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Trailer: ABC_ein Spiel ohne Scherz

Mutterschaft Reclaimed

Handle with Care_Ludwig Múzeum Budapest

ABC_ein Spiel ohne Scherz // Live Performance

ABC_a Bite of Care // Video Campaign

How to become // Creative Workshop // Galerie Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland

Radical Parenthood_Galerie Arsenal, Poland

Re-Assembling Motherhood(s) // solo exhibition // Eindhoven, NL

Reassembling Motherhood(s) // Publication

Riso Print Workshop with MATERNAL FANTASIES // Dymfy van Meel (onomatopee)

Speculative Encounters (2022) / Rebeldes – Laboratorio Experimental de prácticas feministas / Chile

Speculative Encounters / Workshop / Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile

Love is as Love does (2022) / Mothers Artlovers (CZ) feat. MATERNAL FANTASIES

»WHAT’S THE TROUBLE, SUPERMOM?« Workshop // Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

Die Geschichte von Zarg // a film by and with the kids from FLOATING

DIE GESCHICHTE VON ZARG – ein Film basierend auf Geschichten und Ideen eines Workshops mit Kindern der FLOATING KIDS UNIVERSITY Berlin

Suspended Time, On Caring // experimental short film

SUSPENDED TIME, ON CARING by MATERNAL FANTASIES (Germany)

The film proposes new vocabularies and visual performative translations of the maternal experience with the goal of integrating intergenerational knowledge, and stretches tensions between social invisibility and fantastical visibility.

In/Visible Connections / workshop at Montags Modus, Alte Münze 2021

Suspended Time // Film

#Un/Sichtbare Verbindungen fotografisch sichtbar machen - ein Workshop für zwei Generationen

HKW #Caring // Performance by Maternal Fantasie 14.06.2020

Sketching Body Extensions

Feminist Ancestors

FAKE Gleichberechtigung // Article // Arts of the Working Class

Performative Exercise // The Travelling Drawing

Performative Exercise // The Travelling Drawing

M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation Advancement Award 2019/20

M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation Advancement Award 2019/19

// exhibition view // M1 Hohenlockstedt // 2019

Care and Carrying / Performance

Care and Carrying / Performance // M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation // Hohenlockstedt // 2019

Care&Carrying, live performance (extract 5:30 min, not color corrected yet) with sound producing household items, Arthur Boskamp Foundation, April 2019 -- https://vimeo.com/345237458 pw: care&carrying

Tell me how to Disappear

Untitled

Wreckage

Caring and carrying

School Room

The Wounded Angel

Sand

The Moon Child

Concrete Circles

Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates"

In the exhibition "Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates for everyday challenges" at alpha nova galerie futura the group "Maternal Fantasies" presents the photo text installation "Like so many..." which was created during a short residence at betOnest in Stolpe/Brandenburg in June 2018.

Inspired by the feminist polemics of the second women's movement, the autobiographical text fragments emerged in direct response to the artists’ internal confrontation with the themes of maternity, identity, and representation

Using passages from Adrienne Rich's essay "Anger and Tenderness" as creative prompts, the artists collectively engaged in automatic writing exercises and staged a series of photographic and moving images, in which they and their own children are both actors and producers.


Maternal Fantasies "Landpartie 01"

As part of the first Maternal Fantasies "Landpartie", the site of the former cement factory becomes a temporary location for filming and action - a rehearsal stage for the group’s first artistic collaboration. A set of rules defined in advance by the collective inspires and structures the artistic working process, involving a varying number of group members and children. The scenes, reminiscent of ‘Tableaux Vivants’, are staged by alternating directors with an ensemble of their choice in various locations on the vast terrain. The positioning of the protagonists and the staging of a scene oscillates between art historical references from classical paintings to playful improvisations by the mother-child ensemble. Props made with the children - phallic body extensions and concealing masks - are intuitively included, interpreted and modified. The children's "Freeze Game", similar to stop dancing, becomes an artistic method, a photographic and cinematographic strategy. Maternal Fantasies "Landpartie 01" reflects artistic production as collective practice and experience and counters traditional models with contemporary, processual alternatives developed through practical work.

Participants: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal.

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Maternal Fantasies @ alpha nova galerie futura


In der Ausstellung “Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroins and visionary associates for everyday challenges” präsentiert die Gruppe “Maternal Fantasies” die Foto-Text-Installation “Like so many...” , die im Rahmen einer Kurz-Residenz im betOnest in Stolpe/Brandenburg im Juni 2018 entstand.

Ausgangspunkt der Foto-Text-Installation ist eine kollektive creative writing Session, sowie eine Serie inszenierter, fotografischer und bewegter Bilder.

Die einzelnen Textsegmente der Wandinstallation setzen sich aus Fragmenten autobiographisch gefärbter Texte zusammen, die in direkter Resonanz auf unsere gruppeninterne Auseinandersetzung mit dem Themenfeld Mutterschaft, Identität und Repräsentation, sowie unserer Beschäftigung mit Essays und feministischen Streitschriften der zweiten Frauenbewegung, besonders Adrienne Rich’s Essay “Anger and Tenderness” hervorgegangen sind.


Maternal Fantasies “Landpartie 01”

Im Rahmen der ersten Maternal Fantasies “Landpartie” wird das Gelände der ehemaligen Zementfabrik zum temporären Dreh- und Handlungsort der Gruppe - zur Probebühne für eine erste künstlerische Zusammenarbeit. Ein vom Kollektiv vorab definiertes Regelwerk inspiriert und strukturiert den künstlerischen Arbeitsprozess der folgenden Tage unter Einbeziehung einer variierenden Anzahl von Gruppenmitgliedern und Kindern. Die an Tableaux Vivants erinnernden Szenen werden von wechselnden Regisseurinnen mit einem Ensemble ihrer Wahl an verschiedenen Schauplätzen des weitläufigen Geländes inszeniert. Die Positionierung der Protagonist*innen und Wahl einer Szene oszilliert zwischen kunsthistorischen Referenzpunkten aus dem Bereich der Malerei einerseits und spielerischen Improvisationen des mütterlich-kindlichen Gruppengefüges. Zuvor angefertigte Requisiten - phallische Körpererweiterungen und verdeckende Masken - werden intuitiv einbezogen, interpretiert und modifiziert.  – Das dem Stop-Tanz ähnliche “Freeze Game” der Kinder wird zur künstlerischen Methode, zur fotografischen und kinematografischen Strategie. Maternal Fantasies “Landpartie 01” spiegelt künstlerische Produktion als kollektive Praxis und Erfahrung und zielt darauf ab, überkommenen Rollenbildern zeitgenössische, prozesshafte, durch die praktische Arbeit entwickelte Alternativen entgegenzusetzen und zur Diskussion zu stellen.


Participants: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal.

“Like so many …” Photo-Text-Installation (Wall-Text-Installation 410cmx200cm, Fine Art Photography 70x100cm, 2018)

Like so many ...

“Like so many …” Photo-Text-Installation (Wall-Text-Installation 410cmx200cm, Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 70x100cm, 2018) // installation view // alpha nova galerie futura // berlin // 2019

“Superheroines — what makes them? How do characters, desires, and ideas change depending on the socio-political context of their creators? How do superheroines become role models in a world shaped by inequality?

In the group exhibition “Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates” at alpha nova galerie futura berlin, the artist group Maternal Fantasies presents a photo-text installation whose starting point is a collective writing session, as well as a series of staged photographic and moving images. The texts are composed of fragments of autobiographical-tinged writing that have arisen from grappling with motherhood, identity and representation, as well as with second wave feminist polemical pamphlets. The visual components recall tableaux vivants that are staged with varying numbers of group members and children. Artistic production appears here as collective experience. Outdated role models are countered by contemporary, processual alternatives developed through practical work.” Dr. Katharina Koch / alpha nova galerie futura

Landpartie Foto Edition // Prices

Trailer: ABC_ein Spiel ohne Scherz

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Mutterschaft Reclaimed

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Handle with Care_Ludwig Múzeum Budapest

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ABC_ein Spiel ohne Scherz // Live Performance

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ABC_a Bite of Care // Video Campaign

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How to become // Creative Workshop // Galerie Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland

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Radical Parenthood_Galerie Arsenal, Poland

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Re-Assembling Motherhood(s) // solo exhibition // Eindhoven, NL

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Reassembling Motherhood(s) // Publication

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Riso Print Workshop with MATERNAL FANTASIES // Dymfy van Meel (onomatopee)

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Speculative Encounters (2022) / Rebeldes – Laboratorio Experimental de prácticas feministas / Chile

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Speculative Encounters / Workshop / Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago de Chile

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Love is as Love does (2022) / Mothers Artlovers (CZ) feat. MATERNAL FANTASIES

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»WHAT’S THE TROUBLE, SUPERMOM?« Workshop // Kunstbüro der Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

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Die Geschichte von Zarg // a film by and with the kids from FLOATING

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Suspended Time, On Caring // experimental short film

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In/Visible Connections / workshop at Montags Modus, Alte Münze 2021

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Suspended Time // Film

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#Un/Sichtbare Verbindungen fotografisch sichtbar machen - ein Workshop für zwei Generationen

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HKW #Caring // Performance by Maternal Fantasie 14.06.2020

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Sketching Body Extensions

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Feminist Ancestors

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FAKE Gleichberechtigung // Article // Arts of the Working Class

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Performative Exercise // The Travelling Drawing

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Performative Exercise // The Travelling Drawing by Mikala Hyldig Dal

M1 Arthur Boskamp Foundation Advancement Award 2019/20

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Care and Carrying / Performance

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Tell me how to Disappear

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Untitled

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Wreckage

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Caring and carrying

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School Room

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The Wounded Angel

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Sand

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The Moon Child

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Concrete Circles

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Colleagues Wanted I - Superheroines and visionary associates"

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Like so many ...

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Landpartie Foto Edition // Prices

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