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About Sam Bardaouil
Sam Bardaouil (@sbardaouil) is a Photography & Video creator on Instagram. The account has 92,311 followers and 614 published posts. Recent posts average 1,932 likes and 40 comments, an engagement rate of 2.04%.
With 92.3K followers, Sam Bardaouil is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Set against 2,017 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 46 followers per account Sam Bardaouil follows. Flinque files Sam Bardaouil under a single category, Photography & Video.
The Instagram bio for Sam Bardaouil runs to 8 words. The bio mentions @hamburger_bahnhof. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Sam Bardaouil dates from April 2026.
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614 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Sam Bardaouil, 8 are carousels and 2 are single images. That mix leans toward carousels. Sam Bardaouil has built a substantial archive of 614 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 150 followers for each post published. Sam Bardaouil also keeps 39 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 191 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include hamburger, bahnhof, curatorontherun, museum and through. The captions tag #curatorontherun.
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Please join us for the opening of the annual CHANEL Commission for Hamburger Bahnhof’s Main Hall this Thursday April 30 at 7:00 pm.
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Lina Lapelytė (b. 1984, Kaunas, Lithuania) is an artist and composer. Her works bring people together through sound, voice, and collective action. Many of her performances invite participation. She understands listening as a form of care. At Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Lapelytė transforms the Historic Hall into a shifting landscape of 400,000 wooden cubes. Performers and visitors build temporary structures. Voices fill the space with songs. The lyrics are based on poems by 15 international writers from the early twentieth century to the present as diverse as Etel Adnan, Natalie Diaz, Mahmoud Darwish, Kaveh Akbar Ocean Vuong just to name a few. Short lines about community, formation, love, loss, and hope form the libretto of the work. Like the exhibition space itself, the work becomes a site of constant change. Structures appear and disappear. Each new form requires another to give way. The work asks what remains and what falls away. It also asks who decides what is built and what must be removed, and whose lives carry the weight of these changes.
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“Our wish for the museum is that it remains in a state of becoming. Not arriving, not settling — but moving, continuously, toward something not yet fully known. A journey where the desire to continue matters more than the idea of arrival.
What guides us is a way of being that resists the ease of false optimism, that stays with complexity without trying to resolve it too quickly.
The museum of the future, as we imagine it, is not a fixed place but a living infrastructure — one that allows us to think together, to feel together, across difference, without asking that difference be smoothed away.
I often return to a scene: late at night, long after the museum has closed. The lights are dimmed. The building is empty. I walk past works from 1995, from 2005, from today. And even in the absence of their makers, something happens.
The works begin to speak — not loudly, not in unison, but in relation. They occupy the same space without erasing one another.
This is what coexistence can feel like.
If we can keep such a space alive — open, porous, attentive, and accountable — then the future does not disappear. It remains within reach.
At times, it even feels as though we are already inside it.”
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Thank you and for being the best gala chairs and steadfast supporters, and and for arranging the interview.
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Last Saturday, Hamburger Bahnhof did not look back. It opened.
Not as a building, but as a space held together by people who still believe that art can keep us human.
This was not a gala.
It was a gathering.
Of different lives, different histories, different contradictions—
choosing, for a moment, to stand together. Not in agreement, but in relation. In listening. In risk.
To everyone who made this possible—our chairs, co-hosts, artists, performers, partners, friends—thank you for holding this moment with such care, generosity, and force.
From the interventions by Elmgreen & Dragset and Monica Bonvicini that unsettled and awakened,
to the music that carried us—from Ellen Allien with the Berlin Philharmonic and Staatsoper,
to the quiet intensity of Alice Sara Ott playing Ryuichi Sakamoto—
the night moved between pulse and stillness, between rupture and tenderness.
And in a moment of rare clarity, Cate Blanchett stood on stage and called Hamburger Bahnhof what it has become—indispensable.
We honored those who have shaped the ground we stand on—
Mona Hatoum, Kiran Nadar, and the Delfina Foundation—
reminding us that art, patronage, and institutions can still act with courage and conviction.
And we placed our trust where it matters most: in the future.
Abdulhamid Kircher, Jonas Roßmeißl, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju—
three artists, each receiving €15,000. No conditions. No return. Only belief.
Because what is a museum of the future, if not a place that gives without immediately asking back?
A place where a child can enter for the first time and feel they belong.
A place where disagreement does not collapse into silence.
A place that refuses to make the world smaller—but instead expands us to meet it.
Thirty years in—
and we are only just beginning.
This does not belong to us.
It never did.
It belongs to all the lives that pass through it—
and all the ones still on their way.
With love, with fire, with gratitude.
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“In our first year we secured the buildings, bringing together the federal government and the state of Berlin to save the Rieckhallen and the main building – neither of which were owned by the museum. That became a solid basis on which we could really start building for the future. More broadly, we’re proud that the museum has become more porous: more connected to the city while remaining engaged with global discourse. Initiatives such as Open House, which attracted 40,000 visitors over a single weekend last year, and Berlin Beats, our summer DJ series, which drew around 80,000 people, have expanded public access. At the same time, we continue producing eight exhibitions a year, which would be a significant number for any institution. In many ways, a museum is like an instrument that has been played for generations. Each director simply retunes it for the moment they are living in. What matters most to us is that the museum feels alive to this moment – that it’s a place where different communities, disciplines and perspectives can meet. Hamburger Bahnhof has always been an extraordinary institution, built through the work of many people over decades. Our role has simply been to open it further: to the city, to new audiences and to the world, while keeping art at the centre of everything we do.”
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Behind the imposing façade of Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin-Mitte—where steam trains once arrived and travelers passed through in the 19th century—stands what has been, since 1996, the National Gallery of Contemporary Art. Since 2022, the director duo Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath have set themselves the task of giving this awe-inspiring institution a more human face.
In a world shaped by self-presentation, their approach is one of radical co-creation and co-authorship. “What one sees in the museum is a third entity that places the individual in the background. It is a shared rhythm of thinking that neither of us could generate alone,” explained Bardaouil a few weeks before the glamorous gala that will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart tomorrow evening, March 14, 2026, with 500 international guests.
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« At thirty, Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart does not pause to commemorate itself. It steps forward. Founded in the charged optimism of a newly unified Berlin, the museum has grown into one of Europe’s most consequential public institutions for contemporary art—shaping discourse while remaining deeply embedded in the civic life of the city. Today, it stands within a cultural landscape defined by constraint as much as possibility, where public museums are asked not only to endure, but to lead: intellectually, ethically, and imaginatively.
It is within this context that A Night in Berlin, scheduled for March 2026, has been shaped—not as a gesture of abundance, nor as a ceremonial milestone, but as a declaration. Rather than replicating the familiar mechanics of fundraising spectacle, the evening proposes a different model of gathering: one that treats culture not as display, but as responsibility.
A Night in Berlin: Patronage as Responsibility
Voices from art, music, film, fashion, and public institutions will be brought deliberately into dialogue—from an address by Cate Blanchett and performances by members of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, to the Historic Hall reimagined through a spatial intervention by Elmgreen & Dragset alongside an installation by Monica Bonvicini, and a musical performance by Alice Sara Ott of a composition by Ryuichi Sakamoto as part of the museum’s 2026 program. With renowned figures from across disciplines on the gala’s co-hosting committee—including Matt Dillon, Tricia Tuttle, Carla Sozzani, Ellen Allien, and 032c—what emerges is not a social occasion, but a cultural convergence, where different artistic and institutional languages are intentionally held in the same space. »
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In a city defined by its ability to reinvent itself, Hamburger Bahnhof is undergoing its most radical transformation yet. As the museum approaches its 30th chapter, the focus has shifted from the surface of the galleries to the very architecture of the institution. This is the evolution of a museum into a “Civic Commons”, a shift that is quietly redefining how art lives within a city.
“The moment you think of yourself as a custodian rather than an owner, everything changes,” Bardaouil says. “You don’t own the building or the art; you are a steward. That shift comes with a mandate to create connections, not just exhibitions.”
Since 1996, the former terminal station of the Berlin-Hamburg railway has stood as a titan of contemporary art. But since taking the helm in January 2022, directors Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath have pivoted the institution toward a more dynamic, inclusive, and forward-looking mandate. As the museum prepares to celebrate three decades, Bardaouil is looking past the spectacle.
Cate Blanchett is coming; she’ll give a speech about the museum value of arts and culture. She filmed Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto in Berlin, which was shown at Hamburger Bahnhof in 2016, so she feels a strong connection to the museum
This anticipated evening is being realized through the dedicated leadership of the Gala Chairs including Monique Burger and Christine Wuerfel-Stauss, who are chairing the event alongside Bardaouil and Fellrath. Their active support has been the driving force in bringing this cultural manifesto to life.
We are also launching awards: a Lifetime Achievement Award, a Global Patronage Award, a Change Maker Award to an institution, and a Studio Award to help early- career artists pay for studios, produce work, hire staff, or even afford childcare. It’s about signaling support.
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Sam Bardaouil's engagement
Sam Bardaouil's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.04%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 49 followers. An average post collects 1,932 likes and 40 comments, close to 48 likes for each comment.
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Who is Sam Bardaouil?
Sam Bardaouil (@sbardaouil) is a Photography & Video creator on Instagram. With 92.3K followers, Sam Bardaouil is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. The Instagram bio for Sam Bardaouil runs to 8 words.
How many followers does Sam Bardaouil have?
Sam Bardaouil has 92,311 followers on Instagram (92.3K). Set against 2,017 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 46 followers per account Sam Bardaouil follows. Sam Bardaouil has built a substantial archive of 614 posts.
What is Sam Bardaouil's engagement rate?
Sam Bardaouil's engagement rate on Instagram is 2.04%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 49 followers. An average post collects 1,932 likes and 40 comments, close to 48 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files Sam Bardaouil under a single category, Photography & Video. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Sam Bardaouil, 8 are carousels and 2 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Sam Bardaouil repeatedly use the words hamburger, bahnhof, curatorontherun, museum and through. Sam Bardaouil's captions carry hashtags such as #curatorontherun. Sam Bardaouil writes those captions mainly in English. Sam Bardaouil keeps 39 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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