Harry HachmeisterAußer Betrieb17.02.–26.05.2024
Vitrine, Sackstraße 29, 8010 Graz, Austria
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With Außer Betrieb, Harry Hachmeister's first solo exhibition at Ebensperger, he presents an installation in Ebensperger Vitrine that is strongly characterised by the artist's practice. Harry Hachmeister negotiates the themes of his art in interdisciplinary works that range from photography, drawing and painting to ceramics. He often groups the individual works into expansive installations that refer to states of no longer and not quite yet. Processes of change, provisional and intermediate stages form the starting points for Hachmeister's artistic treatment of various identities, bodies and their attributions. Dumbbells and weights borrowed from the cold and serious fitness context become playful ceramic objects in amusing shapes, which, sometimes somewhat exhausted or bent, but always colourful and sometimes even glittering, invite the viewer to touch them. The otherwise rather contemplative motifs of folk-religious reverse glass painting are lustful and queer in Hachmeister's work. His bodies do not feel bound to their intended purpose, but create a detachment from normative reality through ambivalence, delicacy and play.
Leipzig-born Harry Hachmeister (*1979) worked as a visual artist under the name Grit Hachmeister until 2019. Between 1999 and 2007, he studied fine art with a focus on photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) under Professor Timm Rautert. Today, he deals with the themes of his art in interdisciplinary works that range from photography, drawing and painting to ceramics.His most recent awards include a working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony (2020), the BS Projects grant from HBK Braunschweig (2018), a working grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn (2015) and a grant from the Pollock-Krasner-Foundation New York (2014).Hachmeister has participated in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including Framing Identity, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2020), We don't use it, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile (2020), Inside-Out, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2019), Redemption Jokes, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Berlin (2015), Travestie für Fortgeschrittene, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (2015), Unceasing, kim? Contemporary Art Centre Riga/Lithuania (2013), Photography and the Individual, Museum Folkwang Essen (2010). Together with Lysann Buschbeck and Kathrin Pohlmann, he created a variety of works under the name VIP from 2003-2018.
Since 2010 he has published the magazine DIE STREICHELWURST, which he runs with Claudia Gülzow and Pauline Recke. Hachmeister has also been working with Claudia Gülzow on a transdisciplinary basis since 2010, including as Simon & Simone.
