A TIME-BASED EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION: 27.12.2025 – 11.01.2026
DAYLY 17.00–21.00 H
SIELDEICH 36, 20539 HAMBURG
SATURDAY 10.01.2026, 15.00 H
CONVERSATION WITH THE CURATORS OF PFSL#02
JAN DERK DIEKEMA (NL) AND JAMES ENOS* (USA) AND ANNIE SIMPSON* (USA) WITH: TORSTEN BRUCH, KOOS BUIST (NL), MICHAEL KRESS, SOPHIA LEITENMAYER, CHRISDIAN WITTENBURG
(*via video)
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
MICKEY BOYD
TORSTEN BRUCH
KOOS BUIST
MARIN CARR QUIMET
XIN CHENG
JAN DERK DIEKEMA
JAMES ENOS
SAMUAL HORGAN
MATT KAELIN
JOE KENNEDY
FOREST KELLEY
MICHAEL KRESS
SOPHIA LEITENMAYER
CHUCK MILLER
MICHAEL MULLIN
ANDREA NGAN
VIJAY RAJKUMAR
MIKU SATO
TOM SCHRAM
ANNIE SIMPSON
NAO UDA
CHRISDIAN WITTENBURG
Port Futures + Social Logistics is an international initiative of artists, urbanists, and scientists that originated out of several international networks. PFSL is a speculative platform dedicated to issues of art, urbanism, international energy transition, and geo-cultural flux as a form of simultaneity and presence.
Port Futures and Social Logistics #2 unfolds as a time-based exhibition —
a series of individually created moving-image works by more than twenty artists from around the world. These short films act as testimonies: encounters between artists and remarkable situations in their immediate environments. Together, they form a dispersed exhibition that moves between geographies, perspectives, and temporalities, inviting viewers to witness the world in motion.
Developed through an open call, PFSL#02 invited artists to consider, through the lenses of urgency and circularity, how we currently view rivers, wetlands, and the sea within the complexity of real-time observation. The question was never meant as a fixed framework, but as a provocation—to look closely, pause, and record what arises from attentive observation. What emerges are visual fragments that, taken together, form a global conversation on ecology, place, and perception.
The series reimagines the encounter with moving images as something closer to the rhythm of a gallery visit than the cadence of traditional cinema. Each work stands alone, yet resonates with others—forming a network of relations assembled by the viewer in real time. We offer this list of titles not as a linear program but as an exhibition map: a guide to enter, depart from, and return to. Testimony, research, and observation flow together here, forming an accumulation of encounters rather than a sequence.
PFSL#02 insists on slowness—on the layered act of attending to testimony beyond documentary evidence. These works bring together artistic research, environmental urgencies, and socio-political and technological mediations that challenge the boundaries of representation. The experience of global testimony cannot be scripted into consensus; it must remain open to interruption, multiplicity, and the unknown.
In some films, short stories unfold through careful editing; in others, we are uncertain what we are seeing, yet a dialogue emerges—between creator, situation, and viewer.
Each screening becomes a provisional constellation, guided as much by absence—the unseen works and unspoken contexts—as by what is present. Viewers are invited to experience these works independently of the screen or cinema, to look, walk, and carry the images outward, projecting them onto the world around them.
PFSL#02 continues a conversation begun with an earlier call in 2022, and will be followed by future editions—forming an ongoing archive of visual testimonies from artists working in port cities, along rivers, and across coastal terrains worldwide.
https://www.social-logistics.org
The exhibition is outdoors – please remember to bring warm socks. 😉
You can reach us by S-Bahn (lines S3/5, from Elbrücken, two stops from the main train station), by bicycle, or with Moia!
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der
Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg/
und dem Bezirksamt Hamburg Mitte