PINK – Eine Ausstellung über die Bedeutung der Farbe in Kunst und Alltag
In the organizer's words:
"Pink matters", especially in times like these! What the color pink means and says about our society and world is the theme of the exhibition.
With the sale of the first Barbie doll in 1959 in pink packaging, pink became a "girl's color" and a cliché. The "Pink Panther", a cartoon character from the 1970s, and the singer Pink are also famous.
But what do we know about pink? Pink is an artificial color, a mixture of red with a little blue and white. With a little cyan, pink becomes violet and thus a symbol for peace activists, queer or religious people. Without pink, violet eventually becomes blue and - to complete the color wheel - is associated with the "boy color".
In the history of art, pink and its relative rose have had changing meanings. Pink can be seen in portraits of aristocrats and rulers. Until the Rococo period, pink stood for masculinity. The meaning of the color changed with the French Revolution. Men renounced colored clothing and preferred black. This set him apart from the escapades of the nobility. Women now appropriated the color. In Western Europe, pink often functions as a cliché for the representation of femininity. In the fight for equal rights, the color nevertheless conveys empowerment and calls on women to represent their interests in an autonomous, self-responsible and self-determined manner.
The exhibition PINK examines the symbolic meanings of color in contemporary art as well as its social appropriation. For the queer art duo "Eva & Adele", color is politics. The two have shaved heads, appear in pink or rose-colored clothing, identify as genderqueer and transcend binary gender roles. No less important for the meaning of pink are cultural influences, personal preferences and experiences of alterity based on gender, sexual orientation or faith. The works of art on display are thus fed by life plans, subjective experiences of the world, cultural sources and political attitudes. Ideas about the expansion of the repertoire of images to pop culture and our everyday lives can also be found.
Stefan-Maria Mittendorf M.A.
Art historian/curator for contemporary art
PINK GUIDED TOURS
Tue. 25.3., 6 p.m.
Including guided tour of the exhibition with Stefan-Maria Mittendorf M.A., art historian
and simultaneous translation into German sign language by Larissa Kim
Participation fee: 5.00 euros plus admission
Tue. 8.4., 6 p.m.
"Pink matters!" Thematic exhibition tour with Stefan-Maria Mittendorf M.A., art historian
Participation fee: 5.00 euros plus admission
Fri. 9.5., 6 p.m.
"Who's afraid of Pink, Yellow and Blue?" Thematic exhibition tour with Stefan-Maria Mittendorf M.A., art historian
Participation fee: 5.00 euros plus admission
Fri. 6.6., 6 p.m.
"Pink matters!" Thematic exhibition tour with Stefan-Maria Mittendorf M.A., art historian
Participation fee: 5.00 euros plus admission
Tue. 22.7., 6 p.m.
"Who's afraid of Pink, Yellow and Blue?" Thematic exhibition tour with Stefan-Maria Mittendorf M.A., art historian
Participation fee: 5.00 euros plus admission
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