Platforms
"The Movement Metropolitan partners with artists in the creative process from funding, concept realization, exchange, production and performance."
Many artists struggle to find creation spaces and resources to realize their projects. The Movement Metropolitan partners with artists to create such spaces and platforms. It is an extensive network and meeting place for discourse on art, culture, politics and society. The Movement Metropolitan is an open, social and culturally diverse organization — It is a Movement.
A dominant focus of the Movement Metropolitan’s activities involve finding new means of exchange and interaction between artists and the Hamburg public. It works with artists of all disciplines including dance, opera, music, spoken word, installation, visual arts, illustration and design. Movement Metropolitan provides a forum for artists to develop, collaborate, and create work, presenting it in unique spaces where a diverse and eclectic public is invited to participate, exchange and engage with the artists. We aim to bring art into local communities and reach a wide-ranging Hamburg demographic. This is achieved through the thoughtfully selected spaces and partners around the city that cooperate with us.
Throughout the year, we host platforms for performances, discussions, salons, exhibitions and installations in unique and undiscovered spaces in the greater Hamburg region. From M.Bassy, an old art-deco apartment in Rotherbaum, to a warehouse in Altona, to Halle 424 in the Oberhafen, the Inspiration Room in the Kooploft, and LKB Gallery, Movement Metropolitan works with local partners to find captivating contemporary impulses within the city.
Past and Present Platforms:
Die Kunststoffwellen - Lichthof Theater, February 2020
In a lecture performance, Maria Isabel Hagen and Konstantin Bessonov reflect on the origins of synthetic materials and the ideas of human immortality. What prompted the researchers to experiment with synthetic fabrics? What caused the creation of elastic, heat-resistant, light and transparent materials and under what curious circumstances were the fabrics discovered? At what point in history has the euphoria over plastic dissipated?
THE NOSE Fundraising Platform - Brahms Kontor, November 2019
‘THE NOSE’ is an ambitious and daring reinterpretation of Gogol’s absurd and darkly comical fable of greed, tyranny and fear. The Dance-Rap-Opera engages with international artists and partners across a multitude of performing and visual art forms. Set amongst heated uprisings, burgeoning corruption and a bizarre political system, a nose emancipates itself from the face of a Major, and embarks on a determined adventure attaining a higher rank and status.
The Movement Metropolitan Fellowship
The Movement Metropolitan Fellowship is a unique opportunity for three aspiring Hamburg-based artists. It enables these three artists to develop their disciplines in a selected thematic framework, offering a space for collaboration with other artists, as well as a platform for creating and presenting a work as part of a Movement Metropolitan Salon. Modern artistic practice shows that the artist is versatile. In this project, Movement Metropolitan encourages artists to collaborate and explore how to preserve the contradicting and complementary parts of one's art form in a cross-genre artistic process. The fellowship is conceived as an annual project that offers artists the opportunity to follow impulses and inspiration, offering a collaboration and exchange among international artists who further enrich the Hamburg art scene.
C.R.A.S.H
C.R.A.S.H. stands for Collaborative Resident Arts Space Hamburg and is a project initiated by artists for artists and creators in Hamburg's creative industries. The initiative’s goal is to bring together emerging and established artists and creatives from the disciplines of performing arts, music, visual arts, photography, literature and architecture in the Oberhafen area. A free and interdisciplinary environment of exchange and collaboration between the above-mentioned areas is the philosophy on which the project is based. C.R.A.S.H. knows no cross-generational, social, cultural or religious boundaries. The concept is site specific, uniquely designed for creative meetings, work and productions to manifest. In contrast to event-oriented platforms, C.R.A.S.H. focuses on the working environment of artists and creative people, to enable and support the creative process in various disciplines. With a flexible and contemporary design, offering a space without hindrances, C.R.A.S.H. creates a completely new dynamic working environment for artists, making a decisive contribution to the cultural diversity and growth of the city's most exciting creative quarter.
KoopLoft Salon, November 2018
The KoopLoft Salon was a collaboration between Movement Metropolitan e.V. and the Inspiration Room KoopLoft. International artists from various disciplines fusing opera, dance and music managed to enter into a committed and fluid dialogue with the space created by the architect Henrik Diemann. The guests of the event found themselves in the performance and thus became part of the performance. Amelie Deuflhard and Jessica Nupen also discussed the impact of international art in Hamburg.
Kaiser Quartett in Kooperation mit Halle 424 / Oberhafen, September 2018
After extensive European and North American Philharmonic tours with “The Musical Genius” Chilly Gonzales, the Hamburg Kaiser Quartett presents its solo program in Halle 424, together with the internationally known dancer and choreographer Jessica Nupen.
Halle 424 becomes a very special place for a dance solo in which Jessica Nupen creates a connection between space and music. Using the resources of a classical string quartet fusing electronic music inspirations, vignettes are performed and explored. Together the Kaiser Quartett and Jessica Nupen create a new work in Hamburg's Oberhafenquartier.
In addition to original compositions, previously unpublished works by Grammy Award winner Chilly Gonzales, composed especially for the Kaiser Quartett, will be performed.
Fischgedichte, Salon with poet Arezu Weitholz, April `2018
The international poet, journalist, illustrator and songwriter, known for her collaborations with such artists like Herbert Grönemeyer, Die Toten Hosen, Udo Lindenberg, 2raumwohnung and Madsen, offered an evening of reading, installation and music together with Götz Bühler. The venue was the Kitchen Guerilla Basecamp in Altona.
Brazilian Artist Daniel Melim, January 2018
In cooperation with LKB Gallery and Movement Metropolitan, the Brazilian artist Daniel Melim opened his first exhibition at the LKB Gallery in January 2018. Visual arts, movement and music from the Brazilian group Mazinho de Souza from Hamburg fused together to play and exchange with a diverse audience.
Movement Metropolitan e.V. Opening Night, November 2017
OPENING NIGHT was the founding platform of Movement Metropolitan e.V. in the African interdisciplinary art space M.Bassy in Grindel, Hamburg. Local and international artists based in Hamburg supported the evening with performances from film, installation, music, singing, visual arts and dance.
The short film "Rebellion & Johannesburg" by director Leila El-Kayem, the San Francisco Dance Film Festival Winner for best short film was shown. Other pieces were performed by Angela Kecinski (Germany), Olivia Papoli-Barawati (Philippines / Germany) and Mbulelo Jonas (South Africa). Live performances by Jansen Volkers / Kaiser Quartett (Germany) and A Capella Gesang by Noluthando Sithole (South Africa) and dance by Caroline Dias-Pereira (Brazil) were also part of the event.
A special highlight of the evening was the collaboration between Movement Metropolitan e.V. and the Hamburg gallery LKB / G, which allowed works by African artists such as Io Makandal, Vusi Beauchamp, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Thania Petersen and Grace Cross to be displayed.
