+852 – Two years in Hong Kong: a retrospective

Screening and Exhibition at Kunstraum Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany

2025

Curatorial Statement

+852 is the telephone country code of Hong Kong. A place where we have spent two of the most significant years of our lives, participating in the double degree program of Digital Media at Leuphana and Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.

This exhibition is not just an amalgamation of the works that we have produced abroad, but a materialization of our collective memories. It is a showcase of artworks that smelt together the different perspectives and circumstances that we have encountered in Hong Kong. The City is often overwhelming and extreme, with stark contrasts ranging from rich to poor, nature to urban, freedom to suppression. And yet we are in love with the city as a seemingly endless source of inspiration and creativity and as a former, beloved home

Artists
Jaron Kühmstedt
Marek Gollan
Saari Ibbeken
Sonja Antonova
Thore Flynn Hadré

Featured Works

places of certain significance
Selection of ten black and white medium format photographs from the book
Digital Print
165 x 165mm on A4 Paper
2023

Burnt Fox
Abstract Animation
3′
2023

Common Grounds
Documentary
30′
2024

INTERLACEDISORDER
Experimental Film
14′
2024

color where non should be
Three Chemigrams (experimental analog darkroom prints)
Alternative Process Photography
2023

The exhibition making-of “+852 – the making of a retrospective”

Made by Jaron Kühmstedt
Additional Footage by Parco Wong