Team

French visual artist, she works and lives in Berlin since 2003. Active member of Frauenmuseum Berlin. Programme manager in the field of cultural education.

Role in the project: Artist

Co-Director and curator of Frauenmuseum since 10 years, is based in Germany and Argentina. She is a feminist activist and networker, organizing exhibitions, workshops and cultural events, always with a gender perspective. She used to run an off-space in Berlin from 2005 to 2015 with monthly events, artists talks and discussions. In 2019 she curated an exhibition about contemporary interpretations of the anniversary of 100 years of women suffrage at Willy Brandt-Haus, Berlin – a catalogue was published. Since 2017 she is member of the Global Diplomacy Lab and Bosch Alumni Network, working for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals – with a special focus on education, equal rights and gender issues and held a webinar within the European Diplomats Training 2020. She is also part of the argentine feminist network “Nosotras proponemos” and participates in their performances.

Role in the project: Project manager

More than 15 years of experience in European projects as well as in the development of platforms for education. She develops the project website and the e-learning course.

Role in the project: Web development manager

Rosemarie Buikema is Professor of Art, Culture and Diversity at Utrecht University. She is chair of the UU Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) and scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG). Buikema coordinates the UU's share of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Gender Studies (GEMMA) and leads the annual international Summer School in Gender Studies: NOISE. In addition, she is co-chair of the Hub Gender and Diversity: Building an Inclusive Society (part of Institutions for Open Society at Utrecht University) and she is the initiator and project leader of MOED, Museum of Equality and Difference.

She has extensive experience in supervising and leading major cultural and academic events and projects. She was the project leader of an EU FP6 Early Stage Research training program that delivered 39 PHDs across the EU. Buikema’s research concerns the analysis and development of methods, means and measures which can transition communities away from the violence intrinsic in processes of exclusion and discrimination to just and equitable relations. She is in particular interested in how cultural forms themselves can embody and unlock the forces of resistance. Between 2015 and 2020 she was the principal researcher of the work package textual and artistic cultures of gender equality of the GRACE project, part of Horizon 2020.

Buikema’s research concerns the analysis and development of methods, means and measures which can transition communities away from the violence intrinsic in processes of exclusion and discrimination to just and equitable relations. She is in particular interested in how cultural forms themselves can embody and unlock the forces of resistance.

She is the author of 5 monographs and (co-)editor of 10 edited volumes. She has published widely in the field of feminist and postcolonial theory in international journals such as European Journal of Women's Studies; Women's Studies International Forum; Journal of Gender Studies; European Journal of English Studies; Journal of European Studies; Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies; Memory Studies; Men and Masculinities; Culture, Health and Sexuality among others. Among her latest co-edited volumes are: Cultures Citizenship and Human Rights (Routledge 2019) Doing Gender in Media Art and Culture (Routledge 2017 and Routledge 2009), Theories and Methodologies in Feminist Research (Routledge 2011) and From Boys to Men (University of Cape Town Press 2007). She was also co-editor of two volumes on Arts in Motion in the series Culture and Migration in the Netherlands (Sdu 2003 and 2004) funded by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.

In her recent monograph Revolts in Cultural Critique (Rowman&Littlefield 2020) she combines theories of transitional justice, the politics of aesthetics, and theories of difference and equality to develop new and multi-layered scenarios for change and transnational justice.

Role in the project: project leader

She is head of communication at Pangea. She is a professional journalist and founder and president of Punto D, an association for the prevention and contrast of violence against women. She is also a trainer and lecturer on the issues of communication without stereotypes, the correct narration of violence, gender language, the dynamics of violence (the so-called spiral of violence) and the Istanbul Convention.

Role in the project: Communication

She has a ten-year experience in the management of international projects addressing social and educational issues, especially on the protection from gender-based violence. She has worked with different international organisations, such as the European Commission, especially on Erasmus+ funded projects, the World Bank, Ministries of Education and public institutions of various countries, and UN agencies (e.g. WFP, FAO, UNFPA). She is also an experienced trainer and has participated in a number of research projects.

Role in the project: Coordinator

Teacher responsible of the project. She has coordinated the project Youth Ambassadors funded by the Ministry of Equal Opportunities against the gender violence and discrimination. She has collaborate with several Institutions in conferences and events to spread the culture of gender equality among young people. She has created innovative projects for youth leadership and active citizenship

Role in the project: Project manager

Deirdre Donoghue will receive her doctoral degree - with her research on maternal subjectivities, materialities, artistic processes, aesthetics, ethics and affect - in Summer 2021.

She is a visual and performance artist, director of the international m/other voices foundation for art, research, theory / dialogue / community involvement, a founding member of ADA: Area for Debate and Art, a mother and a birthdoula.

In her artistic work she most often sets up social scenarios and specifically framed human encounters where multiple relations can be set into motion, through which the production of new knowledge systems via cross-disciplinary approach becomes mobilized. She has taught critical feminist perspectives for art students, worked as an external examiner and thesis reader for BA and MA-level students across Fine Art, Design and Visual Culture programs in Finland and The Netherlands, as well as exhibited her art work, and collaborated, internationally.

Her work for the m/other voices foundation builds international networks between mother artists and scholars, supports and publishes monthly columns by artist-mothers and other cultural re-producers, organises conferences, such as The Mothernists (2015), Mothernists II: Who Cares For The 21st Millenium? (2017) and programs such as the Legacy of Love Doulas, offering free doula services for refugees, single mothers and low- and no-income women and families in The Netherlands.

As a birthdoula her tasks include listening, giving psychosocial support, educating and holding space for women before, during and after labour as they become mothers.

She holds a BA in Photography and Digital Studies from Dublin Institute of Technology (IRL), Masters in fine Art from Piet Zwart Institute (NL) and a PhD from Utrecht University (NL).

Role in the project: Researcher

Graduated in art history, philosophy and English philology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Centers on 17th to 18th century French and Netherlandish painting, especially Watteau, and contributed to the interdisciplinary research project “Watteau au confluent des arts”. For the 48 Stunden Neukölln festival she provided amongst others a text on resistant women in picaresque novels and commedia dell’arte. She also worked in museum education, giving workshops on contemporary art to young people. A member of the Frauenmuseum Berlin since 2017, she curated two exhibitions. For an exhibition on 100 years of women's suffrage she contributed historical research and developed a concept for artist talks.

Role in the project: Art historian

Andrea Golla was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She has lived in Berlin since 2009 and has been a member of Frauenmuseum Berlin since 2010. Her work focuses on interventions with gold leaf in public space. By means of participatory tours, she brings people of different biographies together and thus achieves a better mutual understanding. It is very important to her to improve the perception of women artists, especially those with families.

Role in the project: Artist

The Deputy Headmaster and History teacher – Mr. Stefan Ivanov – he was elected three times for a municipality councilor in Sofia City Council (2003-2015). For 12 years he has been Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth. He is in charge of the implementation of several projects with European, national and private funding.

Role in the project: Coordinator

Astrid is the project coordinator of MOED Museum of Equality and Difference. Besides, she is a research and education assistant within the Utrecht Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP) and part of the managing team of UU’s Gender & Diversity Hub. As a researcher, she has been involved in a research project on stereotypes, representations, and stigmatizations in a selection of TV programmes by analyzing the effects of unconscious biases in the production processes of these programmes (commissioned by the Dutch public broadcasting network NTR, 2020), and in a project on the position of women artists in The Netherlands (commissioned by Mama Cash, 2019).

Role in the project: Research assistant

Masters in Modern letters and translation. Responsible for communication with international partners as well as reporting, research activities and translations. 

He represents INFOREF in transnational and virtual meetings.

Role in the project: Project manager

She was born in Prague and grew up in Munich, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (with an exchange semester at Bezalel, Jerusalem). 1993 she came to Berlin, raised 3 children and kept on exhibiting. Some of her works are in public space as for example a memorial for murdered children of forced labourers in Otterndorf, Lower Saxony.

Since 2007 she has been in the board of Frauenmuseum Berlin. She is also member of Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867, that was the first association of female artists in Germany.

She curates the exhibition series 4händig (four handed) that brings together women artists of different generations. In 2020 she co-founded the activist group fair share for women artists and is organizing rallies and demonstrations.

Role in the project: Project manager

Performance artist based in Berlin, who grew up in the German Democratic Republic and was part of feminist movements since her first steps as an artist (in the 80's). She joined Frauenmuseum two years ago and is very interested in amplifying the feminist agenda of Frauenmuseum in collaboration with other institutions. She collaborated with institutions like Goethe Institute all over the world and is experimented in giving artists talks and workshops.

Role in the project: Artist

Simona Lanzoni is Pangea’s Vice-President. Her main fields of expertise are gender equality, the promotion of women’s rights and the protection of women and children from violence. Since 2015, she is part of GREVIO (Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence of the Coucil of Europe) and since 2017, she has been appointed as its second Vice-President. For Pangea, she has worked for years in Afghanistan, India and Nepal, and she has supervised the implementation of the Foundation’s projects in DRC, South Africa and Colombia. Since 2008, she has been the leader in the creation and implementation of projects in Italy on women’s socio-economic empowerment, promotion of gender equality and women’s rights and prevention and contrast of GBVAW.

Role in the project: Supervisor and gender-based violence against women expert

Valentina Muià is project manager of the project "Little Guests" of Pangea Foundation.

Expert and trainer in Women’s studies, gender identity and equal opportunity, graduated in International and Diplomatic Sciences, she has deepened her studies in Life Sciences and self-determination within the Master in Gender Studies and Policies.

For years she has been involved in combating gender and child violence and defending their rights, she has been part of the coordination of the Udi (Women’s Union in Italy) for which she edited the Central Archive of Women. For years she has been involved in a cooperation project for women and children in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo. He curated for the Museo Storico della Liberazione in Rome the exhibition "Carte Resistenti". Social worker and humanistic mediator at the Juvenile Penitentiary Institute of Rome. She wrote for Noi Donne and Il Paese delle Donne, published the essay "Gli stupri di guerra nell'Oltrepò Pavese e nelle Valli Liguri: le "mongolate", in Stupri di guerra e violenza di genere, edited by S. La Rocca, 2015, Edizioni Ediesse and for the Women’s Country Conference Exhibition "From obtaining a right to exercise. Italian from 10 March to 2 June 1946 Testimonies".

Role in the project: project officer

Domitilla Olivieri is assistant professor and an anthropologist, activist, researcher and teacher in the field of gender studies, media and society. She is active in academic, artistic and other political spaces and have been involved for many years in feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-capitalist militant activism. Her research and didactics are in the field of documentary film, gender and postcolonial studies, visual anthropology, media and cultural studies.

Committed to bridging the distance between academic and non-academic communities, Olivieri collaborate with festivals, community projects, NGOs and activists groups.

Her academic publications include the article “Diasporic proximities: spaces of ‘home’ in European documentary” in Transnational Cinemas, and a special issue of Feminist Media Studies entitled “Affective Encounters: Tools of Interruption for Activist Media Practices.” Her latest research focusses on documentary practices, time and spaces of the everyday, the politics of othering and mediated encounters, forms of social and political relationality and contestation, and rhythm in (documentary) media.

Role in the project: Researcher

Education worker (teacher and school inspector) and over 10 year experience in educational projects and institutions liaison. She has a Master Degree in Educational Management.

Role in the project: Project manager

Role in the project: Graphic designer

The Headmaster of the school is Mrs. Lyudmila Vasileva. She is a specialist with rich professional background and long experience in managing the school. She is actively working on many projects in the field of education. Winner of a national award for contribution to education “St.st. Kiril and Metodiy”.

Role in the project: Project manager

She has a Bachelor Degree in Romanian-French literature, has been teaching for over 20 years. This is her first international project implementation and joins the team with her school management experience background.

Role in the project: Communication and dissemination