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Formerly known as Hajusom Ensemble

The multi-award-winning transnational performance group Hajusom (winner of the Berliner Festspiele 2015 and 2001 awards, among others, Max Brauer Prize from the Alfred Töpfer Foundation in 2014, the Fonds Soziokultur Innovation Prize in 2012) has been collaborating with artists from various genres since 1999 to develop numerous innovative formats addressing topics such as globalization and transculturality, colonialism, migration, and displacement. Numerous innovative and award-winning formats have emerged through collective working methods involving a core artistic team on site and rotating external artists.

About once a year, the world premiere of a new production is celebrated at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Hajusom’s long-standing co-production partner—before it embarks on a tour. Dozens of renowned artists, including Jimi Tenor, Ashraf Sharif Khan, and the Ensemble Resonanz, have performed with Hajusom on major stages both in Germany and abroad.

Current artistic team

Team

Ensemble Hajusom

Arman Marzak | Inge Matida Jabbie | Jasper Friedrich Tegtmeyer | Leonie Götz | Katalina Götz | Isaac Lokolong | MOMO | Stanley Dennis | Robert Ebhodaghe

Team Jump into the Void

Artistic direction + performance JAJAJA (Iris Minich & Arvild J. Baud)
Choreography Cliff Tin Yeung Huen
Dramaturgy Fernanda Ortiz
Stage design JASCHA&FRANZ (Jascha Kretschmann, Franz Töhricht)
Costume design Sven Diestel
Music Viktor Marek
Art director Melike Bilir
Production management N.N. / Lena Carle
Assistant to the Artistic Director Florencia Lasch
Costume Assistant Macaya Matida Jabbie
Controlling Bernd Kroschewski
Graphics & Documentation studio other types / Thea Seddig
Press and public relations Hark Empen
Honorary Jasper Friedrich Tegtmeyer

Previous projects & cooperations

Dozens of renowned artists, including Jimi Tenor, Ashraf Sharif Khan and the Ensemble Resonanz, have performed with Hajusom on major stages in Germany and abroad.

The collective is internationally networked: Musicians and theater people from all over the world travelled to the Play-Mas-Festival in 2004, a puppet-making workshop took place between Berlin and Bamako in 2012, a collaboration with the eco-art project Jardin Silmandé in Ouagadougou was established in 2014, which continues to this day, and in 2019 the collaboration with the OTHNI Laboratoire/Cameroon was launched.

The most recent collaboration was with the singers and artists Souers Doga from Ouagadougou/Burkina Faso.

Join in

Rehearsals are currently underway for the latest project JUMP INTO THE VOID, which will premiere at Kampnagel on October 24, 2024. In 2025 there will again be the opportunity to become part of the ensemble. A warm invitation! Please get in touch with us!

Blurred Edges: Roessler & Kratzer

Blurred Edges

Roessler & Kratzer in the Mirror Maze

4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Hajusom

Amid a thicket of instruments and a labyrinth of mirrors, the duo takes the stage and plays timeless, tropical, dystopian, and hypnotic music on balafons, synthesizers, modified tongue drums, a Rhodes piano, drums, and a Kraut organ.

The Hajusom e.V. space in the Feldstraße bunker provides the perfect dimly lit and focused setting for this. Self-designed moving-image spaces expand in the reflections opposite them like an endless delay.

Duration

28.06 16:00 – 18:00

Supported By

You can find more information here: blurrededges.de

Urban Mending Lab

Between Repairs and Apocalypses

A project by the Chto Delat School of Emergencies that explores collective practices of repair and care in times of urban crisis.

The Urban Mending Lab – Between Repair and Apocalypses is a transdisciplinary art project by the Chto Delat School of Emergencies in collaboration with Hajusom. The project views the city as a space full of wounds, tensions, and fractures, while simultaneously exploring collective possibilities for healing, repairing, and reconnecting. The starting point is the bunker on the second floor at Feldstraße 66 in Hamburg. There, practice-oriented and research-based modules, seminars, and collaborative experiments take place. Artists, researchers, activists, and interested members of the public come together to explore forms of repair as an artistic, political, and collective response to urban crises.

Registration is open at any time.

Duration

01.01. – 31.12.

Supported By

You can find more information about the workshop here: Workshops & Courses

Hello: Hajusom Radio

Radio LAB

Together with HALLO: Radio, we’re exploring the possibilities of broadcasting: What do I want to hear, and what do I want to share? What do the people around me or in my neighborhood have to say? What sounds can we record on the street, and what music goes well with them? We conduct interviews, produce short podcasts, go out onto the street to make audio recordings, and in the process learn about audio technology and how to produce and host a radio show. Finally, we’ll go on the air together, and the show will be broadcast on halloradio.net. 

Sign up anytime: info@hajusom.de

Duration

01.01. – 31.12.

Supported By

You can find more information about the workshop here: Workshops & Courses

Art Workshop HH

Art Workshop

Artworkshop HH has been based in Hamburg since 2022. The project supports children and teens with refugee or migrant backgrounds. It offers free art workshops in German, Ukrainian, Russian, and English. Children and teens ages 5 to 18 engage in creative activities involving art, music, and movement. They draw, dance, and create large abstract works. The course is open to all and multilingual—in German, English, Ukrainian, and Russian. Classes take place once or twice per weekend. Each session is unique and led by different artists, dancers, and actors. Instructors: Bardia Esmaeilloo. Artist from Iran, based in Hamburg. He is a student at the HFBK.
Alisa Sizykh. Ukrainian artist and film director based in Hamburg.

Registration
artworkshops.hamburg@gmail.com

Dates: t.me/artworkshop_hh

Duration

01.01. – 31.12.

Supported By

You can find more information about the workshop here: Workshops & Courses

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