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We work so much - who will ever see this

07.12.2023, private adress in Hamburg Hasselbrook

With works by: Sophie Altmann, Alen Bichler, Fernanda Braun Santos, Karla Krey, Akseli Manner, David Scheffler, Marco Wesche

further credits and contributions
host: Karla Krey | pizza: David Scheffler | food: Sophie Altmann | funding application: Karla Krey | transportation driver: Karla Krey, David Scheffler | accounting, dishwashing: Alen Bichler | graphic design: Akseli Manner | photography and edit: Marco Wesche

funded by Bezirksamt Hamburg Mitte and K.H. Dietze Stiftung

screen mounted on a wall in a narrow bathroom

David Scheffler

fermentation and pots by Sophie Altmann

floorplan

Apartment exhibition to escape winterdepression. Starting conversations on cultural work, precarity and the pareto principle.

Alen Bichler and Karla Krey: "Zimmer" (Room), installation

Fernanda Braun Santos

Sophie Altmann: "Installation"

exhibition view with Hochhaus Victoria Gentsch

R36

06.04.2023, private adress in Dresden Altstadt

With works by: Sophie Altmann, Alen Bichler, Victoria Gentsch, Karla Krey, David Scheffler

further credits and contributions: host: Alen Bichler | photography and edit Victoria Gentsch/materialmatters | transportation driver: Karla Krey | food: Sophie Altmann | funding application: Karla Krey | accounting: Alen Bichler

Sophie Altmann: painting

David Scheffler: "Horrorhouse", video

Karla Krey: "Von außen: Dresden", video

Victoria Gentsch: "Hochhaus", mixed media

Part two of the exhibitions taking place alongside moving houses. As long as the new apartment is still empty, we set up a show. Due to very limited space, the adress is again on demand. Artworks dealing with houses, carework and the city of Dresden.

Alen Bichler: washing performance

photo: Victoria Gentsch

G15

05.04.2023, private adress in Dresden Friedrichstadt

With works by: Sophie Altmann, Alen Bichler, Victoria Gentsch, Hanna Griepentrog, Karla Krey, David Scheffler, Antonia Silbermann

further credits and contributions: host: Alen Bichler | photography and edit Victoria Gentsch/materialmatters | transportation driver: Karla Krey | food: Sophie Altmann

Bathroom Intervention by Victoria Gentsch

Sophie Altmann: chicken, glazed ceramics

Hanna Griepentrog and Alexander Holzenleiter: "Kim Saatchi flashing in untopia", soundreactive Object

The exhibition 'G15' shows a series of works that deal with the concept of the home and its specific spaces.

Alen Bichler: "Bed", installatio, bed, soil, plants

Karla Krey and David Scheffler: "Sonntagsbraten", Soundinstallation, black and white photography

Sophie Altmann: Cow

photo: Karla Krey, edit: Victoria Gentsch

CAMP

23.06.–30.06.22, Galerie Ladøns, Gängeviertel Hamburg

With works by: Sophie Altmann, Alen Bichler, Victoria Gentsch, Yeonwoo Chang Karla Krey,

further credits and contributions: photography: Karla Krey | edit Victoria Gentsch/materialmatters | application: Alen Bichler and Karla Krey

For a week, we set up our camp in the Ladøns gallery. Through a large shop window, we made our everyday collective work of sustaining life together visible, in a place explicitly used for the exhibition of art. Our working and living conditions have repeatedly served as a starting point for collaborative projects.

With "CAMP" we realized a project that explores the relationship of exhibition space and artistic work, expected dates and objects: we did not use the time we spent in the exhibition space to create a specific artistic work and we We did not use the time we spent in the exhibition space to develop a specific artistic work and we ruled out a vernissage as the end point of our processual exchange from the outset. With our project, we converted Galerie Ladøns into living space and developed a needs-oriented spatial concept for it. We formulated our requirements and designed the space together accordingly: a sleeping area, a rudimentary kitchen, collections of materials and seating.

photo: Karla Krey

Frauen*zimmer 2

August 2021, private adress in Dresden Friedrichstadt

With works by: Sophie Altmann, Alen Bichler, Mona Sophia Freudenreich, Hanna Griepentrog, Karla Krey, Katina Rank, Josephine Sandig, Jasmin Schiebold, Laura Steinert

credits and contributions:
host: Alen Bichler | photos and edit: Karla Krey, Josephine Sandig, Laura Steinert,

bathtub, person working

Sophie Altmann: "Bathtub"

exhibition view, close up buttons made from old wallpaper

Alen Bichler: Buttons

exhibition view, videoprojection

Karla Krey: "Focussing", video

floorplan

This week we are continuing "FRAUEN*ZIMMER". An exhibition in the time between renovating and moving into an apartment. Exhibition setup consisting of removing wallpaper, taking down the trash and drinking tea. In the exhibition series, we take a closer look at our own living spaces.

exhibition view with beamer and small drawings
two persons on a ladder, doing renovation work on the ceiling people sitting and standing in an empty apartment

Fe*male Intervention 2021

8th 2021

A poster, spread over the city of Dresden. Pandemic times made gathering for breakfast impossible.

This years poster motive, an image of a lower body wearing a strap on with a banana, provoked the neighborhoods. At our home Späti, neighbors requested to take it down, since children could see it.

photo: David Scheffler

FRAUEN*ZIMMER

June 2020, private adress in Dresden Neustadt

with works by: Alen Bichler, Ina Gajewski, Karla Krey, Steff Mucke, David Scheffler, Laura Steinert

host: Alen Bichler and Laura Steinert | photos: David Scheffler

funded by StuRa of HfBK Dresden

wonky wall, backlit, reddish light

Alen Bichler and Laura Steinert: "Penetrale", videoinstallation

Karla Krey: "Window to the Wall" (Detail)

Steff Mucke: analogue Photography

The concept is the private room, the space in which you feel safe with likeminded people.

Alen Bichler and Laura Steinert: "Penetrale", videoinstallation

Ina Gajewski and David Scheffler: "Schwestern" (Sisters), Karla Krey: "Boxes and Bottles"

Ina Gajewski and David Scheffler: "Schwestern" (Sisters), Karla Krey: "Window to the Wall"

In reference to the german term "Frauenzimmer" (women's room), which simultaneously refers to a woman's room and pejoratively to a resistant, non-conforming woman, we put together an exhibition in an apartment in Dresden. We set up works on gender, intimacy and closeness in three rooms of the apartment and teamed up for an audio piece thats played in the stairwell.

Alen Bichler: "Penetrale", video

The hidden (sacred) part of a place or temple was called a penetrale. The room-filling installation consists of two main components: a large-format tent made of red-colored rice paper and a video projection. There are two ways of entering the work: inside the tent, body and visual space overlap, everything is visual space overlap, everything is red, including the visitors themselves. Entering the space is also an intrusion into it. A wall made of papier-mâché delimits the interior. A narrow gap between the wall and the rice paper leads to the back of the wall and the video projection. The video is a self-experiment in penetration.

Ina Gajewski and David Scheffler: "Schwestern" (Sisters)

Ina Gajewski and David Scheffler are rehearsing a dance choreographie attending the song "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. While envolving and studying this choreography, their mutual viewing and interaction to each other is increasing.

Fe*male Intervention exhibition, C.Rockefeller Center Dresden, photo: David Scheffler

Fe*male Intervention 2020

8–11.03.2020

exhibition at C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts Dresden with works by: Sophie Altmann, Grit Aulitzky, Lisa Maria Baier, Alen Bichler, Yeonwoo Chang, Melo Börner, Nadja Gottschalk, Viktoria Graf, Maria Kitzing, Karla Krey, Hanne Lange, Anna Lorenzana, Alex Lüder, Antje Meichsner, Sylvia Pásztor, Caroline Petri, Veronika Pfaffinger, Katina Rank, Suntje Sagerer, Elisa Schumann, Angelina Seibert, Ruth Unger, Helena Zubler

funded by Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz der Landeshauptstadt Dresden, asta EHS Dresden, StuRa of HfBK Dresden, Tafel Dresden e.V.

fake peach on a pedestal, work by Yeonwoo Chang bronze cone in cartbord box by Hanne Lange exhibition view, video and ceramic lemons by Angelina Seibert

Celebration week on the occasion of feminist strike day. An open space in the university, a filmscreening, an exhibition and a keynote on climate justice by a local group of activists.

We set up a week full of program to shed light on different aspects of feminist fights. Filmmaker Susanne Heinrich screened her movie "Das melancholische Mädchen" and stayed for a Q&A. In the project space C.Rockefeller Center Dresden we opened an exhibition with 22 positions on fruits and fertility. During the whole week HfBK Dresdens Senatssaal was open for everyone to hang out and work.

exhibition view with works in different media tube tv with video by Katina Rank

photo: Robert Vanis

Fe*male Intervention 2019

8th March

with works by: AG Performance, Agnes Barate, Lisa Maria Baier, Pauline Faivre, Rebecca Flodur, Maria Katharina Franz, Mia Heidler, Lea Hoffarth, Jascha Wolfram, Mirjam Kroker, Antje Meichsner, Victoria Ovsepian, Lita Poliakova, Sandra Rosenstiel, Karolin Töpfer, Christiane Wacker, Helena Zubler

further credits: organisation: Alen Bichler and Alex Lüder | photos: Robert Vanis
funded by StuRa of HfBK Dresden and Tafel Dresden e.V.

Fe*male Intervention 2019, Performance von Karolin Kutteri

Karolin Kutteri: Performance

Fe*male Intervention, Menschen stehen im Senatssaal der HfBK Dresden

Gathering in the Univeristy of Fine Arts Dresden for a breakfast and exhibition to celebrate the feminist strike day.

Fe*male Intervention, Menschen stehen im Senatssaal der HfBK Dresden Fe*male Intervention, Menschen stehen im Senatssaal der HfBK Dresden

Cindy Cat, a unionised group for art/culture in collective self-organisation, told about their work.

Fe*male Intervention, Menschen stehen im Senatssaal der HfBK Dresden Fe*male Intervention, Menschen stehen im Senatssaal der HfBK Dresden

This website documents projects initiated by us, Alen Bichler and Karla Krey. We are currently based in Dresden and Hamburg. In our duo work we are interested in (exhibition) spaces, working conditions and emancipatory practice. contact us

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last edited 05/2024

/collaborators/ Sophie Altmann, Grit Aulitzky, Lisa Maria Baier, Ágnes Baraté, Alen Bichler, Melo Börner, Fernanda Braun Santos, Cake & Cash Curatorial Collective, Cindy Cat, Yeonwoo Chang, Pauline Faivre, Frauenstadtarchiv Dresden, F_Streik Netzwerk Dresden, Maria Katharina Franz, Mona Sophia Freudenreich, Ina Gajewski, Victoria Gentsch, Viktoria Graf, Hanna Griepentrog, Nadja Gottschalk, Nina Hank-Weise, Mia Heidler, Lea Hoffarth, Alexander Holzenleiter, Kollektiv zur schönen Mense (Johanna Bender und Constanze Kresta), Maria Kitzing, Karla Krey, Mirjam Kroker, Hanne Lange, Anna Lorenzana, Alex Lüder, Akseli Manner, Antje Meichsner, Steff Mucke, Layla Nabi, Victoria Ovsepian, Sylvia Pásztor, Katina Rank, Rebekka Rudolf, Victoria Ovsepian, Caroline Petri, Veronika Pfaffinger, Lita Poliakova, Sandra Rosenstiel, Suntje Sagerer, Josephine Sandig, David Scheffler, Jasmin Schiebold, Elisa Schumann, Antonia Silbermann, Laura Steinert, Karolin Töpfer, Ruth Unger, Christiane Wacker, Marco Wesche, Jascha Wolfram, Helena Zubler

/collaborations/ (2024) Kollektiv zur schönen Mense, exhibition at Zentralwerk Dresden
(2021) Banden bilden!, panel on collective work mit Fe*male Intervention, In the Meantime, Tamika and Naomi Odhiambo, Tiger.Riots, (online)
(2020) Wir wollen die ganze Bäckerei: Feministische Organisation an der Kunsthochschule panel with Cake and Cash Curatorial Collective and Fe*male Intervention at RC3, (online)
(2020) Das ist unser Raum – Podiumsgespräch zu feministischen Interventionen an Kunsthochschulen, at Pop and Squat Festival, (online)
(2020) Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Susanne Heinrich, HfBK Dresden