BELLY

Collective Social Sculpture and Spatial Claiming

BELLY – The Negotiable Belly is an interdisciplinary art project that critically examines how societies construct women and FLINTA* people as natural
and limitless sources of care, emotional labor, and social responsibility. Historically, this role has been framed as self-evident and unavoidable. BELLY
challenges this assumption by redefining giving as a conscious, negotiable, and empowering act rather than a moral obligation.
Through visual art, performances, and participatory workshops, the project explored the cultural, political, and symbolic meanings of the belly as a site of
creation, vulnerability, and agency. During the exhibition period, the results of these workshops were complemented by artistic interventions that continuously
transformed the exhibition space. These interventions reshaped the Kopfbau both physically and conceptually, reflecting the evolving collective
process.