Time, Ti­gers and Trans­for­ma­ti­on — The ex­hi­bi­ti­on Ho Tzu Ny­en at the Ham­bur­ger Kunst­hal­le

For the first time, the Ham­bur­ger Kunst­hal­le is de­di­ca­ting a com­pre­hen­si­ve sur­vey ex­hi­bi­ti­on to the in­ter­na­tio­nal­ly re­now­ned ar­tist Ho Tzu Ny­en wi­th the show “Time & the Ti­ger”. From 21 No­vem­ber 2025 to 12 April 2026, a fa­sci­na­ting world of vi­deo in­stal­la­ti­ons and mul­ti­me­dia works will un­fold in the Ga­le­rie der Ge­gen­wart, ex­plo­ring the com­plex rea­li­ties, myths and iden­ti­ty con­s­truc­tions of Sou­the­ast Asia. Ho Tzu Ny­en is con­side­red one of the most in­no­va­ti­ve crea­ti­ves of the last twen­ty ye­ars; as a vi­su­al ar­tist, aut­hor, theat­re and film­ma­ker, his im­mersi­ve in­stal­la­ti­ons con­stant­ly ques­ti­on the com­mon nar­ra­ti­ves of histo­ry, time and cul­tu­ral af­fi­lia­ti­on.

At the cent­re of the ex­hi­bi­ti­on are fi­gu­res such as the ti­ger, which il­lus­tra­te the de­ve­lo­p­ment of Ho’s work as sym­bols of me­ta­mor­pho­sis and the pro­mi­se of be­co­ming. His­to­ri­cal events, do­cu­men­ta­ry films, art histo­ry and mu­sic vi­de­os are in­ter­wo­ven wi­th my­thi­cal nar­ra­ti­ves, reve­al­ing the di­ver­si­ty of Asi­an-Eu­ro­pean in­fluen­ces and a hy­bri­di­sed pre­sent. When Ho Tzu Ny­en re­flects on the con­s­truc­tion of histo­ry and the nego­tia­ti­on of iden­ti­ties in his works, a dia­lo­gue is crea­ted bet­ween past, pre­sent and fu­ture, al­lo­wing vi­si­tors to im­mer­se them­sel­ves in the ar­tis­t’s mul­ti­me­dia world of ex­pe­ri­ence in a uni­que way.