feminist elsewheres Updates 2026
Event series in Berlin: 2026 we are organizing an event series on several weekends between May and November. With films, conversations and workshops at Arsenal Filminstitut and the feminist elsewheres project space, funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.
Save the date for the first program!
May 16-17, 2026: We shall not be moved.
Conversations with Fasia Jansen
feminist elsewheres has been organizing events that update and contextualize feminist film and art history since 2023. This year, a film and workshop series will take place at the Arsenal Cinema and in the Tempelhof project space. The first program is dedicated to Fasia Jansen (1929–1997) who became renowned as a singer and left-wing feminist activist during the wildcat strikes and Easter peace marches that took place in Germany in the 1970s and 80s. A Black lesbian woman, Jansen survived the Holocaust and fought her entire life for a better world. This program was named after We Shall Not Be Moved, an African-American spiritual and protest song that became an anthem for the Civil Rights Movement and, through Jansen, played a role in the labor struggles of West Germany. This program brings together films and documents, research and memories of Fasia Jansen, inviting activists, artists and filmmakers Jasmin Eding, Marny Garcia Mommertz, Christel Priemer and Ina Wudtke to discuss their work and life, moderated by Anujah Fernando.
FASIA JANSEN – SÄNGERIN (FASIA JANSEN – SINGER, Christel Priemer, FRG 1986 | May 16) was the first film portrait of Fasia Jansen, made as part of a television series called Frauengeschichten or “Women’s Stories”. It comprises interviews with the singer, interspersed with footage of her performances. The artist Ina Wudtke and ADEFRA e.V. co-founder Jasmin Eding will present their work on the audio installation , which will subsequently open as FASIA (G 2024, May 16–31, in the foyer). In it, Wudtke explores the lives of the three Black communists Fasia Jansen, Hilarius Gilges and Joseph Ekwe Bilé. On May 17, Marny Garcia Mommertz and Tmnit Ghide will lead a workshop together, A Listening Session on Fasia Jansen, offering an insight into Mommertz’s research for What would Fasia say? (2025).
The program has received support from the Capital Cultural Fund.
May 17, 2026: A Listening Session on Fasia Jansen
Workshop with Marny Garcia Mommertz and Tmnit Ghide
On May 17, Marny Garcia Mommertz and Tmnit Ghide invite you to an experimentally guided and collective listening session on Fasia Jansen. The session will put Fasia Jansen’s music in central focus and contextualize her career and artistry within the German music landscape. The aim is to create a space in which a conversation with Faisa Jansen about her music career can emerge. Ghide, who is the founder of Black Music Archive (Vienna), a project bringing together the legacy of earlier generations and the voices of those shaping the German speaking music scene today, will provide invaluable insights into the history of Black musicians in the German context and the industry at the time of Jansen's career. Mommertz, who began her research on Fasia Jansen in 2020 together with Princela Biyaa, will share material that she has been using in her work, to help deepen the understanding of Jansen’s legacy.
The workshop will take place on May 17 from 1–4 p.m. in the project space feminist elsewheres and is free of charge, registration is required. Participants are encouraged to be fully present for an active experience of listening. No recording will be allowed. Duration: 1.5 - 2 hrs. Language: German. Location: project space feminist elsewheres e.V. , Teilestr. 11-16, 12099 Berlin
Directions: Bus Stop Rohdestr. M46, Alte Schokoladenfabrik, Gate 3, Hof 2, Entrance C, 3d floor, room 3/T08, follow the signage.
Elevator accessible and parking lots available on site.
May, 16-31,2026: INA WUDTKE
BLACK LIVES AUDIO TRIPTYCH.
A Tribute to Fasia Jansen, Hilarius Gilges and Joseph Ekwe Bilé
In her work Black Lives Audio Triptych, artist Ina Wudtke uncovers traces of Black history in Germany and offers a multidirectional commemoration of past and present anti-racist struggles. As part of the feminist elsewheres event series, audio portraits of Fasia Jansen (1929–1997), Hilarius Gilges (1909–1933), and Joseph Ekwe Bilé (1892–1959) will be presented in both German and English in the Arsenal foyer. These are portraits of three activists who were active within the workers movement against racism and colonialism during the Weimar Republic in Germany. The portraits are presented by contemporary activists - Jasmin Eding (ADEFRA roots), Kofie Da Vibe aka Kofie Boachie, and Jeanne-Ange Wagne - who collaborated with the artist Wudtke to examine archival materials, songs, texts, and photos of the protagonists, seeking to keep Black German history alive in the collective memory. Jasmin Eding and Ina Wudtke will participate in the event We shall not be moved: Conversations with Fasia Jansen on May 16.
The installation will be freely accessible from May 16–31 during Arsenal's opening hours in the foyer.
The book Black Studium has been published in conjunction with the original exhibition in a print edition by Scriptings and as an e-book by the Berlin-based publisher EECLECTIC.
Contact: studio@inawudtke.com
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