Postcards from Khartoum
Since 2023, war has raged in Sudan, largely ignored by the international public. How can a humanitarian crisis taking place beyond the media spotlight be made visible? The project „Postcards from Khartoum" attempts to answer this question and draw attention to the consequences of the war. The exhibition was on display in Hamburg from September 17 to 20, 2025, as part of the festival.
Featuring photographs by Sudanese artists Mosab Abushama, Aya Sinada, and Ala Kheir, the exhibition was co-curated by Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann together with sudanese photographer and curator Ala Kheir. The photographs offer different perspectives on the reality of war, including images of destroyed urban infrastructure, landscapes in northern Sudan, and the human consequences of war and displacement. Thus, the photographs become testimonies of not only violence and loss but also resilience and survival.
The Reeperbahn Festival is an annual club festival in Hamburg and took place this year under the theme “Imagine Togetherness!” The idea of solidarity ran through more than 800 individual events. The “Festival Village” in particular offered free access to visitors without tickets.
Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann has already curated a number of exhibitions. Most recently, she was co-curator of the exhibition “(Un)Sichtbare Gewalt” in cooperation with the KUNSTHALLE GIESSEN and played a key role in the TraCe Working Paper No. 6 of the same name. In addition, she has published several books and articles in specialist journals, advised institutions, and led workshops on critical curatorial practices and politically motivated art.
