Victoria Gugenheim is a World award-winning Bodypainter, World Ranking makeup artist, Atheist, and human rights activist who believes no religion is above scrutiny. Her clients have included Glastonbury Festival, Nokia, The World Bodypainting Festival, Marvel, Sony, The World Humanist Congress, and many more. She is also the founder of Women Create, a festival for cancelled female and feminist artists premiering on the 4th and 5th DEC in the UK.
She has worked on Guardians of the Galaxy, Pride, Cruella, James Bond and more, and is the founder of Rumbleshakr Media after being cancelled. She has spent over a decade of her life standing up for Ex-Muslims and religious apostates including survivors of FGM and lesbian Ex-Muslims. She is a core artist of CEMB and One Law for All, founded by veteran activist Maryam Namazie.
Her work also traverses blasphemy, art, science, humanity and wonder, and she is an advocate for freedom of thought and expression while standing for the rights of women and girls worldwide.
She also uses her work on her current Global project, Painted Powerful, My Body is Mine to empower female sexual/domestic violence and coercive control survivors from across the globe. She also conceived the documentary, Art of Resistance, using blasphemous art to challenge religious orthodoxy with Ex-Muslims, featuring Maryam Namazie, which is showing at Celebrating Dissent, Oslo this year as part of the exhibition Blasphemous Women Victoria is curating. It will also air at the Women Create Festival for its UK premiere.
She is also a member of multiple lesbian and detransitioner advocacy groups and is currently writing two books.
Learn more
gugenheim.co.uk
womencreate.co.uk
Rumbleshakr.com
ThatVictoriaG.substack.com
PaintedPowerful.substack.com
instagram.com/victoriagugenheim
Ex-Muslim/Secular work
Ex-Muslim.org.uk
Onelawforall.org.uk
Body of Art: Activism and the Right to Blaspheme