Mu­se­um in mo­ti­on — glim­p­ses of the fu­ture at Ham­bur­ger Bahn­hof

The ex­hi­bi­ti­on “Mu­se­um in Mo­ti­on — A Coll­ec­tion for the 21st Cen­tu­ry” sets an ex­am­p­le for the mu­se­um of the fu­ture wi­th its di­ver­se pre­sen­ta­ti­on of the coll­ec­tion at Ham­bur­ger Bahn­hof — Na­tio­nal­ga­le­rie der Ge­gen­wart. To mark the re­ope­ning of the Rieck­hal­len, ten lar­ge-for­mat works from the last 25 ye­ars are be­ing shown he­re, in­clu­ding se­ve­ral ex­ci­ting new ac­qui­si­ti­ons that are be­ing pre­sen­ted to the pu­blic for the first time. The works ad­dress the chan­ging ro­le of mu­se­ums for con­tem­po­ra­ry art and po­se im­portant ques­ti­ons: How can a mu­se­um re­main re­le­vant to­day? How must it ad­apt to a con­stant­ly chan­ging so­cie­ty, tech­no­lo­gi­cal de­ve­lo­p­ments and de­mo­gra­phic ch­an­ges?

Wi­th im­pres­si­ve in­stal­la­ti­ons, mul­ti­me­dia sculp­tures and ex­pres­si­ve pho­to se­ries by ar­tistssuch as Cev­det Erek, Elm­green & Drags­et, An­ne Im­hof and Je­re­my Shaw, the ex­hi­bi­ti­on opens up new per­spec­ti­ves on con­tem­po­ra­ry art. It high­lights the im­portance of a clo­se dia­lo­gue bet­ween the mu­se­um, ar­tistsand vi­si­tors in or­der to ac­tively pro­mo­te cul­tu­ral pro­duc­tion and look to the fu­ture tog­e­ther. In­no­va­ti­ve new ac­qui­si­ti­ons — in­clu­ding the vi­deo in­stal­la­ti­on “Pha­se Shif­ting In­dex” by Je­re­my Shaw — and the sup­port of pa­trons’ as­so­cia­ti­ons em­pha­sise the Ham­bur­ger Bahn­hof’s so­cial mis­si­on: coll­ec­ting, com­mu­ni­ca­ting and de­ve­lo­ping art for fu­ture ge­ne­ra­ti­ons.