UPROOTED

Place du Rhone | Geneva | 2022


Solo show

in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC & City of Geneva

UPROOTED & APART | 2022
an Exhibition against Sexual Violence in Conflict

UPROOTED
dead tree | upside down | 800 cm x Ø 400 cm | concrete base | 150 x 175cm

UPROOTED | 2022
PALAIS DES NATIONS | GENEVA 

UPROOTED
dead tree | upside down | 800cm x Ø 400cm | Concrete base | 150cm x 175cm

UNIDIR Adressing Weapons in Conflict-related Sexual Violence

The Arms Control and Disarmament Toolbox | Hana Salama | June 16 | 2023
UNIDIR_Addressing_Weapons_in_Conflict_related_Sexual_Violence.pdf


APART | 2022
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
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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GEDANKEN ZUR ZUSAMMENARBEIT

Theiler Metallbau AG Wädenswil
(auf Schweizerdeutsch)

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PANEL ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT 
LivestreamNOT an inevitable consequence of war – YouTube


Opening statement
Peter Maurer
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Excerpt from Peter Maurers speech

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Opening Remarks
Pascal Hufschmid
Executive Director of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum
Excerpt from  Pascal Hufschmid’s speech

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Opening Remarks
Franziska Greber
Artist and Psychotherapist
Excerpt from  Franziska Greber’s speech

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Moderator
Cordula Droege
Chief Legal Officer and Head of Law, International Committee of the Red Cross

Panelists
Survivor of conflict related sexual violence and member of the SEMA Network (Global Network of Victims and Survivors to End Wartime Sexual Violence)

Monica Ferro
UNFPA, Director Geneva office

Michel Anglade
Save the Children (Director and UN Representative, Geneva Advocacy Office).

Ambassador Bathsheba Nell Crocker
US Mission to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva
Excerpt from Ambassador Bathsheba Nell Crocker’s speech

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UPROOTED – WORK IN PROGRESS

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Video | 10:44 min

Place du Rhone | City Center

Palais des Nations | UN Geneva | Ariana Park

APART – WORK IN PROGRESS

RESONANCE FROM COLLABORATION PARTNERS

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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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Palais des Nations | Geneva
Video | 45:00 min
(In English, French, German and Spanish)

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Place du Rhone | Geneva
Video | 21:30 min
(en Français)

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GEDANKEN ZUR ZUSAMMENARBEIT

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Korporation Horw
(auf Schweizerdeutsch)

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ZPF Ingenieure Basel
(auf Deutsch)

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Kellersberger Bauunternehmung Wädenswil
(auf Schweizerdeutsch)

SUPPORT
US Mission to the UN and Other International Organizations in Geneva
Fachstelle Kultur des Kantons Zürich

Peter Maurer | President of the ICRC: Letter of Recommendation
International Committee of the Red Cross: https://bit.ly/3NSOJhv

UNIDIR ADRESSING WEAPONS IN CONFLICT-RELATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE 
The Arms Control and Disarmament Toolbox | Hana Salama | June 16 | 2023
UNIDIR_Addressing_Weapons_in_Conflict_related_Sexual_Violence.pdf

CUT THE ROPES

2017 | Crossroads Center Art Space | Beijing |  China

Solo Performance

Solo Performance in Collaboration with NGOs, Woman Rights Organizations & UN Women China

For my art installation UNTOLD STORIES, 500 white shirts were tied together with thick ropes to form a huge globe. There are only a few shirts lying on the ground that are connected to the globe with a thin line of blood. This pile of shirts found their way out of the harmful prison of silence that is the globe, which allowed them to be written on.

We are here today to portray our determination to break the silence of women affected by all kinds of gender-based violence and discrimination.

The event is intended to show and confirm China’s social and societal support for these women, the seriousness of the violence, and the commitment to end it. It allows the WOMEN IN THE DARK to express themselves and assures them that people want to hear what they have to say. The act of cutting the ropes by members of NGOs and human rights organizations helps the shirts fall down and “frees“ them from being held back. These shirts will be picked up by professionals and handed out to the women who want to speak out.

In 2016 China created their first law against domestic violence. This law is very politically significant; however the cultural roots of domestic violence still need to be changed in order to remove pressure and dramatic consequences for the women. Women need to feel safe to report violent husbands and family members to the police and to seek separation from their abusers.

Franziska Greber
Artist & Psychotherapist
Switzerland

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

WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE

Sisir Mancha Theater | Kolkata | India | 2018 

Solo Show

in Collaboration with SWAYAM 

Photos of the installations ECHO, WAVE OF VOICES and RESISTANCE that were shown at Vicoria Memorial Hall | Kolkata | 2017

Texplates with selected texts by women from India that participated at WOMEN IN THE DARK India

Curator
Nabaneeta Dev Sen | Women Writers’ Association of West Bengal | Founder and President SOI | Kolkata | India

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 | Art Historian | Zurich | Switzerland

UNTITLED

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

pARTage Atelier | Krishna Luchoomun | Artist | Curator | 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 | 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 | Frauen Kulturverein Rostock
State Council for Crime Prevention | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
HMT Hochschule für Musik und 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

HE(A)R | 2021
Audio | 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?

Flyer Paneldiscussion

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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

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