Biggi Slongo Gastrich
Biggi Slongo (born November 22, 1946 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a Swiss artist and children's book author. She has lived and worked in Switzerland since 1966 . She is a member of the SGBK, the Swiss Society of Visual Artists and the Women's Museum in Bonn .
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Biggi Slongo Gastrich's artistic work extends to the areas of action art, installation, photography and acrylic painting. She works with various materials and objects that she has collected over many years. Usually she starts a new work by selecting the objects from her collection that she associates with the current art theme. She asks people who look at her works to share their impressions and to interact with her works. She especially wants to pass on to other women what it can mean to grapple with a lived fate and to make them aware of the process a woman enters when she processes her fate, publishes it and makes it accessible to society.
Women's debris
Biggi is a child of optimism: In peacetime, her mother's generation still dreamed of the "Prince Charming" who would carry her through life on his hands and look after her. That dream was buried under the rubble of the war and suffocated.
The ball is over, the lights out, the music ceases, and the fairy-like dress of innocence, light as a cloud, blood-red. A thick bar of laundry soap is supposed to recreate the dream, wash clean, but the blood-red dress hangs over the edge of the washing tub like a withering flower. The blood keeps flowing on the washboard. Biggi's "Cinderella" is eerily beautiful, fascinated and repulsive at the same time. The dream becomes a nightmare, a swan song in front of a dramatic backdrop.
Will Cinderella not be able to flee at this sight, from this task? The work "Saturdays" shows that she has made it: The dream is over, the ball gown hung up, but the scrubbing never stops, week after week, year after year. ( Dr. Béatrice Roschanzamir: art historian)
Equal rights / Of Prince Charming and women's rights
The exhibition deals with the topic of women's rights. Much has changed in the post-war years, but the old dream of the Prince Charming and the beautiful princess is still in the air. In this way, we have come closer to equal status for women and men in Switzerland and Europe.
In 1978, with the new child rights, women in Switzerland were given equal rights to "parental care" for their children - before that, in the event of a divorce, the children would stay with the father. In 1988, the new marriage law made women equal to men. The man as head of the family disappears and the woman is no longer forced to run the household. Before this regulation, the man alone determined whether a woman was allowed to work outside the household. If this was neglected, he could determine that his wife was not allowed to work. In the seventies it was also still impossible for working women to do major purchases such as a pram or a car with the money they had earned themselves - without the consent of their husband.
These two legislative changes alone made women's lives a lot better. Similar regulations exist in many other countries. Despite these legally binding measures, the reality is unfortunately still bleak. Women are also confronted with a jungle of laws and regulations that appear confusing at first glance, are often little known and can often only be integrated into daily life through laborious work. The principles of non-discrimination on the basis of gender are still often ignored in all areas of society. To be born a girl still means to be disadvantaged and deprived of many human rights.
Marital violence has only been prosecuted as a crime in Switzerland since 2004 and even later, in 2006, Article 28b of the Civil Code was passed, which stipulates that violent persons must leave their home. For women, however, their home at home offers only limited protection to this day. Studies show that women mainly suffer crimes at home from a husband / partner and not in the street from a stranger.
The exhibit "EVA - the lazy equality" was shown for the first time at the exhibition "Prince Charming" by Biggi Slongo.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions from 2000
- 2000: Kunsthaus Glarus
- 2001: Galerie Terra, Berlin, Galerie P'art, Zurich
- 2004: Lesage Gallery, Montpellier
- 2005: Gallery Schwabach, Feldmeilen
- 2007: State Library, Glarus
- 2012: Lihn, Filzbach
- 2015: Gallery of the Kreuzkirche, Dresden / D
- 2016: State Library, Glarus / CH
- 2018: Anna Göldi Museum, Glarus / CH
Group exhibitions from 2000
- 2000: Kunsthaus Glarus
- 2001: Kunsthaus Glarus
- 2002: Galerie am Kreisel, Netstal
- 2003: Galerie Claudine Hohl, Zurich
- 2004: Galerie Binz, Zurich
- 2005: Kesselturm culture hall, Bern
- 2005: Gallery Storkhower Bogen, Berlin
- 2005: Altstadthalle Zug
- 2006: Fine Arts Collection Ltd., Winterthur
- 2006: ART-isotope · Galerie Schöber, Dortmund
- 2007: Serata Gallery, Thalwil
- 2008: Vorderbleiche Castle, Biberist
- 2008: Galerie Oxyd, Winterthur
- 2008: Kunst Zürich 08, Kunsthalle
- 2010: Art Ruhr 2010
- 2012: Lihn, Filzbach
- 2013: Galerie Schober, Dortmund
- 2014: Kunsthaus Glarus
- 2015: Women's Museum Bonn
- 2016: Art Basel, Miami / USA
- 2017: Monastery, Marienstein / CH
- 2018: Armory Artweeks, New York / USA
- 2018: Women's Museum, Bonn / D
- 2019: Swiss Art Expo, Zurich / CH
- 2019: Women's Museum, Bonn / D
Publications
- Ufo, the artist cat. AVA-Verlag, Ennenda 2005, ISBN 3-9523111-0-3 .
- Adela. AVA-Verlag, Ennenda 2009, ISBN 978-3-9523111-1-0 .
- The little cloud. AVA-Verlag, Glarus 2012, ISBN 978-3-9523111-2-7 .
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gastrich, Biggi Slongo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slongo, Biggi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss artist and children's book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |