Klassenreise. Aktionen zu sozialer Herkunft

In the organizer's words:

Class trip
Actions on social background
16.4.-16.5.2026

A project by Hajusom e.V.
Artistic direction: Melike Bilir, Anne Meerpohl and Verena Brakonier

Website: https://klassenreise.hajusom.com/
Instagram: klassenreise_hh

All events are free of charge.

What's classy if you're rich, what's trashy if you're poor? - When are a pair of untied shoes and holes in your pants a fad, a trend and a cultural upgrade, when are they a symbol of poverty? Or when is living precariously more of a performative attitude than a material reality that has established itself in the art and culture industry?

Although there has been more and more transparency in recent years - albeit not enough - about money, power structures and working conditions, inequalities based on social background seem to be moving slowly and tenaciously to the surface, let alone softening. The term "classism" marks different forms of exclusion and discrimination in relation to class origin or affiliation. Class shapes not only financial opportunities, but also language, appearance, a habitus and belonging. It determines which spaces people can enter and how they feel at home there. Those who know the cultural codes, usually because they have already been socialized there, move through art and cultural institutions as a matter of course. Those who don't know them are often left out. And it is precisely these mechanisms of exclusion and devaluation that need to be unraveled and thus made vulnerable.

Klassenreise - Aktionen zu sozialer Herkunft attempts to fan out the field of structural, classist inequalities with the help of various activist, academic and artistic event formats. The program will take place over four weeks from mid-April to mid-May at various cultural venues in Hamburg and will frame, among other things, Labour Day on 1 May and Aktion Mensch's Protest Day for Inclusion. From exhibitions, performances, a film program, workshops and lectures, there will be participative and informative moments of exchange and togetherness. In an attempt to embark on a journey along invisible borders, material conditions and on the trail of different artistic and political strategies.

PROGRAMME

16.4.2026, 7 pm
Opening: Fake it till you make it

Exhibition with UWAGA2002 (Nika Genetika & Ella Kur & Alfons Nagel), Ki Bui, Trieu Dao, Sina Eichhorst, Luzie Ana Catalina Katzorke, Willi Mend, Emiliano Mondragón, Josie Overton, Sude Nur Tosun, Leonie Wahler and Aleit Wagenbrenner

Open: 17.4.-3.5.2026, 2-6 pm, except Mondays
ICAT - Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer of the HFBK Hamburg, first floor,
Lerchenfeld 2A, 22081 Hamburg

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21.4.2026, 6 pm
Opening: The Gap Between Worlds
with Laurel Chokoago, Stef Mosebach, Franziska Nast, Aleen Solari and Sudabe Yunesi

Open: 22.4.-3.5.2026, on request: info@hajusom.de
Project space, Admiralitätsstraße 75, 20459 Hamburg

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25.4.2026, 3 pm
Reading: Petra von Stef Mosebach

25.4.2026, 6 pm
Panel discussion: Class Trip - a conversation on social inequalities in art and culture with Anna Bochkova, Dr. Bilinç Ercan-Catanzaro, Lisa Mangold and Miriam Stefanie Brodschelm moderated by Melike Bilir, followed by drinks & music, board game: The Game of Life with Anne Meerpohl

Project space, Admiralitätsstraße 75, 20459 Hamburg

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3.5.2026, 4 pm
Finissage: Fake it till you make it
4 pm: Reading by Daniela Aparicio Ugalde (in English)
4:30 pm: Performative reading Working Class Daughters. Karolina Dreit, Kristina Dreit talk about class

ICAT - Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer of the HFBK Hamburg, Lerchenfeld 2A, 22081 Hamburg

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4.5.2026, 4 pm
Workshop: Class Trouble - Class Bodies by Josephine Findeisen
(without registration)
Hajusom e.V., Bunker 2nd floor, Feldstraße 66, 20359 Hamburg

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5.5.2026, from XX o'clock
Open Door: Ladies and Gentlemen
Ladies and gentlemen, Bunker 2nd floor, Feldstraße 66, 20359 Hamburg

5.5.2026, 6 pm
Performance: Von Sprüngen und Klasse by Steven Solbrig
Talk with Josephine Findeisen and Steven Solbrig

Special service: from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Liftboy will operate the elevator and provide assistance if required.

Hajusom e.V., Bunker 2nd floor, Feldstraße 66, 20359 Hamburg

May 5: European Day of Protest for the Equality of People with Disabilities

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13.5.2026, 6 pm
Film program and talk: Two Hands by Verena Brakonier, Jivan Frenster, Greta Granderath and Fondament My moving memory by Lara Dade and Christian Limber from rampe:aktion. Followed by a talk

Lichtmess-Kino, Gaußstraße 25, 22765 Hamburg

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15.5.2026, 6 pm
Film program: A Songspiels for the Invisible Class: Political Songspiels on Class Struggle
by Chto Delat (in English)
Extended Library, HFBK Hamburg, 2nd floor, Lerchenfeld 2, 22081 Hamburg

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16.5.2026, 6 pm
Workshop by Chto Delat (in English)
without registration
Hajusom e.V., Bunker 2nd floor, Feldstraße 66, 20359 Hamburg