MOTHER LOVE
Art & Children's Rights Event
November, 2016 to June, 2017
Dedicated to:
Children on the run
particularly to the:
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Article 37 (Detention)
Article 38 (War and armed conflicts)
Art - a message of love
MOTHER LOVE is the third Art & Rights event of our series VOICE OF ART. In this Art & Children's Rights event we dedicate ourselves to the challenge of the theme transcendentally.
An international group of prestigious Artists have faced the task of channeling a universal force through current works, whose facet richness ranges from the smile of a child, the love of a mother, a father to their children, to a power that unites people across boundaries and cultural differences to one - MOTHER LOVE.
The exhibition presents itself in various forms and will tour through different environments. The works of the Artists unfold their force comprehensive and uniting. During the opening of the event, their works, lovingly and protectively, provide a framework for the paintings of children from the Arbat refugee camp near Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq. Furthermore the exhibition acts as an ambassador for the power of Art as a valuable element for a peaceful dialogue within public and political discourses. For the opening of the event and exhibition a catalogue will be released.
The Artists
SIBYLLE PRANGE | MARIWAN JALAL | SHORSH SALEH | EMMA GRÜN | ANA LESSING MENJIBAR | HOLGER BIERMANN | ALOIS THOMAS | STEFAN HOCH
Exhibition | Opening
International Day of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Sunday | 20 November, 2016 | 4 to 6 PM
Photo © Lars Wiedemann
GALLERY-SHOWROOM
WESTPHAL BERLIN | Kunst und Projekte
Kurfürstendamm 207/208
10719 Berlin
Programme
Press reception and Kick off
Our opening is the kick off to the event and includes a press reception for the project. We warmly invite journalists and all friends of our series VOICE OF ART to share this moment together with us and we are looking forward to welcome you.
Exhibition
21 to 28 November, 2016
MOTHER LOVE | Education
Educational youth programme
Time frame: 21 to 28 November, 2016
We invite Berlin schools to discuss the topics refugee, war, displacement and article 37 & 38 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in an additional educational programme with their students. We are providing a first introduction to these subjects, in the frame of our exhibition, and furthermore a support by teaching materials. Our aim is to promote an open discussion with young people to these important topics in order to prevent cut and dried opinions and racism.
Exhibition Tour
MOTHER LOVE | Berlinale 2017
10 to 17 February 2017 | 11 am to 7 pm
Winter garden of the "Refugee Film Cafe"
Potsdamer Platz, Stresemannstraße 95, 16. Stock
10963 Berlin
On occasion of the Berlinale 2017 from the 10th to 17th of February, the exhibition MOTHER LOVE resides in the winter garden of the "Refugee Film Cafe" on the 16th floor with a view over the rooftops of Berlin and amidst of the pulsating activities of the famous film festival BERLINALE at the Potsdamer Platz.
The "Refugee Film Café" welcomes the international visitors of the Berlinale and the Berliners and invites you to a dialogue - about actors, films, cinema in general, international film and media culture as well as the situation of the new arrivals in our city, in Germany and in Europe. Film screenings of selected short and long films from refugee countries will provide an additional perspective on the current filming of migrants.
MOTHER LOVE | Beirut, Lebanon
© Artist Sibylle Prange, MOTHER EARTH I
Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Freedom
Habib Bacha Street
Building Loft 1314 (near the Lycée Français)
Achrafieh, Beirut, Libanon
Opening
Thursday | 27 April, 2017 | 6.30 pm
Programme
Art and political participation | "Liberal Alphabet"
The office of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Freedom | FNF Lebanon and Syria solemnly opens the new series "Liberal Alphabet", starting with the letter A = Art and political participation.
In this context the exhibition MOTHER LOVE is invited to represent the subject of art and political participation. In doing so, she stands comprehensive for the goals of our entire series VOICE OF ART, in which MOTHER LOVE is the third event.
VOICE OF ART is committed to establishing a sustainable awareness of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as strengthening the power and importance of art for elementary social, political processes and to enrich the public discourse on the basis of a peaceful dialogue.
Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation for Freedom | FNF Lebanon and Syria
MOTHER LOVE | FINAL
The event is concluded to the World Refugee Day 2017.
WORLD REFUGEE DAY
20 June, 2017
© Artist Shorsh Saleh, O.T.
MOTHER LOVE | #MuseumWeek 2017
Virtual exhibition | Worldwide | 22 June, 2017
#MuseumWeek is the first worldwide cultural event on social networks celebrating and showcasing all things from cultural institutions over 7 days, 7 themes, 7 hashtags!
#MuseumWeek is hosted over 19 to 25 June 2017 and is dedicated to the topic: A tribute to women | #WomenMW. We will post the exhibition MOTHER LOVE on 22 June, 2017 on Twitter under the Hashtag #StoriesMW.
© Artist Alois Thomas, MOTHER LOVE I
According to the UNHCR Midyear Report 2016, around 64 million people were on the run worldwide. They fled war, political and religious persecution, Human Rights violations and humanitarian disasters. According to the Human Rights organisation Pro Asyl, 2016 at least 5,096 people died during the passage in the Mediterranean sea or are missing. And it must be feared that this terrible situation will continue in 2017.
The exhibition MOTHER LOVE will be presented at the end of the event as part of a church service for the dead at the EU borders.
Church service for the dead at the EU borders
Friday | 23 June, 2017 | 7 pm
© Kirche St. Canisius, Photo Stefan Mueller
Kirchengemeinde St. Canisius
Witzlebenstr. 30
14057 Berlin-Charlottenburg