This year, nachtspeicher23 e. V. brings together artistic perspectives on the theme of hospitality, a concept often associated with warmth, openness, and generosity. But what happens the moment this gesture begins to falter? When feeling welcome no longer aligns with one’s own feelings? When one is invited to stay, but inwardly is already on the way out?
The starting point of the exhibition “Everything Everything is alarmed” by Omid Arabbay and Shekkeba Arabbay lies precisely in this shift—in the moment when hospitality can no longer be interpreted merely as an offer, but also as a tension between conflicting feelings of closeness and distance.
The annual program of nachtspeicher23 is supported by the Department of Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The exhibition “Everything Everything is alarmed” is also supported by the HFBK Hamburg and the Karl H. Ditze Foundation.
