Finkenwerder Kunstpreis 2026
**german below**
AIRBUS OUT OF HFBK!
No cultural sponsorship by war profiteers at our university!
Since 2022, the Finkenwerder Art Prize with a prize money of €50,000 is awarded at HfBK; it is funded by the arms manufacturer Airbus. Airbus is Europe’s second-largest weapons manufacturer. The company manufactures and develops fighter jets such as the Eurofighter, as well as military drones and helicopters. Through its collaboration with Israeli defense companies, Airbus profits from the genocide in Gaza and supplies its products to Frontex and other border regimes worldwide. The company is one of the biggest profiteers of the global militarization of borders. Arms companies like Airbus use cultural sponsorship – such as funding art prizes – to maintain their public image as primarily civilian and progressive corporations.
Since the war in Ukraine, the “Zeitenwende” declared in 2022, and the genocide in Gaza, the arms industry’s profits have been rising worldwide. This includes, among other things, the 100 billion euro special fund for the Bundeswehr. At the same time, German society is becoming increasingly militarized. Rearmament, the military, and the arms industry are increasingly normalized across society, while a new military draft is to be introduced.
Germany is to become a major military power once again.
This militarization is also visible in Hamburg: together with the arms company Rheinmetall, Airbus also participates in the Bundeswehr’s annual large-scale exercises in the Port of Hamburg – a NATO logistics hub for troop deployments to the east in the event of war.
But this widespread militarization is only possible through the simultaneous attack on the welfare state and labor rights, as well as through drastic cuts in social services, education, and arts and culture. Apprenticeships and entire degree programs are being eliminated; rents and healthcare are becoming increasingly difficult for us to afford.
At HFBK, too, we will increasingly feel the consequences of the current austerity policies in the education sector. While we live under increasingly precarious conditions, arms companies like Airbus are reaping their war profits. Under such circumstances of militarization and austerity measures, we will not allow an arms company that profits from these developments to present itself as a civilian enterprise at our university!
No to the “Zeitenwende”!
No to social cuts!
Full funding for colleges and universities!
AIRBUS RAUS AUS DER HFBK!
Kein Kultursponsoring von Kriegsprofiteuren an unserer Hochschule!
Seit 2022 wird der Finkenwerder Kunstpreis in Höhe von 50.000€ an der HfBK verliehen, welcher vom Rüstungskonzern Airbus finanziert wird. Airbus ist der zweitgrößte Rüstungskonzern Europas. Der Konzern produziert und entwickelt Kampfflugzeuge wie den Eurofighter, militärische Drohnen und Helikopter. Airbus profitiert durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit israelischen Rüstungsunternehmen vom Völkermord in Gaza und liefert seine Produkte an Frontex und andere Grenzregime weltweit. Das Unternehmen zählt zu den größten Profiteuren der weltweiten Militarisierung von Grenzen. Rüstungskonzerne wie Airbus nutzen Kultursponsoring – wie die Finanzierung von Kunstpreisen – um ihre Außendarstellung als hauptsächlich zivile und progressive Konzerne aufrechtzuerhalten.
Seit dem Krieg in der Ukraine, der 2022 ausgerufenen Zeitenwende und dem Genozid in Gaza steigen weltweit die Profite der Rüstungsindustrie. So unter anderem auch durch die 100 Milliarden Euro Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr. Gleichzeitig wird die deutsche Gesellschaft immer weiter militarisiert. Aufrüstung, Militär und Rüstungsunternehmen sollen immer mehr in der ganzen Gesellschaft normalisiert werden, während eine neue Wehrpflicht eingeführt werden soll.
Deutschland soll wieder zu einer militärischen Großmacht werden.
Auch in Hamburg ist diese Militarisierung sichtbar: so beteiligt sich auch Airbus zusammen mit dem Rüstungskonzern Rheinmetall an den jährlichen Bundeswehr-Großübungen im Hamburger Hafen – einem logistischen Drehkreuz der NATO für Truppenverlegungen nach Osten im Kriegsfall.
Aber diese allgemeine Militarisierung wird nur durch den gleichzeitigen Angriff auf Sozialstaat und Arbeitsrechte ermöglicht, sowie durch die drastischen Kürzungen im Sozialen, im Bildungsbereich, als auch bei Kunst und Kultur. Lehrstellen und ganze Studiengänge werden gestrichen, Mieten und Gesundheitsversorgung werden für uns immer schwieriger zu bezahlen.
Auch an der HfBK werden wir mehr und mehr die Folgen der aktuellen Kürzungspolitik im Bildungssektor zu spüren bekommen. Während wir in immer prekäreren Bedingungen leben, machen Rüstungsunternehmen wie Airbus ihre Kriegsprofite.
Unter solchen Umständen von Aufrüstung und Kürzungen wollen wir es nicht zulassen, dass ein Rüstungsunternehmen, was von diesen Entwicklungen profitiert sich an unserer Hochschule als ziviles Unternehmen profilieren kann!
Nein zur Zeitenwende!
Nein zu Sozialkürzungen!
Ausfinanzierung von Hochschulen und Universitäten!
**german below**
AIRBUS OUT OF HFBK!
No cultural sponsorship by war profiteers at our university!
Since 2022, the Finkenwerder Art Prize with a prize money of €50,000 is awarded at HfBK; it is funded by the arms manufacturer Airbus. Airbus is Europe’s second-largest weapons manufacturer. The company manufactures and develops fighter jets such as the Eurofighter, as well as military drones and helicopters. Through its collaboration with Israeli defense companies, Airbus profits from the genocide in Gaza and supplies its products to Frontex and other border regimes worldwide. The company is one of the biggest profiteers of the global militarization of borders. Arms companies like Airbus use cultural sponsorship – such as funding art prizes – to maintain their public image as primarily civilian and progressive corporations.
Since the war in Ukraine, the “Zeitenwende” declared in 2022, and the genocide in Gaza, the arms industry’s profits have been rising worldwide. This includes, among other things, the 100 billion euro special fund for the Bundeswehr. At the same time, German society is becoming increasingly militarized. Rearmament, the military, and the arms industry are increasingly normalized across society, while a new military draft is to be introduced.
Germany is to become a major military power once again.
This militarization is also visible in Hamburg: together with the arms company Rheinmetall, Airbus also participates in the Bundeswehr’s annual large-scale exercises in the Port of Hamburg – a NATO logistics hub for troop deployments to the east in the event of war.
But this widespread militarization is only possible through the simultaneous attack on the welfare state and labor rights, as well as through drastic cuts in social services, education, and arts and culture. Apprenticeships and entire degree programs are being eliminated; rents and healthcare are becoming increasingly difficult for us to afford.
At HFBK, too, we will increasingly feel the consequences of the current austerity policies in the education sector. While we live under increasingly precarious conditions, arms companies like Airbus are reaping their war profits. Under such circumstances of militarization and austerity measures, we will not allow an arms company that profits from these developments to present itself as a civilian enterprise at our university!
No to the “Zeitenwende”!
No to social cuts!
Full funding for colleges and universities!
AIRBUS RAUS AUS DER HFBK!
Kein Kultursponsoring von Kriegsprofiteuren an unserer Hochschule!
Seit 2022 wird der Finkenwerder Kunstpreis in Höhe von 50.000€ an der HfBK verliehen, welcher vom Rüstungskonzern Airbus finanziert wird. Airbus ist der zweitgrößte Rüstungskonzern Europas. Der Konzern produziert und entwickelt Kampfflugzeuge wie den Eurofighter, militärische Drohnen und Helikopter. Airbus profitiert durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit israelischen Rüstungsunternehmen vom Völkermord in Gaza und liefert seine Produkte an Frontex und andere Grenzregime weltweit. Das Unternehmen zählt zu den größten Profiteuren der weltweiten Militarisierung von Grenzen. Rüstungskonzerne wie Airbus nutzen Kultursponsoring – wie die Finanzierung von Kunstpreisen – um ihre Außendarstellung als hauptsächlich zivile und progressive Konzerne aufrechtzuerhalten.
Seit dem Krieg in der Ukraine, der 2022 ausgerufenen Zeitenwende und dem Genozid in Gaza steigen weltweit die Profite der Rüstungsindustrie. So unter anderem auch durch die 100 Milliarden Euro Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr. Gleichzeitig wird die deutsche Gesellschaft immer weiter militarisiert. Aufrüstung, Militär und Rüstungsunternehmen sollen immer mehr in der ganzen Gesellschaft normalisiert werden, während eine neue Wehrpflicht eingeführt werden soll.
Deutschland soll wieder zu einer militärischen Großmacht werden.
Auch in Hamburg ist diese Militarisierung sichtbar: so beteiligt sich auch Airbus zusammen mit dem Rüstungskonzern Rheinmetall an den jährlichen Bundeswehr-Großübungen im Hamburger Hafen – einem logistischen Drehkreuz der NATO für Truppenverlegungen nach Osten im Kriegsfall.
Aber diese allgemeine Militarisierung wird nur durch den gleichzeitigen Angriff auf Sozialstaat und Arbeitsrechte ermöglicht, sowie durch die drastischen Kürzungen im Sozialen, im Bildungsbereich, als auch bei Kunst und Kultur. Lehrstellen und ganze Studiengänge werden gestrichen, Mieten und Gesundheitsversorgung werden für uns immer schwieriger zu bezahlen.
Auch an der HfBK werden wir mehr und mehr die Folgen der aktuellen Kürzungspolitik im Bildungssektor zu spüren bekommen. Während wir in immer prekäreren Bedingungen leben, machen Rüstungsunternehmen wie Airbus ihre Kriegsprofite.
Unter solchen Umständen von Aufrüstung und Kürzungen wollen wir es nicht zulassen, dass ein Rüstungsunternehmen, was von diesen Entwicklungen profitiert sich an unserer Hochschule als ziviles Unternehmen profilieren kann!
Nein zur Zeitenwende!
Nein zu Sozialkürzungen!
Ausfinanzierung von Hochschulen und Universitäten!
19/05/2026
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Infos Protest 2024:
Finkenwerder Kunstpreis 2024
Results of Senate Vote
Protest 2024
JOIN THE PROTEST!

Infos Protest 2024:
Finkenwerder Kunstpreis 2024
Results of Senate Vote
Protest 2024
JOIN THE PROTEST!
Songs of Resistance
Sunday 15. Dec. at 19:00
Le23 (social design classroom)
Drinks and snacks with guitar accompaniments from Bardia Esmaeilloo Sauerland und Apollonia Stoisits.
Come by sing along or just sit and listen in 🌹✊❤️🔥
Sunday 15. Dec. at 19:00
Le23 (social design classroom)
Drinks and snacks with guitar accompaniments from Bardia Esmaeilloo Sauerland und Apollonia Stoisits.
Come by sing along or just sit and listen in 🌹✊❤️🔥
15/12/2024
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Student Parliament and AStA Election of 2024
10.12. 10am-6pm
11.12. 10am-6pm
12.12. 10am-4 pm
please bring you student ID to vote (small grey piece of paper saying: Student Identity Card)
12.12.24 at 6pm in R11
All students welcome!
︎︎︎[election program-ENG]
︎︎︎[wahlprogramm-DEU]
Election of StuPa
Aula Foyer10.12. 10am-6pm
11.12. 10am-6pm
12.12. 10am-4 pm
please bring you student ID to vote (small grey piece of paper saying: Student Identity Card)
StuPa session
[Election of the AStA]12.12.24 at 6pm in R11
All students welcome!
︎︎︎[election program-ENG]
︎︎︎[wahlprogramm-DEU]
12/12/2024
Anti fascist film screening
Come and join the anti fascist film screening coming up this December!
Kicking of with Battle of Algiers this Wednesday at 19:00 in Wartenau Kino!
More Antifa Winter Events to be announced soon…
Come and join the anti fascist film screening coming up this December!
Kicking of with Battle of Algiers this Wednesday at 19:00 in Wartenau Kino!
More Antifa Winter Events to be announced soon…
04/12/2024
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General Student Assembly
Date: 22.11.2024
Time: 4-8pm
Place:Aula Lerchenfeld
All students from all departments are warmly invited to the General Student Assembly to discuss urgent matters regarding the school and the student body.
HFBK is an institution that presents professionalization and an individualized orientation towards the art market as a normal set of standards, but this also means that a sense of community is often lacking and a competitive, hostile and sometimes unsafe environment has become the norm.
There are hardly any common spaces at hfbk, which are needed in order to organize ourselves as students. For example, in order to address recent issues such as: the timely payment of student workers; ending cooperation with the arms industry; the schools relation to current wars and political events; creating structures against all forms of racial, gender or any other form of discrimination, making the school accessible not only to those who are privileged, but to everyone; and to engage in artistic practices and political projects that counter hegemonic capitalist and neoliberal logics. For these reasons, we believe it is necessary to create spaces to get together and discuss these urgent political issues. AStA therefore invites you to the general student assembly. The assembly will be held mostly in English, but can be translated into other languages if required.
Snacks and drinks will be provided.
All students have the right to vote on motions or can submit agenda items themselves. If you want to do that please get in touch with us until 14.11.
You can also join the assembly part-time if you don’t have time the entire four hours.
Please don’t hesitate to inform us about any needs you might have to be able to access the assembly, we will try to make it work.
AStA will moderate, and we’ll use a list of speakers.
We suggest the following agenda:
[4pm]
-welcome and introduction,
- short recap of AStA’s work last year
[4:30pm]
Current events at the university:
- Airbus sponsorship of the Finkenwerder Art Prize
5pm
- precarity, competitiveness and community at hfbk,
- working conditions for student workers
[~20 minutes break]
[6pm]
Urgent topics:
- the school’s position and student activities on Palestine/Israel,
- antidiscrimminatory structures at hfbk
If you have any questions, please write to asta@hfbk.de.
More info on www.hfbk.de.
We look forward to seeing you,
your AStA
Date: 22.11.2024
Time: 4-8pm
Place:Aula Lerchenfeld
All students from all departments are warmly invited to the General Student Assembly to discuss urgent matters regarding the school and the student body.
HFBK is an institution that presents professionalization and an individualized orientation towards the art market as a normal set of standards, but this also means that a sense of community is often lacking and a competitive, hostile and sometimes unsafe environment has become the norm.
There are hardly any common spaces at hfbk, which are needed in order to organize ourselves as students. For example, in order to address recent issues such as: the timely payment of student workers; ending cooperation with the arms industry; the schools relation to current wars and political events; creating structures against all forms of racial, gender or any other form of discrimination, making the school accessible not only to those who are privileged, but to everyone; and to engage in artistic practices and political projects that counter hegemonic capitalist and neoliberal logics. For these reasons, we believe it is necessary to create spaces to get together and discuss these urgent political issues. AStA therefore invites you to the general student assembly. The assembly will be held mostly in English, but can be translated into other languages if required.
Snacks and drinks will be provided.
All students have the right to vote on motions or can submit agenda items themselves. If you want to do that please get in touch with us until 14.11.
You can also join the assembly part-time if you don’t have time the entire four hours.
Please don’t hesitate to inform us about any needs you might have to be able to access the assembly, we will try to make it work.
AStA will moderate, and we’ll use a list of speakers.
We suggest the following agenda:
[4pm]
-welcome and introduction,
- short recap of AStA’s work last year
[4:30pm]
Current events at the university:
- Airbus sponsorship of the Finkenwerder Art Prize
5pm
- precarity, competitiveness and community at hfbk,
- working conditions for student workers
[~20 minutes break]
[6pm]
Urgent topics:
- the school’s position and student activities on Palestine/Israel,
- antidiscrimminatory structures at hfbk
If you have any questions, please write to asta@hfbk.de.
More info on www.hfbk.de.
We look forward to seeing you,
your AStA
22/11/2024
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