ICONIC - 3 TAGE FREI

With ICONIC - Golden Hours of an Artist, Nana Hülsewig has transformed her home into a permanent art space: the HÜLSEWIG HAUS. The apartment becomes a walk-through installation, curated by Paula Kohlmann, who guides the audience through the rooms and narratives. 53 selected objects - notebooks, letters, photographs, pieces of jewelry, paintings, videos and costume pieces - provide an insight into an artistic life that consistently draws on personal experience.

Plants are an integral part of the work and grow through the rooms as allies. Performative situations arise casually and ritualistically: when the artist wakes up, while reading, working or drawing together. Visitors move through a place that is simultaneously a museum, studio, stage and private retreat - and experience an art form that allows closeness and shares vulnerability.

ICONIC- Golden Hours of a Female Artist deals with the visibility of women and flint artists in the art world, aging, working in unstable times and the power of solidary relationships. The project is open, changeable and thrives on repetition and change. As part of 3 TAGE FREI, the HÜLSEWIG HAUS will be open to a limited audience at selected times.

Where art is lived - Nana Hülsewig opens the HÜLSEWIG HAUS
The artist Nana Hülsewig works at the intersection of performance, visual arts, music, costume and painting. In her works, she uses her own body, biographical experiences and personal relationships as artistic material - always with a clear view of power relations, hegemonic structures and society's view of the body. Her perspective is decidedly feminist, her attitude resistant, her work characterized by the desire for independence and self-empowerment.

Since the dissolution of her former collective NAF, with Fender Schrade, Hülsewig has dedicated herself to her own projects, which she consciously thinks of as sustainable: art as a way of life, as a counter-project to economic constraints, as a space for allies. Her works revolve around questions of identity, visibility, vulnerability, age and desire - and how art can be created when the boundaries between work, everyday life and fiction are deliberately blurred.