Ancestors del Futuro | Ahnen der Zukunft | Future Ancestors

México

Exhibition, Ofrenda de Día de Muertos, and collective creative session

Opening ‘Future Ancestors’
Thursday, 31 October, 18h
Goethe Institute CDMX
With an opening speech by Beatriz Paz Jiménez and quelites based tidbit by MASA

Artists:
Carolina Castro
Fransisco Toro
Venus Hermeneuta
Ksenia Guerrero
Graciela García
Rosa María Arizmendi Orta
Zoë Heyn-Jones
Beatriz Paz Jiménez
Janina Totzauer
Maria Justus
Pierre-Yves Delannoy
Analía Martínez
Pezi Novi
An Laphan
Paulina Nolte
Bhavani GS

Curators and initiators:
Beatriz Paz Jiménez and Janina Totzauer


Monday, 4 Nov, 10-14h
‘Archaeobotanical drift of Quelites. Chapter 2. Rapport: Colonia Roma’

Session for collective creation in collaboration with artist Leto Delgado (Quelite de Ciudad) and gastronomist Andrea Aquino
Walk with artistic practices such as drift, expanded literature exercise, and quelites refreshments 
The meeting point is in front of the Goethe Institute.
Free of charge 


Quelites are edible wild greens that supported the evolution of crops native to the ancient region of Mesoamerica. Ancestral Quelites have composted soil and sprouted for thousands of years, marking the agricultural calendar and filling the bellies in Indigenous diets. Their resilient nature meant that no efforts by former colonial rulers to replace them with European crops could prevent their sur- and revival. They thus symbolize an indigenous anti-colonial spirit. Quelites have already lived with and fed our ancestors, and with our mutual help they will continue to feed our children’s children.
They are our Future Ancestors.

On October 31st, the artists and researchers Beatriz Paz Jiménez and Janina Totzauer invite you to the opening of a very special exhibition „Ancestros del Futuro“ at the Goethe Institute in Mexico City. Artworks by 16 international visual artists and an artistic Ofrenda de Día de Muertos pay tribute to our beloved ancestors. By creating a collaborative exhibition, we want to rethink ancestry collectively, across borders, out of love and care, while mourning and re-signifying the kind of world we shape with our mouths and guts. We invite everyone to taste an assortment of Quelites and other native ingredients. Come and join the circle of life, from our ancestors to the future.

The exhibition will run from 1 to 19 Nov 2024
Mon – Fri, 9-18:30h
Admission to the exhibition is free.

More: goethe.de

Picture by Graciela García

Guardians of the Land

México

Artistic project to take nonviolent action to protect the land from extractive capitalist development practices, creating consciousness around the hegemonic concept of property. 
Within this capitalist worldview, land can be owned, sold and exploited. This objectifying conceptualization justifies overexploitation, deterioration of natural habitats, loss of species, and often denies access to the commons to the local inhabitants.

Communal Performance
Saturday 19th 2024
Peninsula of La Paz, Mexico

In most ancient cultures, land is not an object, but is perceived as sacred and sentient. She has thoughts, feelings and personality. It is not uncommon to say “What does the river feel?”, “What does the land need to be happy?”. Under this unity worldview, a person can choose to become a guardian of a space, offering their time and energy to keep that space safe. This is the worldview we want to reconnect with Guardians of the Land.

The territory chosen for this intervention lies in the vicinity of La Paz, Baja California Sur, México. In recent years this area has been under a lot of pressure from real estate development groups, with more than 63 megaprojects registered by 2020, each comprising 100 to 4000 hectares of land. One of these projects was recently halted by public demonstrations. However development efforts continue for this and many other megaprojects, so the need for resistance is stronger than ever which inspired the artists for this art/activism piece.

More: sustrato.mx/guardianes



UNTENRUM

jetzt

𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗨𝗠
Vernissage: Fri. 4th Oct 2024, 18h

together with
Zazie Julie • yakagirllu • Samira Rauner • Pauline Rebollo • Paul Endhardt • Paul Englmeier • Nikolas Hagele • Neslihan Kaya • Natalie Stanczak • Mia Wilkinson • Lery Lenz •Laura Lecrampe • Laura Jungfer • Juliane Filep • Jana Hillenbrand • Ida Lutzenberger • Franziska Hauber • Eva Jursche • Aline Weyel • Anna Neu

Curated by @von.rudzinski and @maraweilhalt

Place: Kunsthalle UG / underpass by Kongress am Park / Gögginger Straße 10 / Augsburg
A project by Schöne Felder e.V. / Supported by @kongressampark und @stadtaugsburg

Spiel Zeug

Uncategorized

Warm invitation to my first show with GEDOK!

GEDOK is the Association of Communities of Women Artists and Art Patrons, Europe’s oldest and largest network for women artists, founded in 1926 by Ida Dehmel.

I am proud to finally be part of it!

𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗭𝗲𝘂𝗴
Opening: Fri 14.06.2024, 18h

Exhibition: 14.06 – 14.07.2024

Städtische Galerie im Fürstengang
Amalienstraße, Neuburg an der Donau

Finissage: Failing System: The End of Patriarchy?

Uncategorized

Finissage der Ausstellung „Failing System: The End of Patriarchy?“

Sa., 8. Juni 2024, 18 Uhr

Zur feierlichen Finissage der Ausstellung „Failing System: The End of Patriarchy?“ laden wir alle Interessierten ganz herzlich zu einem besonderen Programm ein, welches das Thema des Feminismus und die Abschaffung des Patriarchats sowohl durch die Kunst als auch wissenschaftlich praktisch aufgreift und angeht.

Wir freuen uns zu Beginn des Abends auf Sandra Bejaranos Performance „Conquer the Moon“, die das menschliche Eingreifen in den weiblichen Körper zu Reproduktionszwecken aufgreift und weitreichend hinterfragt.

Im Anschluss wird der Aktivist und Gründer des „Instituts für kritische Männerforschung“ Christoph May auf drei Themenschwerpunkte eingehen: Männerbünde, Männerphantasien und Kritische Männlichkeit.

In einem Impulsvortrag soll die institutionelle und strukturelle Gewalt von Männerbünden als auch die falschen Mythen von Männerbildern und männlichen Erzählungen seziert und ein Bewusstsein für deren Omnipräsenz in sämtlichen Lebensbereichen geschaffen werden. In einer offenen Fragerunde schaffen wir neue Phantasien, neue Rollenbilder und diverse Drehbücher für eine feministisch gedachte Zukunft.

@detoxmasculinity

Der Frauenchor “The Witches of Westend (Female Indie Choir)” wurde 2013 in München von Pola Dobler gegründet und versteht sich als feministisch denkender Chor mit aktivistischen Ambitionen. Das Repertoire reicht von politisch/rebellischen Botschaften, über Sixties und Indiesongs bis hin zu mystischen, textlosen Klangteppichen. Alle Stücke sind eigens arrangiert und teils selbst komponiert und getextet. Die Witches treten regelmäßig mit anderen Musiker*innen und Künstler*innen in Interaktion und setzen sich für Vernetzung und Female Empowerment in der Kulturszene Münchens und darüber hinaus ein. Am 8. Juni kommen sechs Witches of Westend nach Augsburg und besingen zur Finissage das Ende des Patriarchats. 

@the_witches_of_westend_choir

Künstler*innen und die Kurator*innen sind anwesend.


-> Kunstverein Augsburg, Vorderer Lech 20, 86150 Augsburg

Failing System: The End of Patriarchy?

jetzt

Opening of the exhibition
with performances by Milena Wojhan and Sandra Bejarano
on Saturday, April 13, 6 pm
We cordially invite you and your friends.

Artist Tour
on Wednesday, May 1, 6 pm

The exhibition “Failing System – The End of Patriarchy?” at Kunstverein Augsburg draws attention to the interrelationships between feminism and the patriarchal power structures that still exist globally today.

Ten participating artists from different countries question this system and formulate a multi-layered critique in their contributions:

Sandra Singh, Marina Marković, Sandra Bejarano and Pierre-Yves Delannoy address society’s demands on one’s own body. They work out the supposed value that a person only seems to receive through reproduction. Together, they deconstruct this biopolitical misconception and stir up a socio-political can of worms in the process.

Sophia Süßmilch, Milena Wojhan, Verena Seibt and Thomas Splett make the leap from humans to animals, which stand as mystical figures, intermediate beings and symbols for new forms of life. The animal seems to have understood something that humans do not. In this way, it creates a vision of a possible feminist future.

Zama Cebsile Mwandla and Rosanna Graf work their way deep into a female rage that feeds on trauma and powerlessness. They brutally tear open old wounds in order to display them openly, free of taboos.

The artists approach the boundaries of patriarchal social norms and role expectations from different angles – sometimes in a distanced analytical manner, sometimes very personally. And they show ways to break through them. Will they succeed in raising our awareness of social inequalities and the need for a fairer future? We would all hope so.

curated by
Janina Totzauer, Radmila Krstajić, Magdalena Jooss and Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck

Funded by:
Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts
City of Augsburg

Kunstverein Augsburg
Holbeinhaus, Vorderer Lech 20
kunstverein-augsburg.de

Förderpreise / Sponsorship awards

munich
flyer to the sponsorship awards of the city of munich


I am more than happy to invite you all the the “Förderpreise der Stadt München 2024”.
Every artist is nominated for her/his complete Œuvre and I am showing a new version of my video installations “Whac-a-human” and “Shoot-the-guts”!

Opening: Fri 15 March 2024, 7 p.m.
Speaker: Councillor David Süß, representing the Lord Mayor
City Director Marek Wiechers, Department of Culture

Award show: Tue 4 May 2024, 7 p.m.
Speaker: City Councillor Prof. Dr Jörg Hoffmann, representing the Lord Mayor
Presentation of the certificate by Head of Cultural Affairs Anton Biebl

At Rathausgalerie Munich!

See you there!

Shapes of Shelter

Namibia


So happy to invite you to our exhibition

SHAPES OF SHELTER
at the Project Room Windhoek

The lovely Maria Mbereshu and I will be presenting an extraordinary collaborative art piece. A exhibition about safe spaces between Namibia and Germany.

Opening: 29th Nov, 18h

Intimate carpet with talks by Hermien Elago, Adriano Visagie and Natache IIlonga.
And a special treatie: the short movie “Scarlet Ribbon” by Naomi Beukes.
6th Dec, 18h

Come over! Have a glass of wine with us!
Celebrate this wonderful project that after one year of planning and organising finally is about to happen!

Kunst Kioske

munich

Warmhearted invitation to a very special project that goes beyond institutional exhibition making.

Sebastian Quast and I were collaborating over the last months to create a new site-specific video piece for an abandoned little subway shop. Come and see the result:

PASSIERSCHEIN A39
Opening: Wed 8th Nov 2023, 18-20h
Visible during subway operational hours: 8.11. – 15.12.2023