Hosted by: Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit and Moabit Mountain College
During this round, Marta Sala and Batoul Sedawi will entrust us with their backgrounds and practices. Both artists share a kind of commitment that influences their artistic work. How can such a practice be passed on, what methods result from it?
fantastic feminist futures invite artists who relate to intersectional feminist perspectives to introduce their practices. We are interested in bringing to light the processes, the small changes rather than the spectacular leaps, the knowledge of what often remains in the shadows. This close reading of the works happens in the very particular place of Strandbad Tegelsee/Zentrum für Kultur und Erholung: on the one hand remote, in the woods on the lake Tegel, and at once in the middle of the city of Berlin. This gives us the trigger to embrace artistic expressions outside the traditional context of the white cube while connecting and reconnecting to the environment. The events are organised around exchange and conversation.
Krishan Rajapakshe will be offering us their food concept accompanied by its illustrated comic narrative.
fantastic feminist futures has been initiated by Nadira Husain, Agnieszka Kilian and Marina Naprushkina.
fantastic feminist futures is a part of the two-year collaborative project Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses, Tools and Alliances conceived in collaboration with WHW, Zagreb, the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, and Neue Nachbarschaft/Moabit, Berlin.
The program is co-funded by the European Commission’s Creative Europe program and Foundation Between Bridges.
event program at Strandbad Tegelsee 2023
Marta Stanisława Sala moves between different roles: those associated by society as non-artistic to those recognized as such. She is a painter who studied at the Art Academy in Kraków, Garment Technology graduate who enjoys sewing and cutting various materials incl. videos, and finally socially engaged artist who studied Art in Context at Berlin University of the Arts, art educator and a co-founder of many collectives. The interfaces are like a burning point for their practice. Nevertheless, she does not want to set the limits.
Batoul Sedawi is an artist based in Berlin. She studied fine arts in Damascus, Syria. When she came to Berlin in 2015, she attended the *foundation class at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee. From 2017 to 2020 she studied at the Universität der Kunste. She gives artistic workshops for children, young people and women. For a long time she has been intensively involved with the topics of women’s rights and migration. Together with the *foundation class she exhibited at the nGbK and at the 10th Berlin Biennale, Documenta15 and was part of the exhibition “the economy of borders” at the Tiergarten town hall.
Krishan Rajapakshe is an artist and a designer born in Sri Lanka, who made Berlin as their HOME for the last 10 years. Their artistic and design practices revolve mainly around drawing, comics, zines and social kitchen, proposing narratives and counter-narratives that emerge from the context of the migration experiences and their communities. Krishan Rajapakshe is also an educator, they are part of the teaching team of *foundationClass since 2020 and have been guest professor and a lecturer at Kunsthochschule Weissensee Berlin since 2021. They are founding member of magazines such as Zick Magazine in Dresden and ColourfulVoices in Berlin. Their approach to collective and collaborative artistic work is a way of making politics/friends which generate their own communing aesthetics.