SABINE WEWER | PARADISE GYM

In the organizer's words:

Sabine Wewer, born in Bremen in 1960, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has moved between fine art, film, photography, performance and teaching for over three decades. Her work is characterized by an exploratory, cross-cultural perspective - her projects are often created at the interface of art and social engagement, between documentary narrative and poetic imagery.

International residencies and scholarships have taken her to Mexico, Latvia, Ireland and the USA, where she already had a studio in New York City in the 1980s. Numerous grants - including from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the German Artists' Association and the Senator for Culture in Bremen - have accompanied her artistic development. In cinematic works such as CITY OF WOMEN (2019), THE WIZARD IN MAZATLÀN (2020) and her latest project SILKY, she explores identity, transformation and feminist perspectives.

As co-founder of the artist group BMX ALI and in collaborative projects with female performers, children and international artists, she interweaves aesthetics with political expressiveness across different media. Her installations, stage designs and documentary works have been shown in Berlin, Prague, Zurich, Venice and Bremen, among other places. Sabine Wewer lives and works in Bremen and Groß Ippener.