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

The overview tour introduces key themes of the exhibition and offers insight into the work of the interdisciplinary artist Saâdane Afif, who has lived in the city since 2003, and features, among other works, the extensive project The Fountain Archives. This artistic archival project is dedicated to one of the most prominent chapters of 20th-century art history: the legendary readymade Fountain by Marcel Duchamp from 1917. Afif’s spatial installation, which focuses on the reception history of Duchamp’s urinal readymade, was donated to the museum by Paul Maenz in 2023. The exhibition presents this installation alongside other works that profoundly and humorously question the art museum as an institution, as well as the concept of authorship.

Free of charge with a valid admission ticket.Registration not required.

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Meeting point: foyer

Next date:

• Date Sunday, 17/May/2026 13:00 bis 14:00
• Venue Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
• Address Invalidenstraße 51, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten