In­to the Un­seen — The Walt­her Coll­ec­tion at the Deich­tor­hal­len Ham­burg

The ex­hi­bi­ti­on “In­to the Un­seen — The Walt­her Coll­ec­tion” at the Deich­tor­hal­len Ham­burg pres­ents one of the most fa­mous coll­ec­tions of glo­bal pho­to­gra­phy and marks a spe­cial cae­su­ra: it is the last ma­jor pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the Walt­her Coll­ec­tion in Eu­ro­pe be­fo­re around 6,500 works are do­na­ted to the Me­tro­po­li­tan Mu­se­um of Art in New York. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on un­folds a poe­tics of the un­seen th­rough ar­tis­tic works and ever­y­day pho­to­graphs that il­lu­mi­na­te the­mes such as spi­ri­tua­li­ty, trau­ma, trans­for­ma­ti­on and mul­ti­sen­so­ry per­cep­ti­on.

Out­stan­ding works by in­ter­na­tio­nal ar­tists- in­clu­ding Cang Xin, Em’­kal Ey­ong­ak­pa, Rot­imi Fa­ni-Kayo­de, San­tu Mo­fo­keng, Ead­weard Muy­bridge, Jo Ract­lif­fe, Ron­gRong, Ber­ni Sear­le and Yang Fudong — ad­dress the in­vi­si­ble in ever­y­day life and in ar­tis­tic pro­ces­ses. New sound works by Fe­li­pe Rome­ro Bel­trán and a pho­to in­stal­la­ti­on by ar­tist Ana Ma­ría Gó­mez Ló­pez en­rich the over­all ex­pe­ri­ence. An ac­com­pany­ing book­let pro­vi­des vi­si­tors wi­th fur­ther in­sights in­to the ar­tis­tic per­spec­ti­ves and theo­ries sur­roun­ding the in­vi­si­ble. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on is roun­ded off by a com­pre­hen­si­ve pu­bli­ca­ti­on wi­th con­tri­bu­ti­ons from re­now­ned sci­en­tistsand ar­tists, which will be pu­blished in De­cem­ber 2025.