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2024 Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Sue Scott
Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art
(London: Lund Humphries)
2024 Lotte Johnson, Amanda Pinatih, and Wells Fray-Smith
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art (Barbican Gallery and Stedelijk Museum exhibition)
(Prestel)
2024
Radical Software: Women, Art and Computing, 1960-1991 (19 September 2024-2 February 2025)
(Luxembourg: MUDAM)
2024 Flavia Frigeri
Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950–1970
(Eiderdown Books)
2024 outofsite_chi and Alice Bell and Carron Little
8 Acts of Love
(UK: University of Lincoln)
2024 Sascia Bailer
Caring Infrastructures: Transforming the Arts through Feminist Curating
(Transcript Verlag)
2024 Luana Saturnino Tvardovskas and María Laura Rosa eds
O Sexo da Arte: Teorias E Criticas Feministas
(Intermeios: Entre Generos)
2024 Andrea Lissoni, Marina Pugliese, Francesco Stocchi
Ambienti 1956-2010 Environments by Women Artists II (10 April 2024-20 October 2024)
(Rome: Museo Maxxi)
2023 Andrea Lissoni and Marina Pugliese with Anne Pfautsch eds
Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976 (8 Sept 2023-10 March 2024)
(Munich: Haus der Kunst)
2023 Elke Krasny, Lara Perry
Curating with Care
(Routledge)
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Elke Krasny and Lara Perry: Introduction
Part I. Caring Curating
Françoise Vergès: Curatorial Labour and Decolonial Feminism
Bruxas Bruxas Arts Collective: Get Bodied: Inverting the Witch to Summon a New Commons
Care beyond Curation: A Conversation with Lauren Craig. Interview by Racha Baraka Pauline
De Souza: Transcultural Care and the Cultural Sector in the United Kingdom
Helen Kaplinsky: Caring for ‘range-ful’ identities in the work of Danielle Brathwaite Shirley
Mirella Maria: Decolonial and Heritage Practices in the Context of Current Global Challenges. Quilombola Museology and Digital Technologies in Brazilian Community Museums
Sophie Lingg: Caring Curating and Social Media
Berit Fischer: A Laboratory of Care. Active Micropolitics, Joyfulness and Affectivity
Joulia Strauss: Avtonomi Akadimia. Curating becomes Curing
Alexandra Kokoli: Care, Aftercare, and the Work of Transmission: Learning from Greenham Common
Eliana Otta: Caring for Mourning, Working with Loss. Curating, Listening, and Attending to the Sacred in Peruvian Highlands and Forests
Elke Krasny: Care, Thought, Being: Curating with a Wounded Planet
Part II. Curating Care
Caroline Gausden, Kirsten Lloyd, Nat Raha, and Catherine Spencer: Curating Forms of Care in Art and Activism: A Roundtable on Life Support
Helena Reckitt: From Coping to Curious: Unlearning and Reimagining Curatorial Habits of Care
Sascia Bailer: Care for Caregivers: Curating against the Care Crisis
Jacqueline Millner and Zsuzsanna Zsoboszlay: Cultivating Care Ethics and the Minor Gesture in Curatorial and Research Practices
Jenny Richards: ‘Do what you do best and outsource the rest’ - Curatorial Lessons within Cultures of Outsourcing
Katja Kobolt, Petja Grafenauer, and Brigita Miloš: The Platform of Care: Collective Curatorial Modes of the n*a*i*l*s hacks*facts*fictions platform
Claudia Lomoschitz: Curating Queer Nursing: the performance installation PARTUS Gyno Bitch Tits
Magdalena Kallenberger (MATERNAL FANTASIES collective): Curating a Collective Body: a Non-Idealized Concept of Care
Johanna Braun: Spellbound. Witchcraft Activism as Caring Curatorial Practice
Zahra Khan: Curating Aliveness. Engaging with Ecologies
Hansel Sato: La escuela del buen vivir/ The school of good life: counteracting the imperial mode of living
2023
MODOS: Revista de História da Arte
(Brazil) May, vol. 7 no. 2.
Tramas de resistência, linhas de afetos e subversões femininas - Portugese and English texts.
2023
Arts (MDPI)-(Beyond/Around Feminist Aesthetics) April
(MDPI) Edited by Katy Deepwell
2023 Jane Elizabeth Lavery, Sarah Bowskill, Thea Pitman eds
The Multimedia Works of Contemporary Latin American Women Artists and Writers: 4 (Tamesis Studies in Popular and Digital Cultures)
(Tamesis Books)
2023 Udo Kittlemann
Le Roi est Mort, Longue Vie a la Reine/The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen (exhibition 13 May-8 October)
(Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden)
2023 Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*
Contemporary / Unconscious: Texts by Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*, Anne Faucheret, Flavia Matei, Sónia Melo, Sara Reisman, Marlène Rigler
(Sternberg)
2023 Linda Komaroff
Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond (Apr 23–Sep 24)
(Los Angeles: LACMA)
2023 Jacqueline Bishop
Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture
(Bristol: Intellect)
2023 Katy Deepwell ed
De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Crafts
(KT press)
2023 Daniella Zalcman and Sara Ickow eds
What we see: Women and nonbinary perspectives through the Lens
(White Lion Publishing / Women Photograph)
2022 Catherine McCormack
Women in the picture: What Culture does with Female Bodies
(W W Norton and Co)
2022 Alison Gingeras ed
Great Women Painters
(Phaidon)
2022 Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg
Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image
(MIT press)
2022 Jennifer Higgie ed
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
(W & N)
2022 Katy Hessel
The Story of Art Without Men
(Hutchinson Heinemann)
2022 Adriana Pedrosa, Isabella Rjeille, Mariana Leme eds
Women's Histories, Feminist Histories
(Museum of Art, Sao Paulo)
2022 Catherine Grant
A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art
(Duke University Press)
2022 Katy Deepwell ed
50 Feminist Art Manifestos
(KT press)
2022 Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch and Uta Ruhkamp eds
Empowerment: Kunst und Feminismen: Empowerment: Art and Feminisms (separate German and English editions)
(Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/Federal Agency for Civic Education)
2022 Ferren Gipson
Women's Work: From Feminine Arts to Feminist Art
(London: Frances Lincoln)
2022 Basia Sliwinska ed
Feminist Visual Activism and the Body
(Routledge)
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Contents: Essays:
1 Not White, Not Male and Not New York: Race, Feminism and Artists in Pittsburgh
Hilary Robinson
2 Activist Intension: Mona Hatoum and Morehshin Allahyari’s Disruptive Bodies
Astrid N. Korporaal
3 Activating Agential Collective: Anna Baumgart’s Table Talks—Her-Stories, Solidarity and Feminist Corporeal-Materialism
Basia Sliwinska
4 The Absent Image: Resisting the Erosion of Public Trust in Syrian Activists’ Evidential Visuality
Mario Hamad
5 Bodies, Sovereignties, Futurities: On Adelita Husni-Bey’s Practice
Anastasia Murney
6 Domestic Fronts: Arrangements for Feminist Living, or Survival Is Not a Metaphor
Alexandra Kokoli
7 A Care-Full Re-Membering of Australian Settler Colonial Homemaking Traditions
Sera Waters
8 Folding Chair for the Feminist Resistance: Activating Feral Materiality
Paula Chambers
9 When Theodorah Met Dolly: Gender and Visual Activism in Works by Senzeni Marasela
Brenda Schmahmann
10 Be-Longing: Filipina Women Artists in Israel Negotiating Self, Body and Place
Tal Dekel
11 Women to the Front: Women’s Participation and Visual Activism in Hong Kong’s Protest Movement 2019
Evelyn Kwok
12 !Madres!: Reconfiguring ‘Abducted Motherhood’ in Mónica Mayer’s Personal and Collective Artwork
Karen Cordero Reiman
13 Corpo-Affective Politics of Anxious Breathing: On the Agential Force of Bodies and Affects in Vulnerable Protest
Magdalena Górska
14 The Revolutionist: Gendered Violence, Black Radical Feminism and the Decolonial Creative Revolution
Nomusa Makhubu
15 Fragmented Traces. . . The Tactile Feminist Un-Monuments of Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Caroline Wallace
2022 Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold und Vera Hofmann
Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating
(Sternberg Press)
2022 Valeria Schulte-Fischedick
MANIFEST Yourself!: (Queer) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes (18 November 2022 – 22 Jan 2023)
(Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin)
2022 Valeria Schulte-Fischedick
MANIFEST Yourself! (Queer) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes (18.11.2022 – 22.01.2023)
(Kunsterhaus Bethanien)
2022 Claudia Attimonelli and Caterina Tomeo eds
L’ elettronica è donna. Media, corpi, pratiche transfemministe e queer (Italian text)
(Caestellvechi, Rome)
2022 Mindy Seu ed
Cyberfeminism Index, book
(Inventory press)
2022 Elke Krasny, Lara Perry
Curating as Feminist Organizing
(Routledge)
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Elke Krasny and Lara Perry
Part I: Colonial Wounds and Transformative Healing
1. The Museum and the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief, Planetary Mourning, Healing Feminist Curating
Elke Krasny
2. Resisting Extractivism of Wisdom in the Feminist Curatorial Exercise
Emilia Quiñones-Otal
3. Feminist Curating as Storytelling and Mothering: The Work of D and Kate Harding
Tara McDowell
4. Curating Feminine Alterity: Deconstructing Feminist Strategies by Contemporary Iranian Women Artists
Katy Shahandeh
5. Geographies of Community Care: Cultural Spaces curated by Black Womxn in Copenhagen and Vienna
Teju Adisa-Farrar
6. In the Spirit of Futura: Daily Practices and Challenges of Producing and Maintaining a Feminist Art Space
Katharina Koch
7. Rewriting the Manifesto and Filipina Feminist Publishing
Faye Cura
Part II. State Hegemony and Resistant Communities
8. Human Rights, Memory and Contemporary Artistic Practice in Turkey
Eylem Ertürk
9. Stretching the Institution, Cultivating Interdependency: Feminist Curating as Political Organizing in the Post-Crisis Spanish State
Carlota Mir
10. Radical Geographies of Feminist Curating within the Post-Yugoslav Space
Jelena Petrović
11. Summoning the Witches of the Past: Curatorial Research on Witchcraft in Art & Activism
Katharina Brandl
12. Encounters with Asian Diasporic Identities: The Exhibition Neither Black / Red / Yellow Nor Woman at the Times Art Center Berlin
Julia Hartmann
13. The Vulva Case: Feminist Art, Digital Obscenity, and Censorship in Japan
Hitomi Hasegawa
14. On the Production and Challenging of Sexual Norms through the Art Institution: A Viennese Case Study
Juliane Saupe
15. Searching for Ann(e) : Digital Fan Curation and the Expansion of the Queer Heritage Landscape
Katelyn Williams
16. On Common Spaces, Affinity and the Problem of a Torn Social Fabric
Dana Daymand and Nika Dubrovsky
Part III. Labour Injustice and the Politics of Solidarity
17. Curating as a Collective Process: Feminist, Curatorial, and Educational Perspectives
Dorothee Richter
18. Your Hands in My Shoes: Reorganizing La Galerie, Centre for Contemporary Art in Noisy-le-Sec
Émilie Renard and Vanessa Desclaux
19. Objects of Desire: Curating Sex Worker Art in the 21st Century
Lena Chen
20. Whose Visibility? Labour Divides, Care Politics, and Strategies of Solidarity in the Art Field
Angela Dimitrakaki
2022 Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore
Contemporary Art and Feminism
(Routledge)
2021 Janell Hobson
When God lost her tongue : historical consciousness and the black feminist imagination
(Routledge)
2021 Jen Kennedy, Trista E. Mallory and Angelique Szymanek eds
Transnational perspectives on feminism and art, 1960-1985
(Routledge)
2021 Abuy Nfubea
Afrofeminismo.: 50 años de lucha y activismo de mujeres negras en España (1968-2018)
(Ménades Editorial )
2021 Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson eds
The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression
(Leuven University Press)
2021 Abigail Crompton ed
Truth Bomb: Inspirations from the mouths and minds of women artists
(Thames and Hudson)
2021 PL Henderson, Cheryl Robson ed
Unravelling Women's Art: Creators, Rebels and Innovators in Textile Arts
(Supernova Books)
2021
Elles font l'abstraction: Une autre histoire de l’abstraction au 20e siècle (5 May - 23 Aug 2021) and AWARE/Centre Pompidou 5-lesson MOOC, Jan 2021 Elles font l’art
(Centres Pompidou, Paris)
2021 Rachel Garfield
Experimental Filmmaking and Punk : Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s
(London : Bloomsbury Academic)
2021 Brenda Schmahmann ed
Iconic works of art by feminists and gender activists : mistress-pieces
(London: Routledge)
2021 Catherine McCormack
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking
(Icon Books)
2021 Anna Ball
Forced migration in the feminist imagination : transcultural movements
(Routledge)
2021 Jacqueline Millner, Gretchen Coombs eds
Care ethics and art
(Routledge)
2020 Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo, Kylie Thomas eds
Women and photography in Africa : creative practices and feminist challenges
(Routledge)
2020
See All This
(See All This) No. 20 - Winter 2020/2021. Summary of Pretty Brilliant initiative of 379 women, curated by Nicole Ex and Catherine de Zegher.
2020 Joanna Speeryn-Jones, Melissa Hamnett, Cheryl Robson eds
50 Women Sculptors: 2
(Aurora Metro Books)
2020 Defne Ayas, Natasha Ginwala, Jill Winder eds
Stronger Than Bone: On Feminism(s)
(Berlin : Archive Books ; Gwangju : Gwangju Biennale Foundation)
2020 Zoë Fairbairns, Sara Maitland, Valerie Miner, Michele Roberts, Michelene Wandor, Çevirmen: Büşra Balcan
Anneme Masallar : Feminist Hikayeler
(İstanbul : Dipnot)
2020 Ceren Ozpinar, Mary Kelly eds
Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today
(Oxford University Press)
2020
Cyberfeminism Index
() Cyberfeminism Index is an in-progress online collection of resources for techno-critical works from 1990–2020, gathered and facilitated by Mindy Seu.
2020 Katy Deepwell ed
Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms
(Netherlands: Valiz)
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Editor: Katy Deepwell
Contributors: Linda Aloysius, Marissa Begonia, Sreyashi Tinni Bhattacharyya, Marisa Carnesky, Paula Chambers, Amy Charlesworth, Emma Curd, Katy Deepwell, Tal Dekel, Emma Dick, Lior Elefant, Christine Eyene, Abbe Leigh Fletcher, GraceGraceGrace, Alana Jelinek, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Alexandra Kokoli, Elke Krasny, Loraine Leeson, Laura Malacart, Rosy Martin, Alice Maude-Roxby, Kathleen Mullaniff, Louise O?Hare, Tanja Ostojic, Martina Pachmanová, Gill Park, Pune Parsafar, Roxane Permar, Anne Robinson, Stefanie Seibold, Pam Skelton, Mare Tralla, Christina Vasileiou, Camille Melissa Waring, Michelle Williams Gamaker, Virginia Yiqing Yang
Design: Lotta Lara Schröder
Series: PLURAL
?Feminisms? (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women?s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a vision of future worlds, manifesting a desire for projecting change, playing with existing realities and conventions. Feminist Art Artivism and Activism, two sides of the same coin, arise where art approaches, develops or transforms into activism and vice versa, where activisms become artivisms. In both, art emerges in differing forms of political intervention, at both an individual, shared or collective level, apparent in actions, events, identifications and practices.
This volume wants to reveal the diversity of these practices and realities. Representing a range of critical insights, perspectives and practices from artists, activists, curators, academics and writers, it explores and reflects on the enormous variety of feminist interventions in the field of contemporary art, social processes, the public sphere and politics. In doing so, Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms touches upon broader questions of cultural difference, history, class, economic position, ecology, politics, sexual orientation, and the ways in which these intersect.
Richly illustrated with c. 300 black and white illustrations and photos.
2020 Annika Aitken, Dr Isobel Crombie, Megan Patty, Dr Maria Quirk and Myles Russell-Cook eds
She Persists: Perspectives on Women in Art and Design
(Australia: National Gallery of Victoria)
2020 Susie Hodge
The Short Story of Women Artists: A Pocket Guide to Key Breakthroughs, Movements, Works and Themes
(Laurence King)
2019 Véronique Boilard, Andrea Haas, Nina Höchtl, Julia Wieger
DARK ENERGY. Feminist Organizing, Working Collectively (March 29—May 25, 2019)
(Austria: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien)
2019 Isabella Rjeille
Historias feministas: artistas depois 2000 (23 August-17 November)
(Sao Paulo: MASP)
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Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000 was organized in dialogue with and in counterpoint to Women’s Histories: Artists Before 1900, on the museum’s 1st floor, and is part of the cycle of exhibitions, workshops, seminars, lectures and publications throughout the year 2019 under the title of Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories. This year, the museum is holding exhibitions on Djanira da Motta e Silva, Lina Bo Bardi, Tarsila do Amaral, Anna Bella Geiger, Leonor Antunes, Gego, Catarina Simão, Jenn Nkiru, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Laura Huertas Millán and Anna Maria Maiolino. Feminist Histories occupies the galleries of the museum’s 1st and 2nd sublevels, with artworks also on the museum’s 1st and 2nd floors, and the mezzanine of the 1st sublevel. This opportunity has occasioned the publication of two volumes: the catalog and anthology Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories. The colors violet and black in the exhibition design and the graphic design of the catalog were chosen for being the symbol of some segments of the feminist movement.
2019 Sophie Yadong Hao ed
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?
(Sternberg)
2019 Oksana Briukhovetska and Lesia Kulchynska eds
The Right to Truth. Conversations on Art and Feminism
(Kyiv: Visual Culture Research Center)
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"The Right to Truth. Conversations on Art and Feminism" is the collection of interviews with female artists, curators, activists and thinkers of different generations from 7 countries of East and West Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Chzechia, France, U.S.) on the current feminist art practices and activism. They present series of personal experiences and ways of inventing new forms of functioning of institutions, as well as reflections on history of feminist art and women emancipation.
Participants: Valentyna Petrova, Oksana Briukhovetska, Alina Kopytsa, Victoria Lomasko, Zuzanna Janin, Aleka Polis, Alma Lily Rayner, Rébecca Chaillon, ORLAN, Martha Rosler, Geneviève Fraisse, Feminist Workshop, FemSolution, Irina Solomatina, Sylwia Nikko Biernacka, Zuzana Štefková, Feminist (Art) Institution, Morgane Lory, Isabelle Alfonsi, Flora Katz.
Edited by Oksana Briukhovetska and Lesia Kulchynska
Design: Oksana Briukhovetska
Published by Visual Culture Research Center in collaboration with European Alternatives.
2019 Giulia Casalini and Camilla Påhlsson
STILL BURNING – Ideas, struggles and practices of feminism across time (1919-2019)(2 Feb 2019-28 April, 2019)
(Sweden: Varbergs Konsthall)
2019 Heike Munder
Producing Futures - An Exhibition on Post-Cyber-Feminisms (16 Feb-12 May)
(Zurich: Migros Museums fur Gegenwartskunst)
2019 Grace Grace Grace
GraceGraceGrace explore gen-age* (*gender and ageing)
(London: Live Arts Development Agency)
2019
Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition
() No. 50, Volume XIV, December 2018 – February 2019
2019 Elena Marchevska and Valerie Walkerdine eds
The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art
(Routledge)
2019 Nicholas Chare, Jeanette Hoorn, Audrey Yue eds
Re-reading the Monstrous-Feminine: Art, Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis
(Routledge)
2019 Hilary Robinson and Maria Elena Buscek eds
A Companion to Feminist Art
(Wiley Blackwells Companions to Art History series)
2019 Altyn Kapalova and Zhanna Araeva
Femminale: First Femminale of Contemporary Art (29 November-15 December 2019)
(Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek National Museum of Fine Arts)
2019
Stedelijk Studies 9: Modernism in Migration
(Stedelijk) vol. 9, Fall. Modernism in Migration: Relocating Artists, Objects, and Ideas, 1910–1970. Focus is on women artists: Therese Graf, Grete Stern, Tarsila do Amaral.
2019 Natalia Sielewicz
Paint, also known as blood. Women, affect, and desire in contemporary painting’ (07 June – 11 August 2019)
(Poland: Museum of Modern Art)
2019 Azkuna Zentroa
Perspectivas Feministas en las Producciones Artísticas y las Teorías del Arte (2013-2018)
(CASTELLANO)
2019 Shannon R. Stratton with Faith Wilding eds
Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries
(Bristol: Intellect)
2019 Kari Herbert
We are Artists: Women who made their Mark on the World
(Thames and Hudson)
2019 Flavia Frigeri
Women Artists: Art Essentials
(Thames and Hudson)
2019 Nancy Princenthal
Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s
(Thames and Hudson)
2019 Vincent Honoré
Kiss My Genders (12 June–8 September 2019)
(London: Hayward Gallery)
2019 Jorunn Svensen Gjerden, Kari Jegerstedt, Željka Švrljuga eds
Exploring the Black Venus figure in aesthetic practices
(Leiden ; Boston : Koninklijke Brill )
2019 Allyson Mitchell and Cait McKinney eds
Inside Killjoy's Kastle : dykey ghosts, feminist monsters, and other lesbian hauntings
(Vancouver, BC : UBC Press ; Toronto, ON : Art Gallery of York University)
2019 Charlotte Mullins
A little feminist history of art
(London: Tate Publishing)
2018 Red Chidgey
Feminist Afterlives: Assemblage Memory in Activist Times
(Palgrave MacMillan)
2018 Magda Lipska
Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 26 October – 3 February)
(Poland: Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art)
2018 Karina Jakubowicz
An Analysis of Griselda Pollock's Vision and Difference:
Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art
(Routledge, Marcat Library)
2018 Michiko Kasahara
Gender Photography Theory 1991–2017 (English title of Japanese book)
(Kawasaki: Satoyamasha)
2018 Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore eds
Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes
(Routledge)
2018 Cornelia Sollfrank ed
Die schönen Kriegerinnen: Technofeministische Praxis im 21. Jahrhundert (German only) PDF, Epub
Available Here
English version: The Beautiful Warriors. Technofeminist Practice in the 21st Century (UK, Minor Compositions, 2019)
(Austria: transversal texts)
2018 Sarah Werkmeister ed
Feminisms (available to download as PDF) website: https://www.internationaleonline.org/library/#feminisms
(KASK / School of Arts of University College Ghent: L'Internationale Online ) Special issue of Internationale Online
2018 Andrea Giunta
Feminismo y arte latinoamericano: Historias de artistas que emanciparon el cuerpo
(Siglio XX: Arte y pensamiento)
2018 Kate Mondloch
A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art
(University of Minnesota Press)
2018
e-flux journal #92 (June 2018) and #93 (Sept 2018)
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2018 Irene Aristizábal (Nottingham Contemporary), Rosie Cooper (De La Warr Pavilion) and Cédric Fauq (Nottingham Contemporary)
Still I rise: Act 1: (October 27, 2018–January 27, 2019) Nottingham Contemporary
Act 2: (February 9–May 27, 2019) De La Warr Pavilion
(OOMK)
2018 Helena Reckitt
The Art of Feminism:Images that Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857–2017
(Chronicle Books)
2018 Lisa Ryan Musgrave ed
Feminist Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: The Power of Critical Visions and Creative Engagement
(New York: Springer)
2017 Julie Crenn and Pascal Lièvre
HERstory - des archives à l'heure des postféminismes (21 Jan-19 March)- exhibition includes copies of n.paradoxa
(Maison des Arts Malakoff)
2017 Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? Chapter Two (20 Jan-4 March)
(Dundee: Cooper Gallery)
2017 Elisabeth Lebovici
Ce que le sida m'a fait: Art et Activism a la fin du XX Siecle / What AIDS has done to me
(JRP Ringier)
2017
Feminist (Art) Institution
() A 2017 project from Transit.CZ in Czech Republic
2017 Elin Diamond, Denise Varney, Candice Amich eds
Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times
(Palgrave MacMillan)
2017 Karen Wright ed
Entangled: Threads & Making
(Turner Contemporary)
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Contributors - Ann Coxon, Victoria Pomery, Sarah Martin, Siri Hustvedt, Marit Paasche, Rosa Martinez, Stina Hogkvist, Anna Ray, Kathryn Lloyd.
Artists include Kiki Smith, Susan Hiller, Sheila Hicks, Maureen Hodge, Elisabetta Benassi, Anna Ray, Maria Papadimitriou, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Christiane Lohr and Laura Ford, plus historical artist figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Delaunay, Anni Albers, Hannah Ryggen, Lenore Tawney and Eva Hesse.
Catalogue of Turner Contemporary exhibition, 2017
2017 Oksana Briukhovetska
TEXTUS. Embroidery. Textile, Feminism (March 8 - April 9, 2017)
(Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv. )
2017 Michael Darling
Riot Grrrls (Dec 15, 2016–Jun 18, 2017)
(Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
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The exhibition presents ten pioneering painters, including Mary Heilmann and subsequent leaders Charline von Heyl, Judy Ledgerwood, and Joyce Pensato, along with a younger group of rebels including Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and Amy Feldman. As with the feminist hardcore punk movement that gives the exhibition its title, these painters have influenced each other and the next generation of emerging artists.
Tomma Abts (German, b. 1967)
Ellen Berkenblit (American, b. 1958)
Amy Feldman (American, b. 1981)
Mary Heilmann (American, b. 1940)
Judy Ledgerwood (American, b. 1959)
Ree Morton (American, 1936–1977)
Joyce Pensato (American, b. 1941)
Jackie Saccoccio (American-Italian, b. 1963)
Charline von Heyl (German, b. 1960)
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung (American, b. 1975)
2017 Camille Morineau
Women House: La maison selon elles (20 Oct 2017-28 Jan 2018)
(Paris: Monnaie de Paris)
2017 Greg Gurley ed
Art and Gender: An Intersexual Reader
(USA: Cognella Inc.)
2017 Alyce Mahon, Susanna Greeves eds
Dreamers Awake (a commercial gallery exhibition of 50+ women artists/Surrealisms today, 28 June -17 September)
(White Cube Bermondsey)
2017 Claire Raymond
Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics
(London: Routledge)
2017
Art as Caribbean Feminist Practice, Small Axe, Vol 21, 1 (March)
(Duke University Press)
2017 Anne Ring Petersen
Migration into art: Transcultural identities and art-making in a globalised world
(Manchester: Manchester University Press )
2017 Richard Grusin ed
Anthropocene Feminism
(University of Minnesota Press)
2017
Mimosa House, London
() 'Dedicated to artistic experimentation and collaboration, we support dialogue between intergenerational women and queer artists'
2017 Ghaida Moussa, Ghadeer Malek eds
Min Fami: Arab Feminist Reflections on Identity, Space and Resistance
(Inanna Publications and Education Inc.)
2016 Patricia Allmer ed
Intersections: Women artists/surrealism/modernism
(Manchester University Press)
2016 Katherine Behar ed
Object-Oriented Feminism
(University of Minnesota Press)
2016 Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe ed
Curating Differently: Feminisms, Exhibitions and Curatorial Spaces
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
2016
Peer Production
() Issue 8: Feminism and (un)Hacking
2016 Sophie Halart, Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra
Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America
(IB Tauris)
2016 Orlando Britto Jinorio et Annabelle Ténèze
Lucy’s Iris: Contemporary African Women Artists (Leon, MUSAC: 30 Jan-12 June 2016)
(León : MUSAC. L’exposition a ensuite été présentée au Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, du 7 juillet au 15 décembre 2016)
2016 Alexandra Kokoli
The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice
(Bloomsbury)
2016
Fem Tour Truck
()
2016 Olga Kopenkina
Feminism is Politics! (Sept 28-Nov 23 2016)
(New York: Pratt Manhattan Gallery)
2016
A.M.M.A.A.: The Archive for Mapping Mother Artists in Asia
() Set up in 2016 by Dr Ruchika Wason Singh, College of Art, New Delhi.
2016 Marsha Meskimmon and Phil Sawdon
Drawing Difference: Connections Between Gender and Drawing
(IB Tauris)
2016 Manchester Whitworth Gallery
Art_Textiles (10 October to 31 January 2016)
(Manchester: Whitworth)
2015
Body Talk : féminisme, sexualité et corps / Body Talk: Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the Works of Six African Women Artists (Wiels, 14 février-3 mai 2015)
(Dakar : RAW Material Company ; Metz : 49 Nord 6 Est ; Lunds : Lunds konsthall ; Bruxelles : Wiels)
2015 Oksana Briukhovetska
What in me is Feminine? (November 19 − December 21, 2015)
(Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev)
2015 Christine Gledhill and Julia Knight eds
Doing Women's Film History
(University of Illinois Press)
2015 Heather Hanna
Women Framing Hair: Serial Strategies in Contemporary Art
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
2015 Hilary Robinson ed
Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968 - 2014, 2nd Edition
(Wiley)
2015 Denise Carvalho, Monika Szewczyk
Love at the Edge (29 May 2015- 16 August 2015)
(Bialystok: Galeria Arsenal)
2015
RE-ACTION, Genealogy and countercanon (Alonso y Marful)
(Alonso y Marful)
2015 Alonso y Marful eds
RE-ACTION: GENEALOGÍA Y CONTRACANON / GENEALOGIA I CONTRACÀNON
(Institut d’ Estudís Baleàrics)
2015 Marius Babias and Kathrin Becker eds
Feminismen (March 28 – December 20, 2015)
(Germany: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein: Nordstern Tower in Gelsenkirchen)
2015 Charmaine A. Nelson
Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art
(Routledge)
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Introduction Part I: From Girls to Women: Locating Black Female Subjects in Western Art 1. Through An-Other’s Eyes: White Canadian Artists – Black Female Subjects 2. Racing Childhood: Representations of Black Girls in Canadian Art Part II: Slavery and Portraiture: Agency, Resistance and Art as Colonial Discourse 3. Slavery, Portraiture and the Colonial Limits of Canadian Art History 4. The Fruits of Resistance: Reading Portrait of a Negro Slave on the Sly 5. Tying the Knot: Black Female Slave Dress in Canada Part III: The Nude and the Naked: Black Women, White Ideals and the Racialization of Sexuality 6. Coloured Nude: Fetishization, Disguise, Dichotomy 7. The "Hottentot Venus" in Canada: Modernism, Censorship and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality Part IV: From White Marble to Coloured Stone: Aesthetics, Materiality and Degrees of Blackness 8. White Marble, Black Bodies and the Fear of the Invisible Negro: Signifying Blackness in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Neoclassical Sculpture 9. Vénus Africaine: Race, Beauty and African-ness 10. Allegory, Race and the Four Continents: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere céleste. Conclusion: Whiteness as Collective Narcissism, Towards a New Vision
2014 Nicola Graef and Wolfgang Schoppmann
Queensize – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection (Me Collection/Olbricht Collection, 7 December 2014 until 30 August 2015) Curators: Nicola Graef and Wolfgang Schoppmann
(Olbricht Collection)
2014 Andrew D. Hottle
The art of the Sister chapel : exemplary women, visionary creators, and feminist collaboration
(Ashgate)
2014 Christine Eyene
WHERE WE’RE AT! Other voices on gender (18 June – 31 August 2014)
(Bozar, Brussels)
2014 Carol Boulbès ed
Femmes, attitudes performatives
(Dijon : Les Presses du réel,)
2014 Alison Phipps
The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
(Polity)
2014 Binna Choi, Maiko Tanaka eds
The Grand Domestic Revolution Handbook
(Amsterdam: Valiz) from the Grand Domestic Revolution project at Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht.
2014 Olivia Nitis
Istorii Marginale ale Artei Feministe
(Bucharest: Vellant)
2014 Catherine de Zegher
Women's Work is Never Done: an anthology
(Belgium: AsaMER Publishers)
2014 Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer eds
Re.Act.Feminism: A performing archive
(London: Live Art Development Agency and Nuremberg: Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst)
2014
Arta: Revista de arte vizuale (Special issue: Feminisme/Feminisms). Nr. 11.
(Arta)
2013 Mirjam Weston
Female Power. Matriarchy, Spirituality & Utopia
(2 March - 19 May)
(Arnhem: Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem)
2013 Bojana Pejic and Olivia Nitis eds
GOOD GIRLS: memory, desire, power (20 June-29 Sept 2013) National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
(Bucharest: MNAC)
2013 Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer (eds)
Re.Act.Feminism: A Performing Archive (22 June-18 August) Berlin: Academie der Kunste
(www.reactfeminism.org)
2013 Victoria Lomasko and Nadia Plungian
Feminist Pencil - 2
(Moscow: ArtPlay)
2013 Laura Castagnini
BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art (26 April - 25 May 2013)
(Melbourne: Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne)
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Artists: Catherine Bell, Melanie Bonajo, Brown Council, Catherine or Kate, Patty Chang, Guerrilla Girls, Hotham Street Ladies, Alice Lang, Louise Lawler, Tracey Moffatt, Nat & Ali, Frances (Budden) Phoenix, Pushpamala N, Hannah Raisin, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Christian Thompson and Paul Yore.
This exhibition affirms laughter as an important and potent tool for feminist artists across generations, geographies and political contexts. Following on from last year’s lecture by the Guerrilla Girls, BACKFLIP will present a range of strategies and approaches from slapstick to satire, detouring through irony and black humour.
2013 Megumi Kitahara
Depictions of the Asian Female Body: Visual Representation and War Memory (English title of Japanese book)
(Tokyo: Seikyusha)
2013 Katrin Kivimaa ed
Working with Feminism: Curating and Exhibitions in Eastern Europe
(Talin: ACTA Universitatis Tallinnensis)
2013 Collection Frac Lorraine
Bad Girls (Collection Frac Lorraine)
(France: 49 Nord, 6 Est, Frac Lorraine)
2013 Monika Keiser
Neubesetzungen des Kunst-Raumes: Feministische Kunstausstellungen und ihre Raume, 1972-1987
(Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag)
2013 Lionel Bovier, Douglas Eklund, Fabrice Stroun
Ericka Beckman, The Super-8 Trilogy
(Zurich: JRP Ringier)
2013 Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Olesya Turkina, Marina Loshak
International Women's Day, 8 March: An Exhibition of Feminist Art (opens 6 March)
(Moscow: Manezh Museum and The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum in Moscow)
2013 Jason Andrew
To Be a Lady: An International Celebration of Women in the Arts (October 2013-Jan 2014)
(Singapore: Sundaram Tagore Gallery)
2013 Vivian Ziherl ed
LIP Anthology: An Australian Feminist Art Journal, 1976-1984
(Australia: Macmillan Art Publ. and Kunstverein Milan)
2013 Elke Krasny + Frauenmuseum Meran eds
Women's: museum : curatorial politics in feminism, education, history, and art = Frauen:Museum : Politiken des Kuratorischen in Feminismus, Bildung, Geschichte und Kunst
(Wien: Locker)
2013 Diana Almeida eds
Women and the Arts Dialogues in Female Creativity
(Blackwells)
2013 Zora von Burden
Women of the Underground: Art, Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves
(Manic D Press)
2013 Marsha Meskimmon and Dorothy Rowe eds
Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience
(Manchester University Press)
2012 - 2013 Reiko Kokatsu
Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012
(Japan, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum)
2012- Lenka Clayton
An Artist Residency in Motherhood
() A self-directed, open-source artist residency to empower and inspire artists who are also mothers. Kit available (mentoring programme in operation). 1,200 Artists-in-Residence-in Motherhood have occurred with residents are now in all 50 US states and 70 countries. Established by Lenka Clayton.
2012 Dvora Liss and David Sperber
Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art
(Ein Harod: Museum of Art)
2012 Carla Lonzi and Giovanna Zapperi
Carla Lonzi: Autoportrait (French)
(Zurich: JRP Ringier)
2012 Judith Brodsky and Ferris Olin ed.
The fertile crescent : gender, art, and society
(New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers)
2012 Natalie Loveless
New Maternalisms
(FADO, Toronto)
2011 Myrel Chernick and Jennie Klein
The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art
(Ontario: Demeter Press)
2011
Re.Act.Feminism: A Performing Archive (2008-2009), (2011-2013)
() 2nd edition of an exhibition project and archive exploring feminist and gendercritical performance art from the 1960s to the early 1980s with a focus on re-enactment.
2011 Frédérique Bergholtz ed
If I can´t dance I don´t want to be a part of the revolution: Conversation Pieces
(Berlin: Revolver)
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In Conversation Pieces, twelve critical thinkers confront twelve artists from the perspective of historical and present-day feminism in art, drawing from the exhibitions and performances presented by If I Can?t Dance during Edition II.
With contributions by Dieter Roelstraete & Alexandra Bachzetsis, Vanessa Desclaux & Will Holder, Lisette Smits & Karl Holmqvist, Peio Aguirre & Jutta Koether, Diana McCarty & The Otolith Group, Emily Pethick & Maria Pask, Pádraic Moore & Sarah Pierce, Paul O?Neill & Falke Pisano, Patricia Grzonka & Stefanie Seibold, Jan Verwoert & Frances Stark, Binna Choi & Haegue Yang, and Frédérique Bergholtz & Katarina Zdjelar.
2011 Nancy Princenthal ed
The deconstructive impulse : women artists reconfigure the signs of power, 1973-1991
(New York : Munich ; New York : Neuberger Museum of Art , DelMonico Books/Prestel)
2011 Nina Zivančević,
Onze femmes: artistes, slaves et nomades: Ljubinka Jovanovic, Kosara Boksan, Marina Abramovic, Evgenija Demnieska, Kirila Fäeh, Vesna Victoria, Vesna Bajalska, Ljubica Mrkalj, Olivera Majcen, Selena Vickovic, Jelena Miskovic.
(Paris: Non Lieu)
2011
UZ)BU))NA)))
() Special one-off issue on 'New Feminism and Art'. English and Serbo-Croat text.
Link to online copy
2011 Maria Elena Buszek ed
Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art
(Duke University Press)
2011 Lourdes Mendez and Xabier Arakistain eds
Artistic Production and the
Feminist Theory of Art:
New Debates IV
(Centro Cultural Monthermoso)
2010 Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards eds
Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2010 Ina Wudtke
Griot Girlz - Feminist Art and the Black Atlantic (11 June - 16 July 2010)
(Austria: Buchsenhausen)
2010 Suzana Milevska
Gender Difference in the Balkans: Archives of representations of gender difference and agency in visual culture and contemporary art in the Balkans (text in English)
(Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller
Aktiengesellschaft)
2010 Lourdes Mendez and Xabier Arakistain eds
Artistic Production and the
Feminist Theory of Art:
New Debates III
(Centro Cultural Monthermoso)
2010 Amanda Lock Swarr and Richa Nagar eds
Critical transnational feminist praxis
(Albany : State University of New York Press)
2010 Bojana Pejic ed
The Gender Check Reader
(Vienna: MUMOK and Erste Foundation)
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Bojana Pejic, Erste Foundation, MUMOK, Vienna (eds)
Gender Check Reader: Art and Theory in Eastern Europe Koln: Walter Konig, 2010 ISBN: 978-3-86560-883-3 ISBN:978-3-902490-71-1
The Gender Check exhibition (2009-2010) was the result of Erste's substantial research project across the countries of (former) Eastern/Central Europe. This reader of previously published materials is an additional and highly valuable accompaniment to the large-scale telephone directory of the exhibition catalogue which commissioned new essays (See also n.paradoxa vol. 25 p.90-93). While the focus of the reader is an examination of gender theory in Eastern Europe and looks at both masculinity and feminity, feminist art produced by women artists is well-represented. Six essays first published in n.paradoxa have been included.
2010 Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz eds
Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art
(New York: MoMA)
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Introductory essays by Cornelia Butler, Griselda Pollock and Aruna D'Souza plus 50 other contributors.
2010 Gabriele Schor and Angelandreina Rorro
DONNA: Avanguardia femminista negli anni '70: Collection Sammlung Verbund, Vienna
(Vienna: Sammlung Verbund, and Rome: Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna )
2010 Malin Hedlin Hayden and Jessica Sjoholm Skrubbe eds
Feminisms is Still our Name: Seven Essays on Historiography and Curatorial practices
(UK: Cambridge Scolars Publishing)
2009 Lourdes Mendez and Xabier Arakistain ed
Artistic Production and the
Feminist Theory of Art:
New Debates II
(Spain: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Montehermoso)
2009 Centre Pompidou
Elles@Centre Pompidou (2009-2011)
(Paris: Centre Pompidou) website and exhibition catalogue of the Centre Georges Pompidou for their rehang of the collection as all-women artists, 2009-2011
2009 Mirjam Westen ed
Rebelle: Kunst en feminisme 1969-2009
(Arnhem Gemeentemuseum)
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Mirjam Westen Rebelle: Art and Feminism,1969-2009 Arnhem: Museum foor Moderne Kunst, 2010 ISBN: 978-90-72861-45-0
Finally, the catalogue of this major trans-national exhibition has arrived (see extended interview with the curator, in n.paradoxa vol. 24 (July 2009) pp.24-29). The selection of eighty-eight artists spanning forty years of feminist art mark this book as distinctive and very important but it uniquely has a strong focus on the work of Dutch women artists and their neglected feminist histories (previously the subject of only one or two essays). Arnhem's Museum, under Mirjam Westen's directorship, has built a significant collection of women artists' work over the years, with a strong focus on Dutch women artists. The exhibition catalogue documents the work of the selected artists and refers to the many trans-national feminist exhibitions which have taken place in Holland since the 1970s. This draws attention to new readings of feminist art in Holland within an international framework. It includes a diary of feminism from the 1980s by Riet van der Linden (who joined SVBK, Holland's women's artists organisation at that time and became editor of Ruimte, a key feminist art journal). There is an essay by Ingelies Vermeulen on the Feministische kunst international (1979), a major exhibition which was simultaneously 'a feast of recognition, but also...an exhibition that made you think about your own ideals'. Marlite Halbertsma (its curator) and Hanneke Danturna had argued in 1977 that women artists could be divided into neutral art (made by women), women's art and feminist art and this exhibition set out to showcase the latter. Tineke Reijnders' essay looks at the women behind numerous artist run spaces in the 1980s. Some were directly feminist and others' not but she outlines a wide range of artist-organised initiatives women artists have been actively involved in: from Lily Stokker's Stikker Stokker Gallery in New York to the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen (Inke Gudmundsson and Qin Jian) to the work of Jeanne van Heeswijk in De Strip or Zimbabwean Sithabile Mlotshwa's Thamgidi Foundation in Arnhem. In the 1970s and 1980s, this history covers the Titia Smit's involvement in W 139 (Amsterdam) or the In-Out Center (Amsterdam) and Hester Oerlemans' work for Paleis voor Schone Kunsten (1983-1985) followed by De Oceaan; and the Hooghuis art initiative in Arnhem. The other major essay is by Ineke van Hamersveld who looks at women's protest and networks in the 1970s and 1980s in Holland.
2009 Midori Yoshimoto ed
Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory
() vol. 19, no. 3 (2009).
Women & Fluxus: Toward a feminist archive of Fluxus, Special issue. guest editor, Midori Yoshimoto
2009 Bojana Pejic ed
Gender Check
(Vienna: MUMOK and Erste Foundation) 2010
2008 Gisela Weimann ed
Geteilte Zeit: Fragen und Antworten
(Weimar: Edition Eselsweg, Text only in German, see n.paradoxa issue 20 for English.)
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Gisela Weimann (ed) Geteilte Zeit: Fragen und Antworten
Text in German. Weimar: Edition Eselweg, 2008
ISBN: 978-3-89739-566-4
In this book, Gisela Weimann has brought together seven women artists who attended the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kunste, Berlin between 1965-1975 as a documentation of their lives and works. This generation's activities (born c.1945-1955) are set against a circle of international commentators who look either at the comparable generation of women artists in their own countries or examine questions for feminism today. The publication was also an opportunity to bring the contributors together at an international conference in Berlin in March 2008. These papers (from the book) are available in English at
www.ktpress.co.uk/ (issue 20,
n.paradoxa online, May 2008).
2008 Rene Zechlin et al ed
Cooling Out: On the Paradox of Feminism
(Zurich: JRP Ringier)
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Sabine Schaschl, Bettina Steinbrugge, Rene Zechlin (eds) Cooling Out - On the Paradox of Feminism Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2008 ISBN:978-3-905770-83-4
Part exhibition catalogue, part book, Cooling Out addresses the negative assumptions and social repercussions that can result from explicitly declaring oneself a feminist, and it focuses on this idea and not feminist academic theory. The book includes three panel debates with the curators and editors Sabine Schaschl, Bettina Steinbrugge and Rene Zechlin as well as essays by Sonja Eismann, Annie Fletcher, Katharina Puhl and Vera Tollmann, Toril Moi, Andrea Geyer and Katy Deepwell.
Images and descriptions of the works from the touring exhibition are sandwiched between the texts (It went from Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel (Switzerland), Halle fuer Kunst, Luneburg (Germany) to Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (Ireland) in 2006). Participating artists didn't necessarily identify themselves or their work as relating to a feminist strategy although the context reveals them as politically charged and critical of established gender roles.
Bettina Steinbrugge's essay 'School of Etiquette' suggests that to be identified as a feminist is 'to marginalise oneself and endanger one's position in society', a concern voiced by Sabine Schaschl in the panel debates. Vera Tollman raises that 'feminism must constantly be redefined anew' so that evolves rather than is abandoned as a movement. We need a new match for de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, argues Toril Moi, to show that 'feminism has wise and useful things to say to women who struggle to cope with everyday problems'.
In this spirit Cooling Out encourages the widening of debates over gender roles to include younger generations that might declare 'I'm not a feminist, but…'
2008 Producciones de Arte y Pensamiento, S.L. eds
EXIT Book #9. Feminismo y Arte de género
(Arte y Pensamiento, S.L.)
2008 Lourdes Mendez and Xabier Arakistain ed
Artistic Production and the
Feminist Theory of Art:
New Debates I
(Spain: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Montehermoso)
2008 Silvia Eiblmayr
Zehn Jahre: Galerie im Taxispalais / Ten Years: Galerie im Taxispalais
Dokumentation 1999-2008
(Austria: Galerie im Taxispalais)
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Silvia Eiblmayr Zehn Jahre: Galerie im Taxispalais / Ten Years: Galerie im Taxispalais Dokumentation 1999-2008 Innsbruck: Galerie im Taxispalais, 2008
Text in German and English ISBN: 978-3-7082-3283-8
Documenting 11 years of work at the Galerie im Taxispalais by one of the most outstanding feminist curators in Europe (who is also responsible for the Austrian pavilion this year at the Venice Biennale) this is an unusual book. Eiblmayr's work has contributed to the international reputation of this publicly-funded gallery in Innsbruck, but under her leadership, the gallery has also resolutely put forward exhibitions as arguments and as interventions in what is seen or known in current contemporary art debates, deliberately and thoughtfully furthering debates or reconsidering key political/aesthetic questions: on leisure/survival, on work (Arbeit), on the concept of Suture, and on The Wounded Diva. Eiblmayr also organised many significant one-person shows of Eastern European women artists: Milica Tomic, Sanja Ivekovic, Jasmila Zbanic, Ana Lupas, Greta Bratescu, Sejla Kameric, in a programme in which half the solo exhibitions were by women. These included exhibitions of VALIE EXPORT, Eva Schlegel, Dorit Margreiter, Atusko Tanaka, Michaela Melian, Helena Almeida, Ketty La Rocca, Ellen Gallagher, Laura Horelli, Carol Rama, Charlotte Posensnska, Carola Dertnig, Esther Stocker, Isa Genzken, Ulrike Lienbacher, Charlotte Salomon, Hedrun Holzfeind, Katerina Seda and Monika Schwitte.
2008 Marina Gržinić and Rosa Reitsamer eds
New Feminism: Worlds of Feminism, Queer and Networking Conditions.
(Löcker Verlag, Vienna )
2007 Margit Niederhuber ed
Performance, Politik, Gender : Materialienband zum Internationalen Künstlerinnenfestival "Her Position in Transition" [Vienna: 4-18 March 2006]
(Wien : Löcker )
2007 Cornelia Butler
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
(Massachussetts: MIT and Los Angeles: MOCA)
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Cornelia Butler WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution Massachussetts: MIT and Los Angeles: MOCA, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-914357-99-5
Like the previous book, this large and well-illustrated exhibition catalogue is destined to become a classic reference point for feminist art histories as it too attempts to establish a new view of feminism's impact in relation to existing literature in the field (from the 1960s to 1984) by placing the American "power of feminist art" (of Broude and Garrard) in relation to some (mainly)Western European, South American and Asian counterparts. (Canadian and Australian trajectories of feminism are not well represented in its chronology of women's exhibitions or its histories). Contributors include: Marsha Meskimmon (on 'Chronology through Cartography'), Abigail Solomon-Godeau (on Self-Representation in first-wave feminist photographic practice), Peggy Phelan (on feminist performance art, 1960-1980), Richard Meyer (on male bodies and Censorship in the 1970s), Judith Russi Kirshner (on Italian feminists), Valerie Smith (on Black Women Artists), Nelly Richard (on women artists under Chile's dictatorship), Helen Molesworth (on painting), Catherine Lord (on a calligraphy of rage: lesbian/feminist culture 1965-1980) and Jenni Sorkin (on all-women group shows). The catalogue contains short critical essays on all the women artists selected as well as the standard short CV and bibliography one might expect and sections dividing the works, into exhibition displays such as Body Trauma or Pattern and Assemblage.
2007 Juan Vicente Aliaga
Gender Battle/A Battala dos Xeneros
(Spain: Santiago de Compostela)
2007 Wong Gina See-Yuen
Global feminisms in feminist art and their new challenges
(Hong Kong University, PhD)
2007 Renate Lorenz
*normal love* precarious sex. precarious work
(Berlin: Kunstlerhaus Bethanien)
2007 Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly
Global Feminisms
(London and New York: Merrell and Brooklyn Museum)
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Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly Global Feminisms London & New York, Merrell and Brooklyn Museum, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-8589-4390-9
The exhibition which launched the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Musuem is described by its curators as an example of 'intergenerational feminist approaches'. Thirty years on from Nochlin's and Ann Sutherland Harris' exhibition Women Artists 1550-1950 , Nochlin collaborates with a former student on an international contemporary art show in which none of the selected artists were born before 1960. While transnationalism - understood as post-colonial, anti-racist and feminist - is the stated aim of Reilly's introduction, the selection emerged in a dialogue between the two curators about feminist work as critique and this has informed the result. The four sections of the exhibition, Life Cycles, Identities, Politics and Emotions, are not mirrored in the catalogue. A decision which tends to reinforce the idea that feminism is solely centred in a nuanced "differentiated" body politics about representation of women bodies (rather than particular ideological-social-cultural politics to change women's situation). Essays offering an overview of the show by the curators Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly are presented alongside some very general assessments of different "regions" in the world: N'Gone Fall (on women artists from Africa), Michiko Kasahara (women artists from Japan), Joan Kee (Asian women artists), Virginia Perez-Ratton (Central American women artists), Elisabeth Lebovici (Western European women), Charlotte Kotik (Eastern and Central European women) and Geeta Kapur (whose essay's focus on five women artists in India escapes this level of generality). Significantly the curatorial argument stresses the 'new global imperative' for feminist curating to encourage the inclusion of non-Western and "minority" women's voices. The disconnect within the catalogue from references to the emergence of feminist art practices in the 1960s in many parts of the world might encourage the rather lazy assumption that feminism did not operate prior to the 1980s or 1990s in many of the regions discussed. But also, the "absent centre", the US, needs its own explanation. Perhaps a clearer comparative account of what "minority" means in America is needed and the recognition that the multicultural politics practiced there is different in kind from those in operation in Japan, Australia or different parts of Europe and Africa or Latin America, where different configurations and histories of racial, ethnic and religious groups have been constructed into either "marginal" or "mainstream" . Feminism's role as a discourse against power, as Geeta Kapur suggests, will then start to frame the effectiveness of feminist interventions in the discourses of art, art history, the museum and cultural politics.
2007 Heike Munder ed
Its Time for Action (There's No Option) About Feminism
(Zurich: Migros Museum and JRP Ringier)
2007 Xavier Arakistan ed
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Years of Art and Feminism
(Bilbao: Musee de Belles Artes de Bilbao)
2006 Suzanne Van Hagen
Art'Fab;l'art, la femme, l'Europe
(Paris: Terrail\(exhibition, Saint Tropez))
2006
Cultura Subyugada: Interrupciones y resistencias sobre lo femenino / Subjeted Culture: Interruptions and resistances on the feminine (touring exhibition, 2006-2008)
(Argentina: Buenos Aires, Fondo Nacional des Artes)
2006 Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumarkt eds
At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet
(Boston: MIT Press)
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Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumarkt (eds)
At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet Boston: MIT, 2005 ISBN:0-262 03328-3
This major anthology of 20 essays includes writing by the editors, Johanna Brucker, Maria Fernandez, Heidi Grundmann amongst many others, exporing the roots/ routes of distribution and communication in new media, digital networks, mail art, music, radio and telematics. Linking developments in the 1970s with histories of futurism, the institutionalisation as well as histories of these developments is a major concern throughout.
2006 Griselda Pollock and Alison Rowley
Now and Then: Feminism, art and history; a critical response to Documenta XI
(Leeds: CentreCath)
2005 Margarita Aizpuru and Christina Padura, Omar Pascual
La Costilla Maldita=The Accursed Rib
(Centro Atlantica de Arte Moderno)
2005 Mila Bredikhina and Katy Deepwell eds
Gender, Theory and Contemporary Art Anthology, 1970-2000 (English title of Russian text)
(Moscow: Rosspen)
2005 Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mykitiuk eds
Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges
(MIT press)
2005 Ana Martinez-Collado
Tendenici@s: Perspectivas feministas en el arte actual
(Ad Hoc Serie Ensayos 6. Spain, Murcia: CendeaC)
2005 Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset eds
Her Noise (exhibition, South London Gallery, London
10 November - 18 December 2005)
(Forma)
2004 Verena Kuni and Claudia Reiche eds
Cyberfeminism: Next Protocols
(New York: Autonomedia)
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Claudia Reiche and Verena Kuni (eds.) c y b e r f e m i n i s m: next protocols New York: Autonomedia, 2004 ISBN: 1 57027 149 6
A new production, originated through a call for contributions to the Old Boys Network,the first international cyberfeminist alliance. Their definition of cyberfeminism is that it 'carries the fem in its center - fem which hints politically at gender and the female sex, yet exceeds, enjoys, and remodels this relation.' This book contains protocols for the future in the sense that these are both documents and coded commands for digital and human procedures of communication. Contributors include: Marie-Luise Angerer 'Cyber@rexia. Anorexia and Cyberspace'; Irina Aristarkhova 'Femininity, Community, Hospitality: Towards a Cyberethics'; Andrea Sick 'Dream-Machine: Cyberfeminism'; Helene von Oldenburg 'IF [ x ] ... THEN [ y] ...ELSE [XXn]'; Ephemera/Discordia/ Liquid_Nation / Plastique /Efemera_Clone_2 'Thoughts on Submission: Glances from the Warriors of Perception';Yvonne Volkart 'The Cyberfeminist Fantasy of the Pleasure of the Cyborg'; Anne-Marie Schleiner 'Female-Bobs Arrive at Dusk'; Verena Kuni 'Frame/Work'; Shu Lea Cheang 'I.K.U. Seven Pages'; Claudia Reiche 'On/Off-scenity: Medical and Erotic Couplings in the Context of the Visible Human Project'; Julie Doyle/ Kate O'Riordan 'Virtual Ideals: Art, Science and Gendered Cyberbodies'; Prema Murthy 'Ito Ay Panaginip Sa Ibang Pangungusap'; Marina Grzinic 'Monstrous Bodies and Subversive Errors'; Ingeborg Reichle 'Remaking Eden: On the reproducibility of images and the body in the age of virtual reality and genetic engineering' ; Ulrike Bergermann 'Analogue Trees, Genetics, and Digital Diving. Pictures of Human and Reproduction'; Christina Goestl 'If Cyberfeminism is a Monster... then Clitoris Visibility = true'; and Elisabeth Strowick 'Cyberfeminist Rhetoric, or Digital Act and Interfaced Bodies'.
2004 Hemma Schmutz and Tanja Widmann eds
Dass die Körper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit langem = That bodies speak has been known for a long time (Generali Foundation, Wien, 22 January-25 April 2004)Curator: Sabine Breitwieser.
(Köln : König )
2004 Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen
First International Women's Art Festival in Taiwan: Women, Art and Technology: Collected Essays
(Taiwan: Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts)
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Text from feature reproduced from Volume 12, n.paradoxa, July 2003. From My Fingers: Living in the Technological Age
Taiwan: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts May 8 2003 to July 27 2003
Curator: Elsa Chen
This exhibition, as the key event of the First International Women's Art Festival in Taiwan, explores how contemporary technology has transformed the human mind, body and behaviour in the works of eighteen significant international women artists and art groups from Taiwan and other East Asian origins. Employing a variety of media, from paper work to cyber art, the exhibition is a response to the trends towards using new technologies in contemporary art and culture. The works offered a mixture of warm and humorous representations of the women artists' anxieties, enthusiasms or skepticism towards their lives in today's technological age. n.paradoxa features some of the works included (print copy only). A catalogue is available from Kaoshiung Museum.First International Women's Art Festival in Taiwan: Women, Art and Technology: Collected Essays (Taiwan: Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2004) curator: Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen ---- Review reproduced from Volume 16, n.paradoxa, July 2005. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen (ed) First International Women's Art Festival in Taiwan: Women, Art and Technology: Collected Essays
(Taiwan: Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts: August 2004) Text in Chinese and English. ISBN 957-01-8066-8
Published to accompany a festival, this significant anthology of new essays brings together many prominent feminists across Asia for both historical reflection on feminist legacies and discussions about the nature of feminist art practices in countries as diverse as Taiwan (Elsa Chen), Korea (Gugok Kim Honghee), the Philippines (Flaudette May Datuin), North America and Japan (Keiko Sei), and Hong Kong (Phoebe Chingying Man) . Essays are included by both critics and artists about new technologies, the contexts in which they work/network and their art practices by Juin Shieh; Irina Aristarkhova; Shirley Tse; Mina Cheon; Varsha Nair; Tari Ito; while Griselda Pollock tackles 'What is Feminist Art: or How not to Answer a Question Like That in Six Thousands Words'.
2003 Århus Universitet
Køn & identitet
(Institut for Æstetiske Fag, Afdeling for Kunsthistorie, Århus Universitet)
2003 Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Just love me : post/feminist positions of the 1990s from the Goetz Collection Curators: Rainald Schumacher, Matthias Winzen
(Fries Museum (Leeuwarden, Netherlands), Bergen kunstmuseum, Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Koln : Konig)
2003 Womanifesto
Procreation/ Postcreation
(Thailand: Bangkok)
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Womanifesto Procreation/ Postcreation
Thailand: Bangkok: 2003 Exhibition catalogue from
Eighty-eight artists and non-artists, male and female, took part in the latest Womanifesto project, which was launched in Bangkok on 11 November 2003 with an evening of performances and video screenings. Procreation/Postcreation was formed through the collecting/archiving/documenting personal stories, anecdotes, beliefs, receipes, taboos and much more on this subject, embracing a global perspective on conception, birth, reproduction and motherhood.
2003 Isabelle Graw
Die Bessare Halfte: Kunstlerinnen des 20 und 21 Jahrhunderts
(Cologne: du Mont Verlag)
2002 Maria Fernandez and Faith Wilding, Michelle M. Wright eds
Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist practices
(New York: Autonomedia)
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Maria Fernandez, Faith Wilding, Michelle M. Wright (eds) A SubRosa Project: Domain Errors New York: Autonomedia, 2002 ISBN: 1-57027-141-0
'Part performative intervention, part radical polemic and activist manifesto', this book examines the intersections between race, technology and cyberfeminism. Divided into 3 sections, 'Racism and cyberfeminism in the integrated circuit', 'The female flesh commodities Lab', and 'Research! Activism! Embodiment! Conviviality!', the book aims to explore 'a contestational politics for cyberfeminism'. The international contributors include the editors, SubRosa, Lisa Nakamura, Irina Aristarkhova, Susanna Paasonen, Rhadika Gajjala/Annapurna Mami-dipudi, Lucia Sommer, Christina Hung, Emily de Araujo, Tania Kupczak, Amelia Jones, Terri Kapsalis, Nell Tenhaaf and Hyla Willis.
2002 Seoul Women's Art Festival
Women's Art Festival : the Second Women's Art Festival. East Asian Women and Herstories
(Seoul: Women's Art Festival)
2002 Toschi Cavaliere Chiara; Pansera; Anty; Soroptimist international club di Ferrara
Foeminilia : memorie ferraresi e invenzioni d'autore : mostra e asta a fini benefici (Curators: Toschi Cavaliere, Chiara., Pansera, Anty.,, Soroptimist international club di Ferrara)
(Ferrara, Palazzina Marfisa d'Este, 27 aprile-9 giugno 2002, Ferrara : Edisai)
2002 Andrea Sick and Claudia Reiche eds
Technics of Cyber < > Feminism
(Bremen: Thealit Frauen. Kultur.Labor)
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Claudia Reiche, Andrea Sick (eds.) Technics of Cyber < > Feminism <mode=message> Bremen:Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor
2002. ISBN: 3-930924-03-X
This is the second in a series of three books examining issues related to cyberfeminism and arises from a symposium (lab) organised in Bremen. Reiche's introduction and the opening discussion of a questionnaire to the participants and contributors to this event point to the multiplicity of definitions currently in circulation about cyberfeminism. Its proliferation as a term embracing Virtual Reality, philosophical speculation on anti-humanism and the post-human, Viruses, Websites and uses of the internet, Hacking, gender-bending, Media theory, cyber-feminist porn films and cyborgology is well demonstrated by this volume. As Helen von Oldenburg outlines in the book, in order to bring something into existence one should first present them as images; then create observations; organise events; declare them as science and wrap them up in numbers (p.189). The debates raised in this volume do just this. Nevertheless, they continue to raise the question of feminism while succeeding in bringing together people from across the globe to discuss these issues.
2002 Katerina Gregos
Fusion Cuisine
(Athens: DESTE Foundation)
2002 La Fabrica
PHE02: Femininos: PhotoEspana, 2002, V Edicion del FestivlaInternacional de Fotografi
(Madrid: La Fabrica)
2001 Danielle Cliche and Ritva Mitchell, Andreas Joh. Weisand eds
Pyramid or Pillars: Unveiling the Status of Women in Arts and Media Professions in Europe
(Germany: ARCult Media/ERICarts/ZfKf)
2001 Helena Reckitt. Survey: Peggy Phelan ed
Art and Feminism
(London: Phaidon)
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Review reproduced from Volume 9, n.paradoxa, Jan 2002. Katy Deepwell 'Short Book Reviews'
Helen Reckitt (ed) Peggy Phelan (Survey) Art and Feminism Phaidon, 2001 0-7148-3529-3
This book is part of a series by Phaidon on themes and movements in contemporary art. The lavishly illustrated format includes a long introductory survey-type essay, accompanied by extracts from other writers which are designed to contextualise the assembled material in terms of feminist theory. Presenting itself as the first fully illustrated and comprehensive survey of art and feminism from the 1960s to the present (a highly dubious claim given the 1994 anthology by Norma Broude and Mary Garrard The Power of Feminist Art and many other catalogues of feminist art practices!) the book presents over 300 colour plates from 150 artists, including 'rarely published installation shots' and 'previously unpublished artists' statements' (Press Release). On closer examination, the previously unpublished material proves to be one statement by Coco Fusco - and possibly, a little-known pamphlet by Su Richardson, Monica Ross and Kate Walker.
Peggy Phelan's text, albeit enjoyable to read and skillfully crafted with numerous insights, concentrates on only the American version of feminist strategies, key works and models, with occasional nods towards Britain as 'the well-rehearsed plot' of the history and the rise of the women's art movement. This emphasis is further reinforced in the unannounced selection of works: 85 of the artists live/work in the US, 50 in Europe (22 of whom are in the UK) with a further 10 who live/work in Canada, South America, Japan and Australia. While the "image" of the woman artist and the role of re-presentational and aesthetic strategies is discussed in relation to the problems of essentialism, multi-cultural politics (in the US), queer theory and shifts in feminist art history and theory, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Sophie Calle, Helen Chadwick, Cecile Edefalk, Jenny Saville and Denise Stoklos are the only artists living outside the US whose work is briefly discussed outside the "familiar"account of American feminism.
2001 Suzana Milevska ed/Curator
Capital and Gender: international project for art and theory
(Museum of City of Skopje)
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Suzana Milevska (ed/curator) Capital and Gender: international project for art and theory (English and Macedonian texts) Museum of the City of Skopje, 2001
9989-612-64-1
This is an exhibition catalogue from a public art project which took place in a shopping mall in Skopje. The artists were invited to consider the topic of capital and gender, in terms of a Perfect Match between men and women, given the current economy and problems presented by a new consumerism, "white slavery"/ prostitution, new attitudes to marriage and changing concepts of love and identity in a post-communist country. The artists (both male and female) came from several republics of the former Yugoslavia as well as Bulgaria, Turkey and Estonia. The works were many and highly varied in their methods and means of engaging the public but included, as some examples: Marina Grzinic/Aina Smid's interactive CD-rom, Troubles with Sex, Theory and History; Maja Bajevic's consumer objects Kit for the Gloves to Save a Marriage; Danica Dakic's/ Sandra Sterle's billboard Go-Home, Violeta Capovska's video project Mother's Group (2000), Kai Kaljo's video Love Letter to Myself, Slavica Janeslieva's photo-text installation Love and Interest and Hristina Ivanoska/ Yane Calovski's company product, a prototype Blanket for Fun and/or Emergency. The book also contains essays by Suzana Milevska, Marina Grzinic, Dorothee Bauerie-Willert, Katalin Timar, Despina Angelovska and Zaneta Vangeli - some of the contributors to the conference organised alongside the project.
2001 Uta Grosenick ed
Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Centuries
(Germany and UK: Taschen Books. English and German editions)
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Uta Grosenick (ed) Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century
(separate German and English editions) Koln & London: Taschen, 2001 3-8228-5854-4
93 women artists are featured in this book, each with a short profile, a photograph and four or five images of their work. The hidden selection criteria mirrors the other two anthologies discussed (Art and Feminism and Feminism-Art-Theory) in so far as 46 live or work in America, 10 in the UK, 14 in Germany, 17 in other European centres and a further 6 in total from South America, Australia and Japan. As a German book, the inclusion of more German women from both past and present should I hope underline the specific location and histories offered by all three anthologies. The book aims to negotiate the stereotypes of "feminist" and "feminine" and point to a wide-ranging cross-section of different art practices from women artists but does not identify the nature of the feminism in particular artists' projects. The majority of artists chosen have worked in the last twenty years of the twentieth century, with the notable exceptions of some "great women artists": Sonia Delaunay, Natalia Goncharova, Hannah Hoch, Barbara Hepworth, Georgia O'Keefe, Germaine Richier, Frida Kahlo and Lee Krasner. The selection appears premised on a museum and market-led assessment of the value of particular women artists currently. The relationship of their practice to any feminist legacy or art movement is played down. The introduction acknowledges dis-crimination through the last century but paints an uncritical picture of a triumphant chronological march towards increasing numbers of women artists and recognition of their strength and individualism in the twenty-first century.
2001 Hilary Robinson ed
Feminism - Art - Theory: An Anthology, 1968-2000
(Oxford: Blackwells)
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Hilary Robinson (ed) Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2000 Oxford: Blackwells, 2001 0-631-20850-X
Over 706 pages, with 101 texts by different authors, nine themed and sub-divided chapters and extensive bibliographies, this book is designed as a core text book for anyone researching feminism, feminist theory and feminist art practices in the visual arts. Without any illustrations, it is organised to retrace feminist histories, feminist discourse and the legacy of the women's art movement in a number of countries and to provide valuable teaching material. In this, it will undoubtedly succeed. Hilary Robinson announces the composition of material within the book as 50% from the USA, 25% from UK, 12.5% from Canada, with the remaining texts from Ireland, Australia and previously translated material from Western Europe. The selection concentrates on republishing material from diverse and small publications but includes some key texts which, although they may have been republished before, are included to frame and organise the different sections. The bibliographies point to the many further articles in this field and open up the possibilities for numerous other avenues of research to be pursued in relation to feminist theory and the visual arts in other countries. This academic text book is undoubtedly the most comprehensive anthology of feminist theory/ feminist art criticism about the visual arts to date and, given the publisher, a fitting complement to the marginalisation of feminist ideas in the C. Harrison and P. Wood anthology Art Theory 1900-1990. This publication will do much to establish and secure feminism's contribution to the field of art criticism and art theory in the academy.
2000 Dorothee Richter ed
Symposium: Dialogue und Debatten: ein internationales Symposium zu feministischen position in der zeitgenossichen kunst: an international symposium on feminist positions in contemporary visual arts
(English and German text, Nurnberg: Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst. Symposium organised in conjunction with die Hoge, Bassum)
2000 Stella Rollig
Hers: : Video as Female Terrain
(Vienna and New York: Springerin/ Sterischer Herbst Festival)
2000 Cabello /Carceller (Helena Cabello/Ana Carceller). eds
Zona F. Una exploracion sobre los espacios habitados por los discursos feministas en el arte contemporaneo,[F Zone. An Exploration On Spaces Inhabited by Feminist Discourses in Contemporary Art]. (Trilingual edition: Spanish/English/Valencian). 3 February - 9 April
(Castellan: Consorci de Museos Comunitat Valenciana. )
2000 Emanuela de Cecco and Gianni Romano eds
Contemporanee: Percorsi, lavoir e poetiche della artiste dagli anni Ottanta a Oggi
(Milan: Editori Associati)
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Emanuela De Cecco & Gianni Romano Contemporanee: Percorsi, lavori e poetiche della artiste dagli anni Ottanta a oggi Italian text.
Milan: Editori Associati srl, Ancona-Milano, 2000 ISBN 88 489 0025 9
Commentaries, interviews and individual critical writings on over 40 women artists whose practice has been widely shown in Europe and America in the 1990s. Most sections of this book are published in Italian for the first time and come from a wide variety of sources, including art magazines and catalogues. Artists discussed or interviewed include: Ghada Amer; Marina Abramovic, Grazia Toderi, Tacita Dean, Elke Kystufek, Vanessa Beecroft, Rebecca Horn, Francesca Woodman, Nan Goldin, Doris Salcedo, Sophie Calle, Soo-ja Kim.
2000 ELIA
Artemisia - Boosting Gender Equality in Higher Arts Education
(ELIA)
2000 Binghui Huangfu ed
Text and Sub-Text
(Singapore: Lasalle-SIA University)
1999 Chemitz, Germany and Linz, Austria
Figure, Sculpture, Female - Forms of Representation of the Female Body
(Germany: Chemitz and Austria: Linz)
1999 Old Boys Network
next Cyberfeminist International
(Rotterdam: March 8-11)
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Review reproduced from Volume 5, n.paradoxa, Jan 2000. Katy Deepwell 'Book Reviews'
Old Boys Network next Cyberfeminist International, Rotterdam, March 8-11 1999. ISBN 3-933557-14-3 The second indispensible publication from Old Boys Network mapping Cyber-feminism and the work of 20+ participants at their second major meeting in 1999. Continuing the dialogue about the relationship between feminism/ cyberculture; touching on networks in global capitalism; the body from gene to medical imaging on the net; and new strategies for transformation offered by new technologies, democracies on the net and feminism.
Just received: Stephen Kovats (ed) Media-Revolution: Ost-West Internet Dessau: Edition Bauhaus,1999. ISBN 3-593-36365-8. Invaluable documentation of the Ostranenie Festivals.
1998 Cornelia Sollfrank ed
First Cyberfeminist International Reader
(Hamburg: Old Boys Network)
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Cornelia Sollfrank (ed) First Cyberfeminist International Reader Hamburg: Old Boys Network,1998.
The reader includes excellent documentation, interesting papers, artist's projects and presentations from the First Cyberfeminist International September 20-28 1997, Hybrid Workspace, Kassel. The developing international network of women whose work is represented here exchange information through the (ironically titled) Old Boy's Network; PopTarts on Telepolis and the FACES e-mail list and many participated in the FACES conference in Forum Stadtpark in July 1998. (See also: Vol 2, n.paradoxa :Women and New Media.) Topics covered range from data DJ's and data-avatars, fan and e-zines, hacking, art/video projects on the net; definitions of cyber-feminism, fe-mail culture, and what constitutes feminist counter-strategies in cyber-culture.
1998 Whitney Chadwick ed
Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation
(Boston: MIT Press)
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Whitney Chadwick (ed) Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (Massachusetts, MIT press, 1998, USA touring exhibition catalogue)
ISBN 9-780262-531573
The exhibition, for which this book acted as a catalogue, displayed visually the parallels between women artists in Surrealist movement of the 1930s and 1940s and contemporary women artists, e.g. Cindy Sherman and Claude Cahun, or Paula Santiago and Meret Oppenheim or Unica Zurn and Francesca Woodman. The essays themselves seeks to problematise these relationships. How does the Surrealist negotiation of the femme-enfant, of Women's position as both Other and Muse sit next to the cultural mediations of subjectivity and identity politics in contemporary work? The question is not one simply one of drawing lines of influence historically in terms of precedents but an analysis of representational strategies and points of contact. How does Joan Riviere's idea of Womanliness as masquerade continue to haunt the self-portraits of women artists? This book is a stimulating contribution to the debate about women's self-representations and Surrealist legacies. Essays by Whitney Chadwick, Dickran Tashjian, Katy Kline, Salomon Grimberg, Dawn Ades, Susan Rubin Suleiman, Helaine Posner.
1997 Eva Meyer-Hermann and Sadie Coles
Ein Stuck von Himmel / Some Kind of Heaven
(Nurnberg: Kunsthalle Nurnberg, South London Art Gallery, 1998)
1997 Le Magasin
Vraiment: Feminisme et Art
(France, Grenoble: Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain)
1997 Delia Gaze ed
Dictionary of Women Artists 2 Vols.
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn)
1996 Monash University
Women Hold Up Half the Sky: the Orientation of Art in the Post-War Pacific
(Melbourne,Victoria: Monash University Gallery)
1996 Marijke Seresia ed
Zij-Sporen : Kunst op het Spoor
(Antwerp: Gynaika)
1996 Dinah Dysart and Hannah Fink
Asian Women Artists
(Australia: Craftsman House)
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Review reproduced from Volume 1, n.paradoxa, Jan 1998. Katy Deepwell 'Short Reviews of New Publications' - This book attempts to cover aspects of women artist's work in China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, India, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam. This is a tall order given the range of work and the numbers of women artists in Asia. The essays vary widely between analyses of the emergence of feminism (often identified and described through theoretical models of Western feminism with the occasional references to post-colonial and post-structuralist theories) and case studies of individual women artists. The book is beautifully illustrated and reproduces an incredible diversity of work. Where it is frustrating is in its omission of details and footnotes and bibliographic references which would encourage greater research. Nevertheless the material is fascinating including a description of the only women's art gallery in Asia: the Senwati Gallery in Bali,Indonesia founded in 1991(but no address!) ; and the feminist groups called 'Hyung'sang' and '30 Carat' in Korea (no contact or details of joint exhibitions or work!). Many of the women artists discussed are starting to be shown in international biennals (from Venice to the Asia-Pacific triennal,Australia) and major group exhibitions, such publications can only fuel this development and the dissemination of knowledge about their work.
Essays include:- Jane Chia 'Trouble at Hand: Singapore Women Artists' ; Xu Hong 'Dialogue: The Awakening of Chinese Women's Consciousness' ; Kim Hong Hee 'Sex and Sensibility: Women's Art & Feminism in Korea' ; James B.Lee 'Yi Bul :The Korean Installation Artist'; Yang Wen-I 'A Banana is not A Banana: The New Women Artists of Taiwan' ; Anna Kirker 'Poised in Equilibrium: Irene Chou' ; Yuri Mitsuda 'Flowers for Wounds: Contemporary Japanese Women Artists' ; Helen Michaelson 'Traces of Memory: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook' ; Ana P.Labrador 'Beyond the Fringe: Making it as a Contemporary Filipina Artist' ; Astri Wright 'Undermining the order of the Javanese Universe: the self-portraits of Kartika Affandi-Koberl' and 'A Woman's Place: the Senwati Gallery in Bali' ; Martinus Dwi Marianto 'Srikandi,Marsinah & Megawati: Lucia Hartini' ; Nora Taylor 'Invisible Painters: North Vietnamese artists from the revolution to Doi Moi' ; Gayatri Sinha 'Indian Women Artists' ; Nilima Shekh 'Materialising Dream: Arpita Singh'.
1996 Catherine de Zegher
Inside the Visible
(Boston: ICA/ MIT: Kanaal Art Foundation)
1996 Monika Laue
Wahre Weibeskunste? : zur Problematik einer femininen asthetik in der zeitgenoissischen Kunst ; Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel und Rebecca Horn
(Munchen : Scaneg)
1996 Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists
(Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Sept 5- October 27)
1996 Kirsten Justesen and Valie Export
Kroppen Som Membran / Body as Membrane
(Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik)
1996 Lene Burkhardt
Dialogue with the Other
(Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik)
1995 Beat Wismer
Karo Dame: Konstructive,Konkrete und Radiakale Kunst von Frauen von 1914 bis Heute
(Germany: Baden,Lars Muller)
1995 Ursula Panhams-Buhler
Cherchez la Femme
(exhibition Hamburg: Kunsthaus, Hamburg)
1995 Metz FRAC
Territoires Occupes : Kunst Konversion: Guerre, Violence et Artistes-Femmes
(France, Metz: Fonds Regionale d'art Contemporain de Lorraine)
1995 curator Alexander Bassin
Stereo-Tip
(exhibition catalogue,Ljubljana: Mestna Galerija)
1995 Angela Ziesche
Das Schwere und das Liechte : Kunstlerinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts, Skulpturen, Objekte,Installationen
(Koln: Dumont)
1994, 1995 Munchen Kunstverein
Oh Boy! It's a Girl! Feminismen in der Kunst
(Germany : Munchen, Kunstverein)
1993 Uta Grab Muller and Monika Katz
Zwischen Anpassung und Widerspruch Beitrage zur Frauenforschung am Osteuropa
(Berlin: Harrassowitz Verlag/ Institut der Frein Universitat)
1993 Sylvia Eiblmayr
Die Frau als Bild: Der Weibliche Korper in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts
(Berlin: Dietrich Reimer)
1993 Liege Musee d'Art Moderne
Regards de Femmes
(exhibition catalogue Belgium: Liege: Musee d'Art Moderne. see also Sullivan & Nochlin (1990) below)
1991, 1992 Museum Fodor/Stedelijk
Parler Femme
(Amsterdam:Museum Fodor/Stedelijk, exhibition catalogue)
1991 Betty LaDuke
Africa through the eyes of women artists
(Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press)
1989 Frauen Museum, Bonn
Art Beyond Barriers: the International Association of Women in the Arts
(Bonn: Frauen Museum)
1989 Margarethe Jochimsen
Das Verhaltnis der Geschlechter (16 Feb- 27 Mar 1989, Bonner Kunstverein) / [anassl. d. Symposiums "Frauenforschung u. Kunst von Frauen - Feminist. Beitr. zu e. Erneuerung von Wiss. u. Kunst", 16 - 18 Feb 1989. Veranst.: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Interdisziplinare Frauenforschung u. -studien]
(Pfaffenweiler : Centaurus-Verl.-Ges. )
1988 Simona Weller
Cartax Carta : 80 European artists
(Duna: Associazone Culturale Adorente All IAWA)
1988 Patricia Smart
Les Femmes du Refus Global
(Montreal: Boreal)
1986 Frances Borzello
Women Artists: A Graphic Guide
(London: Camden)
1985 Sylvia Eiblmayr and Valie Export, Monika Prischl-Maier ed
Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn: Aktuelle Kunst von Frauen Texte und Dokumentation
(Exhibition catalogue, Wien /Munchen)
1985
Eau de Cologne
(Köln: Monika Sprüth Galerie) 1989 3 issues published in Köln: Monika Sprüth Galerie, 1985-1989. Each published in conjunction with group exhibitions of women artists at her gallery held from November 15 through December 12, 1985 and November 13-29, 1987 at Monika Sprüth Galerie. Restaged in 2014-2016 in different exhibitions.
1984 Cindy Lyle and Silvia Moore, Cynthia Navaretta eds
Women Artists of the World
(New York: Midmarch Arts Press)
1984 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Feminisme in het Medium (Band I and II)
(Amsterdam: Stedelijk)
1983 Triennale du Landeron
La Femme et l'art
(Switzerland,Triennale du Landeron)
1979 Gemeente Museum den Haag and de Appel, Amsterdam
Feministische Kunst International
(Den Haag, Gemeente Museum & Amsterdam, de Appel)
1978 Mirella Bentivoglio
Materializzazione del linguaggio (Magazzini del Sale, Zattere, collatoral event, Venice Biennale)
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1977 Frauen in der Kunst: Ursula Bierther, Evelyn Kuwertz, Karin Petersen, Inge Schmacher, Sarah Schumann, Ulrike Stelzl, Petra Zofelt ed
Kunstlerinnen International, 1877-1977
(Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Schloss Charlottenburg)
1976 Romana Loda
Magma:Rassegna internazionale di donne artiste/Magma: International Exhibition of Women
Artists
(Brescia, Italy: Castello Oldofredi)
1975 Resjning and Store
Kvindeudstillingen XX på Charlottenborg
(Copenhagen: Charlottenborg)
1975 Valie EXPORT
Magna Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativitat: Ein Überblick über die weibliche Sensibilität, Imagination, Projektion und Problematik,
suggeriert durch ein Tableau von Bildern, Objekten, Fotos, Vorträgen, Diskussionen, Lesungen,Filmen, Videobändern und Aktionen, zusammen gestellt von VALIE EXPORT/MAGNA.[Feminism: Art and Creativity. A Survey of the Female Sensibility, Imagination, Projection and Problems Suggested through a Tableau of Images, Objects, Photographs, Lectures,Discussions, Films, Videos and Actions, compiled by VALIE EXPORT]
(Wien, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan & Rome)
1975 Galerie Krinzinger
Frauen Kunst - Neue Tendenzen
(Innsbruck,Galerie Krinzinger)
Mommy by Susan Silas and Chrysanne Stathacos
() Interviews with contemporary women artists working for more than 20 years.
Mai Ling
() Founded in Vienna in 2019, Mai Ling is an artist collective and association dedicated to furthering dialogues about the alienating experiences against Asian FLINT* (women*, lesbian, inter*, non-binary, and trans*) and the larger Asian diaspora in German-speaking society.
Der Tank: Institute of Art, Gender, Nature (Basel)
() Exhibition space and research institute, Basel, Fachhochscule Nordwestschweiz (FNHW)
The Female Curators (blog)
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And Others:The Gendered Politics of Art Collectives
() Lina Džuverović, research project at Birkbeck College, London.
MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture
(University of Gothenburg)
Women in War
() an offshoot project as a small online gallery of a collaboration of feminist academics on women in war.
Feminist Art Local/Global Research (email list on JISCmail)
() Set up by Katy Deepwell and Laura Leuzzi for exchange of information and discussions.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, Artist's Profiles (formerly Clara database, now focused on their collection)
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European Women's Video Art (EWVA)
() documentation and research project on women's video art in the early 1970s at Duncan Jordanstone, part of the ReWind research project.
Feminist_Art_Base at Elizabeth Sackler Centre for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York
() Beginning with the artists in Global Feminisms, the database has expanded considerably in recent years especially on several generations of artists in New York.
Art + feminism Wikipediathon website
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Constant: Association for Art and Media
() run by Laurence Rassel, Brussels
Elles@Centre Pompidou blog
() (active 2009-2011)
cyberfem: feminism on the electronic landscape
() Site has now closed but information is available from the link. Archive of the exhibition (2006-2007)organised by Ana Maria Collado in Spain
Faces: Women, Art, Technology
() Although the website has not been updated since 2013, and only older postings can be found there, the email list continues for current members.
Provoc_rte
() Latin American women artists
Feminine Moments
() Feminine Moments - Queer Feminist Art Worldwide
Elaine Shemilt, Laura Leuzzi, Stephen Partridge eds
Ewva: European Women's Video Art in the 70s And 80s
(John Libbey and Co)
Bildwechsel: Video Palace
() a virtual environment/website for exploring the archive of bildwechsel, with garden, screenings, documentation centre to explore
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Feminism and Art
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Feminist Art Coalition
() FAC fosters collaborations between arts institutions that aim to make public their commitment to social justice and structural change. It seeks to generate cultural awareness of feminist thought, experience, and action.
Women's Center for Excellence, educational initiative.
() Women’s Center for Excellence, a research project between the Art Institute and the Instituto Susch—a joint venture with Grażyna Kulczyk and Art Stations Foundation CH.
Nosotras proponemos/Compromiso de práctica artística feminista/Asamblea Permanente de Trabajadoras del Arte (Argentina)
() Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French: This is the website for a 'Declaration of Commitment to Feminist Practices in Art, Permanent Assembly of Women Art Workers' and outlines actions taken in 2018 to support it in Argentina...ongoing... Around 3,000 artists, curators and activists across South America and Spain have signed it...
Fast Forward
() A Leverhulme funded research project on women and photography (2017-2019) today by Anna Fox and Maria Kapajeva.
Viva - Red feminista de arte y pensamiento contemporáneo. Started at Monterhomoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz in 2008.
Moved to AZKUNA Centre, Bilbao (2012-2018).
Relaunched as 'La mirada feminista: Perspectivas feministas en las producciones artísticas y las teorías del arte' (ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gastiez, 2019): 2020 Edition of La Mirada Feminista14-15 Nov 2020.
(Bilbao: Azkuna Zentroa)
FemLink-Art: The International Video Artists' Collective
() Curators : Veronique Sapin and C. M. Judge, 149 women video artists from 54 countries.