Gaisbacher's own work on "dream houses." The Viennese artist's photographs offer insights into Darboven's studios in the south of Hamburg (DE), which have remained unchanged since her death in 2009. The five houses on the unique estate served as her living and working space for 40 years. The central structure is the studio building that Darboven designed herself, embedded in a historic homestead. To this day, the ensemble also functions as a treasury for thousands of objects and artworks. Gaisbacher's precisely composed black-and-white photographs of the rooms, whose seemingly chaotic abundance contrasts sharply with the strict order of Darboven's works on paper, create a compelling artistic dialogue about time and space between the generations. Hanne Darboven (1941–2009) lived and worked in Hamburg and is one of the most prominent conceptual artists of the 20th century. In the 1960s, she was among the earliest proponents of this groundbreaking international movement; she was also an attentive observer of her time and the historical and contemporary currents in politics, culture and society.