Beate Winkler’s work provides an impetus for dealing with personal and social change on equal terms for men and women. We can only overcome the great challenges we are currently facing, such as war, climate change, globalisation and migration, if we develop a new relationship with others and thus with ourselves. To do this, we need freedom, creativity and social cohesion.
Beate Winkler defines her art as a constant dialogue about change. At a time of dramatic uncertainty in our times, she consciously chooses old, tried and tested materials, such as handmade paper and coloured ink, which have been with us for centuries. Her work is guided by her creative method, but also freely shaped by the processes of change. Parts of his paintings are deliberately hidden from view, unrolled, hidden in books or painted on the back of the works. Presented floating in open spaces, the colourful scrolls convey a sense of vision and flight.
At the beginning of the exhibition, Beate Winkler invites visitors to write or draw their hopes for a new social cohesion on a small picture on handmade paper. They can then drop these wishes into the “future box” at the entrance to the gallery space to be installed. The Wall of Dreams can be the new foundations of our existence, the dreams that will be sent from Veszprém to the world at large.
The exhibition is part of the #newTogether project, which started in Berlin with the Austrian Cultural Forum and Beate Winkler, with the support of several organisations, and continued in Warsaw and Timisoara, with new content.
Beate Winkler is an artist and human rights politician. She was the first woman director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, which she headed for many years. Her current ambition is to inspire change through her art, exhibitions and initiatives.