Participating artists:Tina Bara, Ina Bierstedt, Antje Blumenstein, Peggy Buth, Nadja Buttendorf, Yvon Chabrowski, Annedore Dietze, Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt, Else Gabriel, Katrin Glanz, Henriette Grahnert, Jana Gunstheimer, Sabine Herrmann, Elke Hopfe, Margret Hoppe, Beate Hornig, Uta Hünniger, Lisa Junghanß, Christina Kral, Betina Kuntzsch, Ulrike Kuschel, Alex Lebus, Ingeborg Lockemann, Wiebke Loeper, Jana Müller, Ulrike Mundt, Henrike Naumann/Susanne Rische, Helga Paris, Andrea Pichl, Katja Pudor, Franziska Reinbothe, Inken Reinert, Sabine Reinfeld, Sophie Reinhold, Ricarda Roggan, Jenny Rosemeyer, Christine Schlegel, Luise Schröder, Wenke Seemann,Gabriele Stötzer, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Anett Stuth, Ulrike Theusner, Manuela Warstat, Suse Weber, Saskia Wendland, Kristin Wenzel, Eva Wilde, Karla Woisnitza/Ingartan und Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt
Venue:Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin
www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de/Partner:Worin unsere Stärke besteht is supported by funds from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe: the Fund for Municipal Galleries (KOGA), the Fund for Exhibition Remuneration (FABIK) as well as the District Culture Fund (BKF) and the Capital Culture Fund (HKF).
Worin unsere Stärke besteht shows contemporary positions (paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs and video works) by 50 women artists from three generations, all of whom were born in the GDR before the fall of the Wall, some of whom were socialized in the socialist system and were confronted with the transformation in one way or another. The exhibition is accompanied by a supporting program of films and readings. A booklet with essays by curators, art historians, and female artists from the GDR complements and contextualizes the exhibition project and integrates it into the current discourse on the consequences of reunification for female artists from the GDR. The exhibition is also intended as a reaction to and a counter-design to the previous, highly acclaimed exhibitions of recent years, which were dedicated to art and artists from the GDR. In these overview exhibitions, for example, women artists were represented by only 14% (MdbK Leipzig) or 18% (Gropius Bau). Works by women artists from the GDR continue to appear rarely in contemporary exhibitions. This problem is often overlooked from a West German perspective. We are therefore pleased to realize for the first time a comprehensive exhibition project in Germany, dedicated exclusively to still living and contemporary women artists from the GDR.
