Artpool events - 13 November 2009 - 14 February 2010 - MUMOK, Vienna
13 November 2009 - 14 February 2010 - MUMOK, Vienna
and 20 March - 13 June 2010 - ZACHETA, Warsaw
GENDER CHECK
Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of eastern europe
Gender Check is the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s focusing on gender roles. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, curator Bojana Pejić, along with a team of experts from 24 different countries, has put together a selection of more than 400 works including paint-ings, sculpture, installations, photography, posters, films and videos. The exhibi-tion features more than 200 artists and thus paints an exceptionally diverse pic-ture of a certain chapter in art history that remained largely undiscovered until re-cently, and which could also have a significant impact on contemporary gender discourse. Gender Check follows the shifts and changes in the representation of male and female role models in art, taking a particular look at how they develop under different socio-political conditions.
In the exhibition many artists from Hungary were featured. Artpool borrowed for the show from its collection the series of photos documenting the performance by György Galántai: Homage to Vera Muhina (Heroes square, Budapest, 1980, with Julia Klaniczay and G. A. Cavellini).
Artpool events - 13 November 2009 - 14 February 2010 - MUMOK, Vienna
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