migrantas - a visual language of migration

Working with public urban spaces as its platform, migrantas aims to make visible the thoughts and feelings of those who have left their own country and now live in a new one.

Mobility, migration and transculturality are not the exception in our world, but are instead becoming the rule. Nevertheless, migrant women and their experiences remain often invisible to the majority of our society.

Migrantas works with issues of migration, identity and intercultural dialogue. Their work incorporates tools from the visual arts, graphic design and social sciences. Members of the collective, mostly women who have themselves immigrated to Germany, develop the projects with other migrant women in a horizontal dialogue.

- 10 Projects, 6 Cities
- 470 women + 72 childrens
(72 different national, social & cultural backgrounds and legal statuses)
- 54 workshops
- 1100 drawings
- 68 pictograms
- 75.000 free postcards (19 pictograms)
- 1.500 silkscreened bags (2 pictograms)
- 5 digital animations (4 pictograms – 1 per motif+1 styks animation)
- 3000 stickers (2 pictograms - 1500 per motif)
- 150 badges (1 pictogram)
- 10 T-shirts (1 pictogram)
- 1000 free A3 posters (1 pictogram)
- 4000 A5 reviews of 4 projects
- 3000 A5 flyers about the migrantas concept
- 1000 A5 flyer about the travelling exhibition

- Posters campaign:
Seville 2010: 68 A3 pictograms, 3 of them 150 x 200cm, on display in a free showcase for 8 weeks
Cologne 2008: 3 A1 pictograms, and 1 A0 motif on 1300 advertising spots for 12 weeks
Hamburg 2007: 3 pictograms on 270 advertising spots for 3 weeks
Berlin 2005: 3 large format pictograms at 90 bus stops for 2 weeks
Buenos Aires 2003/2004: 6 backlit pictograms – 110 x 148cm, on 180 advertising spots for 6 weeks

- Digital animations:
Berlin 2006: 4 15’ digital animations on Berlin's underground trains for 2 weeks
Berlin 2011: 15´digital animation on Berlin´s underground trains for 2 weeks

- Publications:
Migrantas’ pictograms have been used as illustrations for the covers of the following books:
* Seyla Benhabib and Judith Resnik: Migrations and Mobilities:
* Citizenship, Borders, and Gender –(Combined Academic Publ. 2009)
* Susanne Stemmler: Multikulti 2.0 (Wallenstein, Berlin 2011)

Migrantas has carried out projects in different cities with the following associations:
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