Booksigning
WITCHES IN EXILE
Friday, July 11 at 4 p.m.
Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
8, Rue de la Calade 13200 Arles
The last 10 ART BOOKS
of the 1st edition, signed by Ann-Christine Woehrl
PRICE: € 150,00 per book
DONATION: all proceeds from the sale will go to the Ghanaian NGO Witch-Hunt Victims Empowerment / Outcast Support Project.
Panel Discussion at MYOP
with Ann-Christine Woehrl
Moderated by Dimitri Beck
Friday July 11 at 5 pm
The impact of images of NGOs to the press. In collaboration with The Photo Bridge Project.
WITCHES IN EXILE in ARLES
Witches in Exile will be featured in 2025 at the renowned international photography festival, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.
Since its founding in 1970, the festival has drawn artists, galleries, and photography enthusiasts from around the globe to France, welcoming approximately 160,000 visitors each year.
Often celebrated as the world capital of photography, Arles provides a vibrant stage for innovative, experimental, and documentary photography. The festival showcases both established artists and emerging talents, making it a key event in the international photography scene.
In 2025, the festival’s theme is “Disobedient Images – Photography as an Instrument of Resistance and Social Change.” Across 46 exhibitions at 26 locations throughout the city, 160 artists will present their unique perspectives on this topic.
WITCHES IN EXILE will be exhibited at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation (MRO), one of the festival’s central venues. The MRO’s program for 2025, titled “Sortilèges,” explores themes of mysticism, magic, and occult worlds. Visitors are invited to question belief systems that challenge social norms and to reflect on the boundaries between the visible and the invisible.
Presenting WITCHES IN EXILE at one of the festival’s main venues highlights the ongoing relevance of this subject. The exhibition calls for greater awareness and solidarity with women around the world who continue to be affected by witch hunts.
IMPRESSIONS FROM ARLES
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of our partners. We sincerely thank:
CAWA Kampagne: 16 Tage I 16 Frauen I 16 Forderungen
At the end of 2024, Ann-Christine Woehrl supported the Ghanaian Coalition Against Witchcraft Accusations (CAWA) on site in Accra, Ghana, with portraits from her series WITCHES IN EXILE.
CAWA is an alliance of organizations including Action Aid Ghana, Amnesty International Ghana, End Witch Hunts, Oxfam, The Sanneh Institute, Songtaba, and WILPF Ghana (Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom). Together, they are dedicated to fighting witchcraft accusations and witch hunts in northern Ghana.
Inspired by the 16-day international UN Women campaign against gender-based violence, CAWA and Ann-Christine Woehrl are launching their own 16-day campaign to end witch hunts in northern Ghana, featuring a special exhibition:
16 Days, 16 Women, 16 Demands.
This exhibition, along with a petition (Link) read by Prof. John Azumah of The Sanneh Institute (Link), was be presented at a press conference on November 19, 2024 at Christ the King Church in Accra, Ghana.
Each portrait is accompanied by one of 16 demands calling for an end to witchcraft accusations. The exhibition appeals directly to the Ghanaian government and the President to pass legislation to combat witch hunts. By displaying these demands alongside the photographs, the exhibition amplifies the voices of marginalized women.
This exhibition is a call to action for both local and global audiences to stand in solidarity with women in northern Ghana and to support CAWA’s fight for justice and the protection of women’s rights.
A particularly powerful aspect of the exhibition is the presence of women who have survived persecution and still live with the stigma in so-called Witch Camps.
Inspired by this joint campaign, Ann-Christine Woehrl launched her own platform, ARTIST IMPACT, to showcase artistic projects that address urgent social and political issues. Follow #artistimpactorg
Inspired by this joint campaign, Ann-Christine Woehrl launched her own platform, ARTIST IMPACT, to showcase artistic projects that address urgent social and political issues. Follow #artistimpactorg
WITCHES IN EXILE und DARKLIGHT
Photographs by ANN-CHRISTINE WOEHRL
On the occasion of her exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, LEPI ARTS in Munich is showing a photographic dialogue with WITCHES IN EXILE and DARKLIGHT by artist Ann-Christine Woehrl.
The theme is isolation. The fundamental, recurring subject of Ann-Christine Woehrl's work. However, the perspective and approach of the two photo series could hardly be more different and thus illuminate the photographer's artistic spectrum.
Information on the pop-up exhibition HERE.
LEPI ARTS Pop-up Galerie
Ismaninger Str.3
81675 Munich
info@lepi-arts.com
+49 152 079 501 46 I www.lepi-arts.com
Ismaninger Str.3
81675 Munich
info@lepi-arts.com
+49 152 079 501 46 I www.lepi-arts.com
Duration:
24.04. - 26.07.2024
Opening hours:
Wed 14-18h, Thu-Fr 11-15h
and by appointment.
24.04. - 26.07.2024
Opening hours:
Wed 14-18h, Thu-Fr 11-15h
and by appointment.
WITCHES IN EXILE at Museum Fünf Kontinente extended until June 2, 2024
Maximilianstrasse 42, 80538 Munich
Opening hours:
Tue - Sun 9.30- 17.30h
Maximilianstrasse 42, 80538 Munich
Opening hours:
Tue - Sun 9.30- 17.30h
WITCHES IN EXILE at Museum Fünf Kontinente
The exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich attracted a large audience, with around 12,000 visitors learning about the fate of women in Ghana. Through numerous guided tours and a special event featuring Reverend Professor John Azumah from Ghana (Chairman of The Sanneh Institute and the Coalition Against Witchcraft Accusations (CAWA)—visitors gained a comprehensive understanding of the situation in Ghana As one of the key advocates, Professor Azumah plays a crucial role in ensuring that accusations of witchcraft will be treated as a criminal offence in Ghana in the future.
In preparation of the exhibition...
MUSEUM FÜNF KONTINENTE
Maximilianstraße 42 I 80538 MÜNCHEN
Opening hours: Tue–Sun, 9.30 am–5.30 pm
U4, U5 Lehel
S-Bahn Isartor
Tram 16 & 19 Maxmonument
further information: http://www.museum-fuenf-kontinente.de/
..an UPDATE on site
An important milestone has been reached: at the end of July this year the law against the persecution of witches has been passed by the Ghanaian parliament. The task now is to communicate and implement the law.
Ann-Christine Woehrl travelled to Ghana in October 2023 to get an up-to-date picture of the situation and to meet the women from her Witches in Exile portrait series.
In the capital Accra, she meets experts on the subject of witch-hunts, conducts numerous interviews and researches the press archives with the support of Ghanaian historian Gertrude Nkrumah.
From Accra, the journey then takes her to the Northern Region.
This is where the so-called witch camps are located This is where Ann-Christine Woehrl reunites with the women she portrayed for Witches in Exile between 2009 and 2013.
She is no longer the stranger she was back then, carrying a camera and asking questions.
Today she is a confidante who comes back to listen to these women as they share their experiences with her.
In cooperation with Simon Ngota, the founder of the Ghanaian NGO Witch-hunt Victims Empowerment Project, Ann-Christine Woehrl started the Witches in Exile project and has been drawing attention to the problem of witch-hunting in Ghana for over 10 years now with a large number of exhibitions and the publication of the photo book Witches in Exile.
The artist has made raising awareness of the stigmatisation of women worldwide, her personal concern. She tells the stories of the women and tries to generate support for the women with her work.
In the Northern Region, things have changed for some women. Thanks to the efforts of the NGO, some have been reintegrated into their communities. Safuna and her son no longer live in the so-called witch camp, but now live with her family.
While the political course is being reset in the capital Accra on the issue of witch-hunting, Banabas Dalabra is pushing ahead with Simon Ngota's work on the ground.
Under the new name Outcast Support Project, the NGO continues to campaign against witch hunts through education and persuasion and is helping to ensure that the new law does not remain a hollow phrase.
The current debate on this topic in Ghana is the reason for the exhibition at the Museum Fünf Kontinente
WITCHES IN EXILE
24 November 2023 - 5 May 2024In this exhibition, Ann-Christine Woehrl complements her artistic position with current documentation of the situation in Ghana - in words, photographs and film.
Senam Okudzeto illustrates the socio-political context of the topic in her multimedia installation.
Our book WITCHES IN EXILE is on the SHORTLIST at the Eiger Foundation African Photobook of the Year Awards.
The Leipzig Photobook Festival will showcase all 17 books selected from over 4000 submissions as the best photobooks of the year.
From 29-30 April 2023 at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst ,Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig.
Programme flyer for download.
The Leipzig Photobook Festival will showcase all 17 books selected from over 4000 submissions as the best photobooks of the year.
From 29-30 April 2023 at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst ,Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig.
Programme flyer for download.
Ann-Christine Woehrl: Witches in Exile
Exhibition in the context of the Freiburg Film Forum at the Centre Culturel Français Freiburg
Vernissage: Thursday 20 April 2023, 19:00h
Welcome: Florence Dancoisne, CCF and Werner Kobe, Filmforum
Introduction: Ann-Christine Woehrl
Guided tour for school classes with Ann-Christine
Woehrl: Friday 21 April, 11:00 h
Our book WITCHES IN EXILE at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 4.0, booth F20.
Traveling exhibition 21I22: The German Photo Book Award shows the winners of the competition at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
WITCHES IN EXILE has made it to the SHORTLIST of the German Fotobuchpreis.
SILVER in the category conceptual-artistic photo book.
Traveling exhibition 21I22: The German Photo Book Award shows the winners of the competition at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
WITCHES IN EXILE has made it to the SHORTLIST of the German Fotobuchpreis.
SILVER in the category conceptual-artistic photo book.
Booksigning
Friday, July 8, 3 pm
Fondation Manuel-Rivera-Ortiz,
18 rue de la Calade, 13200 Arles, France
at KEHRER Publishing
Witches in Exile & Darklight
Photographs by Ann-Christine Woehrl
14. June - 14. July 2022
exhibition opening 14. July starting 18 h
PRAXIS
Cyril Kazis
Bäumleingasse 9
CH-4051 Basel
art@praxisart.org
+41 79 320 60 23
www.praxisart.org
opening hours
During the Photo Basel & Art Basel fair
14 June -19 June 2022: 17h - 20h and during the day by appointment.
20 June - 14 July 2022
The exhibition can be visited daily by appointment.
PRAXIS I Cyril Kazis I +41 79 320 60 23 I art@praxisart.org
Ann-Christine Woehrl I acw@ann-christine-woehrl.com
BOOK PRESENTATION
Saturday 18 June 2022 18 h I PRAXIS
ARTIST TALK
Friday 1 July 2022 18 h I PRAXIS
The book Witches in Exile is available at Galerie PRAXIS and at Photo Basel at the ARTCO Gallery booth.
Hexenglaube - Witches in Exile & Daughters of Magic
Photography by Ann-Christine Woehrl and Johanna Maria Fritz
Presented by ARTCO and LEPI Art
from September 10 to December 10, 2021
at
LEPI Studio in the Spreestudios
Gallery and Showroom
Köpenicker Chaussee 4
10317 Berlin
Opening hours The exhibition can be visited daily by appointment
Dates*
BOOKSIGNING PARIS PHOTO
Ann-Christine Woehrl Saturday, November 13, 2021
4 pm
Stand SE 16, Kehrer Verlag
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Ephemere, Avenue Pierre Loti, F-75007 Paris
ARTIST TALK
The expert and curator Hans-Michael Koetzle
in conversation with the photographers.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
in the LEPI Studio
Contact
ARTCO I Simon Melchers I simon@artco-ac.de
LEPI Art I Anja Pinter-Rawe I anja@witches-in-exile.art
* Please note the current Corona protective measures and the 3-G rule.
from September 10 to December 10, 2021
at
LEPI Studio in the Spreestudios
Gallery and Showroom
Köpenicker Chaussee 4
10317 Berlin
Opening hours The exhibition can be visited daily by appointment
Dates*
BOOKSIGNING PARIS PHOTO
Ann-Christine Woehrl Saturday, November 13, 2021
4 pm
Stand SE 16, Kehrer Verlag
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Ephemere, Avenue Pierre Loti, F-75007 Paris
ARTIST TALK
The expert and curator Hans-Michael Koetzle
in conversation with the photographers.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
in the LEPI Studio
Contact
ARTCO I Simon Melchers I simon@artco-ac.de
LEPI Art I Anja Pinter-Rawe I anja@witches-in-exile.art
* Please note the current Corona protective measures and the 3-G rule.