Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture
9th TRIENNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY HAMBURG
6 June 2026 – 13 September 2026
About the exhibition
How can the evolution of contemporary art serve as a lens through which to understand the history of counterculture—a phenomenon that continues to influence artistic approaches today? This question serves as a guiding force behind the exhibition »Inner Mornings, or Forms of Counterculture«. Building on the ideas of Henry David Thoreau—whose poem The Inward Morning gives the exhibition its title—as well as on the writings of Michel Foucault and Félix Guattari, the concept of counterculture is understood here as active, discursive, and transformative.
Artists
Drawing on the life and work of the French writer and photographer Claude Cahun (1894–1954)—a key figure in the exhibition’s concept through her resistance to all social conventions and to National Socialism—INNER MORNINGS presents works by Soufiane Ababri, Vito Acconci, Halil Altındere, Roy Arden, Maja Bajević, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Jerry Berndt, John Bock, Christian Boltanski, Olaf Breuning, Chris Burden, Victor Burgin, Camille Orso Caël, Claude Cahun, Mircea Cantor, Claire Chevrier, Larry Clark, Allana Clarke, Michael Clegg & Martin Guttmann, Robin Collyer, Jordi Colomer, Jeremy Deller, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, William Eggleston, Erró, Gilbert & George, Walker Evans, VALIE EXPORT, Öyvind Fahlström, Christelle Familiari, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fischli & Weiss, Lee Friedlander, General Idea, Nan Goldin, Hans Haacke, Clarisse Hahn, Raymond Hains, Dennis Hopper, Peter Hujar, Charles Johnstone, Mike Kelley, Jürgen Klauke, Astrid Klein, Karen Knorr, Arthur Koepcke, Jiří Kovanda, Ange Leccia, Sharon Lockhart, Urs Lüthi, Carlos Martiel, Paul McCarthy, Jean-Luc Moulène, Henrik Olesen, Kristin Oppenheim, Daniela Ortiz, Adrian Paci, Gina Pane, Irving Penn, Pierre et Gilles, Peter Piller, Bernard Plossu, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Walid Raad, Gerhard Richter, Sophie Ristelhueber, Martha Rosler, Anri Sala, Santiago Sierra, Andrea Stappert, Tomoko Takahashi, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patrick Tosani, Endre Tót, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Heidi Wood and Artur Żmijewski.
