UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Digital Film Festival | China | 2020


International Group Exhibition
Baturu Cultural Festival Film Festival Hong Kong and China

UNFINISHED BUSINESS | Film | 08:46 min

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INITIATOR & CURATOR

Li Dan | Director | Beijing | China

The Baturu Cultural Festival Beijing units with the China Women’s Film Festival in Hong Kong to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995)

About BATURU FOR BEIJING +25

WOMEN IN THE DARK SPEAK OUT

2017 | ECHO, RESISTANCE & WAVE OF VOICES | Victoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata | India

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

Summary of my Speech at the Opening

Curator
Dr Jayanta Sengupta
Director
Victoria Memorial Hall
Kolkata

 
Advisors and Supporters
Saumik Chakraborty & Piyali Sadhukan
Design | Scenography | Art
Kolkata

Opening Speech
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Writer | scholar | winner of two literary awards | Padma Shri Award 2000 & Sahitya Akademi Award 1999
Kolkata

Making of Video

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Video | 5:20 min

SCHWEIGEN

Anna Göldi Museum | Ennenda | Switzerland | 2019

Solo Show
SchweigenPunkt Schweigen. Schweigen. Verschwiegenheit. Punkt. Punkt.

SILENCE | 2019
60 filled black trash bags | strings | 600x400x600 cm

UNTOLD STORIES | 2019
500 white shirts | metal construction | chicken mesh | fabric | Ø 300cm

Book | 2019
60 Texts from 8 Countries, written by women on their shirts

Photos | 2019
8 photos of the women’s writing process | flash lights | different sizes

WHAT DO I FEAR OF LOOSING? | 2018
Video | 3:00 min

Chinese woman speaks out

VOICES | 2019
20 mattresses | pillows, duvets | sheets | flash lights | 800x600x100 cm

5 videos of women from India, China, Zimbabwe and Switzerland, to be seen on pillows, mattresses, duvets & sheets

Photo: Sasi Subramaniam
Peter Maurer | President of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRS
(Photo: Sasi Subramaniam)

OPENING SPEECHES

Fridolin Elmer | Director | Anna Göldi Museum | Ennenda | Switzerland

Susanne Wintsch | Curator | Zurich | Switzerland

UNTITLED

Recidency | pARTage Atelier | Flic en Flac | Mauritius | 2016

pARTage Atelier | Krishna Luchoomun | Artist | Crator | Art Teacher | Mahatma Gandhi Institut | Moka | Mauritius

COLUMN OF RESPECT

Aapravasi Ghat World Heritage Site & Cerne Docks | Port Louis | Mauritius | 2019

Solo Show
in collaboration with Koomatee Fowdur & Mehreen Rughoni | National Women’s Council Ministry of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare

COLUMN OF RESPECT | 2019
320 shirts with texts, written by women from Mauritius | metal construction | fabric | 600cm | Ø 300cm

WRITING PROCESS | 2019
photos | different sizes

BOOK | 2019
320 Texts, written on shirts by women from Mauritius | table | chairs | lamps | guestbook

GUESTBOOK | 2019
‘VOICES’ I GUEST BOOK I MAURITIUS I 2019

WOMEN | 2019
Mauritian Women speak out
Video | 20:00 min 

MAKING OF | 2019
photos of the working process in Mauritius | different sizes

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MAKING OF | 2019
Video | 30:00 min

Opening Ceremony
Mr. Adrian Wehrli, Honorary Consul General of Switzerland | Mrs. M.A.J. Jaunbocus, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry | Mrs. Franziska Greber, Artist | Hon Mrs. Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo, Vice Prime Minister of Mauritius | Mrs. Mohini Bali, Chairperson of the National Women’s Council

OPENING SPEECHES
Hon Mrs. Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo
Vice-Prime Minister of Local Government and Outer Islands and Minister of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare
&
Mr. Krishna Luchoomun
Artist, curator & art teacher Mahatma Gandhi Institut. Mr. Krishna Luchoomun represented the Mauritian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale

Exhibition Brochure

Guestbook

AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | Munich

Pinakothek der Moderne | Denkraum Deutschland | Munich | Germany | 2021

Group Exhibition
with Miro Craemer | Curator & Initiator | DENKRAUM DEUTSCHLAND | Pinakothek der Moderne | Munich & Pia Brüner | Art Education | Pinakothek der Moderne | Munich

feminine – the social and political power of the feminine in art and society

about: WOMEN IN THE DARK & aufruhr des Schweigens München
(auf Deutsch)

about: Ausstellungs-Flyer München
(auf Deutsch)

WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens | 2021
shirts | fabric | 600 x 2000 cm

The installation consists of white shirts with texts in around 40 languages ​​by 690 women from Germany who have written their experiences with discrimination and violence, but also hopes and demands, on these clothing with a red pen.

WOMEN | 2021
Video | 20:00 min

17 women from 5 countries (Zimbabwe, Switzerland, China, India and Mauritius) read their text, which they wrote with a red pen on white clothing. It is about their experiences with discrimination and violence.

The video work WOMEN is part of the international, transdisciplinary and participatory art project WOMEN IN THE DARK.

HE(A)R | 2021
Audio-Installation | 60:00 min

60 women each read a text, written by 60 women from Germany – selected from the 690 shirts.

BOOK | 2021
661 transcribed texts translated into German, 29 photos – each page of the book shows one text or a shirt, written by a woman from Germany.

HOW SOCIAL IS ART?
Chances and limits of an interaction

Mit Kunst gegen sexualisierte Gewalt? February 14, 2019 | Radio Dreyeckland | Germany
Interview with Claudia Meise | Notruf Göttingen | participating in WOMEN IN THE DARK
(in German)
1:58 min

Mit Kunst gegen sexualisierte Gewalt? | Radio Dreyeckland (rdl.de)

Panel discussion

From left: Pia Brüner | Carolina Trautner | Franziska Greber | Antje Krüger | Dr. Monika Schröttle | Susan Bühler, DieKulturBotschaft, Moderator | Miro Craemer, initiator & curator DENKRAUM DEUTSCHLAND


Carolina Trautner | Bavarian State Minister for Family, Labor and Social Affairs, Commissioner for Women’s Issues of the Bavarian State Government
« […] that many women have written down their oppressive stories here in order to then strike their liberation blow on this wall. I find that incredibly impressive – I think it’s ingenious, linking social issues and art

Pia Brüner | Art Education Pinakothek der Moderne 
« […] because through Franziska Greber’s art people come into contact with each other on very different levels. […] it’s a wonderful example for me of how I imagine the museum, as a lively place, as a socially relevant place, and as a place where people meet and exchange ideas

Dr. Monika Schröttle | Political and Social Scientist
« […] This scientific, political and artistic approach and bringing together […] is a whole other level of seeing and recognizing things […] you want to climb up a ladder and read everything […] and like to do more and further evaluate these treasures that are in there 

BACKSTAGE – Experiences with the international art project WOMEN IN THE DARK
Workshop with the artist & initiator Franziska Greber and other participants in the project

Antje Krüger & Patricia Kielinger, project partners and coordinators WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | Doris Felbinger, BIG e.V. Berliner Initiative gegen Gewalt an Frauen (BIG e.V. and der PARITÄTISCHE Bayern implemented WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens in Germany) | Ute Brechtelsbauer (Frauenhaus Nürnberg, one of over 100 organizations from 12 federal states that accompanied the women’s writing process) | Nina Wurman (implementation of the sound installation) | Michael Wladarsch (implementation of the book) | Anja Papenfuss (participant in the sewing process)


Antje Krüger | Project Partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
«The idea to do that came up in Switzerland when you presented to us, what you had done in other countries – and then for us very quickly the thought that this is also possible here with us. […] Before that, it was partly unimaginable. […] There are always people who you can inspire with this idea […] The theme of this DENKRAUM ‘feminine’ and the examination of the potential of femininity in art and society, that also has something to do with this project.»

Michael Wladarsch | cultural organizer, artist & designer
«Your art […] creates an abstract size, which is simply not comprehensible, to open […] where one is touched. […] The care with which each individual shirt, each individual woman, each fate is valued and also respected […] and that, in my view, distinguishes an art that interferes and that is political and that also has a statement. […] an artist who has very good ideas and a very good concept to make a situation visible.»

Nina Wurman | Musician
«It was very clear to me that I was doing this. […] Everything kind of fell into place. […] What I totally underestimated is what it means for women to read these texts.»

Ute Brechtelsbauer | Social Worker
« […] exciting how the mood has changed […] suddenly a spirit of upbeat has arisen […]. I was here with five women […] it was so moving.»

Anja Papenfuss | Young BPW – Business and Professional Women Club
«I was able to become part of such a big whole […] that alone made a big impression on me […] it was quite an extraordinary work for me.»

SUPPORT

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Familie, Arbeit und Soziales

CURATORS

Miro Craemer | Artist and Social Designer | Initiator TOGETTHERE-Experience: GIVE ME 5 | DENKRAUM DEUTSCHLAND | Munich | Germany
&
Pia Brüner | Art Education | Pinakothek der Moderne | Munich | Germany

Franziska Greber in Collaboration with

  • Der PARITÄTISCHE in Bayern (Antje Krüger, Projectpartner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
  • Berliner Initiative gegen Gewalt an Frauen BIG e.V. (Patricia Kielinger, Projectpartner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany) for the nationwide organization and coordination of the institutions involved
  • Frauenunterstützungssystem in Germany and their staff for carrying out the writing process and accompanying the women
  • all the people who transcribed the texts on the shirts and translated them into almost 40 languages
  • Nina Wurman for her collaboration in planning and realizing the audio installation HE(A)R
  • 84 GHz in Munich for conceptual thinking and realization of the BOOK


AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | Rostock

Rathaus Rostock | Schwerin, Waren & Greifswald | Germany | 2022

Solo Show

in collaboration with Sarah Kesselberg | state coordinator against domestic and sexualized violence CORA | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Die Beginen, Women’s Cultural Association Rostock | State Council for Crime Prevention, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | HMT University of Music and Theater | Rostock

aufruhr des schweigens | 2022
shirts | fabric | cardboard boxes | red carpet | 120 m2

FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022
Video | 75:00 min

WOMEN | 2021
Video | 20:00 min

BOOK | WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens | 2021
700 pages

Jacqueline Bernhardt & Franziska Greber

HE(A)R | 2021
Audio-Installation | 60:00 min

HMT Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock | HE(A)R Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock 
Audio-Installation HE(A)R | Landesweite Standorte HE(A)R

(from left: Wenke Brüdgam; Sarah Kesselberg  Eva-Maria Kröger; Franziska Greber; Jacqueline Bernhardt)

ART AND SOCIETY – SOCIETY AND ART

How does art affect the social, societal and political space?

Panel (from left): Sarah Kesselberg Dr. Yvonne Niekrenz | Wenke Bruedgam | Dr. Annette Winter-Süss (art historian, director of the Kunstmuseum Schaan) | Franziska Greber | Antje Krueger | Kristin Beckmann-Natzius (Managing Director, Die Beginen)

Flyer Podiumsdiskussion

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Rostock town hall reports
environment and society
11/30/2022
Minister for Justice, Equality and Consumer Protection Jacqueline Bernhardt is patron of the exhibition ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens’.

Rostocker Rathaus UMWELT UND GESELLSCHAFT

PATRONAGE

Jacqueline Bernhardt | Minister for Justice, Equality and Consumer Protection of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 

SUPPORT

Wenke Brüdgam | Equal Opportunities Officer for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

COLLABORATION

Antje Krüger | project partner WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany | President WOMEN IN THE DARK Deutschland e.V.

AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | Freiburg

Freiburg | Germany | 2022

Solo Show

in collaboration with the Freiburger Fachstelle Intervention gegen Häusliche Gewalt (FRIG) & Stelle zur Gleichberechtigung der Frau Freiburg

Baden-Württemberg was one of 12 federal states of Germany participating in WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany. 690 women wrote their experiences, hopes and demands on white shirts with red permanent markers.

aufruhr des schweigens | 2023
shirts | fabric | cardboard boxes | red carpet | 120 m2

WOMEN | 2022
Video | 20:00 min

BOOK | 2021
700 pages | including all texts written on the shirts in the original language and the German translation

HE(A)R | 2021
60 women read 60 texts in 11 languages – selected from the 690 shirts, written by women from Germany
Audio installation | 60 min

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FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022
Video | 75:00 min

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Martina Raab-Heck | Organizer | Freiburger Fachstelle Intervention gegen Häusliche Gewalt (FRIG)
Video | 03:35 Min

VERNISSAGE

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Antje Krüger | Poject Partner | WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany
Video | 04:10 Min

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Lars Hopp | Board Member | Director Sparkasse| Freiburg
Video | 01:37 Min

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Saskia Tröndle | Board Member Frauen- und Kinderschutzhaus & Freiburger Fachstelle Intervention gegen Häusliche Gewalt (FRIG)
Video | 03:51 Min

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Simone Thomas | City Women’s Representative | Stelle zur Gleichberechtigung der Frau
Video | 02:06 Min

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Dipl. Ing. agr. Nicoline von Brasch | Managing Director | Klinik in der Zarten | Hinterzarten
Video | 03:48 Min

Media

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SWR Aktuell | Ina Held | May 8, 2023 | 02:34 Min

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MAKING OF

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RESONANCE OF VISITORS

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Video | 19:10 Min

OPENING SPEECHES

Antje Krüger | Poject Partner | WOMEN IN THE DARK Germany

Lars Hopp | Board Member | Director Sparkasse| Freiburg

Saskia Tröndle | Board Member Frauen- und Kinderschutzhaus & Freiburger Fachstelle Intervention gegen Häusliche Gewalt (FRIG)

Dipl. Ing. agr. Nicoline von Brasch | Managing Director | Klinik in der Zarten | Hinterzarten
Video | 03:48 Min

WRITING PROCESS

Aapravasi Ghat World Heritage Site & Cerne Docks | Port Louis | Mauritius | 2019


Solo Show
In collaboration with Koomatee Fowdur & Mehreen Rughoni | National Women’s Council | Ministry of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare

COLUMN OF RESPECT | 2019
320 shirts with texts, written by women from Mauritius | metal construction | fabric | 600cm | Ø 300cm

WRITING PROCESS | 2019
photos | different sizes

BOOK | 2019
320 Texts, written on shirts by women from Mauritius | table | chairs | lamps | guestbook

GUESTBOOK | 2019
‘VOICES’ I GUEST BOOK I MAURITIUS I 2019

WOMEN | 2019
Mauritian Women speak out
Video | 20:00 min 

MAKING OF | 2019
photos of the working process in Mauritius | different sizes

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MAKING OF | 2019
Video | 30:00 min

Opening Ceremony
Mr. Adrian Wehrli, Honorary Consul General of Switzerland | Mrs. M.A.J. Jaunbocus, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry | Mrs. Franziska Greber, Artist | Hon Mrs. Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo, Vice Prime Minister of Mauritius | Mrs. Mohini Bali, Chairperson of the National Women’s Council

OPENING SPEECHES
Hon Mrs. Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo
Vice-Prime Minister of Local Government and Outer Islands and Minister of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare
&
Mr. Krishna Luchoomun
Artist, curator & art teacher Mahatma Gandhi Institut. Mr. Krishna Luchoomun represented the Mauritian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale

Exhibition Brochure

Guestbook