rosa / pink

Delicate flowers, sickly sweets, good girls, gay men with pink triangles in concentration camps – the colour of the heart. Historically it has not always been associated with the feminine, and yet it seems difficult to deny that we immediately perceive it as soft and peaceful – is that really just cultural?

At the same time, it crops up as a medium of resistance against political violence, taking on a subversive connotation as in the ‘pussyhats’ with cat ears on the women’s marches protesting Trump’s brutal contempt. Oberwelt’s open call for submissions to a thematic group exhibition invites participants to engage artistically in an exciting way with the provocative power of powerlessness, or call it into question.