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A permanent exhibit of pictures designed by international artists and art students will be installed in the offices and waiting rooms of doctors.The pictures will be exchanged at the beginning of each 3rd month, so that an exiting variety is presented. Information about the entire project and how to support "PEPELJUGA" with donations is available at each location. After deducting the expenses for the technical support of the project and the organization of the exhibits, the bigger share of the donations will directly go to initiatives which offer concrete aid to women and children of the war regions in the Balkans.
Which initiatives should be supported? Which pictures will be exhibited? How does the permanent exhibit "Picture Exchange" work? Who organizes the project? Which initiatives should be supported? Contact to two initiatives is being prepared, both of which are already underway or will begin this year:
medica mondiale was founded in 1993 by the gynaecologist Dr. Monika Hauser at a time when rape was taking place on a massive scale in Bosnia Herzegowina. medica mondiale today sees itself as an international advocate for the rights and interests of women who have survived sexual violence in war situations. In addition to providing direct support in war and crisis zones, this international women´s organisation has for some time been providing training for professionals with psychological and/ sociological backgrounds who are involved in sensitively assisting those who have survived sexual violence. Medica mondiale is politically proactive on behalf of the rights of women traumatised by war and publicly denounces breaches of human rights of this nature. Furthermore, medica mondiale is constantly working on the development of scientific standards for the medical and psychotherapeutic treatment as well as the psychological, social and legal support of wormen and girls traumatised in war situations.
"SEKA" (Sister) Hamburg e.V. is an aid project for those women and children in the regions Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia who were most deeply injured through the war. The recovery and therapy center on the Croatian island of Brac (near Split) has offered since its opening support, recovery, and therapy to about 350 women and children for one- or two-week stays at their island resort. The project has been supported through two CD productions (title: Seka "Sister" vol.1-2) on which many well-known musicians (e.g. Tom Waits), as well as some lesser known artists can be heard. Top Which pictures will be exhibited? All pictures which will be exhibited in this project are prints from individual designed slides. These slides have been and will still be produced by international artists and students, and represent a variety of different techniques and images. Already about 400 pictures have been gathered in a "picture bank" and can be seen together with further informations on a specially developed web site (www.pepeljuga.de). From this web site sets of pictures can be selected by potential exhibitors, like doctors, for their own waiting rooms or other public spaces. How does the permanent exhibit "Picture Exchange" work? The prints will be delivered in frame-less photo plates and exchanged at the beginning of every month. Thus every 4 weeks new pictures can be seen at each exhibiting space. The "Picture Exchange" is planned at first for one year, beginning in October/November 2000. The rental fees will be paid in advance. In each space where the pictures will be exhibited, references to the project will be mounted with the pictures and more detailed information will also be available. Who organizes the project? The idea for "Pepeljuga" was developed by Rolf Hamacher, an art educator in Germany and initiator of many art projects with artists, students, and colleagues from many countries. He is intimately connected to the war regions of the former Yugoslavia through family and personal ties, both reads and speaks Croatian, and he has spent much time in this war torn area. During a lengthy stay in the United States he led a "Picture production-Project" using a special slide technique. This project was based on prior experience he had had with his students at the Grafschafter Gymnasium Moers Germany. The concept of "Pepeljuga" continues his interest in combining artistic and social processes, uniting and making visible the creative work of many people across international borders, which stems from the inspiration of his former professor Joseph Beuys at the Art Academy Duesseldorf Germany. He will organize the "Picture Exchange" as the first project of "Pepeljuga" and be assisted by Gertrud Stegmans-Kulas as an administrative to distribute informations and channel funds to the aid organizations directly.
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