Kleiner Freitag: Art on the MOve: Regretting Motherhood?

In the organizer's words:

"There are good artists that have children. They are called men". This famous sentence by the British artist Tracey Emin led many female artists to prove the opposite. A short film program about (re)ways to combine motherhood and art.

The program begins with a short film by one of the first female filmmakers in Germany to devote herself to the subject of motherhood back in the 1960s: Helke Sander. In Eva Könnemann's That's All From Me, we are drawn into an intergenerational conversation about motherhood in art. Here, an exchange of letters between a young filmmaker and an older writer forms the starting point for a new beginning of the artistic creative process after/with the first child. Fragment 1 was written by Writing with CARE/RAGE, a now defunct collective of women writers with young children. What is behind the crux of writing as a mother, the writing mother? Sylvia Plath addressed this topic in detail. Recent feature films such as Salve Maria (2024) and The Lost Daughter (2021) have brought this dilemma to the big screen. Numerous publications have recently been published on this topic. How does the current generation of artists deal with motherhood? What do we do with the tradwives? Regretting Motherhood? poses a question that we want to discuss together in the subsequent discussion.

Film program

Helke Sander, From Reports of the Guard and Patrol Services No. 1, 5-8, 1984, 11'

Eva Könnemann, That's All from Me, 2024, 23'

Fragment 1, Ella Zwietnig, 2021, 16'

The film installation Ada vs Abramović (2018) by Hannah Cooke is part of this event and will be viewed together in the collection presentation.

Guest: Hannah Cooke in conversation with Nicole Grothe(Head of the MO Collection) and Maxa Zoller (Artistic Director of the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund+Cologne)

During the event there will be childcare for children in the KunstAktionsRaum from 19:00 to 21:00.

A cooperation of Museum Ostwall and International Women's Film Festival Dortmund+Cologne in the context of Kleiner Freitag.

Due to limited space, please register by e-mail to kleinerfreitag@stadtdo.de. Participation in the event is free of charge.

The "Kleiner Freitag" takes place every Thursday from 7 pm at different locations in and around the Dortmunder U.

Hereby the anticipation of the (almost) weekend is guaranteed!