Opening Speech

Bavarian State Minister, Women’s Representative of the Bavarian State Government about my international art project WOMEN IN THE DARK and her patronage of the exhibition “feminine – the social and political power of the feminine in art and society” at Denkraum Deutschland, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich
2 October 2021

Excerpt from the Opening Speech by Mrs. Carolina Trautner
«Red on white – this is how we see the messages of women and girls in front of us – and they hit us with a force that relentlessly shows the long way we still have to go. The messages give us a good boost. […] There is so much power in Franziska Greber’s work. Her exhibition WOMEN IN THE DARK gives a voice to those who our society sees far too seldom. Here girls and women show the violence they are experiencing in our country and around the world. […] This project in the Pinakothek der Moderne gives so many women and girls the chance to raise their voices themselves and get people to think. […] »