FitArt — Female Body

  FitArt provides art shows on your phone in the form of a fitness plan. The application is designed as a series of workouts, featuring exercises created by artists.

Addressing the female connoted body, the second workout and in-app show "Female Body" approaches issues and structures of power in reference to sexuality, identity, gender and representation. It seeks to reflect on the experiences of women in their embodiments – as situated and congruent with places and times – according to the progress of society and technologies.

Taking up the notion of "somatic society" (Bryan Turner, 2008), the show expresses ways in which the body is positioned as a place where the main subjective and collective issues and traumas are expressed, problematized and processed. Through a path of consecutive images and sounds, the female connoted body is thus reconstructed and formed, framed between its emancipatory potential and its damnation to be a sacrificial machine, destined to bear the behaviors and beliefs of the society to which it belongs.   Female Body collects newly produced video works by fourteen artists and artist duos, selected by five curators, each active in the multifaceted Swiss art scene. Together they form a 7-minute workout / in-app exhibition.   Curated by Mareike Dittmer, Raffael Dörig, Charlotte Laubard, Chus Martínez and Nina Roehrs.   Join FitArt – Fitness Art Club powered by Roehrs & Boetsch by downloading the app and start your workout.   Available here: APP STORE   |  GOOGLE PLAY   —   Since early 2020, in order to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus, authorities worldwide have imposed the closure of public places with increased risk of contagion, from art museums to gym facilities, asking the population to stay home. This has contributed to the rediscovery and popularization of digital fitness training formats designed to guide movement and maintain or gain physical fitness while in isolation. Against this backdrop, FitArt appropriates the design of popular fitness apps to bring artists’ works to the viewer – onto the personal mobile phone.
Building on widely spread and highly accessible technologies – a mobile phone and an app developed for it – FitArt grants a wide audience to experience works of art even in times of social distancing and isolation.

With the pandemic still affecting large areas of the globe, at the end of 2020, together with the constant threat of a second lockdown, FitArt reveals itself to be, once again, an exhibition format capable of combining the desire of artists to reach a large audience with protecting everybody from health hazards. This time with the intention to reflect more specifically on the female connoted body.

Concept: Damjanski & Nina Roehrs

Programming: Barbosa     This exhibition is realized with the support of