Hamburg
2024
An intervention on the window of Raum LINKSRECHTS.
Entransito
A window can be both a conduit for light and knowledge, as well as a means of surveillance or control.
It serves as a transparent barrier, allowing one to observe and perceive the outside world while maintaining separation.
A site-specific ephemeral intervention allowing glimpses into an alternative perspective, utilising the Hebrew poem "Patriotic Poem" authored by the Israeli poet Ronny Someck. His poem "Patriotic Poem" delves into themes of identity and multiculturalism, reflecting his own experiences as an immigrant from Baghdad to Israel.
A group of artists and curators from Hamburg and Ibiza will come together in Sant Antoni de Portmany. Together, they will artistically explore themes and margins of spirituality, the movement towards „elsewhere,“ and closely related challenges such as longing, desires, inspiration, happiness, as well as rootlessness and religion. Already in 2023, the philosopher Walter Benjamin was a central figure, as he stayed in Sant Antoni de Portmany during the Nazi dictatorship. This year, his ideas again inspire the exhibition: „En Transíto – In spirit, we are elsewhere“ invites us to re-experience transitions, cultural encounters, and the longing for „elsewhere.“ The title reflects the quest for change and the movement between here and there, between memory and new beginnings. Walter Benjamin’s concept of the „aura“ – the unique and unrepeatable nature of a work of art in the moment of encounter – serves as a philosophical foundation for the exhibition.
In spirit
we are elsewhere.
Patriotic Poem
Ronny Someck, 2005
I’m an Iraqi in pajamas, my wife is Romanian,
and our daughter is the thief of Baghdad.
My mother keeps boiling the Euphrates and Tigris,
my sister learned to make pirozhki from the Russian mother of her husband.
Our friend, a Moroccan-knife,
stabs an English steel fork
into a fish born off the shores of Norway.
All of us are laid-off workers pulled down
from the scaffolding of the tower
we wanted to build in Babylon.
All of us are rusted lances
that Don Quixote hurled
at windmills.
All of us still fire at stars that dazzle our eyes
a moment before they vanish, swallowed
by the Milky Way.
שיר פטריוטי
רוני סומק, 2005
אֲנִי עִירָקִי-פִּיגָ´מָה, אִשְׁתִּי רוֹמָנִיָּה
וְהַבַּת שֶׁלָּנוּ הִיא הַגַּנָּב מִבַּגְדָד.
אִמָּא שֶׁלִּי מַמְשִׁיכָה לְהַרְתִּיחַ אֶת הַפְּרָת וְהַחִדֶּקֶל,
אֲחוֹתִי לָמְדָה לְהָכִין פִּירוּשְׁקִי מֵאִמּוֹ הָרוּסִיָּה
שֶׁל בַּעֲלָה.
הֶחָבֵר שֶׁלָּנוּ, מָרוֹקוֹ-סַכִּין, תּוֹקֵעַ מַזְלֵג
מִפְּלָדָה אַנְגְלִית בְּדָג שֶׁנּוֹלַד בְּחוֹפֵי נוֹרְבֶגְיָה.
כֻּלָּנוּ פּוֹעֲלִים מְפֻטָּרִים שֶׁהוּרְדוּ מִפִּגּוּמֵי הַמִּגְדָּל
שֶׁרָצִינוּ לִבְנוֹת בְּבָבֶל.
כֻּלָּנוּ חֲנִיתוֹת חֲלֻדּוֹת שֶׁדּוֹן קִישוֹט הֵעִיף
עַל טַחֲנוֹת הָרוּחַ.
כֻּלָּנוּ עֲדַיִן יוֹרִים בְּכוֹכָבִים מְסַנְוְרֵי עֵינַיִם
רֶגַע לִפְנֵי שֶׁהֵם נִבְלָעִים
בִּשְׁבִיל הֶחָלָב.
„EnTransíto“ is an invitation to question one’s connection to art, space, and time, to look beyond cultural and spiritual boundaries, and to discover a new perspective in the in-between spaces – whether between Hamburg and Ibiza or between here and elsewhere. For one week, selected artists and students will work and interact with the curatorial team of „En Transíto“ around the Church of Sant Antoni de Portmany. They will reflect on an ever-changing reality and artistically address the questions arising from it. Central themes include longing, desires, inspiration, transition, and the search for happiness.
As an exchange, an exhibition took place in October 2025 in Hamburg. A version with small-format works from the exhibition in Sant Antoni de Portmany will then be shown in the LINKSRECHTS space in the Gängeviertel.
Participating Artists: Alejandro Ramírez, Ana García, Anetta Küchler-Mocny Damaris Lipke, Carmen Nuñez, Caryana Castillo, Claudius Strack, Clemencia Labin, David Alan Ginsburg, Eliana Perinat, Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, Erina Libertad, Ezequiel Herrera, Fernando de Brito, Friedrich Herz, Gretha Boenisch, Harro Schmidt, Ingo Lie, Joanna Hruby Elizabeth Rose Langford, Kira Keune, Lena Schramm, Li Ramet, Lina Rosengrün, Liz Kueneke, Lucia Madríz, Marcela Araya, Margalida Guasch, Marie Christine Katz, Mark Southgate, Maxi Montaño, Michael Dörner, Michel Lamoller, Nicolas Anatol Baginsky, Nina Venus, Paul Gregor, Sabine Simon, Stefanie Heinrich, Suwon Lee, Vaira Janz