Linnéa Meiner and Jorinde Splettstößer have jointly curated the two-year program MY WORKING WILL BE THE WORK. on self/care, labor and solidarity at Galerie im Turm in Berlin. In a total of six exhibitions, the curators worked with artists, activists, and cultural workers to understand and explore artistic labor as a practice of solidarity and participation in the collaborative construction of a different future. As part of the exhibition and event program, artistic positions were shown that question established concepts of labor and do not embrace patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist principles.

As part of the group exhibition I DON’T WORK ON WEEKENDS, the curators will now share a review of the program and present findings and results as well as problems and open questions. As part of the conversation, the audience is invited to ask questions and join in the discussion.

Moderation: Vincent Schier

Linnéa Meiners (she/her) is a Berlin-based curator and filmmaker. Her work explores the relationships between politics, art, and solidarity. She focuses on the aesthetics of the resistant in (film) art. Her current film project deals with disability, chronic illness and neurodiversity in the context of the art. She studied critical studies, (film) art and digital media in Berlin, Leipzig and Vienna. From 2019 to 2022 she curated the exhibition series MY WORKING WILL BE THE WORK. on self/care, labor and solidarity at Galerie im Turm with Jorinde Splettstößer, where she continues to work as a curator.

Jorinde Splettstößer (she/her) works in curatorial and artistic-educational projects. She is engaged in intersectional perspectives on colonialism, classism and ableism and is interested in the potential of artistic processes for political education. She studied cultural studies and gender studies in Berlin and visual arts in Santiago de Chile. She is also a translator for Easy Language. From 2019 to 2022, she curated the exhibition series MY WORKING WILL BE THE WORK. on self/care, labor and solidarity at Galerie im Turm with Linnéa Meiners and is currently working at FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum in the area of programming and collaborations.

The exhibition I DON´T WORK ON WEEKENDS will be shown at the Alte Rathaus in cooperation with the Fachdienst Kultur der Stadt Göttingen.

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