Mind the mycelium is an extensive program in and around Bremen, celebrating the Bremen Women Artists’ Association’s 40th anniversary. The ceremonial opening of the anniversary program will take place on Saturday, September 21 at 5:00 pm at the GAK (from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm by registration only, open house from 7:00 pm).
Festival opening program:
Speeches by Carmen Emigholz (State Councilor, Senator for Culture Bremen), Annette Hans (GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst), Nicole Giese-Kroner (1st Chairwoman of the Bremen Women Artists’ Association) and Norah Limberg (Managing director of the Bremen Women Artists’ Association)
Performance Echoes and installation Verflechtungen–Ein Teppich aus Erinnerungen by Annemarie Strümpfler, Hanna Döring & other performers
Preview of Gehen, Sammeln, Aufzeichnen by Petra Fiebig
Film screening Klänge sehen, Farben hören–Siegrid Ernst by Monika B. Beyer and Anne Baisch
Molecule~Catalyst~Love~Wavelength~Electricity~Bar by dilettantin produktionsbüro (Anneli Käsmayr, Andrea Lühmann, Lisa Meding)
DJ set by TAĪĪZ
As part of the anniversary, from September 21 to November 3, 2024 we will be showing the two installations Verflechtungen–Ein Teppich aus Erinnerungen by Annemarie Strümpfler & Hanna Döring and Gehen, Sammeln, Aufzeichnen by Petra Fiebig in the foyer of the GAK.
40 years of the Bremen Women Artists’ Association–40 days of the Mind the Mycelium art festival: Between September 20 and November 10, 2024, mycelium-like collaborations will take place between 70 artists at 20 art venues in Bremen and the surrounding area. The underground network of a mushroom offers the metaphor for a feminist and anti-patriarchal approach to society: as a complex, rhizomatic and non-hierarchical network, mycelium enables the surrounding ecosystem to cooperate and provide for each other. Knowledge creation and communication are organized by swarm intelligence. Within their projects, the artists make artistic collaboration visible, mediate together, explore materialities and future directions of the mycelium and its fruiting bodies using artistic methods and show feminist perspectives in art (history).
Participating artists: Petra Fiebig, Annemarie Strümpfler & Hanna Döring, Niamh Sauter-Cooke, Marina Schulze & Sabine Wewer, Anneli Käsmayr with Andrea Lühmann & Lisa Mehding, Evita Emersleben & Svenja Wetzenstein, Edeltraut Rath & Elfin Açar, the „material girls“, Mechtild Böger with Kirsten Brünjes & Patricia Bach, Sabine Schellhorn & Inge Buck, Marion Bösen, Gerda Henning, SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL GIRL GANG_TEAM*SPIRIT, Sirma Kekeç with Elfin Açar, D.O.C.H.-Collective, Emese Kazár with Viktoria Kurnicki & Andrea Fajgerné Dudás, Beate Möller & Ute Seifert, Sibylle Springer & Julia Voss, Gertrud Schleising, Meine Blockflöte und Wir and many more.
Festival opening &. ceremony from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm by registration only: e-mail to buero@kuenstlerinnenverband.de until September 13,2024
open house from 7:00 pm
> Full program of MIND THE MYCELIUM
(German only)