Empowerment: Art and Feminism

How do artists act in the postcolonial, digital present from their respective situations? What emancipatory understanding underlies their art? How do they broaden the view of a feminist-oriented future? “Empowerment: Art and Feminisms” is a South Asian travelling multidisciplinary exhibition, showcasing the work of thirty one feminist artists or artist collectives.

It looks at inclusion at all levels and showcases the voices and rights of various gender and social minorities, especially in the context of South Asia. The works exhibited at ‘The Box, Pune’ are presented in seven categories: Herstories & Other Narratives, Desired and Violated Bodies, Feminist Futures, Gender & Identity, Labour of Care, Planetary Challenges and Resistance & Protest.

The exhibition project Empowerment is curated by Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch, Uta Ruhkamp and co produced by Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai.”

05.10. – 25.10.2024

the Box, Pune, India
43/1, Karve Road, Pune – 411038
Official Opening:
05.10.2024 | 7-9 PM

Exhibition in Goethe Institute at Pune 2024 – more info

Sweet Eighteen

With the eighteen artists Siri Austeen, Diana Dodson, Manaf Halbouni, Mathilde ter Heijne, Gary Hurst, Christian Jankowski, Reto Leibundgut, Marit Lindberg, Nik Nowak, Silke Panknin, Anri Sala, Karin Sander, Salah Saouli, Stefan Schröder, Maya Schweizer, Heidi Sill, Johan Suneson, Veronika Witte and their works, we reflect on the time since 2006 when Kurt-Kurt learnt to walk quickly, visibly, professionally and on an international footing with projects in the public space of Moabit and in the following years has remained true to its claim with its exhibition projects, thematic series, festivals, discussions in the context of art and context in the city laboratory Moabit: To locate art in the surrounding urban space, to address people from the neighbourhood and integrate them into the artistic dialogue, to always act internationally beyond the city and national borders and to cooperate with artists in addition to working and exchanging with the immediate surroundings.

20.09. – 05.10.2024, Eröffnung Freitag, 20.09.2024 / 19h

Kurt – Kurt | Kunst und Kontext im Stadtlabor Moabit; Ein Projekt von Simone Zaugg und Pfelder im Geburtshaus von Kurt Tucholsky
Lübecker Straße 13 | 10559 Berlin

Maintaining Its Spirit 

Starting in September 2024, Bonnefanten and Kasteel Wijlre Estate will join forces to present a unique and complete overview of the former private collection of the Limburg collector couple, Marlies and Jo Eyck. On display at these two venues, the exhibition is a testament to distinctive private collecting. Marlies and Jo Eyck were prominent collectors in the Netherlands and they created undisputedly the most important former private collection in Limburg. This is the first time the collection will be exhibited in its entirety. 
Maintaining Its Spirit encompasses 147 works by 60 artists.

Opening September 20, 2024
Bonnefanten
Avenue Ceramique 250
MAASTRICHT, Limburg 
62212, Netherlands

Hyper

The “HYPER – 50 Jahre hyperrealistische Skulptur” exhibition explores the relationship between life and death, reality and fantasy, human and machine, as well as various deformations of the human body.
Tampere Art Museum
01.06.2024 – 29.09.2024

PUBLIKATION GBEGBETOPIA—MAISON GBEGBE: AN ART-BASED COMMUNITY AND SPIRITUAL CENTER

Presentation and book launch of Gbegbetopia-Maison Gbegbe: An Art-Based Community and Spiritual Center. Introduction by Samira Ghoualmia from Archive Books and with contributions by Elom 20ce & Kofi Alexis Hountoundji, Anani Sanouvi, Mathilde ter Heijne, Musquiqui Chihying & Gregor Kaspar, Adjo Goussanou, Augusto Gerardi Rousset and an invocation by Messanh Amedegnato.

This presentation took place as part of the project Gbegbetopia – Reimagining Knowledge Sharing, and was realized with financial support from the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.

Juli 12, 2024, 7pm @Archive Books in S A V V Y Contemporary

MAISON GBEGBE – LA MER NE TARIT JAMAIS

Maison Gbegbe – La mer ne tarit jamais is a documentary production by art&dialogue e.V. the UCTT and l’Africaine d’architecture, camera by Dodo Adogji, directed by Mathilde ter Heijne.

This Project was supported by Goethe Institute:
More info at Goethe Institute site

Award Winner London International Cult Film Festival, May 24
Award Winner Better Earth International Film Festival, Apr. 24
Official Selection Seoul International Short Film Festival, Seoul, May 24
Official Selection Munich New Wave Short Film Festival, April 24
Official Selection Beach House African Short Film Festival, Lagos, Feb. 24
Official Selection Tokyo International Short Film Festival, Feb. 24
Official Selection Ananse Cinema International Film Festival, Ghana, Dec. 23
Official Selection Nollywood International Film Festival, Abuja, Dec. 23
Official Selection Benin City Filmfestival, Benin City, Nov. 23

Woman* to Go

As a contribution to this year’s seasonal theme Heroes, Deutsche Bank, as a partner of the Berliner Philharmoniker, is showing from its collection the installation Woman* to Go by Mathilde ter Heijne. This project, begun in 2005 and continued to this day, varies the theme of heroes by focusing on forgotten “heroines” and biographies from the past.
Hundreds of different postcards are offered for free in rondels. The front of the cards feature photographs of unknown women taken between 1839 and 1920. On the backs of each are biographies from that era, but they obviously have nothing to do with the photographs. They are the biographies of unusual women from all over the world – artists, tea merchants, pirates, writers, explorers, partisans, suffragettes.

August 28, 2023 – Juli 30, 2024

Sonderausstellung in Green Room
Philharmonie Berlin
Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1
10785 Berlin

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She Devil

For this edition of SHE DEVIL in Argentina, around sixty international artists from previous editions have been selected, and among those already confirmed are Lara Torres, Tamara Moyzes, Lerato Shadi, Bertille Bak, Laura Grisi, Irene Sosa, Ming Wong, Mathilde ter Heijne… and many others.

August 10, 2023
Buenos Aires
Bienalsur
MUNTREF

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Inside out

INSIDE OUT features artworks from the collection of the Bonnefanten Museum, such as Otobong Nkanga, Tanja Ritterbex, Mathilde ter Heijne, Philippe Coclers and the Polling ceramics collection.

From the dreamy inner world of a child to the big outside world of an adolescent. Go through the developmental stages of a child at INSIDE OUT. With art and sensory stimulating activities, all ages will be turned inside out. Discover what makes you, you and then zoom out again to your role in society and the footprint you leave behind.

Opening: Friday, October 13, 2023
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Bonnefanten
Avenue Céramique 250
6221 KX, Maastricht

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SEMBRA VIVO!

An exhibition that provokes, questions, and brings together the artists who have been most controversial: what caused the hyperrealist sculptures to short-circuit visitors’ minds? We know they are not real, yet that skin, hair, beards, fingers tell us otherwise. The naked bodies shock us, the eyes hypnotize us, and those dimensions-sometimes perfectly to scale and sometimes wrong-confuse us: It looks alive! Is it really?

This exhibition is dedicated to great international hyperrealist sculpture, told through the most important contemporary artists. “It looks alive!” will be the most uttered phrase in front of the incredible works by Maurizio Cattelan, Ron Mueck, George Segal, Carole Feuerman, Mathilde ter Heijne and many others.

May 26th – October 28th, 2023

Palazzo Bonaparte
Roma, Italy

What comes next?! 70 Years Kunstverein Reutlingen.

Through their works, some of which were specifically conceived for the exhibition, contemporary artists such as Ana Alenso, Marie Aly, Mathilde ter Heijne, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Max Schaffer as well as art&sdialogue and Viola Eickmeier explore the history of the institution and question traditional art-historic narratives. Their statements tie in with the big questions of our time, including the breakneck speed of digitalisation, current gender discourses or the use of natural resources on the backdrop of pressing economic and environmental issues. These themes are developed across the exhibition space and engage in a dialogue with the historical positions on display, but also, importantly, with visitors.

Mai 7 – November 5, 2023
Opening Mai 7, 2023, 11am

Wandel-Hallen (1. OG)
Eberhardstraße 14
72764 Reutlingen

In Watte und Nadeln – Contours of Grief

Loss and grief are inevitable and universal experiences that nevertheless each of us encounter unexpectedly sooner or later. The exhibition “Contours of Grief” explores this tension and examines the different emotional states of mourning through various artistic media. We don’t know how we grieve until we grieve, notices Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Grief is a nonlinear process in which ambivalent emotional states collide. We feel detached and cut off from the world, with pressure on our chest and emptiness in our heart. At the same time, painful memories keep catching up with us, piercing through the indifferent protective layer like hot needles. Anger is followed by despair, loneliness by exhaustion, guilt by resignation. Even though each loss is unique, through sharing our pain we develop understanding for each other and can heal together.The time we need to grieve is the transitional period before we adapt to our new reality. In doing so, we can learn to understand grief not as an end, but as a process of transformation. Following this example, the exhibition aims to create a space for the ambivalences of grief.
Curated by Dorothee Bienert, Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa, Nina Marlene Kraus & Beatris Wakaresko

Opening March 3, 6pm, exhibition from March 4 to May 18, 2023

Galerie im Körnerpark
Schierker Str. 8
D-12951 Berlin

#EMPOWERMENT. PLANETARY FEMINISMS.

The exhibition offers a geographically comprehensive overview of progressive artistic positions that stand for feminist concerns, demands and visions of the 21st century. In a global arc, the exhibition will present positions of feminist-oriented art under gender-critical and intersectional questions. Questions about postcolonial, anti-racist, ecological and planetary perspectives as well as the relationship between feminism and digital development gain central importance. These generate insights into current conflicts, but also formulate visions for the future. Curated by Regine Epp, Andres Beitin and Uta Ruhkamp.

Opening: September 9, 2022, 7 pm.

Wolfsburg Art Museum
Hollerplatz 1
D-38440 Wolfsburg

HEALING POWER

Healing Power, the spiritual search for balance. The exhibition Healing Power gives an insight into different forms of (spiritual) healing and shows the search for balance between body, soul and spirit. Six ritual specialists are presented. They are active in the fields of winti, vodun, shamanism, santo daime, mestizo and witchcraft. Contemporary art also occupies an important place. In fact, many well-known and lesser-known artists have been inspired by the theme of healing power.

Opening: october 14, 2022, 4pm.

Africa Museum
Postweg 6
6571 CS Berg en Dal

Project presentation: »Maison Gbébé, Togo«

This year’s festival focuses in particular on the artistic works and urban interventions of the 3 Dekoloniale Berlin Residents 2022, as well as biographies of significance to colonial migrants and places associated with them, which we will visit as part of a full-day, decolonial city walk on Saturday, September 3rd. On Friday, September 2nd, we will come together at the Mariannenplatz for the »Dekoloniale Africa Conference« with our guests from the former German colonies in Africa .

Part of the festival will be a project presentation of »Maison Gbébé, Togo«.
With the project partners »L’Union des Cultes Traditions du Togo«, University of the Arts, (UDK) Berlin, »L’Africaine d’Architecture«, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, architect and anthropologist, Mathilde ter Heijne, visual artist, professor and moderator, Anani Dodji Sanouvi, performance artist and others.
02.09.2022 | 17:00 -19:00

Dekoloniale Festival 2022
Sep 1, 2022 – Sep 4, 2022
Mariannenplatz, Luisenstadt, Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg,
Berlin, 10997, Deutschland

Sometimes Time

Short film festival about loss, grief, and death.
Organized by the Mourning School, a curatorial project on grief, death, loss, and mourning,
that is active in Stockholm and beyond.
17-19 June 2022

School in Common
Johannesfredsvägen 26, Lgh 1
168 68, Bromma
Sweden

https://mourningschool.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mourning_school/

Abundant Futures: Works from the TBA21

Abundant Futures is a daring attempt to imagine worldmaking and ecological futures from the condition of abundance and fullness. The exhibition places a wealth of artistic visions into conversation, gesturing at the multiplicity of worlds humans and nonhumans cohabit from the principles of life itself: proliferation, inventiveness, beauty, and relationality. It creates spaces for a social, ecological, and artistic reserve capable of altering human interaction with the planet and allowing new forms of conviviality to emerge. Shaping abundant futures means supporting already existing worlding practices and learning from them. It means reorganizing work fairly, redistributing what is available across vast differences, giving up what is possible to promote more life, and decreasing our productivity and wastefulness for the benefit of the commons. In these ecologically desperate days, embracing the multiple ways of being in the world means not only experiencing but also enacting abundance.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Opening festivities on April, 1 and 2, 2022
Córdoba, Spain

Healing Power

Tropenmuseum Amsterdam
Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen
Tropenmuseum
Linnaeusstraat 2
1092 CK Amsterdam
Juli 2021 – 6 Juni 2022

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DREAMS OF FREEDOM. ROMANCE IN RUSSIA AND GERMANY

The installation Woman to Go is shown at the Tretyakov Gallery. An exchange of the Dresden State Art Collections with Russia’s largest museum of national art.
State Tretyakov Gallery
Lavrushinsky lane 12, Moskau

Opening April 22, 2021