Hi!

I Am Veronica Kalthöner, 
a designer for experimental formats and information communication.
I am particularly interested in the creative treatment of social and political issues. I am often choose temporary architectures in public spaces, installations, participative 
formats or exhibitions as forms of expression. I am a regular contributor to scientific projects projects and organisations in the field of 
anticrime and remembrance work, 
always in close collaboration with those affected and relatives. I am a co-founder of AKAKAF working group on acoustics and anti-fascism in Hamburg.

I studied design at the Burg
Giebichenstein and at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) Hamburg. Through mytraining as a goldsmith, various projects and internships in glassworks in Germany, Denmark and Turkey, I have practical experience in the material processing of porcelain, hot glass and wood.

I am constantly working on material based research.


Work Index:

Reclaiming Space
AKAKAF
Raum der Erinnerung und Solidarität
Gelber Salon-HAW Hamburg
Klinker in Hamburg
Aula Wartenau
Recht-Raum-Diskriminierung
Neustadt im Nationalsozialismus
Re-Imagine your City
Archive of Encounters
Mobile Space
Hotel Egon
Arche Ditzingen
Kaleidoskop Südpark

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Klinker in Hamburg

2022, practical MA thesis. 
supervised by Jesko Fezer and Nora Sternfeld; exhibited at Nachtspeicher23 in Hamburg

The exhibition examines a formative building element: clinker brick. It is conceived as a material-based search for traces and leads through the historical and socio-political contexts of a specific feature of Hamburg's architecture, which has a positive image in the city's self-image. Little attention is paid to the fact that during the National Socialist era an indeterminable number of bricks were produced in Neuengamme concentration camp under barbaric conditions of forced labour. It is not easy to determine which buildings were actually built during this period and with which bricks. Many building projects planned in the 1920s were only realised in the 1930s and 1940s. There are also a number of projects begun between 1933 and 1945 that were only fully realised in the post-war period. The exhibition, consisting of a spatial concept and city tours, is intended to provide an impetus for a differentiated perception and to shake up the self-image of the inhabitants.