mind the *gap!
The project mind the *gap! new visibility for women artists has been working with cultural institutions since 2024 to introduce previously underrepresented women artists of the modern era to the
public with presentations of their work.
The project idea came about during the fair share! campaign on International Women's Day 8.3.2022 in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie. The performance focused on 110 female artists who were
artistically active in the period from 1900 to 1945 and were to be represented in the Neue Nationalgalerie's permanent collection. The research of the artists' biographies led to the idea to make
the resulting knowledge more widely known as part of a fair share! series of events at various exhibition venues. To this end, ambassadors write short monographs that are presented to an
interested audience and compiled in a steadily growing series of publications.
mind the *gap! 25.01.2026
Alte Nationalgalerie & Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
The mind the *gap! Women Artists’ Day on 25 January 2026 was a success: the short guided tours were very well received. Many visitors were largely unfamiliar with the artists featured. This made their interest in the women artists’ works, biographies and the fair share! publications all the bigger. Visitors had the opportunity to rediscover the collection and its women artists and to learn more about their struggle for visibility. The short guided tours introduced four women painters and two women sculptors: Elisabet Ney, Sabine Lepsius, Maria Slavona, Katharina Felder, Caroline Bardua and Dora Hitz. Six new booklets (graphic design: Miriam Neubauer) were published to accompany the event, written by Katjana Berndt, Ines Doleschal, Henrike Heller, Dr Felicia Meynersen, Susanne Schirdewahn and Dr Rahel Schrohe.
The ‘mind the gap!’ Women Artists’ Day highlighted outstanding women artists in the collection – a collaboration between fair share! for Women Artists e.V. and the Alte Nationalgalerie.
photos: Elma Riza LAYLAY images
mind the*gap! 7.11.2024
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
As part of the art4All event series of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, we presented on 7 November 2024 the project mind the *gap!
The fair share! ambassadors Susanne Haun, Miriam Neubauer, Anna Bittner, Ines Doleschal, Cornelia Renz and Beatrice Miersch introduced six outstanding women artists of classical modernism whose
works are owned by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin but are not on display in the permanent collection.
The visitors learnt about the life and work of Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Paula Lauenstein, Charlotte E. Pauly, Emy Roeder, Louise Stomps and Augusta von Zitzewitz at information counters in the foyer. The special highlight - short tours with the ambassadors into the depot of the Neue Nationalgalerie - was fully booked. Our publications on the individual artists (designed by Miriam Neubauer) were received with great interest. Now is the time for these artists to be given a place in the next collection presentation!
The mind the *gap! series will be continued at another art venue in 2025.
mind the *gap! 21.01.2024
Bröhan-Museum, Berlin
The Bröhan Museum in Berlin kicked off the project in January 2024. fair share! presented three avant-garde artists as part of a special event: the ceramicist Margarete Heymann-Loebenstein Marks, the sculptor Tina Haim-Wentscher and the photographer Suse Byk. A film documentary was produced by Anna-Maria Weber, AugenZeugeKunst.
The mind the *gap! project series will be continued in November 2024 at the Neue Nationalgalerie. fair share! ambassadors will introduce six outstanding women artists of the modernist period with
their lives, work, and artistic achievements.
Further locations will follow.
Fotos: Michael Fanke und Annekatrin Pischelt, 2024
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