History is often shaped by those who are allowed to speak, travel and leave traces for posterity. It holds contradictions between beauty and violence, visibility and erasure, privilege and resistance. Upon reflecting on the current exhibition Irma Stern - A Modern artist between Berlin and Cape Town, as artists we were asking ourselves the following questions: What happens when we turn our gaze from the painter to the painted? What might these pictures reveal if we see the women in Irma Stern’s paintings not just as expressionist portraits, but as actors in their own history? What stories lie between the visible and the invisible? And how can we appreciate the humanity of those who were seen but rarely heard? We are intentionally leaving these questions unanswered and are offering instead three different impulses, thus inviting visitors to the Irma Stern exhibition to dive deeper and draw their own conclusions.

Students from the University of Hildesheim cordially invite you to intervene in the current exhibition. Since the fall, they have been developing new mediation concepts for the Brücke-Museum audience. In different ways, they deal with Lise Gujer’s tapestries and their genesis, encourage critical reflection and open up new perspectives on the exhibited works. They do this performatively and narratively, participatively and multisensory.
The concepts were developed in close collaboration with Daniela Bystron (curator for Outreach / Brücke-Museum) and Fiona McGovern (lecturer at the University of Hildesheim). 

Performances, tours, sounds - on this museum Sunday you can expect an artistic program in the forest room and museum garden. It is curated by the artist duo Po:era as part of the festival ONSITE.

With students in the Master’s programme Kunstwissenschaft (art studies) at the Technischen Universität Berlin: Lena Affentranger, Susanne Baunach, Clara Borchmann, Dalila Daut, Nastasja Günther, Anna-Lena Hinz, Alexandra Laudy, Arthur Meng, Damaris Rulf, Jessica Schweitzer, Paula Wunderlich and Fee Wüstenberg