Moomins’ Sea Adventures & Tove and the Sea, March 28 – September 6, 2026 at National Nordic Museum, Seattle, USA
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Video (8:10) In this short presentation Shreyas R. Krishnan Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis presents feminist and queer British print materials from 1980s-90s.
Birthe Havmøller/Feminine Moments visited: ‘We Others’ at the Photographer’s Gallery in London in May 2026. Here are my snapshots from the landmark exhibition of early lesbian portraits by Donna Gottschalk.
We Others. Photographer: Donna Gottschalk. Edit: Nathalie Chapuis, assisted by Camille Cibot. Texts: Hélène Giannecchini, Julie Héraut, Carla Williams. Publisher: LE BAL / Atelier EXB, 2025.
Video (24:56): Cineaste Marina Kazakova created a film-essay about painter Hannah Gluck in 2018. The film includes an interview with Martin Pel about ‘Gluck: Art and identity’ (2018).
In this podcast, art collector Philip explores the work of british avant-garde artist and flower painter Hannah Gluck (1895-1978).
Video (26:06): Liebe am Werk – Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore, Documentary, 2019, by Stéphanie Colaux.
Video (1:11:07): Painter Tamara de Lempicka fled the Russian Revolution and rebuilt her life in 1920s Paris, becoming one of the defining women artists of the Art Deco movement.
Video (7:33): A video biography about Danish painter and lesbian Bertha Wegmann
Video (22:42): Marie Laurencin painted a universe where men didn’t exist. Where women touched, gazed at each other. This video analyzes the Parisian artist’s visual language.
Video (58:54): Dr Tilly Scantlebury explores the history and influence of queer artist Catherine Opie, Tammy Rae Carland and Mickalene Thomas.
Video (22:47): Collin Klugbauer, co-curator of the retrospective exhibition ‘Burning down the Patriarchy. The Berlin women and lesbians’ scene photographed by Petra Gall’ talks about the lesbian photographer Petra Gall (1955-2018).
The exhibition runs through February 23 2026 at Schwules Museum Berlin, Germany.
Queer Modernism 1900 to 1950
at K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
through February 15, 2026
Video (58:43): In her biography, “Agnes Martin, Her Life and Art,” (2015) New York-based critic Nancy Princenthal tells Agnes Martin’s extraordinary life story.
Betty Parsons
Saturday 4 October 2025 – Sunday 25 January 2026
at De La Warr Pavilion
Bexhill On Sea, East Sussex, UK
Lesbian Mary Steen (1856-1939) was a Danish royal court photographer and feminist.
Canadian born Clara Estelle Sipprell (1885-1975) was one of America’s most important pictorial photographers of the early 20th century.
Video (4:54): a short illustrated biography about English lesbian artist Doris Hatt (1890-1969).
Video (1:09:39): Art historian Lucy Howarth talks on British artist Marlow Moss (1889-1958). Introduction by Sarah McDougall.
Biography: Finnish graphic artist, illustrator and professor Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä (1917–2009).