Opening: Saturday, 13 December, 16–19 h

Halle für Kunst Lüneburg is turning 30. To conclude its anniversary programme, SAMUEL BICH's exhibition combines archival research, artistic practice, and institutional critique. Based on an archival inventory, the artist initiates a series of interventions that question the conditions of production and presentation of contemporary art. In this way, the temporal, spatial, material, and personal resources of Halle für Kunst Lüneburg become visible and outline parameters for the future of the art association.

After all, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg is only a shell that artistic practices fill with substance and life.



The exhibition is funded by Stiftung Niedersachsen, Sparkassenstiftung Lüneburg, Hansestadt Lüneburg, and Lüneburger Bürgerstiftung.

The annual programme at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is supported by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, and Hansestadt Lüneburg.

SAMUEL BICH lives and works in Berlin. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, the Glasgow School of Art, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In his artistic practice, he considers strategies of exhibiting and publishing at the margins of institutional structures. He is also director of the art space oxfordberlin and founder of the publishing house Yours sincerely. In 2024, he was awarded the Cathrin Pichler Prize for Art and Science. His works have been exhibited at Printed Matter, Inc. (New York City, USA, 2019) and Kunsthalle Wien (Austria, 2017), among others, and are part of the permanent collections of the Getty Library (Los Angeles, USA) and the University Library of UdK Berlin.