Memories of childhood are at the center of Martin Honert's artistic work, which the Nationalgalerie presented in a comprehensive solo exhibition in the main hall of Hamburger Bahnhof in 2012. With over thirty works and work complexes from all phases of his work, the exhibition offered a unique insight into the oeuvre of the artist who worked in Düsseldorf and Dresden. The works, borrowed from European and North American collections, were presented in the museum's Historical Hall in an architecture designed specifically for the exhibition.
Based on images that remain in his memory, family photographs and children's drawings, the artist stages moments from his own biography and transforms them into three-dimensional objects. Using technically complex processes, he condenses memories of games, readings and scenes from childhood into individual, impressive images. Behind every object there is a story that is shaped by a child's fantasies, ambivalent feelings and experiences.