Harry Hachmeister is concerned with people, the conditions in which we live, our fears, desires, joys and sorrows, and above all the bodies we inhabit to appear in this world, their language and vulnerability. He explores these themes through a range of interdisciplinary works, from photography, drawing and painting to ceramics. He often arranges individual works into expansive installations that refer to states of no longer and not quite yet. Processes of transformation, the provisional and the in-between serve as the basis for Hachmeister's artistic exploration of identities, bodies and their attributions. His bodies do not feel bound by any supposed determination, but attempt to detach themselves from normative reality through ambivalence, softness and playfulness.

Harry Hachmeister was born in 1979 in Leipzig and studied Fine Art Photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig between 1999 - 2007. Hachmeister received several grants including a residency at EKWC Oisterwijk (2023), the BS- Project scholarship by HBK Braunschweig (2018) and a stipend of Pollock-Krasner-Foundation, New York (2014).  His works were presented in numerous German and international group exhibitions such as Who is afraid of Stardust, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (2023), How (Not) to Fit In, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (2022), Queering the Narrative, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2022), Everything under control, Centrul de Interes, Cluj Napoca (2022), Neue Welten, Museum Folkwang Essen, 2021, We don’t use it, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile (2020), Inside-Out, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2019), Lesbisches Sehen, Schwules Museum Berlin (2018), Unceasing, kim? Contemporary Art Centre Riga (2013). In 2022 his first institutional solo show Von Disko zu Disko opened at Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Hachmeister was part of the artist group VIP (2003 – 2018) and is editor of the art and literature magazine DIE STREICHELWURST. Das Magazin since 2010. 

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