Curatorial Tour with Hendrik Folkerts | Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt

Marking twenty years since artist, writer and performer Vaginal Davis made Berlin her home, Gropius Bau presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition of her work in Germany. 

Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt captures the full scope of Ms. Davis’ practice, where punk meets glamour, queer activism meets Black counter-culture and resistance meets desire. Across seven large-scale installations on the ground floor of Gropius Bau, the exhibition spans works from 1985 to 2025, including painting, video, film, zine-making, writing, music and performance. The exhibition also gives center stage to her many collaborative projects, with the Berlin-based art collective CHEAP – presenting the installation Choose Mutation, with photographs by Annette Frick – and New York-based artist Jonathan Berger, among many others.


Content Note: The exhibition contains depictions of sexual acts and representations of racist language and imagery. 

 

Hendrik Folkerts is a curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Prior to this, he held the position of Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 2017 to 2022, Curator at documenta 14, Kassel/Athens from 2014 to 2017, and served as curator of Performance, Film, and Discursive Programs at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam from 2010 to 2015. Folkerts specialises in commissioning and process-based exhibition-making. He has curated numerous solo and international group exhibitions as well as collection presentations, new commissions and programme series, anchored in the expanded field of performance and building on feminist, queer, and anti-colonial histories of art.