Johannes Kuhn is an artist and designer based in Hamburg. His practice focuses on the politics of space. Since 2017 he has been teaching at HCU Hamburg in the Department of Architecture. He studied Fine Arts and focused his thesis on the interrelation between architecture, labor, and political economy. He is cofounder of BEEK and board member of the cultural association Import Export. Email Instagram
I am writing my silence, destruction and looting of Palestinian archives, video, 08:20, interview: Mahmoud Alshaer (Gallery 28), Sabri Jiryis (Palestine Research Center), 2025
Architektur der Arbeit im Spätkapitalismus, teaching, architecture HafenCity University, Hamburg, 2025, Fig.: Centraal Beheer, Apeldoorn
Mind the Memory Gap, Franz Wanner, Exhibition design, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, 2024, photo © Jens Ziehe
Architektur der Plattformökonomie, teaching, architecture HafenCity University, Hamburg, 2023/24, Fig.: Amazon job advertising
Otto von Bismarck: Reversibility Cast in Granite, Essay, 2023. Fig.: Renovation of the Bismarck monument.
Bismarck under Construction, construction site as paramonument, call for proposals "Bismarck neu denken", Kulturbehörde Hamburg, collaboration with Thies Warnke, 2023.
(How) do we (want to) work (together) (as (socially engaged) designers (students and neighbors)) (in neoliberal times)?, symposium, publication, HFBK Hamburg, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, 2020, ISBN 978-3-95679-604-3
Concentration camp memorial, online archiv, concept and design, Gedenkstätte KZ Neuengamme, Studio Experimentelles Design, Hans Frankenthal Prize of the Auschwitz Committee Foundation in Hamburg, photo © Kayoung Kim, 2019, www.ort-der-verbundenheit.de
Situativer Urbanismus, teaching, architecture HafenCity University, Hamburg, 2022/23, Fig.: New Babylon / Amsterdam, Constant, 1963
Satellite Station, critical urban research, online archive, participation formats, mappings, assemblies, interviews, Kreativquartier München, project by collective yvjo, 2017–2019. www.kreativquartier-im-prozess.de
Kunst ist Zwecklos, Sollte Kunst Position beziehen?, panel discussion, Port25 Mannheim, 2019.
Space is the Place, exhibition, urban research, performance, inflatable, Munich, collective yvjo in cooperation with REMARK, HALLE 6, 2018.