“Surfeminism – women on waves”, by Annika von Schuetz (Germany) from June 01st untill August 31st.

Synopsis

„Surfeminism – women on waves“ is a documentary film about the increasing commercialization of surfing and sexism in surf culture. It focus on the nexus of surfing, lifestyle and creativity and what it means to be a female surfer.

Why?

My mission is to change the perception of surfing in the media landscape towards diversity - with a focus on women. I want to develop stories and uncovers personalities and locations that support this goal. Further I would likt to show people of colour and women of diferent generations who surf and are nor represented. The film is an opportunity to create another awareness of women in extreme sport and tp cross the border of gender.

What?

I like to inspire humans to build a community of and for human growth, driven by my core values benevolence, empowerment and hilarity - while focusing on real, empowering narratives. Always personal. Never random. Always authentic.

How I want to do it?

I want to produce unique, powerful, high quality stories with integrated community engagement. For every story, I would like to produce images and moving images that help us spread the word. In order to connect the stories and link the different tribes to each other, I will include repetitive elements throughout the overall narrative - while the stories also need to work in and off themselves and motivate for a deeper reflection of women in (surf-) sport and media.

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“Puzzling Characters – part 7” with Jens Mohr from July 18th until August 14th - Plastic Arts

Creating pieces from scratch ... comic and humorous artworks created from found pieces on the street.

Bio
Jens Mohr
Born in 1971 in Siegburg, Germany.
His artistic career started in 1990 and he has been active ever since.
He began showing his work mainly in Germany in 1993.
His pieces have also been exhibited abroad since 1997.
In 2000 he had a show in the Museum de Stadshof in Holland.
Since 2006, his work has been part of the installation "Forever Friends" at the Museum Dr.
Guislain in Belgium

Since 2016 he has shown his work in the Gugging Galerie in Austria.
In 2016 he also participated in the Museum of Naïve and Marginal Art in Jagodina, Serbia, with
an exhibit of his self-taught visionary art.

Jens Mohr creates strange and humorous artistic pieces out of found, everyday objects. Each
one of them arises spontaneously and intuitively. For the most part, Jens uses the items in the
original conditions in which he found them. His independent creatures are expressive
characters. He has been living and working in Bonn, Germany, since 1997.

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“SOIL” with Alexandra Sobral, from August 7th until 31st – Plastic Arts

Synopsis

This project aims to make the knowledge about the soil more accessible and demystify through image, integrating it into the cycle of life and death, of which we are part. I intend to use the image, drawing what is not seen, either because it is underground, or because the microscopic scale does not allow us to see the naked eye. That a soil with life, is composed of about half of air and water, and for this, how much contribute animals that create tunnels ... or of the importance of the organic matter, that is no more than in time already was alive and of the essential role of bacteria and fungus and how beneficial these are, contrary to what we commonly think.

Bio
The narrative design has always been present in the course of Alexandra and in the way it relates to the image. The artist begins her work with records of graphic diary, in a daily practice of drawing in which
the dreamer intersects with the real and the detail of the trait offers the emotional key to its reading. The stories of friends and the narrative of the events they witness ask to be drawn, to be better understood, understood and reflected, as well as the stories and subjects they read and the constant pleasure of reading. Her long experience in set design, as a scenic painter and aderecist, has allowed her the freedom and opportunity to cross a diversity of interests and areas.

As Tim Burton once wrote, "drawing is an exercise for a restless mind."