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Umrahmen - Drei Impulse zum Perspektivwechsel

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 instead offering three different impulses, thus inviting visitors to the Irma Stern exhibition to dive deeper and draw their own conclusions. Film Screening/ Irma Stern – A Modernist Artist Between Berlin and Cape Town/ Bruecke Museum - Kunsthaus Dahlem/ 2025/ Berlin

Video: Mark Tyron / @demn_editing