In their works, Renate Bertlmann and Yasmina Assbane create visual worlds of femininity that take up and alienate heteronormative ideas.
Since the 1970s, Austrian artist Renate Bertlmann (*1943 in Vienna, lives and works there) has created a multifaceted oeuvre. Her drawings, photographs, installations, sculptures and performances stem from the feminist rebellion of a generation of women and artists and transcend boundaries. For the first time, female artists of this period formulated counter-proposals to the prevailing images of women in art and society.
Her performance “Die schwangere Braut im Rollstuhl” (1978, documented photographically by Margot Pilz) deals critically with questions of heteronomy and self-determination of women in marriage and through pregnancy. Bertlmann's visual language is always transgressive and characterized by the simultaneity of opposites.
Yasmina Assbane (*1968 in Belgium, lives and works in Brussels) uses found ceramic, porcelain and glass tableware from rooms read as female for her objects. In combination with nylon tights, she transforms the objects into female bodies and sexual organs, thereby exposing a heteronormativity that is deeply inscribed in our society.
As part of MOTHER, Renate Bertlmann and Yasmina Assbane will be exhibiting together for the first time.
