From 16 March to 18 August 2024, Zitadelle Berlin in cooperation with Galerie KK Klaus Kiefer is showing a very extensive exhibition of my works from recent years. The exhibition is titled after my recently published new catalogue “Hartmut Kiewert – MULTISPECIES FUTURES*”. The catalogue is available at the exhibition and via my online shop.
I cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition on Friday, 15 March 2024!
“The theme of Hartmut Kiewert’s artistic work is to reflect on the history, forms, possibilities and future of the relation between humans and animals. Based on the utopian idea of a peaceful and equal coexistence, the painter develops social images whose deeper meaning is the visualisation of a utopia in which animals are no longer objects of an exploitative practice from the point of view of marketing, but instead become subjects of a changed and emancipatory world order. Behind this seemingly romantic idea is a critical examination of power structures and their mechanisms. Hartmut Kiewert’s large-format oil paintings are not only created in the awareness that our human attitude towards the animal world must radically change, but that the repression of our predominantly economised and alienated treatment of animals should be countered by positive narratives.”
– Dr Ralf F. Hartmann
Opening
Friday, 15 March 2024, 7 pm (free entry)
Welcome: Dr Carola Brückner, District Councillor for Culture and Dr Ralf F. Hartmann, Head of the Department of Culture
Introduction: Prof. Dr Ana Dimke, President of the University of Fine Arts, Braunschweig
Framework program
(in german language, free entry)
Thursday, July 18, 7 pm
Guided tour through the exhibition
with Dr. Ralf F. Hartmann, Dr. Kathrin Herrmann and Hartmut Kiewert
Thursday, August 8, 7 pm
Panel: Transformation and the future of human-animal relationships
– What can a shift towards a multispecies world look like?
with Melanie Bujok, Hartmut Kiewert and Dr. Friederike Schmitz
Thursday, August 15, 7 pm
Panel: Animal Turn in the Art World
– Changing Relations to nonhuman animals in art production and -reception
with Alicja Czupryk, Hartmut Kiewert and Dr. Jessica Ullrich
Venue
Zitadelle / Bastion Kronprinz
Am Juliusturm 64
13599 Berlin
Exhibition duration
16 March – 18 August 2024
Opening hours
Fri – Wed: 10 am – 5 pm
Thu: 1 – 8 pm
Last admission 30 minutes before closing time.
The exhibition will be closed over the Easter holidays.
The exhibition rooms of Bastion Kronprinz are at ground level.
Admission fee
4.50 euros, reduced 2.50 euros, children under 6 years free, family ticket 10 euros
Opening on 15 March, 7 pm: free of charge
