With this year's Christmas celebration on December 7, 2023, we would like to celebrate the exhibition year 2023 and present this year’s Jahresgaben at the Halle für Kunst. The Hamburg-based artist Magnus Hvidtfeldt will present a performance in collaboration with Adrian Lopez. The piece Yoyo Monad Script is developed and presented in collaboration with the artist Adrian Lopez Peña.

Based on their collaboration since their student days, the two artists ask how contemporary performance can be negotiated as a life practice. What does it still achieve today, while the everyday and the private have long since entered the realm of art? The texts, videos, and dialogues that were developed in rehearsals beforehand offer a new interpretation of questioning performance. The artists aim at removing their art from the intimate area of the studio, their comfort zone, and turning the previously protected space inside out for a public audience. Unconscious action, scrutinized by an audience, places the two artists as actors in a state that allows them to question their collaboration productively.

The performance Yoyo Monad Script was presented for the first time at Kunstverein Hamburg in 2021 by Magnus Hvidtfeld & Adrian Lopez Peña in collaboration with Ei Arakawa. A close artistic collaboration precedes it, the results and material of which are treated as both a starting point and an object.

Magnus Hvidtfeld (*1992 in Kolding, Denmark) is an artist living and working in Hamburg. He completed his BFA and MFA with Jutta Koether at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK). In 2022, he received the "Augustinus Fonden" scholarship, and in 2021, he received the scholarship of the Stendar-Feuerbaum Foundation. He has shown his work at Kunstverein Hamburg (2021), Harburger Kunstverein (2019), Grotte Space in Frankfurt (2021), and Carlbergs Byens Galleri in Copenhagen (2017), among others.

The annual program and the exhibition at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, the Sparkassenstiftung Lüneburg, Lüneburgischer Landschaftsverband, and Hansestadt Lüneburg. The educational program at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e.V. is funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. The exhibition is funded by Hansestadt Lüneburg as part of the programme Kultur in der Innenstadt.