DISRUPTIVE REALITIES (2023-2025)
Friederike von Rauch & Stefanie Schweiger

Disruptive Realities is an artistic and documentary project by Friederike von Rauch and Stefanie Schweiger that explores the lives and working conditions of women artists. Through interviews, film, photography, text, audio, and installation, the project examines the often invisible conditions of artistic production and the structures that shape artistic practice today.

At the centre of the project are conversations with twenty women artists from different generations and disciplines. Their personal experiences reveal recurring themes of artistic labour, visibility, financial insecurity, care work, and autonomy.

The project brings together personal narratives, statistical data, and artistic interventions in an installation that invites visitors to move between individual voices and broader social contexts. Rather than offering definitive answers, Disruptive Realities creates a space for reflection on artistic labour and the conditions under which it is produced.

WORKS

Video Works
20 Video Interviews with Women Artists
15–45 min., colour, sound, subtitles
Do You Know That the Income of Most Artists Is Below the Subsistence Level?
47 sec., colour, sound, subtitles
What Advice Would You Give to Women Artists at the Beginning of Their Careers?
14 min., colour, sound, subtitles
Disruptive Realities
12 min., loop, colour, sound
with actress Sina Martens

Photography
Disruptive Realities (2025)
Wallpaper installations, various sizes
Portrait Series (2024)
Studio Series (2024)

Audio Work
The Brutal Truth
2:30 min., stereo sound installation

Text Works

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Disruptive Realities, Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
2025 – Disruptive Realities, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany

ARCHIVE

2026 — Disruptive Realities was acquired by the Visual Arts Archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.