The first anthology of feminist art exhibition essays and museum publications, providing an exciting and valuable overview of recent developments in feminist curation
Feminisms-Museums-Surveys: Exhibition Curating 2005-2022 brings together works from exhibition catalogs and museum publications to provide a comprehensive and timely view of the modern approach to feminist curating. Offering insights into how curators from around the world engage with different feminisms and select and exhibit feminist art, this one-of-a-kind anthology exemplifies the diversity of feminist thinking and curatorial approaches in the contemporary art museum.
This important volume comprises articles and essays drawn from publications which accompanied major curatorial projects from different regions around the globe, and each essay offers a unique critical interpretation of feminist art. Organized chronologically, the book presents the essays the majority in print for the first time since their initial publications and some for the first time in English with the dates and venues of the exhibition and a brief introduction by the editors. All the artists in the exhibitions and the curators involved are indexed in the supplementary material. Making key examples of feminist curating easily accessible to a wider audience of scholars and students, this unique anthology:
- Offers a transnational perspective on feminist curating, featuring exhibitions from across Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas
- Highlights the diverse ways in which curators have attempted to bring feminist theory into the museum exhibition format
- Illustrates how feminist ideas have evolved in diverse ways in the international community of museum professionals
- Includes an index of artists and curators whose work is represented in the volume
Offering deep insights into how curators have approached the documentation and representation of art informed by feminist politics and thinking, Feminisms-Museums-Surveys: Exhibition Curating 2005-2022 is an ideal resource for courses in feminism and art, curation, LGBTQ art, art and politics, museum studies, art history, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies, and related courses across fine arts and visual arts programs.
Contents
Acknowledgements xi
On Feminisms, Museums and Surveys: An Introduction 1
Hilary Robinson and Lara Perry
1 Life Actually 8
Life Actually; the Works of Contemporary Japanese Women Love and Solitude,
and Laughter for
Survival in Japan 9
Kasahara Michiko
2 La Costilla Maldita 26
The Accursed Rib 27
Margarita Aizpuru
3 Konstfeminism: Strategier Och Effekter I Sverige Från 1970-talet Till Idag
36
Introduction 37
Louise Andersson, Magnus Jensner, Anna Livion Ingvarsson, Anna Nyström,
Barbro Werkmäster, and Niclas Östlind
4 The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Arts since 1960 44
The Eighth Square: Observations on an Exhibition Experiment 45
Frank Wagner
5 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution 60
Art and Feminism: An Ideology of Shifting Criteria 61
Cornelia Butler
6 Global Feminisms 68
Curators Preface 69
Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin Copyrighted Material
7 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Years of Art and Feminism 72
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 86 Steps in 45 Years of Art and Feminism 73
Xabier Arakistain
8 Intimate Distance: Indonesian Women Artists 78
Intimate Distance: Tracing Feminist Discourse in Indonesian Art 79
Wulan Dirgantoro
9 A Batalla dos Xéneros/Gender Battle 86
The Benefit of Discord: Apropos of Gender Battle 87
Juan Vicente Aliaga
10 elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collection of the Musée
National dArt Moderne 114
elles@centrepompidou: Addressing Difference 115
Camille Morineau
11 Rebelle: Art and Feminism 19692009 122
Introduction 123
Mirjam Westen
12 Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe
138
Proletarians of All Countries, Who Washes Your Socks? Equality, Dominance
and Difference in Eastern European Art 139
Bojana Peji
13 Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art 158
The Feminist Present: Women Artists at MoMA 159
Cornelia Butler
14 DONNA: Avanguardia Femminista Negli Anni 70 dalla Sammlung Verbund di
Vienna 170
The Feminist Avant-Garde: A Radical Transformation 171
Gabriele Schor
15 Med Viljann ad Vopni Endurlit 19701980 180
The Will as a Weapon Review 19701980 181
Hrafnhildur Schram
16 en dArt: The History of Gender and Art in Post-Soviet Space: 19892009
188
The History of Womens Art: Archives, Theories and Actual Artistic Practice
189
Nataliya Kamenetskaya and Oksana Sarkisyan
17 Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey 194
Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey 195
Levent Ēalkolu
18 Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art 202
Tzena Ureena 203
Dvora Liss
19 This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s 214
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s 215
Helen Molesworth
20 Contemporary Australia: Women 240
Here and Now 241
Julie Ewington
21 Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 19301983 248
Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 19301983 249
Yi-ting Lei
22 The Beginning Is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia
266
The Beginning Is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia 267
Karin Hindsbo
23 Where Were At! Other Voices on Gender 278
Joining the Ranks of the Invisible Struggle 279
Christine Eyene
Our Sister Next Door 284
Christine Eyene
24 East Asia Feminism: FANTasia 292
East Asia Feminism: FANTasia 293
Kim Hong-hee
25 All Men Become Sisters 302
Imagination Machine 303
Joanna Sokoowska
26 M/A\G/M\A: Body and Words in Italian and Lithuanian Womens Art from 1965
to the Present 316
MAGMA: A Revolt for Us 317
Benedetta Carpi De Resmini
The Singing Revolution Continues 321
Laima Kreivyt
27 We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 196585 324
Introduction 325
Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley
28 Being Her(e): Meditations on African Femininities 330
Curatorial Statement 331
Paula Nascimento
29 Corpo a Corpo Body to Body 334
Body to Body: What Is Left? 335
Paola Ugolini
30 Radical Women: Latin American Art, 19601985 346
Introduction 347
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta
31 Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon 352
Irreconcilable Difference 353
Johanna Burton
32 Women House 360
From The Housewife to the Nana-Maison: Domesticity as a Key Theme for Women
Artists 361
Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane
33 Collective Women: Feminist Art Archives from the 1970s to the 1990s 366
Texts from the Auckland Art Gallery 2017 367
Clare McIntosh
34 Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism 372
Unfinished Business 373
Max Delany
Blak Female Futurisms and Yte Feminism Waves 379
Paola Balla
35 Bread and Roses: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists 382
Gender, Empire and Decolonisation: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists
383
David Elliott
36 Niepodlege: Kobiety A Dyskurs Narodowy 398
Niepodlege: Women, Independence and National Discourse 399
Magda Lipska
37 The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain
402
Why the Insurrection, Medea? 403
Susanne Altmann
38 Paint, Also Known as Blood: Women, Affect and Desire in Contemporary
Painting 418
Rippers: Women, Affect and Desire, Between Figuration and Abstraction 419
Natalia Sielewicz
39 Kiss My Genders 428
Kiss My Genders: A Conversation 429
Vincent Honoré with Ajamu, Travis Alabanza, and Victoria Sin
40 Her Own Way: Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From
1970s to the Present 436
Her Own Way-Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s
to the Present 437
Okamura Keiko
41 Womens Histories, Feminist Histories 444
Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000 445
Isabella Rjeille
42 Feminnale: 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art 452
Feminnale: 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art 453
Bishkek Feminist Initiatives Team
43 Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography 456
Performing Masculinities 457
Alona Pardo
44 Earthkeeping/Earthshaking: Arte, Feminismos e Ecologia 468
Earthkeeping/Earthshaking: Art, Feminisms and Ecology 469
Giulia Lamoni and Vanessa Badagliacca
45 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now 480
Foreword 481
Nick Mitzevich and Natasha Bullock
Guiding Principles for Gender Equity 483
Nick Mitzevich and Natasha Bullock
46 Female Identities in the Global South 484
Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South 485
Bronwyn Law- Viljoen
Liminal Identities in the Global South 489
Clive Kellner
Modernist Identities in the Global South 497
Clive Kellner
Historical Background 503
Clive Kellner
47 I Remember Therefore I am. Unwritten Stories: Woman Artist Archives 506
I Remember, Therefore I Am 507
Andra Silaptere
48 Who Will Write the History of Tears: Artists on Womens Rights 512
About the Exhibition 513
Magda Lipska, Sebastian Cichocki, and ukasz Ronduda
49 Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda 514
Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda 515
Ane Tonga
50 Empowerment: Art and Feminisms 524
Empowerment: Art and Feminisms Introduction 525
Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch, and Uta Ruhkamp
51 Women in Revolt! Art, Activism, and the Womens Movement in the UK
19701990 534
Introduction: The Personal Is Political 535
Linsey Young
Index of Curators 546
Index of Artists 549
Įine McKenny and Marlous van Boldrik
Index 588
HILARY ROBINSON is a Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory at Loughborough University, UK, where she teaches in art history, feminism, and visual culture. She is the co-editor of A Companion to Feminist Art (Wiley Blackwell, 2019) and the editor of Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2014, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2016).
LARA PERRY is Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK where she has taught courses and supervised research in History of Art and Design. She is the co-editor with Elke Krasny of Curating as Feminist Organizing (2023) and Curating with Care (2023), and the author of Historys Beauties: Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (2006). She has published on topics in feminism, curation, 19th century artists, and museum studies.
