Photos: Julia Knabbe


The show Settlers surveys the search for poetry in that which we build during these unsettled times. The settler is one who builds a home or takes a stand in a place yet unsettled—planting a flag or a tree, singing odes to the wind.



Roman Barkow (*1989, Hamburg) lives and works in Hamburg. He has pursued studies in Philosophy at the Universität Hamburg and is currently a BFA student at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Avis 2014, Heidelberg 2014 / + - 0, UP STATE Gallery, Zürich 2014.

Mareike Brümmer (*1987, Lingen (DE)) lives and works in Hamburg. She is MEd from the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions and projects include the Graduate Show of the University of Fine Arts Hamburg 2014 / Die kleinste Geste, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg 2013 / Scriptings#35 (publication), Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg 2014 / Mindscape Universe, Gallery Vincenz Sala, Paris 2014.

Kirstin Burckhardt (*1986, Durban (ZA)) lives and works in Hamburg. She is Dipl. Kunst from the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
Recent exhibitions include Your current location is temporarily unavailable, Graduate Show of the University of Fine Arts Hamburg 2014 / On fibre art, SanShan Gallery Hangzhou, China 2013 / Open Studios, Scholarship awardee show of the Art School Alliance, Hamburg 2013 / Sicht sammeln, Kunstverein Hildesheim 2012.

Anthea Lubat (*1989, Toulouse (FR)) lives and works in Toulouse. She is MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Recent projects and exhibitions include creating an original vinyl visual identity for Ahrpe Records, Toulouse and Stockholm 2014 / Shadow Widow 4/7, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 2013.

Julia Metropolit (*1988, Cambrai (FR)) lives and works in Hamburg. She is BFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and an MFA student at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include In Surface and Silence, Galerie der HFBK, Hamburg 2013 / Prousts Fragebogen, Elektrohaus Hamburg 2014 / Boat People (edition), Récit, Paris 2014/ La Base, Paris 2014.

Josephine Pasura (*1989, Baden-Baden) lives and works in Hamburg. She did an academic exchange at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in 2013 and is a BFA student at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Me showing marble, Graduate Show of the University of Fine Arts Hamburg 2014 / How huge and strange my love is, Purpose Studio Milan 2014 / Kunsthoch46, Raumlabor, Braunschweig 2014.