Galli (b. 1944, lives in Berlin) established herself in the West Berlin art scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, by depicting bodies in states of vulnerability, disfigurement and ecstatic joy. Her works explore the inexhaustible potential in depictions of corporeality. In 2020, her paintings and collages were on display at KW as part of the 11th Berlin Biennale, which acknowledged “the cracks in the system…those broken by it and their struggles”. Possessing a worldview different from that of an able-bodied person, Galli’s practice remains indispensable today, in a world based on the imperative of unlimited productivity, mobility, and availability, and in which any form of physical dysfunctionality leads to immediate exclusion or is declared in need of treatment. Its continued relevance also relates to the medium of painting itself, where we are currently witnessing an emphasis on historically marginalized subjectivities and their relationship to the broader social sphere, and where artists are ardently exploring the issues of bodily fragility, interdependence, and non-human life.