Klára Hosnedlová's monumental installation for the CHANEL Commission in the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof revolves around home, utopias and everyday life in different political systems. Hosnedlová's largest expansive, sculptural scenery to date is created from tapestries up to nine meters high, site-specific objects, organic-looking reliefs and large-scale embroideries. The embroidery templates are film and video recordings of performative interventions staged by the artist in Berlin. The content is based on architecture, films and novels that characterize the cultural memory of the last centuries in border regions of today's Czech Republic.

"embrace" at Hamburger Bahnhof is Klara Hosnedlová's largest institutional solo exhibition to date. In the industrial architecture of the museum's historic hall, the artist creates a utopian landscape of flax fibers, embroidery, cast glass, sandstone, clay, iron and concrete slabs. The focus is on rural areas of today's Czech Republic characterized by artisanal and industrial production processes as well as national border shifts. Concrete slabs and iron walls cite the architecture of the communist era, for example. With Hosnedlová (born 1990), Hamburger Bahnhof is once again presenting a young artist in the main hall who is expanding the boundaries of sculpture with a site-specific installation.

The CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof is an annual initiative that opens a new chapter in the history of the museum and enables artists to realize large-scale projects. With its scope and vision, the partnership sets new standards for projects in public institutions. The collaboration enables artistic reinterpretations of the museum's iconic industrial architecture with its 2,500 square meters and uses it as a place of exchange with the public.

Exhibition catalog

The exhibition is accompanied by the eleventh edition of the Hamburger Bahnhof catalog series, published by Silvana Editoriale Milano with 108 pages , available in the Hamburger Bahnhof bookstore and in the online store of the Walther König bookstore for 12 euros . ISBN: 9788836660797

Curatorial team

The exhibition is curated by Sam Bardaouil, Director Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart and Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Curator, Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.

The CHANEL Commission at Hamburger Bahnhof is made possible by
CHANEL Culture Fund.

Supported by Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e. V.

A special exhibition of the Nationalgalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin