Opening
Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt
With Free Admission to the Exhibition
Vaginal Davis, Downtown, 1993 © Reynaldo Rivera
On Thursday, 20 March 2025, we are celebrating the opening of the exhibition Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt with free admission to the exhibitions and a DJ set by Jimmy Trash.
Marking twenty years since artist, writer and performer Vaginal Davis made Berlin her home, Gropius Bau presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition of her work in Germany. In her expansive oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets Black counter-culture and resistance meets desire. Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt features large-scale installations, paintings, video and film works, zines, writing, music and performances, offering an overview of Davis’ practice and artistic collaborations. In the exhibition, the Berlin-based art collective CHEAP presents the installation Choose Mutation, with photographs by Annette Frick. Fabelhaftes Produkt invites you into the universe of Vaginal Davis, populated by literary heroines, mythical figures and real icons.
Jimmy Trash is an Australian Wildman DJ, musician, filmmaker and journalist, who has been a staple of Berlin good times for over 18 years. Jimmy has been a research assistant and editor for record labels releasing African and South American music and has finished films focussing on folk magic and culture through the Balkans and dirt track racing in Australia. His festival "Trashfest " ran for over 10 years celebrating noisy subculture from all over the world. He is currently completing a season of the podcast "Songlines with Jimmy Trash'' focussing on the untold stories of folk music from strained political times.
During the event, photographs and video recordings may be made in which you may be recognisable. By attending, you consent to these recordings being used to communicate the event or exhibition.
Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt is organised by Moderna Museet, Stockholm, in collaboration with Gropius Bau, Berlin, and MoMA PS1, New York.
The exhibition at Gropius Bau is curated by Hendrik Folkerts, Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions, Moderna Museet, with Christopher Wierling, Assistant Curator, Gropius Bau, and Savannah Thümler, Fellow to the Director, Gropius Bau.
Exhibition Management Gropius Bau: Filippa Carlini and Katharina Heise, Project Management
The exhibition in Stockholm was organised in collaboration with Eva-Lena Bergström, Nationalmuseum, Anna Efraimsson, MDT (Moderna Dansteatern), Richard Julin and Therese Kellner, Accelerator at Stockholm University, Marti Manen and Isabella Tjäder, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, and Cecilia Widenheim, Tensta konsthall. It was supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.