Guadalupe Aldrete, Anežka Jabůrková & Amalija Stojsavljevic, Nora Mayr & Stephanie Winter
Motherhood, Community and Care in the Context of Art
The invited curators and artists have recently organised exhibitions interrogating the theme of care relations in and around mother*hood. They will discuss the contradictions and potentials of art, society and mother*hood based on their artistic, curatorial and personal experiences.
Presentation and conversation, Eng., moderated by Barbara Mahlknecht
Guadalupe Aldrete is a Mexican-born artist living in Vienna. In her performances, photographs, videos and installations, she uses somatic, auto-ethnographic, multisensory methods to explore the materiality of the body, memory, emotion and touch. Her work has been presented internationally at art festivals and exhibitions.
Anežka Jabůrková is a Vienna-based art historian and curator specialised in contemporary art and critical art practice. In her projects she deals with the questions of identity and work. Art education is an integral element in her projects.
Amalija Stojsavljevic is an art historian, curator and cultural manager living in Vienna. She researches the phenomena of otherness and marginality with a focus on female reproductive labour, art brut and embroidery. She is founder of the association Kunstentropie, Vienna, and programme director of Art Brut Serbia, Belgrade.
Nora Mayr is a freelance curator, lecturer at the Node Center for Curatorial Studies and part of the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2020, together with Stephanie Winter, she launched the research and discourse project RADICAL CARE, which focuses on impulses of radical, activist caring.
Stephanie Winter is an artist and director. With SALON HYBRID, her performative office for experimental affairs, she plays on different inner and outer landscapes, empty spaces and spaces of colours. In 2021 Winter opened the art and lab space MOTHERBOARD, where she explores aspects of RADICAL CARE with Nora Mayr.