Andrea Wechlin Director | Correctional Facility for Women, Hindelbank, Canton Bern | Former Coordinator Violence Prevention & Co-Head of the Women Shelter, Lucerne | Lucerne
2022-2024 Suna Kircali Co-Management | Avanti Donne, Association – Advocacy Group for Women and Girls with Disabilities | Uster
in collaboration with Canton of St. Gallen, Coordination office Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence Shelter St. Gallen & Association Friends for Kashmir
Verónica González Actress El Buen Camino 9880 | Peñalolén | Santiago de Chile & Malucho Pinto DirectorFUNDACIÓN ARACATACA, NGO committing to improving coexistence in the neighborhood and community | Santiago de Chile
Las mujeres recibieron las blusas blancas que viajaron desde Franciska Greber hasta ellas para que estampen, descifren su grito de chilenas en ellas. Las blusas formarán parte de una próxima instalación de Women in the Dark. pic.twitter.com/bKm0ITNuqO
— Fundación Aracataca (@AracatacaCrea) June 18, 2018
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking: What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? What do we avoid? — What are my fears? What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking: What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? — What do we avoid? — What are my fears? — What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024 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.
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
INVISIBLE | 2024
BACKWARDS | 2024
WOMEN | 2024 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.
HE(A)R | 2024 Audio installation | 60:00 min
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
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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.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
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
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
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.
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024 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.
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
INVISIBLE | 2024
BACKWARDS | 2024
SILENCE(D) | 2024
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking: What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? What do we avoid? — What are my fears? What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
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
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021 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
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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.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
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
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
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024 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.
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
BACKWARDS | 2024
WOMEN | 2024 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
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking: What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? — What do we avoid? — What are my fears? — What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
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
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021 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
By loading this video you accept YouTube’s data protection regulations
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.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
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
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
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024 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.
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
Vernissage
INVISIBLE | 2024
BACKWARDS | 2024
WOMEN | 2024 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
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
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021 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
By loading this video you accept YouTube’s data protection regulations
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.”
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
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
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024 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.
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
INVISIBLE | 2024
WOMEN | 2024 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
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking: What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? — What do we avoid? — What are my fears? — What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
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
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021 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
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.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
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
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
‚WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens‘ in collaboration with CORA State Coordination Office Against Domestic and Sexualized Violence | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern & Die Beginen | Frauen Kulturverein Rostock & State Council for Crime Prevention | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern & HMT Hochschule für Musik und Theater | Rostock
aufruhr des schweigens | 2022 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.
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
WOMEN | 2021 Video | 20:00 min
BOOK | WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens | 2021 The book includes all 690 texts – written by women from Germany
Franziska Greber with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Consumer Protection Jacqueline Bernhardt – the patron of the exhibition ‘WOMEN IN THE DARK – aufruhr des schweigens’
AUFRUHR DES SCHWEIGENS | 2024 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.
Micha Klapp | State Secretary for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
INVISIBLE | 2024
BACKWARDS | 2024
WOMEN | 2024 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
3 socio-political and 3 personal questions on the topic of silence and speaking: What should we talk about? — Is there something I have never told anyone? — What do we avoid? — What are my fears? — What changes are needed to lead this dialogue? — What requirements are needed to discuss my concern?
Senator Cansel Kiziltepe | Senator for Labor, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination for the State of Berlin
60 women read 60 texts, written by women from Germany
FACETS OF PARTICIPATION | 2022 Video | 75:00 min
BOOK | 2021 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
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.”
Video | 03:08 min (Excerpt of the 15-minute Performance)
PANEL DISCUSSION
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
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
an exhibition against sexual violence in conflict in collaboration with the United Nations Office in Geneva& the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum | Geneva
APART steel | red clothes | ropes | Ø 350 cm
Ambassador Bathsheba Nell Crocker, US Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva and Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Peter Maurer
STATEMENTS FROM VISITORS; RÉFLEXIONS DES VISITEURS
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum | Geneva | 12:00 min (in English & en Français)
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Francesco Pisano | Director United Nations Library | Head of the Cultural Activities Committee | Palais des Nations | Geneva | Switzerland Video | 01:35 min
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May Maloney | Collaboration Partner | Deputy Head Adressing Sexual Violence | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) | Geneva | Switzerland Video | 04:52 min
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Diane Boulay | Humanitarian Affairs – Program Specialist | U.S. Mission to the UN and Other Organizations | Geneva | Switzerland Video Video | 06:05 min
RESONANCE FROM VISITORS
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Cordula Droege | Moderator Chief Legal Officer and Head of Law, International Committee of the Red Cross
Survivor of conflict related sexual violence and member of the SEMA Network (Global Network of Victims and Survivors to End Wartime Sexual Violence) | Panelist
Monica Ferro | Panelist UNFPA, Director Geneva office
Michel Anglade | Panelist Save the Children (Director and UN Representative, Geneva Advocacy Office)
STATEMENTS
Peter Maurer | President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Excerpt from the speech
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