The new members of the Netzwerk Frauenmuseum Berlin introduce themselves
Since 2018, the Frauenmuseum Berlin artists' network has grown to include twelve new members who will be presenting their work in the exhibition. This reveals the broad spectrum of their working methods, ranging from painting, sculpture, installations and objects to photography and video.
Image gallery
Videostill: Was du gesehen haben wirst, 2022, Video mit Sound
ungated, 2023, 70 x 90 x 30cm, Schaumstoff
Formosa Experiment, 2014, Monitorsize Videostill, VG Bildkunst Bonn 2024
The Sensuous Essence of Space No 11, VG Bildkunst Bonn 2024
Some of the diverse artistic approaches go beyond their own framework and correspond between urban and interior spaces. Different perspectives are opened up and spaces explored.
For example, Katia Sophia Ditzler collages her own body as a paper doll with symbols of power, ideology and religion in her performative stop motion poetry film Was du gesehen haben wirst.
Ina Geißler's fence structures made of foam, cut from metal models in the (un)gated inclusion, exclusion and marginalisation in her installation work.
Marcelina Wellmer's video work 10 Jumps explores the boundaries between the body, ecological crisis and ‘measuring the world’, while the modular concrete objects from Susanne Piotter's Modular Constructions series and Anke Westermann's architectural sculpture Entire, made from found objects, interact with the space.
Jelena Fužinato invites the public to discover stickers gently scattered around the room - from her series Fear of Returning Replaced The Fear Of Never Returning, in which she explores the themes of belonging and migration. The exhibition also encourages reflection on transnational histories and cultural interdependencies, as in the case of Ulrike Dornis, who places a scarf from Egypt at the centre of her painting in the series Arabeske, or in the film Das Formosa Experiment by Verena Kyselka, who focuses primarily on the polyphonic lives of women.
Personal approaches are pursued by Helena Kauppila, who draws on her own experiences as a mathematician in her work Touching Complexity and creates colour fantasies framed by scientific structures, or Caty Forden, whose work When She Was Good, inspired by a children's poem, builds a bridge between the individual and the universal.
Several works also deal with the themes of time, space and change. During a stay in Ireland, Beate Spitzmüller created the 11-part series The Sensuous Essence of Space, which transforms the forest into something fantastically filigree. Margret Holz captures the shadows of history, which cannot be depicted, by applying heat to metal, thus creating her so-called shadow phenomena.
The Frauenmuseum Berlin e.V. promotes the visibility of women artists working professionally in Berlin. It offers its members a forum for networking and developing joint exhibition projects.
Through presentations of their important contemporary female positions, the interested public as well as the press and galleries are made aware of works by female artists.
An exhibition of the Frauenmuseum Berlin e.V., guest of the Kommunale Galerie Berlin Katia Sophia Ditzler // Ulrike Dornis // Caty Forden // Jelena Fužinato // Ina Geißler // Margret Holz // Helena Kauppila // Verena Kyselka // Susanne Piotter // Beate Spitzmüller // Marcelina Wellmer // Anke Westermann
Exhibition duration: Exhibition from 4 December 2024 to 16 February 2025
Location: Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Hohenzollerndamm 176, 10713 Berlin
Opening hours: Tue to Fri 10am-5pm, Wed 10am-7pm, Sat and Sun 11am-5pm, admission free.
The gallery is closed from 23.12.2024 to 1.1.2025
