G2 Schaulager #44

JETZT WEISS ICH WO DAS TAXI IST UND WERDE NICHT MEHR DANACH SUCHEN

Harry Hachmeister

May 08–August 23, 2026
Opening: Thursday, May 7,  2026, 5–8 pm

In the solo exhibition JETZT WEISS ICH WO DAS TAXI IST UND WERDE NICHT MEHR DANACH SUCHEN, the artist Harry Hachmeister (*1979 in Leipzig) presents works from the past three decades of his artistic practice at the G2 Schaulager. Hachmeister combines painting, ceramics, sculpture, and photography, which are interwoven within the exhibition into a spatially expansive system of references, offering deep insight into the dense and multifaceted body of the artist’s work.
In his artistic practice, Hachmeister repeatedly engages with gender roles, the clichés associated with them, and their transcendence. He also explores processes of identity search and formation within the tension between societal attributions and constructions.
These themes are examined and interpreted by Hachmeister from different perspectives. In doing so, he reinterprets traditionally and ideologically charged objects or imbues them with new content, thereby shifting their meanings and allowing new, independent narratives to emerge.
Hachmeister creates his own imagined worlds and universes detached from reality, which resist clear categorization. As a narrative device, he often intertwines visual and textual elements.
Alongside these fictional worlds, the artist repeatedly turns to the depiction of his own body. In doing so, he not only employs intrinsic forms of expression, such as the freely imagined worlds in drawing and painting, but also uses photography to reflect on the view of the self from an external perspective.
The interplay of these different visual strategies results in a complex diversity of forms of expression and perspectives.

Harry Hachmeister (*1979 in Leipzig) studied  at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst) in the class of Timm Rautert from 1999 to 2007. His works are included in, among others, the following collections: Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Dresden State Art Collections; the Federal Republic of Germany’s Collection of Contemporary Art; and the Hildebrand Collection, Leipzig.

OPENING HOURS
(only through public tours):
Wed.: 6 – 7 pm / Fri. – Sun.: 3 – 4 pm

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