No more bad girls?
dal 5/5/2010 al 24/6/2010
Segnalato da
Arahmaiani
Patty Chang
Nezaket Ekici
Judith Fegerl
Regina Jose' Galindo
Chitra Ganesh
Mathilde ter Heijne
Maryam Jafri
Agnes Janich
Nadia Khawaja
Elena Kovylina
Nomusa Makhubu
Elodie Pong
Larissa Sansour
Ene-Liis Semper
Andrea Sunder-Plassmann
Newsha Tavakolian
Kathrin Becker
Claudia Marion Stemberger
5/5/2010
No more bad girls?
Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wuk, Wien
An alternative cartographies of a deconstruction of culturally-informed stereotypes of femininity
Arahmaiani (Indonesia), Patty Chang (US), Nezaket Ekici (Turkey/Germany), Judith Fegerl (Austria), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), Chitra Ganesh (India/US), Mathilde ter Heijne (Netherlands/Germany), Maryam Jafri (Pakistan//US/Denmark), Agnes Janich (Polen), Nadia Khawaja (Pakistan), Elena Kovylina (Russia), Nomusa Makhubu (South Africa), Elodie Pong (Switzerland), Larissa Sansour (Palestine/Denmark/UK), Ene-Liis Semper (Estonia), Andrea Sunder-Plassmann (Germany), Newsha Tavakolian (Iran)
Curators: Curators: Kathrin Becker (Head of n.b.k. Video-Forum), Claudia Marion Stemberger
The exhibition "No more bad girls?" opens up perspectives on contemporary women's art praxis. These female artists no longer exclusively reflect on gender binarisms, but rather at the same time also reveal multiple identity categories such as life situations of migrants, social status, sexual orientation, religious affiliation or ethnic origin.
With a critical awareness of a hegemonic, white, canonic feminism, the exhibition uncovers alternative cartographies of a deconstruction of culturally-informed stereotypes of femininity which refer to heterogeneous and complex spatial contexts as "locational affinities". As Marsha Meskimmon puts it, critical cartographies "are maps of affinity rather than influence, and they recognize the possibility of multiple networks of relations between 'feminisms', art, and ideas across a global geopolitical sphere."
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, edited by Claudia Marion Stemberger and Kathrin Becker: 84 pages, contextual essays (English and German), numerous colour images. ISBN 978-3-200-01861-7
Image: Arahmaiani
Framework Programme:
May 8, 2010, 2:00pm: Panel Discussion with Edith Futscher
June 10, 2010, 7:00pm: Panel Discussion with Nora Sternfeld
Press contact:
Lena Wicke-Aengenheyster - Dammstraße 24/46 A-1200 Vienna +43 699 19498473 +49 1522 9603708 kiosk59-pr@wuk.at
Opening: Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 7 pm
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Währinger Straße 59 - 1090 Vienna
Tuesday-Friday: 1 PM - 6 PM , Saturday: 11 AM - 2 PM