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Saâdane Afif – Overview

Ausstellungsansicht „Saâdane Afif. Five Preludes“, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 12.12.2025 – 13.09.2026, Abgebildet: The Fountain Archives, 2008-2020

Ausstellungsansicht „Saâdane Afif. Five Preludes“, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 12.12.2025 – 13.09.2026, Abgebildet: The Fountain Archives, 2008-2020

© Saâdane Afif, 2025 VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy of the artist & Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Foto: Jacopo La Forgia

The introductory tour covers the exhibition’s key themes and offers insight into the work of Saâdane Afif, an interdisciplinary artist who has lived in the city since 2003. Among other works, the exhibition features the multi-part piece “The Fountain Archives.” This artistic archive project is dedicated to one of the most prominent chapters in 20th-century art history: Marcel Duchamp’s legendary 1917 readymade “Fountain.” Afif’s installation was generously donated to the museum by Paul Maenz in 2023. The exhibition presents it alongside other works that, with depth and subtle humor, question the institution of the art museum and the principle of authorship.

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