Harry Hachmeister, born in Leipzig, studied artistic photography with Prof. Timm Rautert at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig from 1999 to 2007. In his interdisciplinary works, which range from photography, drawing and painting to ceramics, he deals with questions of identity, bodies and their attributions.

In Los Angeles, Harry Hachmeister will focus on the works of three deceased personalities from California who made their bodies visible through writing (Lou Sullivan) and through photography (Loren Rex Cameron, Laura Aguilar). Hachmeister’s own trans background and his interest in non-normative bodies play an important role here. The result will be a new photographic series that takes a visual approach to the topic of body politics.

Harry Hachmeister is Villa Aurora Fellow of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 | Im Haus der Gefühle, MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen
2024 | Selbstporträt in Hausschuhen, Ebensperger Berlin
2023 | Someone like me, with Jonas Monka, ASPN Gallery, Leipzig
2022 | Von Disko zu Disko, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 | Who’s Afraid of Stardust, Kunsthalle and Kunsthaus Nuremberg
2022 | How (Not) to Fit In – Metaphern der Adoleszenz, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
2019 | Inside – Out. Konstruktionen des Ichs, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2018 | Lesbisches Sehen, Gay Museum Berlin

Selected Prizes/Awards
2025 | Between Bridges Residency, Berlin
2019 | Guest Studio Gleis 70, Zurich
2018 | Braunschweig Projects, HBK Braunschweig
2015 | Working Grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds
2014 | Working Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2009 | Residency Grant from the German Academy Rome, Casa Baldi, Olevano Romano