I am honored to be part of the world’s first large-scale exhibition on the theme of BREATHING in the art of the Old Masters and the present day @hamburger.kunsthalle opening this weekend. The groupshow looks at the many different facets of the act of breathing and its representation. More than 100 works engage in exciting dialogues, in some cases across the epochs. The result is an unconventional exploration of an existential theme that at first glance seems to be merely an unconscious, biological process but which in fact unfolds myriad social and political dimensions: from breath as a central biblical metaphor and an expression of our relationship to the world, onward to air pollution and respiratory illnesses, all the way to the Black Lives Matter movement. Come by, inhale deeply, hold and exhale. BREATHING September 30, 2022 until January 15, 2023 Hamburger Kunsthalle featured artwork: INHALE HOLD EXHALE, 2016 100 x 100 x 10 cm powder-coated aluminium, neon tubes, two-way mirror, powder-coated steel, transformers, control Unit Featured artists: Marina Abramović & Ulay, Hendrik Andriessen, Thomas Baldischwyler, Hendrick ter Brugghen, Helen Cammock, Nina Canell, Alice Channer, David Claerbout, Natalie Czech, Johan Christian Dahl, Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker, Lucinda Devlin, Johann Georg von Dillis, Allaert van Everdingen, Valie Export, Forensic Architecture, Hamburger Meister, gen. Meister Francke, Caspar David Friedrich, Kasia Fudakowski, Bernardino Fungai, Vibha Galhotra, Jacob Gensler, Francisco de Goya, Andreas Greiner, Jeppe Hein, Holländischer Meister (18. Jh.), Jenny Holzer, Joachim Koester, Teresa Margolles, Jan von Mieris, Willem van Mieris, Bertram von Minden, Oscar Muñoz, Cornelia Parker, Giuseppe Penone, Dirk Reinartz, Anri Sala, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Godfried Schalcken, Markus Schinwald, Hendrick van Someren, Sebastian Stumpf, David Teniers d. J., Thomson & Craighead, Lee Ufan, Claude-Joseph Vernet und David Zink Yi.