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Making women in academia and female pioneers visible – that is the focus of the “Missing Images” (“Versäumte Bilder”) exhibition, which will be on view at Forum at Domshof from April 14 to July 7. A public lecture will be held every Tuesday during the summer semester to accompany the exhibition.
The exhibition was developed by science photographer Gesine Born with the aim of creating a platform for women in science and research, as well as pioneers in related fields – a platform that was denied to them during their lifetimes. For the exhibition, Gesine Born has reinterpreted and contextualized existing images using artificial intelligence (AI). “In this creative way, significant achievements by women in academic fields and beyond are made visually tangible,” explains Sabine Doff, Dean of Faculty 10, who is responsible for the project at the University of Bremen. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the University of Bremen’s Transfer Office (UniTransfer), is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It can subsequently be accessed via the inner courtyard until 10 p.m. Admission is free.
To accompany the exhibition, a public lecture will take place every Tuesday from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. during the lecture period of the 2026 summer semester at Forum at Domshof. The lectures are organized by Sabine Doff in cooperation with Kathrin Sebastian, one of the gender equality officers and spokespersons for the Central Commission for Women’s Issues (ZKFF) at the University of Bremen. Researchers from Bremen’s universities and guests from the worlds of science and culture will address questions such as which missing images need to be added to the scientific landscape of Bremen, how we can successfully acknowledge the achievements of female scientists today, and what experiences women in science – who are pioneers in their fields – are currently facing.
The exhibition at Forum at Domshof will open at 6 p.m. on April 14, 2026, with a presentation by Gesine Born, who will introduce the “Missing Images” project, its history, and its background. Further presentations on the following Tuesdays will focus, among other topics, on Bremen’s first female senator, Käthe Popall; the Bremen educator Betty Gleim; and the pioneering work of the chemist and “housewife” Agnes Pockels. Together with the photographer, “missing images” relating to Bremen will be added in a concluding workshop (at 6 p.m. on July 7). The public lectures are part of the university’s General Studies program and are open to all interested parties. The complete program is available at: https://www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/forum-am-domshof/versaeumte-bilder-in-bre... (only available in German).
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One of the “missing images” in the exhibition depicts pediatrician Käthe Beutler. Image: [AI] genera ...
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