Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents the exhibition Passage by the artist duo Jakob Lena Knebl & Ashley Hans Scheirl since Saturday, April 27, 2024. In the sensual, aesthetically highly charged installations of the Austrian duo Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl, nothing is as it seems: across all floors of the collection building, they create accessible, seductive worlds in a mix of sculpture, painting, design, staging, photography and film that captivate visitors.
In these “spaces of desire” Knebl and Scheirl refer to the history of art and design in order to demonstrate their role in the construction of identity and to negotiate it in a contemporary context. The artists manage to walk the tightrope, combining fetishism and humor in surprising ways. They take bodies apart and put them back together. This diversity of …
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Image above: Jakob Lena Knebl & Ashley Hans Scheirl, view of the exhibition Doppelganger!, Palais de Tokyo, Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Aurélien Mole