Beyond Football - Shifting Interests and Identity
VERNISSAGE: 25.06.2011, 7.00 pm.
AUSSTELLUNG: 26.06 - 08.07.2011
Opening hours: thurs - Sun, 4.00 - 8.00 pm.
The discourse regarding women and gender is one of the pivotal topics that have captured the
imagination of social and political critics in recent decades. Whether in politics, economics
or in the educational sphere, the place of women in today’s society is still a contested issue.
In some societies women are totally absent from the state structure of decision-making bodies
and process. Access to education, as well as the economy is restricted or denied. Trapped in
a web of dependency and subordination due to institutional norms of culture, family, religion 
and politics, modern women are developing strategies to create alternative visions of the present
society based on social equality, mutual respect and acceptance.
Women football offers such a platform.
As part of the events commemorating the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup tournament in Germany,
the exhibition Beyond football - shifting interests and identity, interrogates through the prism of the
game of football issues of gender, sexuality, discrimination, and lifestyle in contemporary societies.
While the project’s intent is not to overturn the multiple axes of stratification affecting women, this
exhibition nonetheless provides a platform to negotiate, challenge, disrupt, deconstruct,
reconstruct and question entrenched ideas on gender.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue.
Artists: Bimpe Adebambo (N), Andrew Asiebo (N), Yetunde Babaeko (N/D), Uchay Joel Chima (N),
Nina Erfle (D), Uche James-Iroha (N), Ebele Okoye (N), Lerrato Shadi (SA), Alafuro Sikoki (N),
Katrin Ströbel (D)
Curators: Emeka Udemba
A short note on the exhibition by Ioana Muntenescu >>
This project is a cooperation between the Goethe Institute Lagos and
SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, and supported by the Kulturamt Neukölln,
DHL, Nigerian Embassy Berlin.
