Bildwechsel (Archive)
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Info:
Bildwechsel is an archive on female visual and media artists based in Hamburg incorporating also a video archive: "Bildwechsel is a an umbrella organisation for women+ in media, culture and art and was initiated in 1979. Based in Hamburg Bildwechsel acts as a platform and as an infrastructure which women+ can tap into to support and develop their own work / projects / ideas, to find out about the work of others, make connections, develop new initiatives and build up archival collections that represent their work and that of other women+." Beside the archive in Hamburg there exist also four other Bildwechsel bases in Berlin, Glasgow, Warsaw and Basel: bw berlin organises film/video and performance events with a queer and feminist emphasis and temporarily presents material from the bw-archives; bw glasgow organises film/video screenings and other events/festivals; also producing films/video; bw warsaw together with the women's centre ufa takes care of a zine-archive and organises music events, performances, workshops, emphasis on politics & art in Poland, performance, music, zine culture; bw. basel: producing films & videos
Statement:
bildwechsel is an umbrella organisation for women, and their communities, who are involved in media, culture and art.
recognising and celebrating the diverse and changing communities we live and work within we use the term woman+ – to reflect our inclusiveness to those that support us and work alongside us.
with its main base in hamburg, bildwechsel acts as a platform and as an infrastructure to:
to support and develop their own work, projects, ideas,
to find out about the work of others,
make connections,
develop new initiatives and
build up archival collections that represent their work.
bildwechsel aims to present a panoramic view of the work of women artists, especially of those working over the last 30 years. we also have a rapidly expanding collection of work from queer artists and filmmakers