NATURE AS COMMUNITIES
NOT COMMODITIES.
HAMISH FULTON

Opening: 4 July 2026, 6.30 pm
Exhibition duration: 5 July –8 August, 2 September –26 September 2026
Opening hours: Wed–Sat, 10.30–17.00 hrs


Hamish Fulton (born 1946) belongs to a group of British artists who significantly shaped the emergence of Conceptual art in the early 1970s. The focus of his artistic practice is not the final work or individual artistic articulation, i.e. its inscribing into the material or the spatial setting, but the immaterial, the underlying and inherent idea of the work, which is directed at the viewer not only as observer but also linguistically as reader. A significant feature of Fulton’s work is the practice of walking and trekking. Since his student days, he has undertaken multi-day walks across every continent of the world. The experiences of walking and trekking provide a foundation for notations—often captured in only a few words—that he, in text arrangements, drawings, and photo works, condenses into polysemic, yet semiotically precise text-and-image tableaus. Each work is based on and references a specific walk. Fulton is primarily concerned with experience, not with the final image or object. “An object,” says the artist, “cannot compete with an experience.” The media of visual and spatial articulation always form a conceptual sequence, a means of visual communication and in no way an artistic a priori. For Fulton, “walking is the constant, the art medium is the variable,” simply holds true.
 

Book launch CONTINUUM

Artists: Lothar Baumgarten, Marion Baruch, Eve Heller, Paolo Icaro, Fatoş İrwen, Manuel Knapp, Oliver Nutz, Doris Piwonka, Goran Petercol, Ghenadie Popescu, Erik Smith, Jiří Valoch
Authors: David Komary, Jana Písaříková, Stefan Grissemann, Christian Teckert
ed. David Komary, Galerie Stadtpark

German and English editions, 240 pages, 25 x 20 cm,
numerous colour illustrations, hardback, 2026
SCHLEBRÜGGE.EDITOR, ISBN 978-3-903447-39-4 (German)
ISBN 978-3-903447-40-0 (English)