EXHIBITION MUHKA (SELECTION)
- EXHIBITION - OCT 2007 - JAN 2008, MUHKA
Feminist Legacies And Potentials In Contemporary Art Practice investigates which ideas regarding feminism are pertinent to artists today, and the form they give to it. The fourth and final part of the project is taking place in the MuHKA this autumn/ winter.
Feminist Legacies And Potentials In Contemporary Art Practice is not an exhibition about feminism, but an exhibition that wishes to come up with a view of the various ways in which feminism –as school of thought, movement and conviction– informs, influences and inspires visual arts practises.
The exhibition assembles work by artists of various generations. Artists who were expressive about feminist issues during the 60s and 70s, such as Sanja Ivekovic, Lili Dujourie and Jef Geys; artists who built up a critical body of work during the 80s, such as Jutta Koether; the generation born around 1968 including among others Hito Steyerl, Cathy Wilkes and Karl Holmqvist; and the youngest generation including among others Katarina Zdjelar and Falke Pisano.
Heather Allen’s work combines elements from journalism, literature and music. In her eclectic, associative installations and performances she combines her own texts with pop music and video projections and researches the field of personal development. Read more
Gjertsen is interested in how power is constituted in narratives that turn into history and thereby form people’s worldview. She is critical toward, but also attracted to the pompous language and monumental aesthetics in propaganda, advertisement and even poetry. She uses the same seductive strategies, but simultaneously, she tries to expose their workings. 'Creative History' consists of 10 silk screen prints of 70 x 100cm each, with statements about female artists, writers, filmmakers. Read more
Hito Steyerl studied Cinematography and Documentary Filmmaking at the Academy of Visual Arts, Tokyo and Munich Academy of Television and Film. She is involved in the movement of feminist migrants and women of color in Germany. Her films include: The Empty Centre (1998), Normalität (1999), November (2004) and Lovely Andrea (2007). In the exhibition Steyerl shows both 'November' and her most recent film 'Lovely Andrea'. Read more
Katarina Zdjelar, Untitled, One Or Two Songs (...)
Zdjelar focuses on language: on how we speak, how we learn a foreign language, how we try to articulate words and how we struggle to get the right sound. The works she shows in the exhibition is called 'Untitled, One Or Two Songs On Someone Or Something, In Particular.' Read more
Falke Pisano’s work proceeds primarily from an interest in the act of thinking and the possibilities of constructing and solving problems in the field of language. Pisano’s work in the exhibition is titled Chillida, Forms & Feelings and is her personal answer to 'Combs of the Wind', a classical work in the tradition of abstract, modernist sculpture. Read more
For If I Can’t Dance… Stark produced a new work, titled 'Structures that fit my opening and other parts considered in relation to their whole', which is based on a powerpoint program. In it she ask herself how she can combine different roles: as an artist, a mother, a teacher and a lover. Read more
Haegue Yang, Suppression and Distraction
In her works, Haegue Yang engages with systems of order and standard products. She follows up the question, what basic assumptions and behavioural expectations are manifested in them and thus passed on to users. At the MuHKA she shows an installation in which she investigates the elements identity is made of. Read more
In his new work 'Facehug', Karl Holmqvist refers to works by Martha Rosler, Lucy McKenzie and others. It is a publication for which he invites artists who in their work take a position toward the practice of other artists. The first issue of Facehug is made by himself and consists of photo collages and poetry. Read more
Jutta Koether is one of the central figures in contemporary painting. Yet she is more than just a painter. She is also a performance artist, musician, writer and theoretician. Her role as an artist was long reduced to being regarded as a feminist response to the Cologne scene of the late 1980s. Read more
Below: 'Untitled', Heather Allen, 2007
Below: 'Plastered', Monica Bonvicini, 1998
