Finissage: Being Renée Sintenis & The Women of My Life

Fri, 11 Apr 2025
14:00-21:00
at Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz

Finissage: Being Renée Sintenis & The Women of My Life

The exhibition Being Renée Sintenis & The Women of My Life by Alexandra Hopf ends this week. On Friday, April 11, our new rooms will therefore remain open until 9 pm. Take the opportunity!

The exhibition reexamines the narratives of women in art and cultural history, opening a dialogue on shifting perceptions of self, identity, and memory.

At the heart of the show is her new film, Being Renée Sintenis, which follows the Berlin sculptor Renée Sintenis (1888–1965), a celebrated figure of the 1920s. The film presents Sintenis reclaiming her own story, challenging the image imposed on her. Costumes from the production, rich in 20th-century art historical references, form part of the exhibition.

In The Women of Her Life, Hopf transforms 77 portraits from the 1930 book Unsere Zeit in 77 Frauenbildnissen into reverse glass paintings, weaving them into a contemporary anthology shaped by personal memories of influential women from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Through film, painting, and performance, Hopf creates a space for reinterpreting historical narratives, offering a fresh perspective on the evolving constructs of identity and representation.