Hamburger Bahnhof

Eva Fàbregas

Devouring Lovers

06 Jul 2023 - 14 Jan 2024

Exhibition view "Eva Fàbgregas. Devouring Lovers", Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present, July 6, 2023-7.1.2024 Courtesy Eva Fàbregas, State Museums in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present / Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Exhibition view "Eva Fàbgregas. Devouring Lovers", Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present, July 6, 2023-7.1.2024 Courtesy Eva Fàbregas, State Museums in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present / Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Exhibition view "Eva Fàbgregas. Devouring Lovers", Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present, July 6, 2023-7.1.2024 Courtesy Eva Fàbregas, State Museums in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present / Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Exhibition view "Eva Fàbgregas. Devouring Lovers", Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present, July 6, 2023-7.1.2024 Courtesy Eva Fàbregas, State Museums in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present / Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Exhibition view "Eva Fàbgregas. Devouring Lovers", Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present, July 6, 2023-7.1.2024 Courtesy Eva Fàbregas, State Museums in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present / Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Exhibition view "Eva Fàbgregas. Devouring Lovers", Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present, July 6, 2023-7.1.2024 Courtesy Eva Fàbregas, State Museums in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of the Present / Photo: Jacopo La Forgia
Eva Fàbregas takes over the historical hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof with a monumental, site-specific installation. The artist's largest solo exhibition to date expands the boundaries of sculpture, inviting visitors to a sensual, spatial experience. Biomorphous sculpturestransform the museum hall's architecture, which is characterized by industrial iron girders, into an organically grown space.

With this new commission, Fàbregas (b. 1988 in Barcelona, lives and works in London and Barcelona) responds to the passage-like architecture of Hamburger Bahnhof’s main historical hall. The soft and corporeal objects, characteristic of the artist's work, spread out throughout the entire space, from the sides, from the ceiling, and through the metal structures. Slight vibrations and movements emanating from them cannot be clearly identified, but are almost physically percebtible. The mix of sculpture and movement reorients the visitors’ experience of the hall. The borders between technically generated, and the human and non-human worlds become blurred. Visitors find themselves immersed in this organic-technical environment.

Curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.
 

Tags: Eva Fàbregas, Anna-Catharina Gebbers