ELGER ESSER, „Wo das Meer an Land denkt”

Opening: Thursday, June 25 from 6 p.m. Introduction to the exhibition with Elger Esser at 7 p.m.

Artist Talk: Friday, June 26, 6 p.m. with Prof. Dr. Hubertus von Amelunxen

Address: PArt Foundation, Güntherstr. 51, 22087 Hamburg, 4th floor (accessible by elevator)

From June 27 please make an appointment in advance to visit the exhibition:
+49 177 888 7664 or mose@part.foundation

Over the summer, the Van der Grinten Gallery will be moving out of its current location on Gertrudenstraße.
The reopening is scheduled for fall 2026

Valérie Belin, one of the leading voices in contemporary photography, focuses her work on the relationship between reality, representation, and artifice. Through frontal, serial images influenced by minimalism, she introduces the human figure to explore questions of identity and simulacrum.
From 2006 onwards, she has incorporated colour and developed a visual language she defines as “magical realism”. With an international career that includes institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou, her work invites us to look beyond the surface and engage with the power of contemporary imagery.

Driven by a desire to renew the historic collaboration between their collections, the Musée d’arts de Nantes and the Frac Pays de la Loire are jointly organizing an exhibition that will take shape in both institutions.
Entitled “Plants and People,” the exhibition juxtaposes historical and contemporary works—photographs, drawings, sculptures, paintings—that explore the place of living things in our relationship with the world. Two complementary approaches are pursued: plants at the Musée d’arts de Nantes and animals at the Frac in Carquefou.