On this Thursday evening Beatrice Ellen Stammer will talk about the beginnings and development of "re.act feminism" – a touring research archive, which she initiated together with Bettina Knaup. After three years of project development, seven exhibitions and numerous events in Europe, the two curators researched into the impact of the feminist, gender critical and queer performance art on the development of performance. More than 180 artists and artist collectives were involved in this comprehensive project which gathers positions from the 1960s up to the beginning of the 1980s as well as contemporary positions from Eastern and Western Europe, the Mediterranean area, the Middle East, the USA and Latin America.

Beatrice Ellen Stammer works as an independent author and curator in Berlin. Between 1983 and 1993 she was a scientific fellow at the Staatliche Kunsthalle (West)Berlin and worked as curator at the NGBK, Berlin. In 2007 Stammer founded cross links e.V. an independent society as platform for projects and the realisation of events, in particular with emphasis on feminist and gender critical art production. Since the 1980s she realized various exhibitions with international established artists, such as „Berlin - New York Exchange“, Berlin (1986); „Zwischenspiele – Eine junge Künstlergeneration der DDR“, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; „Via Lewandowsky“, NGBK, Berlin (beide 1989); „Louise Bourgeois – Intime Abstraktionen“, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2003); „Shirin Neshat“, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2005); „re.act.feminism – performance art of the 1960s and 70s today“, with Bettina Knaup, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2008) and „re.act.feminism#2 – a performing archive“, with Bettina Knaup, a gender critical travelling exhibition (2011-2013).