Multispecies Futures* - Hartmut Kiewert

Exhibition until August 11

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Due to the “Oldtimer Open Air” on 25. and 26.5. on em weekend
the admission prices of the organizer apply.

Please check the opening hours on our website before your visit,
which may change in rare cases due to the Citadel Music Festival (from 1.6.).
www.zitadelle-berlin.de


The theme of Hartmut Kiewert's artistic work is thinking about the history, forms, possibilities and
future of the relationship between humans and animals. Starting from the utopian idea of peaceful
and equal coexistence, the painter develops social images whose deeper meaning is the visualization
of a utopia in which animals are no longer objects of an exploitative practice from the point of view
of marketing, but rather they become subjects of a changed and emancipatory world order.

Behind this seemingly romantic idea is the critical examination of power structures and their mechanisms.
Hartmut Kiewert's large-format oil paintings are not only created in the awareness that our human attitude
towards the animal world must radically change, but also that the repression of our predominantly
economized and alienated treatment of animals should be countered by positive narratives.

Hartmut Kiewert (* 1980 in Koblenz) studied painting and graphics at the University of Art and Design,
Burg Giebichenstein in Halle from 2003 to 2010, where he graduated with distinction.
The artist lives and works in Leipzig.

Kategorien: Kunst, Kultur, Ausstellungen

Bezirk: Spandau