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With Nanas and much more: (from left) Monika Stahlhofer, Ulrike Lachenmayr, Maria Rieder, Nina Frare, Renate Döring, Lorita Bögl, Agnes Wieser, Barbara Bertram have prepared the “Frauenzimmer” – more than an exhibition.
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Stefan Schweihofer
Full, colorful, world-famous: these are the Nanas by the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle, which have long since become more than just eye-catching eye-catchers.
They stand for modern, self-confident, erotic and life-affirming women - and now for a week also for the “Frauenzimmer” project, to which nine artists are inviting people to the Citizens' Vault in Weyarn.
Weyarn
– “It all started with Nana’s,” says Lorita Bögl, while her fellow campaigners are still in the middle of preparations, moving sculptures until they are in the best place, hanging paintings and letting inventory elegantly disappear behind cloths so that it doesn’t come from the people Exhibits distract.
A few of them self-taught and constructed the Nanas out of wire and a lot of paper, three of which now stand in the center of the room.
A fourth did not survive the hailstorm last summer when it stood as a special eye-catcher in the monastery garden.
What to do with the Nanas that had been so much fun to build?
“We looked for a format and found a topic,” says Bögl.
It was important to them to show strength and life energy and that the world needed more femininity.
And because Nanas alone were beautiful, but not enough, they put out feelers for women who could suit them.
Nine women aged 21 to 66 came together: Barbara and Clara Bertram, Lorita Bögl, Renate Döring, Nina Frare, Ulrike Lachenmayr, Maria Rieder, Monika Stahlhofer and Agnes Wieser.
The creativity is their staple, the diversity of the approach makes it exciting how they approach being a woman from 30,000 years ago to today and take up archaic and mythological topics.
Supporting program with “women’s stories” and more
How they animate and inspire each other becomes clear when setting up the exhibition, which is intended to go beyond just looking at what is shown.
It is no coincidence that the subtitle on the long-out-of-print flyer reads “...more than an exhibition”.
The artists wanted to be bolder and offer a supporting program that stimulated thought.
Not just for International Women's Day on Friday, March 8, 2024, around which they not coincidentally laid the time frame: from 7 p.m. Monika Stahlhofer will talk about the creation process of the "Frauenzimmer" under the title "From Venus to Nana".
“Listening to women’s stories” is already on the program this Sunday between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Among other things, a calendar will be presented that emerged from a writing workshop with Anja Gild from the Valley.
The “Frauenzimmer” will be closed again on Sunday, March 10th with a group “healing singing”.
Not forever, because it wants to look for new spaces.
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First of all, however, the exhibitors and their guests, who can come without admission or registration, enjoy the inspiring power of female art, which is also worth looking at in silence and without a program.
It's best to sit in a yellow wing chair with a gaze that wanders over pictures, sculptures, prints and floral works of art.
On the way out we notice a poster.
In dictionary style, it summarizes where the term “women’s room” comes from and what it means.
It ends with the “synonym female image”, to which the thoughts spontaneously add “woman power”.
Simply because of the dynamism and positive energy that the women who work here radiate.
opening hours
The exhibition “Women’s Room” in the Weyarner Bürgergewürge (J.-B.-Zimmermannstrasse 5) opens with a vernissage on Saturday, March 2, 2024, at 7 p.m.
It is open on Sunday, March 3, 2024, and from Wednesday to Sunday, March 6 to 10, 2024, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (free admission).