Press Release
Hamburger Bahnhof presents Saâdane Afif’s first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin. The exhibition provides an insight into the work of the interdisciplinary artist, who has been living in the city since 2003, and includes the multi-part work The Fountain Archives. This artistic archival project is dedicated to one of the most prominent chapters in 20th-century art history: Marcel Duchamp’s legendary readymade Fountain from 1917. Afif’s installation was generously donated to the museum by Paul Maenz in 2023. The exhibition shows it alongside other works that question the very institution of the art museum and the principle of authorship with profound insight and subtle humour.
