It Takes Two
Video Works from the Antonio Dalle Nogare Collection
Frank Hesse
6.12.2025 – 21.3.2026
Curated by Eva Brioschi
Second event dedicated to Frank Hesse in conversation with Eva Brioschi and Nasim Weiler
Opening: December 5, At 7 PM
It Takes Two
Video Works from the Antonio Dalle Nogare Collection
Frank Hesse
6.12.2025 – 21.3.2026
Curated by Eva Brioschi
Second event dedicated to Frank Hesse in conversation with Eva Brioschi and Nasim Weiler
Opening: December 5, At 7 PM
On Friday, December 5 at 7 PM, the Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation is pleased to present a new event in its series of screenings featuring video works from the private collection.
The title is an ironic reminder that the creation of a work of art requires not only the artist’s effort but also the participation of the viewer, who completes the creative process through perception. In the darkness of a video room, the artist-viewer relationship becomes even more intimate. Like a confessional of the mind, the gaze surrenders to the images, losing spatial and temporal references and welcoming the possibility of multisensory transmission and an unpredictable epiphany.
During each inaugural evening, there will be a moment of in depth discussion and interactive reading of the exhibited work, led by the Foundation’s artistic director, Eva Brioschi, in dialogue with the artist and art professionals.
The second event of It Takes Two is dedicated to Frank Hesse, an artist, designer, and yoga teacher living in Zurich, and presents a video made in 2006: Florence: From St. Croce to the Institute of Art History.
Free entry and free guided tour of the current exhibitions with curator Eva Brioschi at 6 PM.
Following the screening, Frank Hesse will be in a conversation with Eva Brioschi and Nasim Weiler, project manager at Stadtkuratorin Hamburg, whose research focuses on conceptual art and performance practices, exploring the themes and processes behind this video work.
Frank Hesse is an artist, designer and yoga teacher based in Zurich.
After studying at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, he worked as a lecturer and researcher in artistic and scientific contexts at institutions including the Hamburg University of the Arts, the Bremen University of the Arts, the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, and the Bern University of the Arts (HKB).
His solo exhibitions have been presented at venues such as Galerie Adamski (Berlin), the Leipzig Art Association, the Stadtturmgalerie Innsbruck, and Corner College Zurich. Selected group exhibitions include presentations at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen.
His work is represented in collections including MACBA (Barcelona, Spain), the Lemaitre Collection (London, UK), the Antonio Dalle Nogare Collection (Bolzano, Italy), and the Wessel Collection (Berlin, Germany).
Ph. Sandra Schuck
Nasim Weiler has recently joined Stadtkuratorin Hamburg as its project manager. In Paris, she was an Associated Partner of gb agency from 2020 to 2024 and Co-Director of Galerie Jocelyn Wolff from 2013 to 2020. For over a decade, she ran the internationally recognized Art Agents Gallery in Hamburg, which she co-founded. In the Hanseatic city, she also managed the Falckenberg Collection, coordinated the visitor programme of the foundation, and served as Vice Chair at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, engaging in various forms of curatorial formats. Additionally, she curated the group exhibitions Ver-rückt and Enjoy! and published artist books such as “Tim Roda, A Butchers Block” and “Claire Kerr She would lead us through glass”. Having worked closely with American artist William Anastasi, whose estate she manages today, her particular interest lies in conceptual art and performative art practices. Nasim was born in Bad Arolsen, grew up in Karachi, and now lives in Hamburg.
Ph. Maik Gräf
Design Sindi Karaj
Florence: From St. Croce to the Institute of Art History
2006
Ed. of 5 + 1 AP, Single-channel video, colour, sound, 11’50’’
In this work, shot with a handheld camera, the artist retraces the path between the Basilica of Santa Croce — where Stendhal experienced the episode later defined as “Stendhal syndrome”—and the Kunsthistorisches Institut, founded in 1897 and supported by Aby Warburg, in Florence.
The images, increasingly slowed down, jerky, and blurred, combined with the artist’s breathing and ambient sounds, create a fragmented and unsettling perception. The words scrolling across the screen describe two different approaches to art: one filled with pathos and aesthetic rapture—Stendhal’s—and the other rooted in the rationality of modern art scholarship—Warburg’s. The dissonance between the footage and the text mirrors the tension between Aby Warburg’s theoretical practice and his personal story, marked by psychological disorders.
The walk between the two buildings in the city seems like a mental exercise aimed at synthesizing a broader definition of art, where perception, thought, and emotion add up, blending in unpredictable ways.