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Grit Burmeister + Franzi Kleinert
Schwimmbad heißt Liebe (Swimming pool means love), 2022

Print on flags
(template: oil crayons, colored pencils, ink)
5 flags, 90 x 150 cm each

For the flags in front of TROPEZ, Grit Burmeister and Franzi Kleinert depicted their perspective on the summer pool. Swimming pool means love, said Grit Burmeister when she heard about the TROPEZ project. She placed her unique images of people with oil pastels on Franzi Kleinert's extensive colored pencil weaves. Beings as if from another world look at us with big eyes and mouths wide open showing their teeth. For Burmeister, to show one's teeth means to defend oneself against exclusion and incomprehension. With colour fields and letters, Kleinert's drawings refer to summer.

 

About the artists

Grit Burmeister (*1964, Berlin) has been an actress and visual artist at RambaZamba Theater since 1991. Images of people, images of people, sometimes they are images of love, she says herself about her works in painting and graphics. Grit Burmeister was nominated for the Aktion-Kunstpreis in 2015 and can currently be seen at RambaZamba Theater in Der Ring as well as in the dance piece Mujer.

Franziska Kleinert (*1970, Berlin) has been an actress and visual artist at RambaZamba Theater since 1991. She can currently be seen in the RambaZamba web series Superforecast and in the productions Cold Cases, Der Drache, Der nackte Wahnsinn, Don Juan and Pension Schöller.

RambaZamba e.V. is a studio of the arts for people with so-called mental disabilities. Since its founding, the association has been a pioneer for inclusive artistic work.