Marianna Simnett’s “Winner”, a multichannel film installation is a three-act ballet for film told through the lens of football. It is commissioned on the occasion of the 2024 European Football Championship, hosted by Germany.
Image gallery
Marianna Simnett, The Severed Tail, 2022, Venedig
“Winner” echoes the dramaturgy of the game and dissects its socially constructed power hierarchies and constant pressure to perform.
Through the element of dance, the work restages and radically transforms football’s most impassioned moments: elation and triumph, brutality and ferocity, suffering and defeat.
Simnett’s vivid hallucinatory world extends beyond the screen into the exhibition space. It matches and simultaneously subverts the architecture and choreography of football. Spatial barriers reminiscent of stadium fences lead viewers through the installation, while the film itself travels around the space mimicking the rapid pace of the ricocheting ball.
Marianna Simnett’s (b. 1986 in London, UK; lives and works in Berlin) multidisciplinary artistic approach brings together film, dance, orchestra, and artificial intelligence in this bold and fantastical deconstruction of the sport and its societal impact.
Exhibition Catalogue
Accompanying the exhibition is the sixth edition of the Hamburger Bahnhof catalog series, published by Silvana Editoriale Milano.
Curators
The exhibition is curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Directors of Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, and Charlotte Knaup, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.
A special exhibition by the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
The exhibition is a contribution to the art and culture programme for UEFA EURO 2024 and is supported by the Stiftung Fußball & Kultur EURO 2024 gGmbH with federal funds