A PROJECT BY MICHAELA MELIÁN & WON JIN CHOI
Opening
07.11.2025, 19.00 h
HyCP Veddel Space
Sieldeich 36
20539 Hamburg
Exhibition 08. – 23.11.2025
Opening Hours
Friday from 16 – 18.00 h
Saturday and Sunday from 14 –18.00 h
And on request (Groups and Student classes are welcome)
Program
Ivor Stodolsky
Lisa Fittko (1909-2005) and the F-Route. Reclaiming the Narrative of the Resistance. On the 20th anniversary of her passing
09.11.2025, 18.00 h
HyCP Veddel Space
Ivor Stodolsky is a curator, writer and co-founder and director of Perpetuum Mobile (PM), the international NGO which runs Artists at Risk (AR) and Ecologists at Risk (ER). AR/ER provides residencies for threatened cultural practitioners, ecologists, and other HRDs. Ivor curates internationally and serves on several juries, occasionally returning to his background in politics, philosophy, and literary practice. Artists at Risk (AR) has won awards such as the State Prize of Finland and the European Citizens’ Prize of the European Parliament.
Cinema Program
21.11.2025, 18.00 h,
Kino in der Kirche Veddel
MS LUNARIS krx xxiii
directed by Juno Meinecke, 2023,30 min.
A German cruise ship drifts aimlessly through the Mediterranean. Armed with a camcorder, passenger Karla delves deeper and deeper into the ship’s belly and becomes increasingly drawn into the crew’s power structures.
Le Chant des pylônes (The Sound of the pylons),
directed by Léo Bayle & Téano Horn, 2024, 68 min,
Catherine misses her Flixbus and finds herself stranded at a highway rest area somewhere near Marseille. Resigning herself to making do, she starts walking along the highway, passing through industrial landscapes where, among other weird people, she encounters the Pharaoh of Marseille, the prophet of the power poles, who becomes her guide. This mystical and comical figure takes her through the wastelands of the suburban world, explored in wide shots that highlight the distances and the emptiness of the spaces. Catherine encounters crooked bosses and techno-enthusiastic Tesla drivers and stumbles upon a ceremony dedicated to the mysterious Silurian. A picaresque journey into the imagination of the marginalized through the lens of a post-industrial society in full decay.
21.11.2025
Both films premiered at the Hof Film Festival 2024
HELLO DEUTSCHLAND – DIE EINWANDERER
Über sie spricht das ganze Land: die Einwanderer. In HELLO DEUTSCHLAND – DIE EINWANDERER sprechen sie selbst über Erfolge und Rückschläge beim Ankommen in der deutschen Gesellschaft. 2017 begannen die Dreharbeiten für die fiktionale Doku-Soap, in der mediale Klischees zu den Themen Migration, Flucht und Ankommensgesellschaft verdreht und überschrieben werden. Entstanden ist ein neues Format, das Empowerment mit Entertainment neu kombiniert.
New Media Socialism ist eine freie Mediengruppe, die sich 2017 im Umfeld des Migrantpolitan auf Kampnagel gegründet hat. Zentral sind selbstermächtigende Formate, in denen Migrantinnen als Protagonistinnen und aktive Gestalterinnen vertreten sind. Die Gruppe setzt sich aus Theaterschaffenden und Medienproduzentinnen zusammen, die gemeinsam an neuen Formen zwischen Performance und (Web-) Video, Dokumentartheater und Reality-TV experimentieren. Einige Mitglieder der Gruppe haben Fluchthintergrund, andere nicht.
Hello Deutschland – die Einwanderer (2018)
Ramadram (2020)
The Justice Project (2021)
L.S.D. (2022)
About WON JIN CHOI and Michaela Melián
WON JIN CHOI
Babel, text originally written in French, 2025
Lecture Performance
22.11.2025, 16.00 h
Marseille exists at the threshold of histories—both ancient and urgent. France’s oldest city, it is a place of departures and arrivals, marked by lives in transit. Its geography and architecture carry the weight of exile, refuge, and migration. Ninety percent of its residents trace their ancestry beyond.
French borders, and its streets remain a living archive of crossings—forced and chosen. This research lab begins here, in Marseille, a city shaped by movements both visible and obscured. Its aim is not to monumentalize the past but to make its contours perceptible, alive in the present. Through a synthesis of artistic and archival practices, Lieux de passage – à travers Marseille (working title) proposes an inquiry into what remains—into the spaces, objects, and lives shaped by histories of displacement.
Michaela Melián
As a visual artist, Michaela Melián has succeeded over the past three decades in combining high culture and pop culture in her artistic practice.
She sees herself as an artist in the tradition of feminist deconstruction.
In her works, which include installations, drawings, photographs, objects, music, films and texts, Michaela Melián poses questions about the historicity of places, memory and language as well as their inherent moments of (re)construction and projection. Melián draws on Melián uses a variety of cultural-historical, pop-cultural and socio-political references to create a complex network of meanings, narratives and possible readings.
Eva Huttenlauch, Städtische Galerie and Kunstbau – Lenbachhaus Munich
Won Jin Choi
Won Jin Choi is an independent curator and professor at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille. Her curatorial practice focuses on collaborative partnerships with artists, particularly for site-specific exhibitions. By integrating research, production support, and writing, she weaves poetic narratives that link artistic positions, sites, and architecture, considering their past, present, future, and (in)tangible sentiments. Choi collaborates with various institutions across Europe while also leading independent initiatives. Since 2018, she has been the co-founder and co-director of Belsunce Projects, a curatorial platform that has realized and public programs both independently and in collaboration with institutions such as Art Expora, Triangle-Astérides France, La Synagogue de Delme, and venues like Friche la Belle de Mai, FRAC PACA, Pina, and HAUS Wien. As part of the artistic committee for SYSTEMA, an annual exhibition held at Palais Carli in Marseille, she explores the forms and potentials of collective exhibition-making. She coordinates the Écumes independent study program in partnership with Dos Mares – International Art Research Center. This annual program fosters critical thinking and cooperative exchange among twelve intergenerational artists over eight-month intervals.
With the kind support of the
Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media/
and the Hamburg Mitte District Office
With the kind support within the framework of the PERSPECTIVE Fund for Contemporary Art & Architecture of the Bureau des arts visuels of the Institut français Deutschland, supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Institut français Paris, and the Goethe-Institut
