On Her Way

The Berliner Frauenmuseum is celebrating its 30th founding anniversary from May 7 to 15, 2026, with a large group exhibition in the project space of Kunsthaus Bethanien. All current members of the network are presenting new works, offering a comprehensive insight into a unique artistic network that has grown over decades.
The exhibition title ON HER WAY refers to a quote by the Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy:
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing. 
The future is conceived here as a feminine vision – as a counter-image to the challenges of the present and as an expression of hope and confidence. At the same time, the title refers to individual paths of development as well as to the processual and collaborative nature within the group of artists.
Inspired by the idea of the ancient symposium, the 28 participating artists bring together current questions and perspectives that move them. The result is an exhibition tour divided into six chapters – a multi-layered approach to "ways of worldmaking" (Nelson Goodman).
The themes range from contemporary diagnoses of media and nature, through heterotopias, cartographic strategies and collaborative processes, to memory, historiography and the construction of reality in dreams, architecture and everyday life. Further chapters open up spaces for in-between states, virtual realities and inner worlds, as well as questions of growth and transformation.
At the center of the exhibition is an interactive table sculpture. It serves as a place of exchange and shared thinking: each artist contributes a small-format object as a "contribution to the conversation" – edible and non-edible, symbolic, fragile or resistant.
At the finissage, this collaborative work will be activated in a participatory tour. Visitors are invited to take part in the table conversation and contribute their own thoughts.