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Illustrator / Graphic Designer
The Boys Club Collective
Berlin
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Role: Graphic Design and Creative Direction
CAN’T STAND ME NOW is a collective exhibition that deliberately challenges conventional exhibition norms.
The space becomes loud, full, physical, and demanding. Works grow into one another, overlap, form symbiotic relationships or exist in friction. Taking up space is a gesture against invisibility, restraint, and isolation, especially regarding women’s positions in contemporary art.
The exhibition becomes a site of negotiation: how do works function together? Where does harmony flip into chaos? When does too much become exactly right?
It’s about being allowed to be everything, about occupying space, about not reducing, not explaining, not pleasing. Abundance is embraced as a strength, both aesthetically and spatially.
Artists:
Stella Schwake
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Emily-Grace Lawlor
Lisa Weinhardt
Betty Bartschies
Mascha Haußner
Anna Freitag
Kate Reidy
Fine Stammnitz
Anna Streit
Luise John
28.03.-01.04.26
OPENING 28.03.26 from 6pm
@backhaus_projects / Weserstrasse 168, Berlin
my contribution to this group exhibition was the poster design and concept! I wanted to take a second and explain my thoughts behind the tiny hand on the poster and in the space because I had so many great conversations about it at the opening.
last year my friend was looking for something in her handbag and I put my phone flash light on to help her find it. As the light turned on it revealed one of these tiny hands in the chaos of all the things a woman could possibly need in her bag. I took a photo and kept thinking what a great metaphor this tiny hand is for what is expected to be in a handbag and carried around by women: For all the things we manage, take care of and remember for everyone around us while always having to be warm, caring and kind. However, this hand is kind of useless and silly and unexpected and in the context of this exhibition a reminder break norms and expand beyond the expected!
It’s about being allowed to be everything, about occupying space, about not reducing, not explaining, not pleasing.
photos by:
@friday.onfilm
@wenkesz