Women's Museum Berlin

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Women's Museum Berlin
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The Frauenmuseum Berlin was founded on November 15, 1995 as the Förderverein Frauenmuseum Berlin eV with the aim of presenting women's history and women's culture in its own house, if possible. Since 2003, more than 30 exhibitions have been curated in cooperation with other institutions (as of June 2016) and some accompanying programs have also been organized. The Women's Museum Berlin - so far without a fixed location - sees itself as a network of Berlin artists.

history

Beginnings

In 1995 it was clear that the museums and collections should move from Charlottenburg to Museum Island . The idea arose to use the vacant spaces for a women's museum to be founded. Women of the SPD and the CDU as well as the director of the Heimatmuseum Charlottenburg, Birgit Jochens, and Brigitte Kippe, as the women's representative of Charlottenburg, jointly supported the establishment of the Förderverein Frauenmuseum Berlin e. V. and drafted the first conceptual ideas. One of the goals was to increase the attractiveness of Charlottenburg with a women's museum.

Further development

The foundation phase and first steps of the museum were very tedious. Only after the merger of the districts of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf was there in 2004, with the support of politicians and the head of the art office, Udo Christoffel, the opportunity to use a room in the Kommunale Galerie Berlin, as well as the Bonn Women's Museum . There is an informal cooperation with this.

Since 2007 the association has been active without a fixed location, especially in the field of visual arts . According to board member Rachel Kohn in 2016, this is the program: “We like that we are a homeless association. It's more interesting to get involved in different places. ”The association is not institutionally funded. Sponsors for exhibitions and catalogs have to be found. You can join as an artist or as a sponsoring member. The work is done on a voluntary basis.

In spring 2017 Anna-Maria Weber shot an 8-minute image film about the women's artist network Frauenmuseum Berlin.

organization

The founding meeting took place in the Charlottenburg town hall . Felicitas Tesch was one of the 20 founding women .

The chairwoman of the Frauenmuseum Berlin association has been the sculptor Rachel Kohn since 2007. From 2007 to 2011 Nina Neumaier was the deputy chairwoman of the Women's Museum in Berlin. Since 2011, Kohn has been supported by Julie August on the board.

Two annual exhibitions have now been established in the municipal gallery in Charlottenburg / Wilmersdorf.

The artists of the Frauenmuseum Berlin meet monthly for a round table and plan new exhibition projects.

Goal setting

The aim of the founders was for museums to depict the world of men and women equally. History and society should be shown there as they were and are - "with women and men and their mutual influence and restriction". The denial and oppression of women is only one aspect, the representation of female achievements alone would only throw a one-sided look at history and the present. The founders were aware that a women's museum in Berlin could become superfluous if the goal of balanced representation was achieved.

Until then, according to Rachel Kohn in 2016, initiatives are important that help women in art to be supported in their work, to network and to present their works.

Exhibitions

Curated exhibitions

  • In 2003, the first exhibition took place in the premises of the Communal Gallery : mother animals , sculptures and photographs by two artists on the subject of pregnancy. Works by Iris Schieferstein and Anja Maria Höppner were shown.
  • An art project by an architect followed in 2004 with the work of thirteen girls and twelve boys on gender-specific differences when looking at the built environment in Berlin and Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal).
  • Since 2005, the Women's Museum has shown twice a year in the Kommunale Galerie Berlin exhibitions with selected positions by artists of all generations living in and around Berlin: These have received considerable recognition: the young draftsman Lisa von Billerbeck, for example, was able to after the exhibition The Gaps, in which we parallel to Play Truth Wahnsinn (with Alexandra Karrasch) move to a respected gallery in autumn 2011.
  • In 2006 the exhibition City of Women was dedicated to the female view of 30 artists on urban spaces.
  • In March 2009, works by Fiene Scharp and Esther Glück were shown in the premises of the Kommunale Galerie Berlin.
  • In 2010 the Kommunale Galerie Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf showed sculptural drawings and color installations by Susanne Ruoff and Elisabeth Sonneck under the title Doppelter Bogen . In the same year, Berlin artists were invited to tender energetic predictions in cooperation with the Federal Environment Agency . Paintings, photography, drawings, sculptures, videos, installations on the subject of energy with Jana Debrodt, Monika Goetz, Andrea Golla, Kerstin Gottschalk, Harriet Groß, Katharina Lüdicke, Ulrike Ludwig, Doris Marten, Angelika Middendorf, Julia Neuenhausen, Konstanze Prieß, Nadin Reschke, Claudia Schmacke, Zuzanna Skiba, Anja Sonnenburg, Doris Sprengel, Gaby Taplik, Patricia Thoma, Marcelina Wellmer, Renate Wiedemann. The jury awarded two first prizes and two second prizes. 1st prize: Anja Sonnenburg and Doris Sprengel, 2nd prize: Katharina Lüdicke and Renate Wiedemann. In the communal gallery, the exhibition Human Judgment was shown with Susanne Ring, plastic ensembles and Tian Tian Wang, painting.
  • In 2011, the exhibitions The Gaps in which we play madness parallel to the truth , Alexandra Karrasch, installation and Lisa von Billerbeck, drawing and transparent distanz  Dorothea Schutsch, painting and Gabriele Worgitzki, video / photography were presented.
  • 2012 followed immediately in the Kulturforum Berlin with works on paper, paintings, installations and objects by the artists Angela Bröhan, Judith Brunner, Esther Glück, Andrea Golla, Harriet Gross, Susanne Kienbaum, Rachel Kohn, Ev Pommer, Annette Roch, Susanne Ruoff and Marcelina Wellmer. A first membership catalog was also published. In the same year Elisabeth Matthewes and Katharina Moessinger were able to present their works under the title Oversize in the Kommunale Galerie.
  • In 2013, the gallery in the Tempelhof town hall made its rooms available for the exhibition Unliniert , in which the sculptor Birgit Knappe was represented. Nina Neumaier and Nele Schwierkus presented their work under the title pass at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin .
  • In 2014 the Women's Museum Berlin showed Finding and Joining, collages by Claudia Busching and sculptures by Pomona Zipser. and the exhibition ABWESEN with works by Karoline Schneider and Eriko Yamazaki
  • In 2015 the exhibition series in the Kommunale Galerie Berlin was named 4hands. punctum was an exhibition by Caroline Bayer and Katrin von Lehmann.
  • In the spring of 2016, Einander [4 hands]: Anke Mila Menck (installation, drawing), Gabriele Schade-Hasenberg (painting) and The Chinese Room with works by Kata Unger and Lisa Tiemann were presented in the Kommunale Galerie Berlin.
  • In May 2016, the installation Collecting the City by Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov opened in the gallery at Museum Tempelhof. It brought three places in Berlin together: the Bode Museum , the flea market at Mauerpark and their own artist's studio in Kreuzberg.

Exhibition series HEIM_SPIEL_Kiez-X

Horst and Hilde (Gabriele Styppa)
Horst and Hilde
Gabriele Styppa , 2013
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Exhibition Heim_Spiel Spandau of the Frauenmuseum Berlin 2013 in the Gothic House, Berlin-Spandau, Berlin

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For a long time the women's museum was only active in Wilmersdorf and Charlottenburg. The exhibition series HEIM_SPIEL_Kiez-X was conceived in 2012 in order to be more clearly visible in the Berlin art scene beyond these parts of the city. According to the association's chairwoman Rachel Kohn in 2016, this goal was actually achieved. The series covers the period from 2015 to 2017 and extends to all Berlin districts. Participation is publicly advertised through the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin for professional artists who live or work in the respective district. In cooperation with existing exhibition rooms, the women's museum wants to give the artists resident in the respective neighborhood the opportunity to present their work. The title HEIM_SPIEL_Kiez-X emphasizes the location-relatedness, but also puts the examination of the not uncontaminated word home at the center of the project. This concept is to be examined from different directions in the work. Heim can be understood as a “source of inspiration beyond role ascription”; "Ironic positioning, critical distance and affirmative documentation" are equally possible. The conceptual challenge of home can be artistically designed if, for example, words such as “home work, home play, home advantage, home at, seclusion, homesickness, home search” are taken as the starting point for work. Last but not least, the exhibition space can also be included in the works of art as a “temporary home for artistic work”.

Five exhibitions in the series took place between 2012 and mid-2016.

  • In 2012, Trudy Dahan, Christine Kisorsy, Kyoko Murayama-Tetzner, Sabine Beyerle, Susanne Kienbaum, Anke Eilergerhard, Birgit Knappe, Gabriele Regiert, Esther Ernst, Nora Fuchs, Ev Pommer and Karina Pospiech showed their work in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district , Schöneberg Town Hall . The twelve artists were selected by a jury made up of the board of directors of the Women's Museum as well as Barbara Esch Marowski, Haus am Kleistpark , and Marc Wellmann, Georg-Kolbe-Museum .
  • In 2013 Carola Czempik , Nadya Dittmar, Frauke Danzer, Nina Heinrich, Gabriele Styppa and Sibylla Weisweiler exhibited in the Gothic House in Berlin-Spandau . The sculpture Hilde and Horst by Gabriele Styppa, made of modeling clay, attracted particular attention from the audience , because the proximity to their own everyday experiences and the danger can be felt in the picturesque scenes that lead to marriage hell. The Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung judged that the stimulating exhibition shows "how complex words like home, home, homesickness, home game can be interpreted."
  • 2014 was in the third episode gallery white elephant in the August street to see. The exhibiting artists were: April Gertler, Caroline Armand, Ines Doleschal, Nikola Irmer, Bettina Lüdicke, Maria + Natalia Petschatnikov, Isabel Schmiga, Andrea Streit, Brigitte Ullmann, Josina von der Linden, Renate Wolff and Barbara Wrede
  • For 2015, the fourth exhibition in the series took place in cooperation with the municipal gallery Charlottenburg / Wilmersdorf. Ella Adamova, Angela Bröhan, Marta Djourina, Barbara Eitel, Ellinor Euler, Ute Hoffritz, Rachel Kohn, Betina Kuntzsch, Marianne Stoll and Catrin Wechler showed their works there.
  • In spring 2016 there was the HEIM_SPIEL Reinickendorf in the Museum Berlin-Reinickendorf with Carola Dinges, Gudrun Fischer-Bomert, Andrea Hartinger, Beate Hoffmeister, Cathy Jardon, Jani Pietsch, Heike Ruschmeyer, Zuzanna Schmukalla, Sarah Straßmann and Christiana Wirthwein-Vormbäum.

Participation in art festivals

Contribution of the Frauenmuseum Berlin to the art festival 48h Neukölln , 2014

The Frauenmuseum Berlin took part in the 48h Neukölln art festival several times : In 2014 it contributed to the 5 Minute Collector campaign , which it was then able to present at the Positions art fair . In 2016, the women's museum's contribution was Words We're Tired of - Let's Eat Them! For this purpose, artists had written words like Lügenpresse , BER , Justice or Leitkultur with edible material and mounted them on a white wall. With their eagerness to eat, the visitors determined the speed with which the unloved words disappeared. The process was documented photographically.

literature

Web links

Commons : Frauenmuseum Berlin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Ute Weiss Leder: Frauenmuseum Berlin: Exhibition HEIM_SPIEL July 2015. In: bbk-berlin.de. March 31, 2015, accessed June 4, 2016 .
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  8. ^ Anna-Maria Weber: Image film, artist network Frauenmuseum Berlin. January 1, 2017, accessed November 3, 2017 .
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  13. ↑ The Women's Museum Berlin as a guest in the Communal Gallery Berlin. In: art-in-berlin.de. June 4, 2016, Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
  14. ^ Vita - Harriet Gross. In: harrietgross.com. June 14, 2020, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  15. ↑ NEWS. In: foerderband.org. November 12, 2010, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Alexandra Karrasch CV. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  17. ^ Communal Gallery Berlin, Transparent Distance, Dorothea Schutsch, Gabriele Worgitzki. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  18. ↑ instantly - Kulturforum Stadt Berlin. In: kultur-in-berlin.com. August 15, 2012, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Katrin Bettina Müller: Animals on Salad. Too much, too close, too intimate: A closer look at the rituals of everyday life can be found in the sculptures and videos that Katharina Moessinger and Elisabeth Matthewes are showing under the title 'Oversize' in the Kommunale Galerie. In: Die Tageszeitung , December 20, 2012, accessed on June 5, 2016.
  20. ^ Birgit Knappe Vita, exhibitions, sculptures in public ownership. In: knappe-kunst.de. Retrieved June 5, 2016 .
  21. ↑ www.berlin.de: Exhibition of the Women's Museum in the Communal Gallery Berlin. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  22. ↑ www.joachimwolter.de: Finding and joining. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  23. ↑ art-spaces-nk: ABSENCE. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 17, 2017 ; Retrieved November 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / art-spaces-nk.de
  24. ↑ www.berlin.de: punctum. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  25. ^ Each other - exhibition Frauenmuseum Berlin. In: Kommunalegalerie-berlin.de. Kommunale Galerie, April 3, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Berliner Wochenblatt Verlag: Two art styles - one show. In: berliner-woche.de. March 21, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016 .
  27. ↑ www.art-in-berlin.de: The Chinese Room. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Rebecca Partridge: CITIES // 'Collecting the City' at Galerie im Tempelhof Museum - Berlin Art Link. In: berlinartlink.com. May 28, 2016, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  29. ^ Gerhard Haug: House on Kleistpark. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  30. ^ A b Berliner Wochenblatt Verlag: Heim_Spiel von ten Künstlerinnen: Exhibition series of the Frauenmuseum Berlin. In: berliner-woche.de. March 7, 2016, accessed June 4, 2016 .
  31. ↑ [2] (PDF file)
  32. ↑ a b Märkische Allgemeine, Potsdam, Brandenburg,: home game with Hilde and Horst - exhibition of the women's museum in Spandau / Havelland / Local - MAZ - Märkische Allgemeine. In: maz-online.de. May 7, 2016, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  33. ↑ Heim_Spiel mid-November 22nd - 20.12.2014 - gallery weisser elefant. In: galerieweisserelefant.de. July 5, 2014, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  34. ^ Berliner Wochenblatt Verlag: Gallery shows feminine art. In: berliner-woche.de. July 13, 2015, accessed June 4, 2016 .
  35. ↑ Kirsten Janke: Wandering Texts - Writing Marathon for the Art Festival “48 Hours Neukölln”. In: zu-fuss-in-berlin.de. July 11, 2014, accessed June 5, 2016 .
  36. ↑ a b c d Words we're fed up with. (No longer available online.) In: 48-stunden-neukoelln.de. April 21, 2016, archived from the original on June 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de