Woodcliff Lake. The BMW Group is proud to present 200
Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World, a new book and
storytelling exhibition celebrating a diverse group of inspirational
women. Opening at Pen + Brush gallery in New York City on
May 15 and supported by BMW Group, 200 Women Who will change the way
you see the world is a free photo exhibition designed to provoke
thought on diversity and equality through the stories of 200 women
from around the world.
The exhibition is based on the storytelling project and book of the
same name by creators Geoff Blackwell and Ruth Hobday and published by
Chronicle Books,
200 Women Who Will Change the Way You See the World. The book was
inspired by the simple idea of persuading 200 women – regardless of
nationality, race, religion, status or celebrity – to answer a series
of five questions describing what is most important to them in life,
and allowing themselves to be photographed and filmed in front of a
plain sheet of fabric by photographer Kieran E. Scott. The book
features all 200 original interviews and accompanying photographs.
Geoff Blackwell, co-author of 200 Women Who Will Change the See the
World said, “Our intention wasn’t to simply focus on successful and
powerful women, but to highlight the diversity and authenticity of
real women with real stories, and bring out the humanity of each
individual’s experiences.”
Among the women honored are the recently passed Winnie
Madikizela-Mandela, who was a remarkable freedom fighter on the front
line of the struggle for the people in South Africa, bestselling
authors Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Margaret Atwood, actor and
activist Gillian Anderson, supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, classic violinist
Anne-Sophie Mutter and conservationist Jane Goodall, alongside other
activists, artists, astronauts, entrepreneurs and a brave Nepalese
woman who has spent most of her life living on the streets of
Kathmandu selling cigarettes – one at a time – to support her family.
“Our goal for 200 Women was diversity, and above all, authenticity,
and the responses of all of the women we interviewed simultaneously
educated, humbled and inspired us,” says co-author Ruth Hobday. “Over
and over they were uplifting examples of kindness, selflessness,
strength, wisdom, inspiration and the most compellingly of all, truth.”
Following the U.S. showing, BMW will also present the exhibition at
two separate locations in Munich, Germany: at the Alte Bayrische
Staatsbank (October 27 – November 21) and at the Technical University
of Munich (November 28 – December 14).
The exhibit schedule includes:
BMW Group In America.
BMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since
1975. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in
2003. The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include
marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW
brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and
the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; Designworks, a strategic design
consultancy based in California; technology offices in Silicon Valley,
Chicago and various other operations throughout the country. BMW
Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group’s global
manufacturing network and is the manufacturing plant for all X5 and X3
Sports Activity Vehicles and X6 and X4 Sports Activity Coupes. The BMW
Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks
of 345 BMW passenger car and BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 153
BMW motorcycle retailers, 127 MINI passenger car dealers, and 36
Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group’s
sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake,
New Jersey.