Botschaft der Polinnen*: Mapping Resistance
Artistic Strategies for Empowerment
With: Anna Krenz (Artist, Architect and Activist, Founder Dziewuchy Berlin, PL/DE)
Stadtwerkstatt
11 Karl-Liebknecht-Straße
Berlin, BE, 10178
Free – Register now
Max 30 Participants.
Anna Krenz, artist and activist within the Polish queer feminist collective Dziewuchy Berlin, explores how artistic practices can serve as tools of dissent against right-wing populism and authoritarian tendencies. Through examples of protests, artworks, performances and public actions like “Global Scream!” and “Instant Theatre”, she will present how artistic strategies can challenge dominant narratives, reclaim public space, and create spaces of solidarity.
The second part of the event is an interactive workshop: “Mapping Resistance”, in which participants collectively create a live diagram of civic strategies that visualises different tactics of civic engagement and resistance from everyday gestures to large-scale actions — highlighting the diversity of forms of empowerment. Each participant will contribute their own experiences and ideas, which will be drawn into a live map during the workshop.
This collaborative exercise not only highlights the diversity of forms of resistance, but also empowers the group to see themselves as part of a larger network of creative and political practices, able to imagine new strategies for the future.
Anna Krenz spoke at our conference Shadows of Illiberalism: Resisting the Radical Right, June 13-15, 2025, Kunstquartier Bethanien. - see her talk here!
Anna Krenz
Artist, Architect and Activist, Founder Dziewuchy Berlin, PL/DE
Anna Krenz is an artist, architect, author and activist. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Poznań and the Architectural Association in London. She is the founder and member of the women-led design studio Sinus_3, which focuses on architecture, ecology, and the design of public space. From 2001 to 2025 she worked for the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy in Denmark and from 2003 to 2012, she co-directed Galerie ZERO in Berlin. 2007-2009 she was editor-in-chief of the design magazine VOX Design, and re:design magazine. She is the founder of the feminist collective Dziewuchy Berlin, founder and chair of the association Ambasada Polek e.V., initiator and member of the Polish Women’s Council+. Member of nGbK and BBK, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Nordic Folkecenter. Krenz is actively involved in local ecological projects in Puszczykowo and Poznań (Poland). Lives in Berlin since 2003 and is a single mother.
Disruption Network Lab is part of New Perspectives for Action (2023-2027). A project by Re-Imagine Europe, a collaboration between Paradiso and Sonic Acts (NL), Elevate Festival (Austria), A4 (SK), INA GRM (FR), Borealis (NO), KONTEJNER (HR), RUPERT (LT), Semibreve (PT), Parco d’Arte Vivente (IT), Disruption Network Lab (DE), BEK (NO), Kontrapunkt (MK) and Radio Web MACBA (ES). Co-funded by the European Union.