Lost Women Art – From Impressionism to Abstraction
r. Susanne Radelhof
Njemačka / 2021. / dokumentarni / 52′
Žene su oduvijek sudjelovale u povijesti umjetnosti i stvarale paralelno sa svojim muškim kolegama. Zajedno su iscrtavale nove puteve i izazivale reakcije publike, no unatoč tome njihova imena i djela ostala su uglavnom nepoznata. Do današnjeg dana žene su marginalizirane unutar povijesti umjetnosti i rijetko se spominju kao predvodnice umjetničkih stilova i kretanja. Posljedice toga su dalekosežne: na tržištu umjetnina djela autorica postižu niže cijene, a u muzejskim zbirkama nalazi se samo 5 posto žena. Kako to objasniti? Kako i zašto su uopće umjetnice i njihova djela izbrisana iz povijesti?
Film Žene u povijesti umjetnosti istražuje mehanizme sustavnog brisanja talentiranih umjetnica i priča priču o potisnutoj ženskoj avangardi, na taj način nanovo ispisujući povijest umjetnosti. Zajedno s povjesničarkama umjetnosti, kustosicama i progresivnim institucijama koje se bore za veću zastupljenost umjetnica, ovaj dokumentarni film donosi njihove važne i inspirativne životne priče. Na 16. VFF-u bit će prikazan prvi dio filma (od ukupno dva), podnaslovljen Od impresionizma do apstrakcije.
Susanne Radelhof je filmašica i producentica koja živi u Weimaru i Berlinu. Studirala je medijsku kulturu i vizualne komunikacije na Sveučilištu Bauhaus u Weimaru i Valenciji u Španjolskoj. Nakon studija radila je za filmske festivale u Berlinu i Barceloni te je odradila dvogodišnju novinarsku praksu. Danas režira dokumentarne filmove koji su prikazani na više od 20 festivala diljem svijeta. Od 2008. radila je za nekoliko produkcijskih kuća, a razvila je i nagledala produkciju nagrađivanih dokumentarca za njemačke TV i filmske studije. Njen film Žene Bauhausa (Bauhausfrauen) iz 2018. dobio je prestižnu nagradu “Juliane Bartels”.
Nakon filma slijedi razgovor s austrijskom kustosicom Sabine Fellner, koji će voditi kustosica Martina Kontošić.
Sabine Fellner (Beč, 1959.) je povjesničarka umjetnosti i nezavisna kustosica koja se bavi aktualnim društveno-političkim temama. Neke od izložbi koje je kurirala su: Rabenmütter, 2015. u Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (nominirana za Art Curator Prize 2016.); The Better Half. Jewish Artists Before 1938, 2016. u Jewish Museum Vienna (Hans and Lea Grundig Prize 2017.); Aging Pride, 2018. i City of Women, 2019. u Muzeju Belvedere u Beču (nominirana za Art Curator Prize 2019.); Wild Childhood, 2021. u Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz.
Gostovanje Sabine Fellner je organizirano u partnerstvu s Austrijskim kulturnim forumom.
Women have always participated in the art world and worked eye-to-eye with their male contemporaries. Together they claimed new paths and caused sensations, but despite this neither their names nor works are known today. Up to this day, women play minor roles in art history and are rarely mentioned as trailblazers of new art styles and tendencies. The consequences are far reaching: on the art market women get paid significantly less, and in museum collections only five percent of works are by female artists. How come? Why and how did female artists and their oeuvres fall into oblivion in the first place?
Lost Women Art explores the mechanisms of this systematic omission of highly talented artists and tells the story of the suppressed female avant-garde, thus re-telling art history. Together with art historians, museum curators and pioneering institutions that are all fighting for the visibility of female artists, the documentary tells their ground-breaking and moving life stories. At 16. VFF, we are going to see the first part of the film, subtitled From Impressionism to Abstraction.
Susanne Radelhof is a freelance filmmaker and creative producer based in Weimar and Berlin. She studied Media Culture and Visual Communication at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar and Valencia, Spain. Afterwards, she worked for film festivals in Berlin and Barcelona and did a two-year journalistic traineeship. Susanne is a director of a cinema documentary that was shown at over 20 film festivals worldwide. During her jobs for various film production companies since 2008, she developed and supervised award-winning documentary movies as a creative producer for German television and cinema. For her documentary The Women of Bauhaus she was awarded the renowned Juliane Bartels-Media Award in 2019.
The screening will be followed by a talk with Austrian curator Sabine Fellner, which will be moderated by Croatian curator Martina Kontošić.
Sabine Fellner (1959, Vienna) is an art historian and, as a freelance exhibition curator, deals with current socio-political issues, for example: Rabenmütter, 2015 in the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (nominated for the Art Curator Prize 2016), The Better Half. Jewish Artists Before 1938, 2016 in the Jewish Museum in Vienna (Hans and Lea Grundig Prize 2017). Aging Pride, 2018 and City of Women, 2019 at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna (nominated for the Art Curator Prize 2019), Wild Childhood, 2021 at the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz.
The talk is organized in partnership with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Zagreb.
