Hubertus Hamm Germany, b. 1950

Kornfeld Gallery is very pleased to present the exhibition vi - ew with new works by the Munich-based artist Hubertus Hamm.
With his art he creates something magical and lively. Under the umbrella term "vi - ew" Hubertus Hamm gathers objects from twelve different groups of works. All of them are about the fleeting image. A work of art can only come into being when it is looked at. Man becomes part of his art by entering into an interaction between the objects and himself.

Tammam Azzam, Elvira Bach, Stéphane Couturier, Nick Dawes, Paris Giachoustidis, Hubertus Hamm, Natela Iankoshvili, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Christopher Lehmpfuhl, David Meskhi, Susanne Roewer, Hubert Scheibl, Martin Spengler, Jan Tichy, Ivana de Vivanco
Galerie Kornfeld is delighted to announce it's ten year anniversary exhibition, wich will feature the artists that have come along with us through the decade. The anniversary exhibition will reveal touching glimpses of the past and the future, sensitive and exciting exchanges between first artistic attempts and more mature works. The works on show hint at inner struggle and transformation, the eternal search for what is hidden behind the visible.

“Make it your own story” – the title of the exhibition is a call for participation. A work of art can only unfold its power and affect the viewer as long as it is perceived, thus becoming part of one’s own story.
Susanne Roewer and Hubertus Hamm are highly interested in materials and their distinctive properties. Deliberate yet playful, they consciously shape the different materials, putting the latter’s specific traits at the service of their art.

Hiba Alansari, Tammam Azzam, Stéphane Couturier, Nick Dawes, Farshad Farzankia, Hubertus Hamm, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Vera Pagava
Shutdown. Lockdown. Confirmations. Cancellations.
That might happen from time to time, the gallerist thinks. Occasionally an artist or a collector might cancel. This time, however, it's a collective, worldwide cancellation. And he tries to understand current events, just as the friends of art seek to read and interpret images. And the gallerist thinks. Cancel? Confirm? He thinks: These extraordinary times offer us the opportunity to pause momentarily, to reflect on what really matters, to feel what is taking place and to become aware of the consequences. At least from time to time.

Inge Dick, Shirine Gill, Hubertus Hamm, Stefan Heyne, Marta Hoepffner, Joseph Minek, Regine Schumann and Jan Tichy
More Light! Contemporary Positions of Abstract Photography
The history of photography is founded on a mythical basis: as in the Gospel of John, it seems as if, around the mid-19th century, the light shone in the darkness and, once again, the latter failed to seize the former. On 6 January 1839, the French newspaper “Gazette de France” reported on an invention that would “put to shame all theories about light and optics”. A few weeks before, the French painter Louis Daguerre had, by way of a “camera obscura”, succeeded in capturing sun light on a light-sensitive surface: one of the great revolutions of modernity. Henceforth, it was possible to materialize that which, on closer inspection, was in fact invisible: natural sunlight. It seemed as if all ideas about time, space, the world and reality had to be re-evaluated.

The work of Hubertus Hamm is characterized by its intense exploration of the medium of portrait photography, culminating in the installation Portrait IV. As a consistent expansion of the principle of “photography”, which the artist calls “Dimensioning Photography”, Hubertus Hamm’s works engage the viewer in a dialogue, encouraging self-reflection and self-questioning.

Stéphane Couturier, Hubertus Hamm, Bertram Hasenauer, Natela Iankoshvili, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Christopher Lempfuhl, Olivia Mc Gilchrist, Anne Pantillon, Sandeep Mukherjee, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama
At a “Supper Club”, people who have generally never met before, get together in their host’s private rooms, where they are wined and dined with a self-prepared culinary menu. The idea of different people and cultures coming together through a shared interest is the inspiration for the group exhibition “Supper Club” that kick-starts the year 2017 at Galerie Kornfeld. We invited gallery artists, as well as exciting guest artists, to bring along one or two works as gifts for this exhibition, which unites a variety of artistic forms under one thematic framework.

In the exhibition Time Modelling the artist continues his exploration of space and time by photographic means. A photograph always shows a brief moment that has been wrested from the infinite flow of time and captured in the image for eternity. Every photo is therefore a historic document and, as such, connected to the memory of past things. Here the artist achieves to re-connect the image with its actual place, space and time through an exact labelling of his works: the title includes the place, the date and the time of day.

Maliheh Afnan, Robert Fry, Hubertus Hamm, Franziska Klotz, Tamara Kvesitadze, Alexander Polzin, Susanne Roewer, Hubert Scheibl, Leonardo Silaghi, Jan Tichy, Sonny Sanjay Vadgama
The exhibition “Paper Plains” will show a wide spectrum of techniques to working on paper, including etchings, prints, photographs, drawings and paintings. It brings together established artists with young emerging producers, tracing the significance of this simultaneously ancient and contemporary medium.
In a rapidly digitalising (art)world with the means to print perfect 3D sculptures, generate slick flawless imagery on photoshop and immaterial artworks making their way into galleries, it is curious to witness the return of paper as an important medium for artists.

By means of cutting and layering multiple photographs, Hubertus Hamm transforms the two-dimensional medium of photography into works that extend into three-dimensional space.
Our exhibition presents a new series of photographic layerings. The point of departure for these works are images of snow-covered branches. By layering multiple identical photographs congruently and then tearing away the upper layers, Hubertus Hamm reveals previously hidden layers. This creates a three-dimensional, relief-like structure, drawing attention to the materiality of the medium paper, whilst at the same time mirroring the motif – the layers of snow-covered branches – in an almost mimetic manner.