weiterwirken | Simone Neumann-Salva „Ich sehe Dich“

In the organizer's words:

"weiterwirken-Frauen im Widerstand" is dedicated to the often overlooked life stories of women from Bochum who resisted during the National Socialist era - politically, civically, culturally and mostly in secret.

In an installation, pictures and texts, we make female resistance visible, memories come alive in an animated film and local resistance stories are told from a current perspective.

"Data become colors, become pearls, become visible. I want your hope, your pain to be remembered. I want everyone to become courageous." - Simone Neumann-Salva

Simone Neumann-Salva is a visual artist and holds a doctorate in art history. She has been working as a choreographer for the dance theater macasju since 2000. Her work has been shown at various European festivals and her short films have been shown internationally. She has been nominated for the German Video Dance Award and honored with awards such as the Ruhr Area Award. Since 2017, her artistic focus has once again been on visual art, which she realizes in multimedia and digital form - particularly in the fields of concept art, social art and sci-art. Her guiding principle is: art is defense. For her, this means using artistic means to take a stand against the injustices of the world. Material and technique are secondary - they serve above all to convey the content.

Dorothee Schäfer trained as a stonemason and sculptor in Munich. During her ten years working for the Protestant parish of Bochum in Stahlhausen, she organized various exhibitions and festivals, including the Masala Art Festival and the bobiennale. Her artistic practice focuses on sculpture and drawing. Schäfer has been supporting the Fritz Bauer Forum for several years with her expertise in exhibition curation and educational work through art.