On the Origins of the 21st Century or the Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography
2025-12-07 11:00 | Klosterwall 23, 20095 Hamburg
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Through five curated sections, this cluster of exhibitions examines
the role of intimacy, gender, and sexuality through visual cultures in
the context of political regime changes in Europe from the 1980s until
today. Artworks that engage with the Fall of the Berlin Wall and its
consequences shed light on the emergence of a power vacuum, in a
moment often referred to as the end of history, and the struggles
emerging within new hegemonies informed by gender and sexuality. The
title references Jean-Luc Godard?s f ilm Origins of the 21st
Century, which anticipates developments in visual culture that
synthesise violence and the erotic into an era of the ?hardcore?
at the turn of the millennium ? a time when uncensored images
increasingly begin to enable and establish new political spaces. The
exhibition seeks the origins of this hardcore visual culture not in
cinema, but in video and television media, locating them as the
dominant tools of discourse and power in a then- accelerating
postmodernity.

Curated by Angela Harutyunyan, Charles Teyssou und Pierre-Alexandre
Mateos, Dina Akhmadeeva, Elisa R. Linn, Erika Balsom.

With works by:

Sona Abgaryan, J�rgen Baldiga, Annemirl Bauer, Maria Grazia Belmonti,
Anna M�ria

Beov�, B�rbel Bohley, G�nter Brus, Anna Carini, Michel Carrouges,
Shu Lea

Cheang, Mahmoud Dabdoub, Lutz Dammbeck, Rony Daopoulo, Anna
Dau�kov�, Paola De

Martiis, De-Zentralbild, Mark Dion, Peter Friedl, Nikolay Georgiev,
Wiktor Grodecki, Diana

Hakobyan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Jayne-Ann Igel, Libue Jarcovj�kov�,
William E. Jones, David

Kareyan, Tigran Khachatryan, Pierre Klossowski, K�nstlerinnengruppe
Erfurt, Raja Lubinetzki,

Materialien aus dem Archiv GrauZone, Paul McCarthy, Tiona Nekkia
McClodden, Bjarne

Melgaard, Annabella Miscuglio, Clara Mosch, Namenlos, Ladies Neid, Shz
Numa, C�sar

Olhagaray, Geraldo Paunde, Ulrich Polster, N�ria Quevedo, Loredana
Rotondo, Ronald M.

Schernikau, Sarah Schulman, Harout Simonian, Gabriele St�tzer, Sandra
Teitge, Tsomak, Ralf-

Rainer Wasse, J�rgen Wittdorf, frau anders, Rosa von Praunheim

Organised by Milan Ther, with Christian B�tjer, Dr Martin Karcher,
and Sarah Messerschmidt

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