Not Fully Human, Not Human at All

Hundreds of independent art and museums spaces are forced to close again due to the Corona-Crisis. In C& and C&AL we want to celebrate the fantastic artistic events that are sitting behind closed doors. The group exhibition Not Fully Human, Not Human at All at Kunstverein Hamburg looks into the processes of dehumanization that have been taking place in Europe.

by C&

Mon 18 Jan, 2021

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All takes its name from Donna Haraway’s essay Ecce Homo, Ain’t (Ar’n’t) I a Woman, and Inappropriate/d Others, a text which challenges the “universal” claims of Enlightenment Humanism in order to propose conditions of what she calls “non-generic” collective humanity. In this text, Haraway refers to Hortense Spillers’ description of the levels of dehumanization and of the lack of any legal subjectivity that the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, especially enslaved woman in the United States, were subjected to. The group exhibition looks into those processes of dehumanization that have been taking place in Europe.

With: Saddie Choua, Valentina Desideri / Denise Ferreira da Silva / Arely Amaut, Nilbar Güreş, Ibro Hasanović, Jelena Jureša, Doruntina Kastrati, Kaltrina Krasniqi, Pedro Neves Marques, Christian Nyampeta, Daniela Ortiz, Monira Al Qadiri, Lala Raščić, Kengné Téguia.

Curators: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Bettina Steinbrügge

Curatorial advisors: Bruno Leitão, Monica de Miranda, HANGAR (Lisbon, Portugal), Donjetë Murati, Ares Shporta, Lumbardhi (Prizren, Kosovo), João Mourão & Luís Silva, Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon, Portugal), Emilie Villez, KADIST (Paris, France), Pieternel Vermoortel, Netwerk (Aalst, Belgium)

https://www.kunstverein.de/ausstellungen/aktuell/not-fully-human-not-human-at-all

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Kegné Téguia, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Valentina Desideri/ Denise Ferreira da Silva/ Arely Amaut, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Daniela Ortiz, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Valentina Desideri/ Denise Ferreira da Silva/ Arely Amaut, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Saddie Choua, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Daniela Ortiz, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Jelena Jureša, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All 2020, Nilbar Güreş, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020 Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Lala Raščić, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott

Not Fully Human, Not Human at All, Ibro Hasanović, installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2020, Photo: Fred Dott