WOMEN | 2024
mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets
Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
Solo Show
in collaboration with Berliner Initiative gegen Gewalt an Frauen (BIG e.V.) & Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
WOMEN IN THE DARK – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024
steel frame | wire mesh | red clothes | 400 cm height | Ø 220 cm
BACKWARDS | 2024
steel frame | wire mesh | fabric | black shirts | Ø 300 cm
WOMEN | 2024
mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets
Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
SILENCE(D) | 2024
walkable spiral | 6 questions on the wall | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
HE(A)R | 2024
Audio installation | 60:00 min
garbage bags | sofa | armchairs
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022
Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021
700 pages | stone | wire rope
the book includes all 690 texts – written by women from Germany on their shirts – in the original language and the German translation
BACKSTAGE | 2024
China: Video | 03:07 min
India: Video | 03:37 min
Mauritius: Video | 02:31 min
AND NOW … ?
Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience.
The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
More information (in German): UND JETZT…
Walking through the Exhibition
Video | 02:40 min
Maira Aldana Baeza | Dancer | Santiago de Chile | Chile
Smilla Osswald | Singer | Berlin | Germany
The Performance was a participatory project in the exhibition ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens’
More information: Maira Aldana Baeza – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
‘THE POWER OF THE ARTS – TRANSFORMING SOCIETY’
Video | 02:20 min
WOMEN IN THE DARK was awarded an art prize by THE POWER OF THE ARTS. The jury states that the project “positions itself against looking the other way and remaining silent and is convincing not only through its relevance, but also through its high artistic quality.”
More information: Women in the Dark – THE POWER OF THE ARTS
Torsten Albig, Managing Director Philip Morris Germany | Franziska Greber | Dr. Doris Felbinger, Managing Director BIG e.V.
RESONANCE FROM VISITORS | 2024
Video | 32:00 min
(in German & English)
Maira Aldana Baeza | Dancer | Santiago de Chile | Chile
Smilla Osswald | Singer | Berlin | Germany
The Performance was a participatory project in the exhibition ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens’
More information: Maira Aldana Baeza – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
AND NOW … ?
Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience.
The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
More information (in German): UND JETZT…
SUPPORT
‘The Power of the Arts’ by Philip Morris GmbH & BMU Veranstaltungstechnik Berlin
OPENING SPEECHES
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Jana Sperling | Director Stiftung Reinbeckhallen | Collection for Contemporary Art | Berlin
Dr. Doris Felbinger | Managing Director BIG Berlin | Collaboration Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Collaboration Partner for the Exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens, Reinbeckhallen
Patricia Kielinger | Former Coordinator BIG | Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
LOAD | 2018
shirts | wigs | metal grid | 600x400x100cm
(The installation LOAD was banned and dismantled by the government of the Hunan Province before the opening)
International Group Exhibition
IMBALANCE | 2018
chairs | shirts & dupattas | texts by women from 6 countries | table | lamp | chairs | books with all texts | 800x600x400cm
LOAD | 2018
shirts | wigs | metal grid | 600x400x100cm
(The installation LOAD was banned and dismantled by the government of the Hunan Province before the opening)
CURATOR
Zhen Guo | Artist | New York | USA
Solo Show
in collaboration with Berliner Initiative gegen Gewalt an Frauen (BIG e.V.) & Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024
shirts | fabric | steel frame | red carpet | 600 x 2000 cm
WOMEN IN THE DARK – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024
steel frame | wire mesh | red clothes | 400 cm height | Ø 220 cm
BACKWARDS | 2024
steel frame | wire mesh | fabric | black shirts | Ø 300 cm
WOMEN | 2024
mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets
Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
SILENCE(D) | 2024
walkable spiral | 6 questions on the wall | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
HE(A)R | 2024
Audio installation | 60:00 min
garbage bags | sofa | armchairs
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022
Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021
700 pages | stone | wire rope
the book includes all 690 texts – written by women from Germany on their shirts – in the original language and the German translation
BACKSTAGE | 2024
China: Video | 03:07 min
India: Video | 03:37 min
Mauritius: Video | 02:31 min
AND NOW … ?
Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience.
The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
More information (in German): UND JETZT…
Walking through the Exhibition
Video | 02:40 min
Maira Aldana Baeza | Dancer | Santiago de Chile | Chile
Smilla Osswald | Singer | Berlin | Germany
The Performance was a participatory project in the exhibition ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens’
More information: Maira Aldana Baeza – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
‘THE POWER OF THE ARTS – TRANSFORMING SOCIETY’
Video | 02:20 min
WOMEN IN THE DARK was awarded an art prize by THE POWER OF THE ARTS. The jury states that the project “positions itself against looking the other way and remaining silent and is convincing not only through its relevance, but also through its high artistic quality.”
More information: Women in the Dark – THE POWER OF THE ARTS
Torsten Albig, Managing Director Philip Morris Germany | Franziska Greber | Dr. Doris Felbinger, Managing Director BIG e.V.
RESONANCE FROM VISITORS | 2024
Video | 32:00 min
(in German & English)
SUPPORT
‘The Power of the Arts’ by Philip Morris GmbH & BMU Veranstaltungstechnik Berlin
OPENING SPEECHES
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Jana Sperling | Director Stiftung Reinbeckhallen | Collection for Contemporary Art | Berlin
Dr. Doris Felbinger | Managing Director BIG Berlin | Collaboration Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Collaboration Partner for the Exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens, Reinbeckhallen
Patricia Kielinger | Former Coordinator BIG | Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
WAVE OF VOICES | 2017
steel | chicken mesh | fabric | wood | 216 dupattas/scarves with texts, written by women from India | 2500x700x400 cm
Black Boards | 2017
100 x 200 cm
selected texts by women from India
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
WAVE OF VOICES | 2017
Solo Show
in collaboration with Anuradha Kapoor | Director SWAYAM | Women’s Rights Organization committed to ending Violence against Women and Children | Member of UN Women Advisory Group for India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan | Kolkata | India
ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600cm
Vernissage
RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000x600cm | fiberglass | 50×20cm
Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer, Scholar, Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, Founder and President SOI; Dr. Yayanta Sengupta, Director and Curator Victoria Memorial Hall
WAVE OF VOICES | 2017
steel | chicken mesh | fabric | wood | 216 dupattas/scarves with texts, written by women from India | 2500x700x400cm
Black Boards | 2017
100x200cm
selected texts by women from India
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
PHOTOS | 2017
Writing Process | different Sizes
&
WOMEN | 2017
Video | 30:00 min
Women from India read what they wrote on their Dupattas
BOOK | 2017
216 transcribed Texts translated into Englisch – each Page of the Book shows one Text, written by a Woman from India
MAKING OF
Video | 05:20 min
CURATOR
Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata
ADVISORS
Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata
OPENING SPEECH
Nabaneeta Dev Sen | writer | scholar | winner of two literary awards | Padma Shri Award 2000 & Sahitya Akademi Award 1999 | Kolkata
Anuradha Kapoor | Director and Founder | SWAYAM | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India
RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000 x 600 cm | fiberglass | 50×20 cm
Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer, Scholar, Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, Founder and President SOI; Dr. Yayanta Sengupta, Director and Curator Victoria Memorial Hall
Solo Show
in collaboration with Anuradha Kapoor | Director SWAYAM | Women’s Rights Organization committed to ending Violence against Women and Children | Former Member of UN Women Advisory Group for India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan | Kolkata | India
ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600cm
Vernissage
RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000x600cm | fiberglass | 50×20cm
Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer, Scholar, Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, Founder and President SOI; Dr. Yayanta Sengupta, Director and Curator Victoria Memorial Hall
WAVE OF VOICES | 2017
steel | chicken mesh | fabric | wood | 216 dupattas/scarves with texts, written by women from India | 2500x700x400cm
Black Boards | 2017
100x200cm
selected texts by women from India
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
PHOTOS | 2017
Writing Process | different Sizes
&
WOMEN | 2017
Video | 30:00 min
Women from India read what they wrote on their Dupattas
BOOK | 2017
216 transcribed Texts translated into Englisch – each Page of the Book shows one Text, written by a Woman from India
MAKING OF
Video | 05:20 min
CURATOR
Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata
ADVISORS
Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata
OPENING SPEECH
Nabaneeta Dev Sen | writer | scholar | winner of two literary awards | Padma Shri Award 2000 & Sahitya Akademi Award 1999 | Kolkata
Anuradha Kapoor | Director and Founder | SWAYAM | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India
ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600 cm
ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600 cm
Solo Show
in collaboration with Anuradha Kapoor | Director SWAYAM | Women’s Rights Organization committed to ending Violence against Women and Children | Member of UN Women Advisory Group for India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bhutan | Kolkata | India
ECHO | 2017
fabric | chicken mesh | 2500×600cm
Vernissage
RESISTANCE | 2021
fabric | chicken mesh | 2000x600cm | fiberglass | 50×20cm
Anouradha Kapoor, Director of SWAYAM, Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India; Franziska Greber, Artist; Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Writer, Scholar, Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal, Founder and President SOI; Dr. Yayanta Sengupta, Director and Curator Victoria Memorial Hall
WAVE OF VOICES | 2017
steel | chicken mesh | fabric | wood | 216 dupattas/scarves with texts, written by women from India | 2500x700x400cm
Black Boards | 2017
100x200cm
selected texts by women from India
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
PHOTOS | 2017
Writing Process | different Sizes
&
WOMEN | 2017
Video | 30:00 min
Women from India read what they wrote on their Dupattas
BOOK | 2017
216 transcribed Texts translated into Englisch – each Page of the Book shows one Text, written by a Woman from India
MAKING OF
Video | 05:20 min
CURATOR
Dr. Jayanta Sengupta | Director | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata
ADVISORS
Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan | scenography and art | Kolkata
OPENING SPEECH
Nabaneeta Dev Sen | writer | scholar | winner of two literary awards | Padma Shri Award 2000 & Sahitya Akademi Award 1999 | Kolkata
Anuradha Kapoor | Director and Founder | SWAYAM | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK India
Solo Show
in collaboration with Berliner Initiative gegen Gewalt an Frauen (BIG e.V.) & Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024
shirts | fabric | steel frame | red carpet | 600 x 2000 cm
WOMEN IN THE DARK – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024
steel frame | wire mesh | red clothes | 400 cm height | Ø 220 cm
BACKWARDS | 2024
steel frame | wire mesh | fabric | black shirts | Ø 300 cm
WOMEN | 2024mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets
Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
SILENCE(D) | 2024
walkable spiral | 6 questions on the wall | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
HE(A)R | 2024
Audio installation | 60:00 min
garbage bags | sofa | armchairs
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022
Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021
700 pages | stone | wire rope
the book includes all 690 texts – written by women from Germany on their shirts – in the original language and the German translation
BACKSTAGE | 2024
China: Video | 03:07 min
India: Video | 03:37 min
Mauritius: Video | 02:31 min
Walking through the Exhibition
Video | 02:40 min
‘THE POWER OF THE ARTS – TRANSFORMING SOCIETY’
Video | 02:20 min
WOMEN IN THE DARK was awarded an art prize by THE POWER OF THE ARTS. The jury states that the project “positions itself against looking the other way and remaining silent and is convincing not only through its relevance, but also through its high artistic quality.”
More information: Women in the Dark – THE POWER OF THE ARTS
Torsten Albig, Managing Director Philip Morris Germany | Franziska Greber | Dr. Doris Felbinger, Managing Director BIG e.V.
RESONANCE FROM VISITORS | 2024
Video | 32:00 min
(in German & English)
Maira Aldana Baeza | Dancer | Santiago de Chile | Chile
Smilla Osswald | Singer | Berlin | Germany
The Performance was a participatory project in the exhibition ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens’
More information: Maira Aldana Baeza – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
AND NOW … ?
Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience.
The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
More information (in German): UND JETZT…
SUPPORT
‘The Power of the Arts’ by Philip Morris GmbH & BMU Veranstaltungstechnik Berlin
OPENING SPEECHES
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Jana Sperling | Director Stiftung Reinbeckhallen | Collection for Contemporary Art | Berlin
Dr. Doris Felbinger | Managing Director BIG Berlin | Collaboration Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Collaboration Partner for the Exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens, Reinbeckhallen
Patricia Kielinger | Former Coordinator BIG | Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
Solo Show
in collaboration with Berliner Initiative gegen Gewalt an Frauen (BIG e.V.) & Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024
shirts | fabric | steel frame | red carpet | 600 x 2000 cm
WOMEN IN THE DARK – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024
steel frame | wire mesh | red clothes | 400 cm height | Ø 220 cm
BACKWARDS | 2024
steel frame | wire mesh | fabric | black shirts | Ø 300 cm
WOMEN | 2024
mattresses | bed linen | pillows | sheets | carpets
Video | 20:00 min
18 women from 6 countries read the text, which they wrote on a white shirt (in India on a scarf) . They talk about their experiences of discrimination and violence.
SILENCE(D) | 2024
walkable spiral | 6 questions on the wall | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
HE(A)R | 2024
Audio installation | 60:00 min
garbage bags | sofa | armchairs
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022
Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021
700 pages | stone | wire rope
the book includes all 690 texts – written by women from Germany on their shirts – in the original language and the German translation
BACKSTAGE | 2024
China: Video | 03:07 min
India: Video | 03:37 min
Mauritius: Video | 02:31 min
AND NOW … ?
Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience.
The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
More information (in German): UND JETZT…
Walking through the Exhibition
Video | 02:40 min
Maira Aldana Baeza | Dancer | Santiago de Chile | Chile
Smilla Osswald | Singer | Berlin | Germany
The Performance was a participatory project in the exhibition ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens’
More information: Maira Aldana Baeza – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
‘THE POWER OF THE ARTS – TRANSFORMING SOCIETY’
Video | 02:20 min
WOMEN IN THE DARK was awarded an art prize by THE POWER OF THE ARTS. The jury states that the project “positions itself against looking the other way and remaining silent and is convincing not only through its relevance, but also through its high artistic quality.”
More information: Women in the Dark – THE POWER OF THE ARTS
Torsten Albig, Managing Director Philip Morris Germany | Franziska Greber | Dr. Doris Felbinger, Managing Director BIG e.V.
RESONANCE FROM VISITORS | 2024
Video | 32:00 min
(in German & English)
Maira Aldana Baeza | Dancer | Santiago de Chile | Chile
Smilla Osswald | Singer | Berlin | Germany
The Performance was a participatory project in the exhibition ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens’
More information: Maira Aldana Baeza – Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
AND NOW … ?
Transdisciplinary responses to 690 voices
The discussion offers a platform for exchange between experts from the fields of art, society and politics and the audience.
The event was organized by BIG e.V. with the support of the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin
More information (in German): UND JETZT…
SUPPORT
‘The Power of the Arts’ by Philip Morris GmbH & BMU Veranstaltungstechnik Berlin
OPENING SPEECHES
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Jana Sperling | Director Stiftung Reinbeckhallen | Collection for Contemporary Art | Berlin
Dr. Doris Felbinger | Managing Director BIG Berlin | Collaboration Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Collaboration Partner for the Exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens, Reinbeckhallen
Patricia Kielinger | Former Coordinator BIG | Psychosocial Supporter in Criminal Trials | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
