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Embrace Platform

Charlotte Eifler, Mara Ittel, Edka Jarząb, Jessica Kessler, Kerstin Möller, Karol Radziszewski & Queer Archives Institute, Karolina Sobel, Liliana Zeic
Exhibitions
Embrace Platform
11.2.–18.4.2022 – extended until 6.6.2022

Embrace is a nomadic platform for interdisciplinary cultural and artistic exchange designed to promote both national and international cooperation. The Embrace Platform, established in 2020 by Karolina Sobel and Kerstin Möller, brings together a multiplicity of medial art forms, including video, photography, sound installations, performances, and workshops. The exhibition "Embrace" advocates gender equality and the normalization of non-binary gender identities in Germany, Poland, and Europe. The emphasis is
 on artistic exchange on the topics of LGBTQIA+ and women’s rights, as well as on forms of nonviolent resistance. As its premiere project, the exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein features invited Polish artists and artists with biographical con
The contributions of Liliana Zeic and Karol Radziszewski & Queer Archives Institute investigate perspectives for queer historiography in Poland. Zeic explores the history of non-normative women 
in Poland with reference to a portrait of Polish novelist Narcyza Żmichowska. Karol Radziszewski provides insights into the Queer Archives Institute, an institution founded by the artist as an alternative collection for queer sources from Central and Eastern Europe. Together with workshop participants, Edka Jarząb elaborates an audio-manifesto, that seeks to come to terms with the concept of the ‘Safe Space.’ It explores how normative, dominant models complicate everyday struggles with queerness, femmehood, and high sensitivity. Mara Ittel and Charlotte Eifler address the issue of post-digital worlds from a feminist perspective. Jessica Kessler intervenes in the restrooms of the Badischer Kunstverein, critically interrogating inherent binary decisions. The exhibition also incorporates film screenings at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe, with interventions by Karolina Sobel and Kerstin Möller.


Program

Friday, 4.2.2022–6.2.2022, daily 11am–4pm
Workshop with Edka Jarząb
Meeting place: Cola Taxi Okay, Kronenstraße 25, 76133 Karlsruhe

Thursday, 10.2.2022, 8pm 

Performance by Edka Jarząb
Venue: Badischer Kunstverein

Friday, 11.2.2022, 5pm
Guided Tour through the Exhibition Embrace with the artist Liliana Zeic
Venue: Badischer Kunstverein

Saturday, 12.2.2022, 2pm

Queer Urban History
Guided City Tour with Ilona Scheidle
Meeting place: Badischer Kunstverein

Sunday, 13.2.2022, 5pm and 7pm
Thursday, 14.4.2022, 7pm and 9pm
Short film program at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe
With contributions by among others: Peaches, Karol Radziszewski, and a block of shorts films on LGBTQIA+ topics
Venue: Kinemathek Karlsruhe

In cooperation with Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe, the Kinemathek Karlsruhe, the City of Hannover – Cultural Office, Cola Taxi Okay Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. With support from the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe, the City of Karlsruhe, the City of Hannover – Cultural Office, and the UNESCO City of Music Hannover.

For more information on the exhibitions, and our program, please visit us on our Website, on Instagram and Facebook.

Museum details

Address
Waldstraße 3
76133
Karlsruhe
+49 721 28 226
Opening hours

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