The F*word

Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design

17.2.23 – 17.9.23
Ein gelbes Plakat mit der Aufschrift: Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into The Met. Museum?
Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into The Met. Museum?, 1989, © Guerrilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com

Another exhibition devoted to women? Yes! Progress has been made in many areas, including museums, with regard to female representation. The number of special exhibitions on female designers at the MK&G is increasing, but what does it look like in the "heart of the MK&G" – within the collection itself? This question is approached in three steps: In the central gallery, we present humorous and provocative works by the Guerrilla Girls, a group of female activists that has exposed sexism and racism within the art world since 1985. As a second step, we take a critical and incriminating look at our Graphics and Posters collection. Our findings show that only 1.5 percent of the collected works are attributed to women. Based on this verdict, we enquire into the reasons behind it, while displaying a multitude of bold and inspiring works created by female designers over the past 150 years. In a third step, we develop new perspectives for the future. How do we want the collection to evolve in the years ahead? Rather than giving an overview, this exhibition offers insights. We are right in the middle of this process and look forward to the next steps.

The exhibition is being designed in collaboration with O.F.I.S., Rimini Berlin is developing the exhibition graphics and an "exhibition within the exhibition" on women type designers, and Distaff Studio is devising the art education stations.

Kindly supported by Pro Helvetia and the Rudolf Augstein Foundation.

Media partner: ARTE, Missy Magazine

 
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Gorillamaske mit Schrift.
Guerrilla Girls, If You Keep Women Out They Get Resentful, 2018, © Guerrilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com
Ein Franzbrötchen auf einem Teller mit Schrift.
Dieses Franzbrötchen repräsentiert die 400.000 grafischen Arbeiten im MK&G – Dieser Krümel steht für die Arbeiten von Frauen: 1,5%, 2022
© Guerrilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com
Ein Magazincover mit einer Frau auf dem Titel.
Daniela Burger, Missy Magazine 2021 (Nr. 3), 2021, Zeitschrift, Offsetdruck, MK&G
Eine pinke Grafik mit schwarzer Schrift.
Guerrilla Girls, Dearest Art Collector, 1986, © Guerrilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com

 

Impressions

Personen in einem bunten Ausstellungsraum.
Ausstellungsansicht „The F* word - Guerrilla Girls und feministisches Grafikdesign“, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Foto: Henning Rogge
Personen in einem bunten Ausstellungsraum.
Ausstellungsansicht „The F* word - Guerrilla Girls und feministisches Grafikdesign“, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Foto: Henning Rogge
Personen in einem bunten Ausstellungsraum.
Ausstellungsansicht „The F* word - Guerrilla Girls und feministisches Grafikdesign“, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Foto: Henning Rogge
Personen in einem bunten Ausstellungsraum.
Ausstellungsansicht „The F* word - Guerrilla Girls und feministisches Grafikdesign“, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Foto: Henning Rogge
Personen in einem bunten Ausstellungsraum.
Ausstellungsansicht „The F* word - Guerrilla Girls und feministisches Grafikdesign“, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Foto: Henning Rogge

Guerrilla Girl Facefilter

Eine Person mit einer Gorilla-Maske auf.

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Mask yourself! Take a stand! And carry the protest out of the museum. Be it as a selfie in the exhibition or via our digital face filter on Instagram.

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Merchandise

Foto von Tattoos auf menschlicher Haut in Form eines brüllenden Affen.

In our museum shop you will find numerous Guerrilla Girls products, as well as sticker sheets, temporary tattoos, the exhibition poster, postcards, literature and much more!

To the museum shop

Publication

Ein pinkes Buchcover: Schriftmeisterinnen

Schriftmeisterinnen-Buch

In the exhibition "The F*word – Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design" there is an "exhibition within the exhibition". Rimini Berlin researched fonts designed by FLINTA* designers for the wall texts and object signs – and now each room has its own fonts, 12 in total! They are collected in the so-called 'Schriftmeisterinnen-Buch', supplemented by information and further writings of the designers. Since there are many interested enquiries, we offer it here for download.

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collecti*f

Ein schwarzer Blitz auf rosa Untergrund.
Grafik: Rimini Berlin

Collecting together

In the future, we would like not only to preserve feminist works, but also to support them, i.e. we would like to buy them. Become a supporter! With an annual donation, you support the designers and the development of the collection. And you make the feminist collection a joint project: collecti*f.

More information and donation form (in German)

Designers of the exhibits

Marina Abramovic, Ruth und Hans Albitz, Kerstin Baarmann, Isolde Baumgart, Polly Bertram, Hanna Elisabeth Biermann-Ratjen, Irma Boom, Miriam Cahn, Jacqueline S. Casey, Meta Cohn-Hendel, Courage Magazin, Cyan (Daniela Haufe und Detlef Fiedler), Jutta Damm-Fiedler, Hanne Darboven, Homa Delvaray, Clémentine Hélène Dufau, Maria Ekier, Anke Feuchtenberger, Dorothea Fischer-Nosbisch, Futuress, Natalia Sergejewna Gontscharowa, Heike Grebin, April Greiman, Diane Gromala, Grete Gross, Hildegarde van Gülick und Gerd Grimm, Martina Günther, Guerrilla Girls, Sibylle Hagmann, Henriette Hahn-Brinckmann, Florence Hargraves, Agnes F. Harrison, Daniela Haufe, Sophia van Heeswijk, Gosia Herba, Richard Hermes, Pierre Hiener, Doli Hilbert, Marlice Hinz, Hannah Höch, Jenny Holzer, Lotte van den Hoogen, Hugs&Kisses (u.a. Christine Campe, Karin Hahn, Kerstin Holzwarth, Sally Johnson, Claudia Maack, Christiane Stephan, Paula Winkler), Anna Huskowska-Młynarska, Internationales Frauenbündnis Altona, Maria Isaevna Volkova, Eiko Ishioka, Anja Kaiser, Eva Kalchau, Šejla Kamerić, Golnar Kat-Rahmani, Elisabeth Kekuschewa, Samira Khorshidi, Birgit Kiupel, Hilda Körner, Käthe Kollwitz, Margit Sidonie Kováts, Barbara Kruger, Izabela Kulczyńska, Valentina Nikitična Kulagina, Lora Lamm, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Helen Li, Zuzana Ličko, Eveline Link, Florence Lundborg, Gabriel .A. Maher, Kosma Masny, Missy Magazine (Nicole Ibele, Daniela Burger, Julia Steinbrecher), Rimini Berlin (Franziska Morlok), Clara Möller-Coburg, Dore Mönkemeyer-Cortý, Wangechi Mutu, Yoko Ono, Blanche Ostertag, Ngọc Anh Phan, Arno Ploog, Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová, Produktionskollektiv Kreuzberg, Dominik Przerwa, Rashid Rahnama, Rudolf Rausch, Ethel Reed, Charlotte Rollius, Esra Rotthoff, Nelly Rudin, Tereza Ruller, Babak Safari, Susanna Maria von Sandrart, Lydia Sandrock, G. Scheppan, Paula Scher, Ute Schröter, Helga Schütt, Ilse Schütze-Schur, Lavinia Schulz, Teresa Sdralevich, Nancy Skolos, Anna Sóos Korányi, Ariane Spanier, SPRING Kollektiv, Rebecca Stephany, Gunta Stölzl, Yukihisa Takakita, Andrea Tinnes, Rosmarie Tissi, Annik Troxler, Paula Troxler, Nina Nikolajewna Vatolina, Ghazaal Vojdani, Anna von Wahl, Stepanowa Warwara und Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko, Dorothy Waugh, Hani Wibowo, Frieda Sylvestra Wiegand, Katerina Wilczynski, Susanne Williges-Weichberger, Claudia Wolf, Yimeng Wu, Ingrid Wullenweber, Harumi Yamaguchi, Megi Zumstein

Designers of the zines

Sophie Allerding, Biso Arduino, Marie Bader, Die Bande (u.a. Helene Biersted, Jessica Grömminger, Lena Hoppe), Cloé Barbier, Helena Karin Baumeister, Maria Bayer, Luca Beerbaum, Merit Bendler, Coco Bergholm, Léa Besson, Anni Billhardt, Hélène Bléhaut, Blood Becomes Water (Raya Boteva, Rosie Eisor), Wiebke Bolduan, Jana Borsche, Zola Brandau, Anna Breit, Bye Bye Binary (u.a. Roxanne Maillet, Eugénie Bidaut, Léna Salabert), Studio Cabrio, Cake & Cash (u.a. Wiebke Grieshop, Sofia Star), Justin Carder, Cara A. Carsjens, Sarah Chand, Cherry Grrrl Comics (Juliane Kruschke aka. Jule K.), Louisa Victoria Clever, Chloé D’hauwe, DA SIND WIR-TEAM (Jana Beckmann, Constanza Carvajal, Sarah Drain, Janna Nikoleit), Design Justice Network, Klaus Erika Dietl, Rafaela Dražić, Die Drei Heinis, Laura Dunse, EFRAS Kollektiv (u.a. Andrea Wandinger), Ronja Electra Ehrenberg, Jule Eretier, Julia Fabricius, Lisa-Marie Fechteler, Lea Sophie Fetköter, Hannah Flügler, Paula Freitag, Jens Freudenberg, Kathrin Freudenberg, Matthis Frickhöffer, Alina Fried, Hannah Friedrich, Leona Fritsche, Sina Fuchs, fummelei (Pia Neumann), Tim Garbens, Bastian Gasser, Jennifer Geeb, Antonia Gericke, Léonor Gläser, glitterclit (u.a. Noa Lovis Peifer, Linu Lätitia Blatt), Grit3000 (u.a. Cordula Heins, Marie Klinke, Clara Vogeler), Jessica Gysel, Viktoria Hager, Vanessa Hartmann, Sinah Hasselbach, Pia Heer, Odette van Heesbeen, Sophie Hennerbichler, Svenja Hinrichs, Areum Hwang, Megan Irwin, Jacqueline Wölfel, Franziska Jakubik, Lina von Jaruntowski, Xiangyue Jiao, Lina Kaltenberg, Anna Kantel, Katrin Karmann, Saskia Kühnemund, Mina Luisa Khanbaba-Tehrani, Kiosk (u.a. Els Roelandt), Julia Klenovsky, Lena Konz, Julia Koschler, Rhea Kropp, Inèz Lamari, Félicité Landrivon, Marie Langholz, Lucie Langston, Noemi Tomàs Lässer, Jihee Lee, Balekane Legoabe, Hannah Lentz, Lu Lin, Leonie Lindl, Angelica Liv, Lennart Lofink, Eliza Lorenz, Barbara Lüdde, Camila Machado, Federica Gilda Marrella, Norika Matsuki, Kim Mayer, Elisa Metz, Paula Miéville, Sarah Mirk, Melika Moazeni, MONAliesA (u.a. Stefanie Leinhos), Vitória Monteiro, Stephanie Müller, Nadine Nebel, Minou Niknam, Veronica Obenauer, Xinan Pandan, Emma Mia, Angelika Pentka, Pétroleuzes (u.a. Suzanne Bussiere, Hugues Benard), Eva Planet, posse mag (u.a. Katharina Stahlhofen), Martina Pöchtrager, Resi Polster, Auriane Preud’homme, Kasper Quaink, Radikarla* (Kollektiv), Charlotte Rhode, Paula Riek, Judith Rinklebe, Lola Rodriguez, Ros*innen (u.a. Kea Hinsch, Marie Püffel, Tammy-Rose Ihedioha, Denise Neumann), Kato Rotaru, Vanessa Ruckh, Alexandra Ruppert, Magdalena Rzepecka, Pia Salzer, Leon Schade, Marie Schaller, Samantha Schmalenbach, Celina Schmidt, Isabell Schmiedebach, Lucie Schroeder, Camilla Schröer, Katharina Schücke, Lea Schütze, Hannah Schulz, Laurina Schulz, Paula Schumacher, Susanne Schumacher, Emil Schwärzler, Hanna Schwager, Seline Seidler, Slut.zine (Kollektiv), Jay Steinert, Emilia Stemmler, Rahel Suesskind, Sarah Tartsch, Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. (u.a. Andrea Dilzer), Xiyu Tomorrow, Eva Treuner, Michelle Ulz, Anna Unterstab, Lula Valletta, Susana Vásquez Torres, Very (u.a. Marie Schoppmann, Alexandra Papadopoulou, Nathalie Landenberger), Jot Vetter, Judit Vetter, Vanessa Voigt, Lioba Wachtel  Eliza Wagener, Catharina Weichert, Lea Weigert, Samira Welles, Lu Williams, Tamara Wirth, Lara Wischert, What’s Afghan Punk Rock?! Magazine (u.a. Armeghan Taheri),  Wondering Woman, Pauline Luca Wunderlich, Die Wurf Kollektiv (Eva Planet, Maria Bayer, Johanna Beyer, Sarah Kehrwieder, Luise Dieckmann), Chul Gyun Yoo, ZICK magazine (u.a. Krishan Rajapakshe), Sanja Zündorf, Hulda Zwingli (Künstlerinnenkollektiv)

Designers with audio contributions in the listening station

​​Anna Berkenbusch, Larissa Bertonasco (Spring Kollektiv), Anne Buettner, Daniela Burger, Uta Brandes, Mayar El Bakry, Griselda Flesler, Ihmad Gebrayel, Heike Grebin, Guerrilla Girls, Lotte van den Hoogen, Birgit Kiupel, Anja Lutz, Prem Krishnamurthy, Laura Maikowski (Zoff Kollektiv), Franziska Morlok, Quan Nguyen, Nina Prader, Ann Richter, Esra Rotthoff, Babak Safari, Bahia Shehab, Christiane Stephan (Hugs&Kisses), Sonja Steven (Buero Klass), Ramon Tejada, Andrea Tinnes, Anna Unterstab, Lu Williams, Yimeng Wu

Designers of the typefaces used in the exhibition

Ange Degheest (Camille Depalle, Eugénie Bidaut, Luna Delabre, Mandy Elbé, May Jolivet, Oriane Charvieux, Benjamin Gomez, Justine Herbel), Maria Doreuli, Christina Janus, Larissa Kasper, Katharina Köhler, Jungmyung Lee, Zuzana Ličko, Sun Young Oh, Charlotte Rhode, Patricia Saunders, Alice Savoie, Andrea Tinnes

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