EXHIBITIONS
50 Years of the Türkischer Frauenverein Berlin: Women’s Power, Building Bridges, and Inspiring Change
A project in collaboration with Türkischer Frauenverein Berlin
This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Türkischer Frauenverein Berlin, the city's first migrant women's association. Founded on March 8, 1975, the association has been a powerful advocate for self-empowerment, social justice, and solidarity, championing the rights of women from Turkey and transnational communities.
Drawing from the archive of unpublished documents, photographs, and informal interviews, the exhibition showcases the resilience and activism of migrant women, many of whom are from the working class.​​
As part of the exhibition, Orta Okul created three works inspired by the archive of the Türkischer Frauenverein Berlin:
A collection of original photographs and posters from protests in the 1970s and 80s, a chronology featuring unpublished documents, photographs, and informal interviews from the archive, and A Minor Detail, a participatory artwork exploring the role of minor details in grand narratives and historiography.
A Minor Detail is inspired by two women: Palestinian author Adania Shibli, who, in her book of the same name, addresses the place of minor details within grand narratives, and Beser Sonar, who, when she first moved to Germany, had to cook her meals without salt for weeks because she didn’t know what salt was called in German.
This participatory work brought together different generations of migrant women from Turkey around a table to make clay tablets inscribed with minor details from migration experiences.