HGB Galerie: Partizan★ke Art bei der Museumsnacht Halle & Leipzig

In the organizer's words:

Aesthetics and Practices of Women's Resistance in Yugoslavia and Carinthia
The Art of Women's Resistance in Yugoslavia and Carinthia
Umetnost ženskega odpora v Jugoslaviji in na Koroškem
Umjetnost ženskoga otpora u Jugoslaviji i u Koruškoj

The resistance of women in the territories of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe occupied by Nazi Germany is hardly a topic in Germany and Austria. This applies all the more to the resistance in Yugoslavia, which has increasingly disappeared from European memory since the collapse of the state. But it was precisely here that there was a nationwide resistance movement that successfully fought against racist and exploitative violence and liberated the country from occupation. An unusually large number of women were involved in this liberation movement, taking part in the struggle both as helpers, with weapons and artistically.

This is why the artistic-scientific exhibition Partizan★ke Art focuses on the female resistance against the German occupation forces and the Axis powers in Yugoslavia and Carinthia/Koroška, which is still little visible today, and behind the term partisan art lies a fascinating phenomenon that is unparalleled in art production: by this we mean art as resistance or culture as a subversive practice of Yugoslav and Carinthian-Slovenian partisans.

Guided tour through the exhibition: 7 pm and 9 pm