of the Kulturwerk des BBK M-V e.V. in cooperation with the Kunstverein Wismar e.V. ; from 19.11.-20.12.2025 in the gallery Hinter dem Rathaus in Wismar
Fanny
Exhibition of the graduates of the mentoringKUNST project
of the Kulturwerk des BBK M-V e.V. in cooperation with the Kunstverein Wismar e.V.
Gallery behind the town hall
November 19 - December 20, 2025
Behind the town hall 8 | 23966 Wismar
Opening hours: Wed-Sat 11-17 h
Vernissage: Wednesday, 19.11.2025, 19:30 h
Finissage: Saturday, 20.12.2025
Project management/curator: Susanne Gabler, Lena Biesalski
Vernissage on 19.11.2025, 7:30 pm
- Welcome: Claudia Kapellusch // 1st Chairwoman of the BBK Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V.
- Greeting: Sibylle Donath // Head of Tourism and Culture of the Hanseatic City of Wismar
- Introduction: Lena Biesalski // Chairwoman Kunstverein Wismar, Susanne Gabler // Management Kunstverein Wismar
- Artistic contribution
13 artists and authors
Helene Beckmann, Henni-Lisette Busch, Yevheniia Chaikovska, Belinda Eisert, Daria Gabruk, Pauline Kail, Lore Möhwald, Kaja Paulan, Ulrike Sebert, Tine Schmidt, Migina Onida Winona Schumacher, Lisa Marie Steude, Anke vom Sund
About the exhibition FANNY
On 19.11.2025 the final exhibition of the graduates of the 6th round of the mentoringKUNST project will be ceremoniously opened in the gallery behind the town hall in Wismar.
What happens when a text is painted on the wallpaper? What does fantasy do in a gallery? What is the theory behind a single point?
13 female artists, including five authors, took part in the mentoringKUNST project for the promotion and professionalization of female visual artists and authors from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for one and a half years. Now they are opening their final exhibition, in which visual art and literature, painting and text, prints and poetry, object art and voice, historical, fantastic and art-theoretical material come together. The 13 women are as multifaceted as their art.
And yet there are exciting connections. The artists and authors react to each other in their works. They influence each other, create together and then assert their independence. This is not always harmonious. Quite the opposite. Different ideas and conceptions collide, forgotten stories and unpopular themes clash. But this struggle with each other was highly productive and developed a life of its own. FANNY was born.
With FANNY, the artists and authors are not giving their exhibition a title, but a name. The exhibition thus refers to the living and production conditions of female authors and artists. The character Fanny Price from Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", for example, quietly but persistently asserts her place. The artist Fanny Mendelssohn created art despite social limitations. Fanny Lewald was a German writer and early women's rights activist from the 19th century. Even today, female artists and authors are still subject to different, less favorable conditions than their male counterparts.
Fanny also means "cunt" in British English and "bottom" in American English.
Like a human being, FANNY has developed from a curious child to a rebellious teenager to a headstrong, confident adult. She is self-confident. She is headstrong. She has her rough edges. She pushes. She is art. And it wants to be seen.
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication that presents the artists' ideas, backgrounds and working methods in 13 individual catalogs.
Contact
Project manager/curator: Susanne Gabler
Phone: 0162.60 233 91
Project management BBK M-V e.V.: Annekathrin Siems
E-mail: info@bbk-mv.de
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