黑料不打烊

Embrace is a nomadic platform for interdisciplinary cultural and artistic exchange designed to promote both national and international cooperation. The Embrace Platform, established in 2020 by Karolina Sobel and Kerstin M枚ller, brings together a multiplicity of medial art forms, including video, photography, sound installations, performances, and workshops. The exhibition Embrace advocates gender equality and the normalization of non-binary gender identities in Germany, Poland, and Europe. The emphasis is鈥╫n artistic exchange on the topics of LGBTQIA+ and women鈥檚 rights, as well as on forms of nonviolent resistance.

As its premiere project, the exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein features invited Polish artists and artists with biographical connections to Karlsruhe. The contributions of Liliana Zeic and Karol Radziszewski & Queer Archives Institute investigate perspectives for queer historiography in Poland. Zeic explores the history of non-normative women 鈥╥n Poland with reference to a portrait of Polish novelist Narcyza Z虈michowska. Karol Radziszewski provides insights into the Queer Archives Institute, an institution founded by the artist as an alternative collection for queer sources from Central and Eastern Europe. Together with workshop participants, Edka Jarza台b elaborates an audio-manifesto, that seeks to come to terms with the concept of the 鈥楽afe Space.鈥� It explores how normative, dominant models complicate everyday struggles with queerness, femmehood, and high sensitivity. Mara Ittel and Charlotte Eifer address the issue of post-digital worlds from a feminist perspective. Jessica Kessler intervenes in the restrooms of the Badischer Kunstverein, critically interrogating inherent binary decisions. The exhibition also incorporates film screenings at the Kinemathek Karlsruhe, with interventions by Karolina Sobel and Kerstin M枚ller.