Gender and art

Ulrike Ottinger, Bildnis einer Trinkerin (Ticket of No Return) (still), 1979. Video.

The exhibition Feminismen presents international feminist and post-feminist video works from the 1970s to the current present and introduces an extensive view of the feminist art production with the medium video. The artist Sanja Iveković produces a new work, which will be premiered in the exhibition.

28 March–20 December 2015

Nordstern Videokunstzentrum

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

http://www.nordsternturm.de/videokunstzentrum_ausstellung.php

For the past few decades the French artist Sylvie Blocher developed a body of video work addressing themes such as the construction of identity, self- or collective expression and the porous boundaries between masculine and feminine. Her works often involve the participation of outsiders invited to speak or to act in front of the camera to create what she calls “Living Pictures”.

Sylvie Blocher - S'inventer autrement

08/11/2014 - 25/05/2015

MUDAM, Luxembourg

Dara Birnbaum, Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman, 1978-1979 (video still).

"By today's standards, Dara Birnbaum's video piece "Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman," might not seem like a big deal. The 5 1/2-minute video looks like your typical Internet mash-up: repeating cuts of actress Lynda Carter spinning in circles to transform herself into Wonder Woman, all studded with explosions, which are also repeated."

"Contemporary pop culture as expressed for example in R&B occupies both Alexandra Bachzetsis and Claire Hooper in their works. While Bachzetsis deconstructs in a rather analytical manner, Hooper employs its inherent seductive aspects for her own purposes. The artists explore the increasing significance given by social media to the staging of “personality” and “life.” In her videos, Hooper combines contemporary destinies with plotlines from Greek mythology while Bachzetsis isolates gesture and body language visible in club culture and music videos in her performances. A dialog about the body and its representation in the media as well as its physical and social limitations develops between their works."

Alexandra Bachzetsis –
Claire Hooper

22 February–25 May 2014

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

http://www.bonner-kunstverein.de/ausstellungen/aktuell/bachzetsis-hooper-english/

"Though her photographic portraits are often compared to seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, Rineke Dijkstra’s latest works—namely, two short films shot in Russian schools and commissioned by the 2014 edition of Manifesta—more readily conjure Degas’s Impressionist-era ballerinas.

In Marianna (The Fairy Doll) (all works 2014), the titular subject is an angelic ten-year-old ballet-school prodigy. Outfitted in pink leggings and accessorized with Hello Kitty earrings, her girlishness is all the more emphatic within the dollhouse-esque pink studio in which she practices. [...]"

Rineke Dijkstra

January 13–February 21, 2015

Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

http://artforum.com/picks/id=49902

Hauser & Wirth is pleased to announce two exhibitions of new video works by Pipilotti Rist, unveiled in parallel presentations across its London and Somerset galleries.

For her London exhibition, ‘Worry Will Vanish’, Rist has transformed the gallery into a fully immersive, sensory environment. Projected against two walls, ‘Worry Will Vanish Horizon’ (2014) is a journey inside the human body, based on a three-dimensional animation.

Pipilotti Rist - Worry Will Vanish

27 Nov 2014 – 10 Jan 2015, Hauser & Wirth London

Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman by Dara Birnbaum.

A new Video Art Exhibition opens  6 June at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Entitled Total Art: Contemporary Video it features ten works,  by Dara Birnbaum, Kimsooja, Mariko Mori, Mwangi Hutter, Alex Prager, Pipilotti Rist, Michal Rovner, Margaret Salmon, Eve Sussman/Rufus Corporation and Janaina Tschäpe. The exhibition represents a range of approaches, from carefully staged narrative productions to daring performances to formal explorations of color and sound.

Total Art. Contemporary Video

from June 6–Oct. 12, 2014

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington

http://nmwa.org/