Golden Notebooks. Frauen in Kunst und Kunstgeschichte
VALIE EXPORT, Aktionshose: Genitalpanik, 1969, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, Foto: Peter Hassmann.
Golden Notebooks. Women in Art and Art History collects symbolic ‘golden notebooks’ by notable female artists and art historians, whose joint perspective gives rise to something new: an impressive depiction of women’s search and struggle for artistic, social and personal identity as well as integrity.
Forgotten controversies around the first conference of women art historians in the GDR, which took place right after the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 in attendance of representatives from East and West, serve as the starting point for the exhibition. In five chapters, the exhibition dialogically juxtaposes works by international artists and artist couples from different generations and spheres of influence with a reinterpretation of themes from early women’s art history as emergent during the 1989 conference, supplemented by interviews with contemporary protagonists. A rich, multi-threaded and essayistic journey into ‘golden notebooks’, hinting at, after Doris Lessing’s novel of the same title, essential artistic positions that concentrate and revitalise art historic discourse.
Galerie Pankow
Breite Str. 8
13187 Berlin,
Pankow