ICONIC – Goldene Stunden einer Künstlerin

Where Art Is Lived – Nana Hülsewig Opens the HÜLSEWIG HOUSE

The artist Nana Hülsewig works at the intersections of performance, visual art, music, costume, and painting. In her practice, she uses her own body, biographical experiences, and personal relationships as artistic material—always with a clear focus on power relations, hegemonic structures, and the social gaze directed at bodies. Her perspective is explicitly feminist, her stance resistant, and her work shaped by a strong desire for independence and self-empowerment.

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

3 TAGE FREI presents: ICONIC – Golden Hours of an Artist

With ICONIC – Golden Hours of an Artist, Nana Hülsewig has transformed her home into a permanent art space: the HÜLSEWIG HOUSE. The apartment becomes a walk-in total installation, curated by Paula Kohlmann, who guides the audience through the rooms and narratives. Fifty-three selected objects—notebooks, letters, photographs, pieces of jewelry, paintings, videos, and costume works—offer insight into an artistic life consistently rooted in personal experience.

Plants are an integral part of the work and grow through the rooms as allies. Performative situations emerge casually and ritualistically: during the artist’s awakening, through shared reading, working, or drawing. Visitors move through a place that is at once museum, studio, stage, and private retreat—encountering an art form that allows closeness and shares vulnerability.

ICONIC – Golden Hours of an Artist addresses the ongoing visibility of women and FLINTA* persons in the art world, aging, working under unstable conditions, and the power of solidarity. The project is open and mutable, sustained by repetition and change. As part of 3 TAGE FREI, the HÜLSEWIG HOUSE will be open at selected times to a limited audience.