Feminist Foyer: Desire – Gender – Identity – Sexuality – Body
Vernissage 5.12. at 6 pm
With Nele Fiedler, Neo Faiasie, Nora Heinisch, Justin Fischer, Katja Breder, Maja Zagórska, Alanna Dongowski, Alba Hiedras, Ditty (aka Aditi Veena), Helia Jafarzadeh, Ida-Marie Simonsen, Jasmin Sermonet, Elon Arkless, Emma de Warren, Lucy West, Paul Michels, Pia Höhfeld, Yewon Seo, Klara Maria Nnansi Neubert, Lilith May Peters, Lilly Vanselow, Jemima Foxtrot, Josefa Hökenschnieder, Joaquim Miró
Curated by Phila Weber, Maya Zaheer, Rayen Clare, Marina Luding
With the support of Rena Onat, Stefanie Rau, Astrid Stricker and Kathy-Ann Tan
How can artists and designers intervene in sexist structures? What tools and techniques do they develop for this?
With this exhibition, we want to analyse and reflect on unequal gender relations and body politics in art, design and theory and move them to the centre of the university. We are showing 22 works by art and design students from the weißensee school of art berlin. Recurring themes are the negotiation of body (images) and social norms. An important approach is auto-ethnographic work - a self-exploration that takes one's own experiences as its starting point. Positions from all disciplines and in different media are represented - painting, print, textile, video, comic, sculpture.
December is the annual #4GenderStudies action day - with the exhibition, we emphasise the importance of artistic and creative knowledge production on questions of desire, gender, identity, sexuality and body images. At the same time, we show that gender studies theory is important for contemporary art and design.