The first anthology of feminist art exhibition essays and museum publications, providing an exciting and valuable overview of recent developments in feminist curation Feminisms-Museums-Surveys: Exhibition Curating 2005-2022 brings together works from exhibition catalogs and museum publications to provide a comprehensive and timely view of the modern approach to feminist curating. Offering insights into how curators from around the world engage with different feminisms and select and exhibit feminist art, this one-of-a-kind anthology exemplifies the diversity of feminist thinking and curatorial approaches in the contemporary art museum. This important volume comprises articles and essays drawn from publications which accompanied major curatorial projects from different regions around the globe, and each essay offers a unique critical interpretation of feminist art. Organized chronologically, the book presents the essays — the majority in print for the first time since their initial publications and some for the first time in English — with the dates and venues of the exhibition and a brief introduction by the editors. All the artists in the exhibitions and the curators involved are indexed in the supplementary material. Making key examples of feminist curating easily accessible to a wider audience of scholars and students, this unique anthology: Offers a transnational perspective on feminist curating, featuring exhibitions from across Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Americas Highlights the diverse ways in which curators have attempted to bring feminist theory into the museum exhibition format Illustrates how feminist ideas have evolved in diverse ways in the international community of museum professionals Includes an index of artists and curators whose work is represented in the volume Offering deep insights into how curators have approached the documentation and representation of art informed by feminist politics and thinking, Feminisms-Museums-Surveys: Exhibition Curating 2005-2022 is an ideal resource for courses in feminism and art, curation, LGBTQ art, art and politics, museum studies, art history, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies, and related courses across fine arts and visual arts programs.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgements xi On Feminisms, Museums and Surveys: An Introduction 1 Hilary Robinson and Lara Perry 1 Life Actually 8 Life Actually; the Works of Contemporary Japanese Women – Love and Solitude, and Laughter for Survival in Japan 9 Kasahara Michiko 2 La Costilla Maldita 26 The Accursed Rib 27 Margarita Aizpuru 3 Konstfeminism: Strategier Och Effekter I Sverige Från 1970-talet Till Idag 36 Introduction 37 Louise Andersson, Magnus Jensner, Anna Livion Ingvarsson, Anna Nyström, Barbro Werkmäster, and Niclas Östlind 4 The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Arts since 1960 44 The Eighth Square: Observations on an Exhibition Experiment 45 Frank Wagner 5 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution 60 Art and Feminism: An Ideology of Shifting Criteria 61 Cornelia Butler 6 Global Feminisms 68 Curators’ Preface 69 Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin Copyrighted Material 7 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Years of Art and Feminism 72 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 86 Steps in 45 Years of Art and Feminism 73 Xabier Arakistain 8 Intimate Distance: Indonesian Women Artists 78 Intimate Distance: Tracing Feminist Discourse in Indonesian Art 79 Wulan Dirgantoro 9 A Batalla dos Xéneros/Gender Battle 86 The Benefit of Discord: Apropos of Gender Battle 87 Juan Vicente Aliaga 10 elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne 114 “elles@centrepompidou”: Addressing Difference 115 Camille Morineau 11 Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969–2009 122 Introduction 123 Mirjam Westen 12 Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe 138 Proletarians of All Countries, Who Washes Your Socks? Equality, Dominance and Difference in Eastern European Art 139 Bojana Pejić 13 Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art 158 The Feminist Present: Women Artists at MoMA 159 Cornelia Butler 14 DONNA: Avanguardia Femminista Negli Anni ’70 dalla Sammlung Verbund di Vienna 170 The Feminist Avant-Garde: A Radical Transformation 171 Gabriele Schor 15 Med Viljann ad Vopni – Endurlit 1970–1980 180 The Will as a Weapon – Review 1970–1980 181 Hrafnhildur Schram 16 Žen d’Art: The History of Gender and Art in Post-Soviet Space: 1989–2009 188 The History of Women’s Art: Archives, Theories and Actual Artistic Practice 189 Nataliya Kamenetskaya and Oksana Sarkisyan 17 Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey 194 Dream and Reality: Modern and Contemporary Women Artists from Turkey 195 Levent Çalıkoğlu 18 Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art 202 Tzena Ure’ena 203 Dvora Liss 19 This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s 214 This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s 215 Helen Molesworth 20 Contemporary Australia: Women 240 Here and Now 241 Julie Ewington 21 Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 1930–1983 248 Women Adventurers: Five Eras of Taiwanese Art, 1930–1983 249 Yi-ting Lei 22 The Beginning Is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia 266 The Beginning Is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia 267 Karin Hindsbo 23 Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender 278 Joining the Ranks of the Invisible Struggle 279 Christine Eyene Our Sister Next Door 284 Christine Eyene 24 East Asia Feminism: FANTasia 292 East Asia Feminism: FANTasia 293 Kim Hong-hee 25 All Men Become Sisters 302 Imagination Machine 303 Joanna Sokołowska 26 M/A\G/M\A: Body and Words in Italian and Lithuanian Women’s Art from 1965 to the Present 316 MAGMA: A Revolt for Us 317 Benedetta Carpi De Resmini The Singing Revolution Continues 321 Laima Kreivytė 27 We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 324 Introduction 325 Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley 28 Being Her(e): Meditations on African Femininities 330 Curatorial Statement 331 Paula Nascimento 29 Corpo a Corpo – Body to Body 334 Body to Body: What Is Left? 335 Paola Ugolini 30 Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 346 Introduction 347 Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta 31 Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon 352 Irreconcilable Difference 353 Johanna Burton 32 Women House 360 From The Housewife to the Nana-Maison: Domesticity as a Key Theme for Women Artists 361 Camille Morineau and Lucia Pesapane 33 Collective Women: Feminist Art Archives from the 1970s to the 1990s 366 Texts from the Auckland Art Gallery 2017 367 Clare McIntosh 34 Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism 372 Unfinished Business 373 Max Delany Blak Female Futurisms and Yte Feminism Waves 379 Paola Balla 35 Bread and Roses: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists 382 Gender, Empire and Decolonisation: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists 383 David Elliott 36 Niepodległe: Kobiety A Dyskurs Narodowy 398 Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse 399 Magda Lipska 37 The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain 402 Why the Insurrection, Medea? 403 Susanne Altmann 38 Paint, Also Known as Blood: Women, Affect and Desire in Contemporary Painting 418 Rippers: Women, Affect and Desire, Between Figuration and Abstraction 419 Natalia Sielewicz 39 Kiss My Genders 428 Kiss My Genders: A Conversation 429 Vincent Honoré with Ajamu, Travis Alabanza, and Victoria Sin 40 Her Own Way: Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present 436 Her Own Way-Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present 437 Okamura Keiko 41 Women’s Histories, Feminist Histories 444 Feminist Histories: Artists After 2000 445 Isabella Rjeille 42 Feminnale: 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art 452 Feminnale: 1st Feminnale of Contemporary Art 453 Bishkek Feminist Initiatives Team 43 Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography 456 Performing Masculinities 457 Alona Pardo 44 Earthkeeping/Earthshaking: Arte, Feminismos e Ecologia 468 Earthkeeping/Earthshaking: Art, Feminisms and Ecology 469 Giulia Lamoni and Vanessa Badagliacca 45 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now 480 Foreword 481 Nick Mitzevich and Natasha Bullock Guiding Principles for Gender Equity 483 Nick Mitzevich and Natasha Bullock 46 Female Identities in the Global South 484 Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South 485 Bronwyn Law- Viljoen Liminal Identities in the Global South 489 Clive Kellner Modernist Identities in the Global South 497 Clive Kellner Historical Background 503 Clive Kellner 47 I Remember Therefore I am. Unwritten Stories: Woman Artist Archives 506 I Remember, Therefore I Am 507 Andra Silapētere 48 Who Will Write the History of Tears: Artists on Women’s Rights 512 About the Exhibition 513 Magda Lipska, Sebastian Cichocki, and Łukasz Ronduda 49 Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda 514 Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda 515 Ane Tonga 50 Empowerment: Art and Feminisms 524 Empowerment: Art and Feminisms – Introduction 525 Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch, and Uta Ruhkamp 51 Women in Revolt! Art, Activism, and the Women’s Movement in the UK 1970–1990 534 Introduction: The Personal Is Political 535 Linsey Young Index of Curators 546 Index of Artists 549 Áine McKenny and Marlous van Boldrik Index 588