Opening: Thursday, June 25, 2026, from 7:00 PM
Lecture Performance: Ina Wudtke & Prince Kuhlmann
Saturday, July 4, 2026, 3:00 PM
Duration: June 26, 2026 – July 11, 2026
Finissage (Closing): Saturday, July 11, 2026, 3:00 PM
Hours: Fri 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Sat/Sun 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM,
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HYCP Veddel Space Sieldeich 36, 20539 Hamburg
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The exhibition The Red Atlantic focuses on the author, communist, and later Pan-Africanist George Padmore (1902 Trinidad – 1959 London). The exhibition’s title plays on the concept of the Black Atlantic, as described by Paul Gilroy in his book of the same name. Padmore made a significant contribution to decolonization and anti-fascist resistance. From 1930 to 1933, he worked at the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (Bureau against Imperialism), which was located in the Port of Hamburg until the Nazis seized power. During this period, he was the editor of the anti-colonial newspaper The Negro Worker, which was aimed at Black port workers and sailors and was produced at Rothesoodstraße 8, right behind St. Michael’s Church. After the Second World War, George Padmore became the most important advisor to Kwame Nkrumah and, alongside him and numerous fellow campaigners, led Ghana to independence.
The Hyper Cultural Passengers exhibition space is located in Hamburg’s Veddel district, an area shaped by diverse generations of migration. It is a neighborhood where port workers have lived for many decades. Alongside the exhibition, a workshop was held with students from the Hafencity School, together with the actor Prince Kuhlmann (Notruf Hafenkante, among others). Together with the students, a series of short videos were created to accompany Ina Wudtke’s exhibited video and audio works, in which Prince Kuhlmann portrays George Padmore.
Further works in the exhibition are dedicated to Padmore’s comrades such as Joseph Ekwe Bilé, who also wrote for The Negro Worker, and the political songwriter Fasia Jansen, who grew up in Rothenburgsort. Through these, she brings back to mind Black German history that had fallen into oblivion due to Cold War anti-communism.
Ina Wudtke is a Berlin-based artist whose research-driven work challenges dominant political narratives around labor, gender, housing, and colonial legacies. She studied at the HFBK Hamburg. She was a founding member of the queer-feminist artist collective NEID and edited the eponymous magazine from 1992 to 2004. In 2018, Ina Wudtke’s book The Fine Art of Living (Berlin, Archive Books) was published, featuring works on the housing question. From 2018 to 2021, she was the artistic researcher of documenta professor Dr. Nora Sternfeld at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. In 2022, her book Worker Writers / Arbeiterschriftsteller:innen. Von MASCH bis Greif zur Feder (Berlin, Motto Books) was released, focusing on her works related to the workers movement. In the publication Black Studium. A Tribute to Fasia Jansen, Hilarius Gilges & Joseph Ekwe Bilé (Berlin, Scriptings, 2024; Berlin EECLECTIC, E-BOOK, 2025), she continues her artistic research on the workers movement and uncovers traces of Black German history.
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