Andrea Wechlin Director | Correctional Facility for Women, Hindelbank, Canton Bern | Former Coordinator Violence Prevention & Co-Head of the Women Shelter, Lucerne | Lucerne
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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) | 2024walkable spiral with 6 questions | steel frame | plywood | 350 height | Ø 400 cm
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 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
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
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) | 2024walkable spiral with 6 questions | 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
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
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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Palais des Nations | Geneva May Maloney (ICRC) | Alessandra Velluci (UN Geneva) | Francesco Pisano (UN Geneva) | Diane Boulay (US Mission) Video | 14:28 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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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum (MICR)
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
UPROOTED
Palais des Nations | Geneva
UPROOTED dead tree | upside down | 800 cm x Ø 400 cm | Concrete base | 150 x175 cm
UPROOTED
Place du Rhone | Geneva
UPROOTED dead tree | upside down | 800 cm x Ø 400 cm | concrete base | 150 x 175 cm
UNIDIR Adressing Weapons in Conflict-related Sexual Violence
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)
Palais des Nations | Geneva May Maloney (ICRC) | Alessandra Velluci (UN Geneva) | Francesco Pisano (UN Geneva) | Diane Boulay (US Mission) Video | 14:28 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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