Painting with photographs: Giulia Andreani launches Hamburger Bahnhof's 30th anniversary

Giulia Andreani opens the anniversary programme of Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart presenting paintings that expose fractures within official narratives. Andreani’s artistic practice of "painting with photographs" thrives on the tension between authoritarian figures and forgotten characters of the past. The starting point for her figurative, monochromatic paintings are family albums or archives. Andreani’s anniversary contribution reinterprets historical collections through a contemporary lens: 36 works by the artist are shown alongside exhibits from the Antikensammlung, the Kunstgewerbemuseum, the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, and the Kupferstichkabinett. Two paintings inspired by ancient objects are exhibited as an intervention at Altes Museum. Giulia Andreani (b. 1985, Venice, Italy) explores the 20th century’s shifting regimes of power. The protagonists of her paintings are mostly women who do not appear in history books: factory workers, nurse