Do you fit the ‘norm’? What is a good upbringing? Can you be who you are? How do you use language? What do you leave behind?
These are a few of the questions that the curators of the exhibition GERECHT? Geschichten über soziale Ungleichheiten have raised in connection to thirty-four historical everyday objects exhibited at the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum in Innsbruck from June 2025 until March 2026. The exhibits come from museums and collections in Tyrol, South Tyrol and Trentino.
Participants of the Creative Writing Project were invited to create short fiction, poems, and reflective vignettes in a literary exploration of selected objects and their stories that opens up new perspectives on social justice, both personal and artistic.
The texts were presented to the public on Friday 7th November amongst the exhibits that inspired them. The project brought together students and participants of the Writing Club, a Creative Writing Project led by Violet Stathopoulou-Vais, Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Innsbruck, in cooperation with Anna Amann, Kulturvermittlerin, Tiroler Landesmuseen.
Full texts are available to the exhibition visitors in a print publication by the museum, with a foreword by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christoph Singer from the perspective of Cultural Studies.
All texts and audiotexts can be accessed here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/anglistik/studies/initiatives-resources/museum-project/