GALERIE LEVEL ONE HAMBURG 2014

Where are the great women who contributed to making history every bit as much as the great male minds? They are barely visible and just as little rooted in our awareness. “I was outraged by this already as a sixteen-year-old,” said the artist Anja Matzke, “as a young girl, I went to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, where there was an exhibition with a series of portraits of men by Gerhard Richter. I was deeply shocked by the omnipresence of the masculine and the exclusion of women from this series.”

Opening speech by Dr. Katharina Jeorgakopulos

Materials: cotton cloth, thread, clothesline, clothespins