Art on the MOve: Regretting Motherhood?
»There are good artists that have children. They are called men«.
This famous quote by British artist Tracey Emin inspired many female artists to prove the opposite. A short film programme dealing with the (detours) of combining motherhood and artistic creation.
The programme begins with a short film by one of Germany’s first female filmmakers, Helke Sander, who already devoted herself to the theme of motherhood in the 1960s. Eva Könnemann’s That’s All From Me takes us further into a cross-generational conversation about motherhood in art. Here, a correspondence between a young filmmaker and an older writer forms the starting point for a new beginning in the artistic creative process after/with the first child. Fragment 1 was written by Writing with CARE/RAGE, a now defunct collective of writers with young children. What lies behind the crux of writing as a mother, the writing mother? Sylvia Plath devoted herself extensively to this topic. Recent feature films such as Salve Maria (2024) and The Lost Daughter (2021) have brought this dilemma to the big screen. Numerous publications have been released on this topic recently. How does the current generation of artists deal with motherhood? What do we do with tradwives? Regretting Motherhood? asks a question that we want to discuss in the following conversation.
Film programme:
Helke Sander, Aus Berichten der Wach- und Patrouillendienste Nr 1., 5-8, 1984, 11‘
Eva Könnemann, That’s All from Me, 2024, 23’
Ella Zwietnig in collaboration with Writing with CARE/RAGE, Fragment 1, 2021, 16’
The film installation Ada vs Abramović (2018) by Hannah Cooke is part of this event and will be visited together in the exhibition.
Guests: Hannah Cooke in conversation with Nicole Grothe (Head of the MO Collection) and Maxa Zoller (Artistic Director IFFF Dortmund+Köln)
Free admission.
During the event, childcare will be available in the KunstAktionsRaum from 7 pm to 9 pm.
An event by Art on the MOve, a cooperation of Museum Ostwall and Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln as part of Kleiner Freitag.
That’s All From Me
Eva Könnemann
»For several minutes, the viewer sees nothing but a black screen. Two women from different generations read a correspondence aloud. […]
Based on a true story. Helke Sander pulls out all the stops and delivers a bold and breath-taking performance born […]
Fragment Eins
Ella Zwietnig / Writing with CARE/RAGE
In this multiple projection, found archive material depicting conservative representations of motherhood is juxtaposed with the punk-inspired, angry, razor-sharp short […]
