Reframing Worlds – Mobility and Gender in a Postcolonial, Feminist Perspective

“Reframing Worlds” is an exhibition that brings together work by Berlin artists dealing with the lives and works of a diverse group of women including Gertrude Bell, Agatha Christie, Maria Mandessi Bell Diop, Mia May, Sayyida Salme Princess of Oman and Zanzibar alias Emily Ruete, and Ida Pfeiffer. The first part of the group exhibition is on view at Galerie im Körnerpark (Berlin) between 4 November 2018 and 21 January 2018 and the second part between 2 December 2017 – 21 January 2018 at nGbK - neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (Berlin). Colonialist influenced mindsets, imagery, and categories of knowledge that are still in effect today are the departure points; their historic structures are to be laid bare and examined. The artists follow experiences of oppression, resistance, and migration in their research, which encompasses travel reports, life stories, plant worlds, photographs and other objects. They investigate where and in what ways traces are still visible, and critically discuss ways to deal with archives and archival material today as well as their own roles as knowledge producers.The exhibition not only reveals gaps in the historiography, but also challenges the kind of knowledge that was produced in the context of the colonial projects and circulated Europe. Who produces knowledge about the world and in which way? How do the complex intersections between racism and sexism continue to affect us, and how can we imagine and practise feminism transculturally and in solidarity? Participating artists Akinbode Akinbiyi, Maria Thereza Alves, Hasan Aksaygın & Aykan Safoğlu, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro & Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Antye Greie aka AGF, Rajkamal Kahlon, Susanne Kriemann, Marisa Maza, Judith Raum, Mathilde ter Heijne, Katrin Winkler, Moira Zoitl Program Friday 03rd November 2017, 18h, Exhibition Opening: Galerie im Körnerpark Sunday 05th November 2017, 17h, Performance: Unlistening White Feminism – Ida Pfeiffer’s Travel Diaries Revisited (en) Galerie im Körnerpark Friday 24th November 2017, 15h, Guided Tour: On the Ruins of Paradise (en) Galerie im Körnerpark Friday 01st December 2017, 19h, Exhibition Opening Sunday 03rd December 2017, 12h, Artist Talk: How to Buy a Castle & a Farm (en) Galerie im Körnerpark Sunday 03rd December 2017, 14h, Guided Tour (de/en) Galerie im Körnerpark Saturday 09th December 2017, 17h, Guided Tour (de/en) Galerie im Körnerpark / nGbK Saturday 09th December 2017, 19h, Talk: Koloniale Begegnungen. Postkoloniale Reflexionen (de) nGbK Saturday 13th January 2018, 19h, Film screening: Audre Lorde – Die Berliner Jahre 1984 bis 199 (de) nGbK Saturday 13th January 2018, 17h, Guided Tour (de/en) Galerie im Körnerpark / nGbK Sunday 14th January 2018, 19h, Film screening: Blind Spot (de) nGbK Sunday 14th January 2018, 18h, Lecture performance: On Feminotopias (en) nGbK Sunday 21st January 2018, 17h, Guided Tour (de/en) Galerie im Körnerpark / nGbK Sunday 21st January 2018, 19h, Lecture Performance: Rock and Clay Improvisation (de) nGbK Galerie im Körnerpark Schierker Straße 8 12051 Berlin Daily 10-20h and nGbK Oranienstraße 25 10999 Berlin nGbK project group: Oliver Baurhenn, Dorothee Bienert, Marisa Maza, Antje Weitzel, Jole Wilcke, Moira Zoitl www.ngbk.de