Nicholas Warburg

Press release

Nicholas Warburg – Graduating Slytherin

Nicholas Warburg completed his studies at the Städelschule in October 2020. Since no academic degrees are awarded there, he painted himself a diploma for his graduate exhibition – in the style of Slytherin, the house of the evil witchcraft and wizardry students in the Harry Potter novels. In his exhibition “Graduating Slytherin”, Warburg combines an ironic swan song of farewell to the myth of the Städelschule with the artistic procedure of Hauntology – a “nostalgia for lost futures”.