The Second Glance: Women | Sara Nuru

Film

“Women” is the second integrated exhibition in the series The Second Glance. The show analyses the traditional gender roles and challenges the functions ascribed to women in society – for example, as goddesses, heroines, prostitutes, saints, queens, academics – and on the role of women in society. In six themed paths featuring 62 objects dating from the 4th to the 18th century, these women are situated within their own historical contexts and also discussed through the critical lens of the 21st century.

Sara Nuru was in 2009 the first person of colour to win the TV competition "Germany’s Next Topmodel". Shortly after her first visit to New York Fashion Week, she travelled to the homeland of her parents, Ethiopia, where she was confronted with the poverty of the inhabitants. This experience awakened her desire for social engagement. Since then, not only does she support Ethiopian women with microcredit through her own association, nuruWomen, she also runs the socially responsible business nuruCoffee with her sister, Sali Nuru. In this enterprise, the sisters advocate for, above all, women who are still mostly disadvantaged in the supply chain to be able to lead autonomous and independent lives. In recognition of her work, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in 2018 designated the native of Erding as an ambassador for fair trade.