“A hill is a hill until you see it as a holy mountain and a sacred place belonging to our ancestors.” – Birthe Havmøller
Illustration: How to cut a cloud into two halves (2023) by Birthe Havmøller
Author: Havmoeller
Emma Helle: Walking Lake, Burning Heart. November 24, 2023 – January 7, 2024 at Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland.
Opening: Thursday, November 23, from 5 pm to 7 pm.
Birthe Havmøller: I am a pioneer queer feminist art blogger. I celebrate the 20-year anniversary of Feminine Moments today. Read my story about the queer feminist art visibility project and art blog.
Video (9:14): Queer Ethiopian American painter Julie Mehretu talks about her 2021 series, ‘Metoikos’ paintings, and reflects on the state of our contemporary world and the constant negotiating of being in in-between realities.
Video (1:28:06): In this recent panel queer artist Cassils talks about their collaborative project ‘In Plain Sight’, 2020.
Video (33:48): American queer feminist artist Linda Stein in conversation with the director of Konstmuseet, Skövde Kulturhus, Sweden.
Illustration: Self-portrait by Christiane Schreiber circa 1870.
Video (1:02:33): Below the Eyes: Sexuality and Averting the Gaze with Linda Stein. A presentation addressing how she came to terms with her own (homo)sexuality during the mid twentieth century.
LINDA STEIN: Gender Scrambling, 22 April 2023 – extended until end of 2023 at Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool, UK.
Video (1:53): ‘Sadie Benning: This is Real’ at Vielmetter Los Angeles, Jan 9 – Feb 20, 2021. A film by Eric Minh Swenson (2021).
Video (5:17): queer feminist painter Roxana Halls (UK) takes us on a (silent) tour of her recent exhibition in Berlin: ‘Die Augen der Roxana Halls’.
Video (27:51): Julie Mehretu and Adrienne Edwards in conversation, White Cube, London (Sep. 2023) about Julie’s recent exhibition in London.
Rojina Farrokhnejad: Gods and Monsters, Oct 14 – Dec 1, 2023 at SUM Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Video (1:05:13): Artist talk by Jess T. Dugan at Hendrix College (Nov 2023). Jess’ exhibtion ‘Every Breath We Drew’ is on exhibit through December 12, 2023 at Windgate Museum of Art, Conway, Arkansas.
Video (1:00:43): Co-curators Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang discuss Laurencin’s life and work on opening day of ‘Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris’ at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia from 10/22/23 – 1/21/24.
Video (47:47): Anna O. Marley, Ksenia M. Soboleva and Jonathan D. Katz discus how Queer Identities and Histories have been encoded in American Art.
Feminine Moments’ bibliography – art books about photographer Sonja Sekula.
Video (3:49): Jenny Anger, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa, USA, talks about two works by Swiss-American artist Sonja Sekula (1918-1963).
Video (6:02): a video by Con Artist, New York about her sculpture ‘Mad Donna’ (2010).
Video (13:50) Artist Sadie Benning’s shortfilm Girl Power (1992/93) with music by Bikini Kill, an all-girl band from Washington.