Worin unsere Stärke besteht
Presentation and discussion with Andrea Pichl

In 2022, the artist Andrea Pichl curated the exhibition Worin unsere Stärke besteht/Where our strength lies. 50 Woman Artists from the GDR for the Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin.
On display were works by fifty female artists from three generations with a GDR background, whose biographies are strongly characterised by socio-political and socio-economic ruptures and uncertainties compared to many West German artists. Andrea Pichl has analysed the work and career field of the art industry, she has studied statistics and biographical longitudinal sections, has counted and compared stages of institutional careers. As an artist who was born in the GDR in 1964 and experienced the post-reunification orientation in the ‘art operating system’, she is interested in talking about the conditions of artistic work and structural inequalities.

The exhibition was dedicated to thematic approaches in relation to the biographies of female artists. A comprehensive catalogue was published by Distanzverlag in 2023.
In her lecture, Andrea Pichl will present the exhibition and then show her own works. Moderated by Ursula Rogg.

The event is organised in cooperation with the Equal Opportunities and Women's Representatives of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.