An exhibition by the 1st Gender and Space programme headed by Professor Stefanie Seibold in the study year 2020/21.
Soft Opening: December 17, 2 am–6 pm
Curatorial team: William Metin Martin, Em Schwarzwald, Huda Takriti and Stefanie Seibold. With contributions by Anahita Asadifar, Josephine Baltzersen, Yeongeun Jeun, William Metin Martin, Em Schwarzwald, Stefanie Seibold, Huda Takriti and Kajetan Uranitsch.
The participants of the Gender and Space programme have worked together in a group for two consecutive semesters. This exhibition is the product of a year of intense debate around the multifaceted impact of gender and gender biases in making, discussing, understanding, and the evaluation of artworks in and beyond institutional space, as reflected in individual artistic practices.
The newly established field of Gender and Space investigates notions of space in general from a perspective of gender. As a category, space is understood and treated as an open concept to include exhibition space, social space, virtual space, space as a context or space as a stage, bodies in space, and space as a structure for content, form and objects.
The basis for our critical investigations into the field are intersectional feminist, decolonial and queer critiques of presentation and representation, as well as the deconstruction of social constructs, such as subject and object, which play a central role in the exhibiting and making of art.