Silent Voices - We won't forget you (2025)

When I began to explore the topic of femicides artistically, the figures in 2021 looked like this: "Every 3 days a woman is..." it was said. Today, unfortunately, things are different. According to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), in 2023, a woman was killed in Germany almost every day. Femicides are part of our everyday lives, but paradoxically, they remain an absolute taboo. Those affected are afraid to report the crime – out of shame. With my work "Silent Voices," I drew attention to femicides in Munich in 2021 through art and public spaces (see SZ article: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-gewalt-frauen-alexandra-d…). But the numbers continue to rise. This time, I realized "Silent Voices" (2025) as a spatial installation as part of 48-Stunden-Neukölln. For this purpose, specially made plaques bearing the date of the crime and, in some cases, the name of the victim are erected as a memorial wall. Some plaques on this memorial wall remain empty. It is only a matter of time before these too will be inscribed, because nothing seems to be changing. The state and society are failing to protect women from domestic violence. How long are we going to look away, ignore it, leave the circumstances untouched? Other plaques lie broken on the ground in front of the memorial wall. The question arises: Were they torn down in anger? And if so, by whom? Who could be bothered by this issue becoming public, visible, a concern for us all?