06/07/2025
CIAO (NEUE) COLONNADEN …
This marks one of the works that were created to say goodbye in the last days of „Neue Colonnaden“ - reel and more images to follow. Huge thanks to Jonas for his artwork!! And of course all the other creatives who added their spark! ⚡️
A farewell, a protest, and a soft act of resistance.
This installation marks the closing of House of All, a shop and community space that stood for accessible, local, and sustainable fashion—clothing as a basic right, not fast-moving consumer waste. Forced to close by gentrification and systemic neglect, this is our final gesture: a collective artwork shaped by neighbors, collaborators, and friends who believe in reuse, care, and shared design.
Three hybrid beings hold the space. A crane twinkles. A lynx whispers: breathe. A white rabbit has swallowed something too heavy—the poison of capitalism. These characters were born from an online game we developed between 2020–2022 to explore local style through playful swiping. The project is now offline—underfunded, ahead of its time—but its spirit lives on here.
A tunnel of textile off-cuts invites you in. On the window behind a cluster of pompoms, the word swallow appears. Nearby, hidden in a forest of black strips, a CDU postbox rests beneath the “Holy Grail of Growth,” a dark altar referencing Your Ancestor by Nynke Lavermann.
You’ll hear voices: community members answering two questions—What is House of All in one word? In three sentences? If it were an animal? Their words carry what no funding body could. Hamburg says fashion is not culture. But culture happened here anyway.
The windows echo the lyrics of Not the right place (COMA remix). This may no longer be the right place—but it was. And something real was made.
Art Direction
Artwork Characters Jonas
Textile Installation Alena, Lennox, Andy
Tech & Sound Simon Prien
DANKE .bonny für die Bilder 💎🙏🩵