NOWHERE NoWhere NowHere

Galata Museo del Mare | Genoa | Italy | 2024

Group Exhibition

SEA. Liquid Paradigm | Visions of the World between Analogue and Digital | Biennale Le latitudini dell´arte | Svitzerland / Italy | VI Edition

NOWHERE NoWhere NowHere an art project on exclusion, social & political participation

The focus is on five people who live in Genoa and whose stories are connected to the sea in various ways. They talk about their experiences with exclusion and visions on participation. It shows a diverse and colorful society. The potential lost due to exclusion also becomes visible.

The casual encounters took place on the street, where the interviews were also conducted. The original texts and translations have not been censored, edited or corrected.

The voices of the participants are to be listened in an Audio of 32 min and to and read in the opposite space.

NOWHERE NoWhere NowHere | 2024
Container | fishing equipment | buoy | ropes | tarpaulins | plants | watering can | 300 x 200 x 220 cm

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The voices of the five people interviewed could be heard from inside the installation NOWHERE NowWhere NowHere | Audio | 31:55 min

The transcribed interviews could also be read in the original language and translation into Italian and English | Statments.pdf

OPENING

Virginia Monteverde (Curator & Initiator) and Viana Conti (Art Critic)

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Viana Conti | about NOWHERE NoWhere NowHere | Video 02:16 min

WORK IN PROGRESS

Looking for material

With the help from two fisherman

Setting up in the Galata Museo del Mare

Curator Virginia Monteverde

Printing the texts of the interviews

RESONANCE FROM VISITORS | 2024

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Video | 10:59 min
(various languages – with English subtitles)

CURATOR & INITIATOR
Virginia Monteverde | Genoa

ART CRITIC
Viana Conti | Genova

OPENING SPEECHES
Virginia Monteverde & Viana Conti

SUPPORT WITH MATERIAL
Emanuele Frecceri, Genoa

LOAD

International Culture & Art Centre Meixi Hall | Changsha | China | 2018

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

PERSONAL TERRITORY

Geely University | Beijing | China | 2018


International Group Exhibition

PERSONAL TERRITORIY | 2018
Plywood spiral | metal frame | chairs | carpets | 300x600x1200cm

On the inside wall of the installation are 3 questions in Chinese and English: What is the content of my personal territory? What do I want to add? What am I afraid of losing?

CURATORS
Li Xinmo
| Artist | Art Teacher | Art Critic | Beijing
Roland von der Emden | Artist | Beijing

About my Installation PERSONAL TERRITORY

HOME | Berlin

Alte Münze | Berlin | Germany | 2021

International Group Exhibition

HOME – WHEN HOME GETS THROWN OUT OF BALANCE | 2020
Steel | wood | bed covers | sheets | pillows | metal headboards | 200x200x330 cm

CURATORS
Alex Krüger | Artistic Director | Alte Münze | Berlin | Germany
Halea Isabelle Kala | Artist | Berlin | Germany

About the Exhibition CORONA CULTURE – what the f*ck just happened 
About my installation HOME

BREAK

Architekturgalerie | Munich | Germany | 2022

Group Exhibition

BREAK | 2022
chair | wood

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Miro Craemer | Curator | introducing BREAK

CONCEPT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Miro Craemer

CURATORS
Miro Craemer | Tanja Hirschfeld | Hira Khan | Christoph Gothgar

PATRONAGE
Katrin Habenschaden | Zweite Bürgermeisterin der LH München

About the Exhibition DIFFERENT = NORMAL
More photos & videos on instagram: 80469 Glockenbach Biennale

UNTOLD STORIES

Crossroads Center Art Space | Beijing | China | 2016

International Group Exhibition

in collaboration with Li Dan | Founder, Director & Curator Crossroads Centre | Chinese NGO organization that seeks to raise awareness about women’s rights and LGBTQ+ rights in China through the use of film and art

UNTOLD STORIES
500 white shirts, tied together with ropes | 5 shirts with texts, written by women from China | Ø 300cm

Texts
5 texts by women from China | wooden frames | 30x50cm

3 Photos
50x80cm

Julia Broussard | Head of the Office | UN Women China
Li Dan | Director & Curator | Crossroads Centre | Beijing

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Reuters China | Excerpt | 00:42 min

The Shirts

This shirt had been laid secretly among the others the day after the opening of the exhibition.

Exhibition at China World Trade Centre | Trends  Lounge | Beijing

Photo
Woman from Zimbabwe, writing on a white shirt with a red pen | 50x80cm
(Red as a color was not accepted by the World Trade Center, I opted for black and white photos.)

Photo
Text by a woman from Mauritius | 60x80cm

Photo
Text by a woman from Zimbabwe | 50x80cm

CURATOR Crossroads Centre Art Space
Li Dan | Director | Crossroads Centre | Beijing

CURATORS World Trade Center
Ms. Roselyn | General Manager of Trends Lounge | China World Trade Center | Beijing
Li Dan | Director | Crossroads Centre | Beijing

IMBALANCE

International Culture & Art Centre Meixi Hall | Changsha | China | 2018

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

UNTOLD STORIES (Photo)

China-Europe International Contemporary Art Global Tour | Shanghai | 2018

Group Exhibition
2018 Bund NO.27 | Global Investors Hub | Shanghai | China

弗兰齐斯卡·格雷伯:瑞士艺术家。她曾担任苏黎世州司法和内政事务局反家庭暴力干预中心的联合负责人;曾担任心理治疗师,监督员,组织顾问;并在大学和学院教学。她在多种学术期刊和书籍上撰写了大量文章,并在日内瓦和维也纳担任联合国活动的发言人。她参与了许多戏剧项目,曾是一部关于抑郁症的纪录片《灵魂的影子》(SeelenSchatten),以及一部关于家庭暴力的故事片《夏季游戏》(Giochi d’estate – Summer Games)的剧本顾问。2016年,她发起了国际艺术项目《黑暗中的女人们》。该项目使得生活在社会黑暗中的女人们发出声音——她们通过使用红色马克笔在白色衬衫上写下自己的经历、痛苦、希望和愿望。只有与各自国家的相关组织合作才能实现这一目标。到目前为止,参加的国家有津巴布韦、塞舌尔、毛里求斯、中国、印度、瑞士、智利和德国。女性服装被展示为艺术装置,记录女性书写的过程以照片、书籍和视频的形式展现出来。弗兰齐斯卡·格雷伯 (Franziska Greber)曾在中国举办过几次团体和个人展览。


Franziska Greber is a Swiss Artist. She was former Co-Head of the Intervention Center against Domestic Violence at the Directorate of Justice and Home Affairs in the Canton of Zurich, worked as a Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Organization Counselor, and taught at Universities and Colleges. She has written numerous articles in academic journals and books and was a Speaker for UN Events in Geneva and Vienna.  She was involved in many Theater Projects, was a Script-consultant for a documentary film about depression “SeelenSchatten” and for a feature film about domestic violence “Giochi d’estate – Summer Games”.In 2016 she initiated the international art project WOMEN IN THE DARK, which gives women who live in the dark of society a voice by writing their experiences, pain, hopes and wishes on a white shirt with a red permanent marker. Achieving this goal is only possible in collaboration with organizations in the respective country. So far participating are Zimbabwe, the Seychelles, Mauritius, China, India, Switzerland, Chile and Germany. The female garments are shown as art installations, the documented writing process of the women as photos, books and videos.

Franziska Greber had several group and solo exhibitions – also in China.

CURATORS

Ma Yiying
Artist and curator, vice president of the Oil Painting Academy of China – Contemporary Fine Arts Institute of Culture, 2018 Chinese Annual Art Event. Representative Exhibition: Chinese Abstract Art (UN) Exhibition
Shenzhen

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Longjing Li
Curator and art broker
Shanghai

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MUTE

Art Museum Jiangxi Normal University | Nanchang | China | 2019

International Group Exhibition

MUTE | 2019
25 Black shirts | Ø 300cm

(Model)

VOICES | 2019
Video | 10:20 min

Speaking is often in conflict with different interests. When, why and what women express depends on many factors and is also country- and culture-specific. Values are an important reference, as is safety. It’s a thin line whether the raised voices are resonant and impactful or fall silent again.

BOOKS | 2019
The two books contain all texts read in the video VOICES by women from Switzerland, India and Zimbabwe

CURATORS
Xiong Yunhao | Nanchang | China
Xiao Shang | Nanchang | China

UNTOLD STORIES (Photo)

2019 | Art Center 117 | Ningbo | China

Group Exhibition

Curator Ma Yiying
Artist and curator, vice president of the Oil Painting Academy of China – Contemporary Fine Arts Institute of Culture, 2018 Chinese Annual Art Event. Representative Exhibition: Chinese Abstract Art (UN) Exhibition
Shenzhen