Archiv der Kategorie: Kunstkritikerinnen

Mit Neugier ans Ziel | Renate Puvogels Weg als Kunstkritikerin

Für Renate Puvogel ist es vor allem die Neugierde, die sie in ihren facettenreichen beruflichen Wegen antreibt. Als Kunstkritikerin, Kuratorin und Autorin setzt sich Puvogel seit den frühen 1970er-Jahren mit Kunst auseinander und wurde 2002 für ihre „bedingungslose Neugier“ von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV) auf der ART COLOGNE mit dem Preis für Kunstkritik ausgezeichnet. Bis heute kritisiert und publiziert Renate Puvogel, in Zeitschriften wie der TAZ, Kunstzeitung, Artefactum, Kritisches Lexikon für Gegenwartskunst oder Goethe Online.

Mit der Übergabe ihrer Materialsammlung an das ZADIK im Juli 2025 weitet der Archivbestand G 27 zu Renate Puvogel den Blick auf die Arbeit von unabhängiger Kunstkritik. Enthalten sind Korrespondenzen zu Kunstschaffenden, Kulturinstitutionen, Kunstvereinen, Museen und Galerien sowie Fotos, Manuskripte, Typoskripte, Einladungen und Presseartikel. Der folgende Beitrag beleuchtet den beruflichen Werdegang der Kunstkritikerin und Autorin Renate Puvogel und zeigt, wie sie trotz eines vorzeitigen Studienabbruchs zu einer erfolgreichen Autorin und fest etablierten Stimme im Kunstbetrieb wurde.

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TIPP! Call for Paper

Office Hours: Women Artists at Work in the Art World, 1945–1990

This edited volume invites proposals for original essays on the overlooked roles of women artists as administrators, educators, curators, writers, and cultural organizers in the United States and the Americas from the postwar period through the 1990s. “Office Hours: Women Artists at Work in the Art World, 1945–1990” foregrounds the structural, curatorial, and bureaucratic labor of women artists working within, alongside, and against dominant art world frameworks, reframing institutional histories and feminist art discourse in the second half of the twentieth century.

The volume considers administrative labor not as peripheral, but as generative, political, and creative work. It asks how women artists’ dual roles shaped postwar art ecologies, networks, and infrastructures, how institutional labor intersected with artistic practice and how transnational exchanges across the Americas contributed to larger cultural and political aims.

Contributions may include individual case studies or broader structural critiques. Interdisciplinary approaches bridging art history, museum studies, feminist theory, archival studies, and labor history are especially encouraged.

Possible Topics include:

  • Feminist collectives and artist-run institutions (e.g., Woman’s Building, A.I.R. Gallery, Artemisia, the Women’s Interart Center, Social and Public Art Resource Center – SPARC)
  • Race, gender, and class in institutional labor and access
  • Archival recovery of under-recognized administrative labor
  • Intersections of teaching, caretaking, and feminist pedagogy
  • Institutional critique from within: working under/against systems of exclusion
  • Oral histories, letters, memos, and other documents of “invisible” work

The editors are seeking 8–10 contributors to write chapters of 6,000–8,000 words. Proposals should be submitted to Helena Shaskevich and Aliza Edelman by October 15th and must include a 300–500 word abstract, a brief biography (up to 150 words), and any relevant institutional affiliations.

Click here for further information on the Call for Paper.

TIPP! Conference

Feminist Art History Conference (Washington/online, 26-28 September 2025)

The 9th Feminist Art History Conference continues to foster intersectional, global and interdisciplinary research on gender and sexuality in the visual arts field. Taking place at the American University in Washington D.C. and Online from 25–28th September, 2025 it comprises 10-in person panels, 12 online panels and 5 hybrid panels. Founded in 2010, the Feminist Art History Conference honors the pioneering scholarship of Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard. It is hosted by AU’s Art History Program with support from Robin D’Alessandro and Dr. Jane Fortune.

Highlights include sessions on:

  • Women Artists, Feminist Art, and Their Promotion in the 20th Century in italy
  • Domestic Labor
  • Feminist Methodologies
  • Public Monuments: Feminist Protest and Canon Critique
  • Assertions of Women Artists
  • Feminist Museum Initiatives Today
  • Crossing the Binary
  • 1970s Feminist Art Movement: New Contexts

The full conference program is available here.

For further Information regarding the Registration and Payment click here.

25–28th September 2025 | American University | Washington D.C. | Online

TIPP! Call for Paper

Early Modern Mansplaining: Male-Authored Histories of Women

The One-Day Workshop „Early Modern Mansplaining: Male-Authored Histories of Women“ hostet by the Medici Archive Project on 26. September 2025 at the Palazzo Alberti in Florence aims to explore male-authored narratives surrounding women’s historical achievements. While the term „mansplaining“ may be a modern coinage, the phenomenon describing men authoritatively narrating women’s lives and achievements has deep historical roots.

The Workshop-Project encourages scholars in various disciplines (e.g. women’s and gender studies, art history, book history, religious studies, literary studies) to address issues such as:

  • literary analyses of one or more individual texts by male authors on the subject of women
  • male authored biographies of women artists
  • the genesis, patronage, readership and reception of male-authored biographies of women
  • women authors’ and women artists’ responses to male authors
  • early modern male support for feminist causes
  • the censorship of texts about women

To apply to participate please submit an abstract of approximately 200 words along with a short CV to education@medici.org. The deadline for proposals is July 10th, 2025. Papers may be read in either English or Italian and presentations should not exceed 20 minutes.

For further information regarding the Call for Paper click here.

TIPP! Tagung

Women Critics and Art Historians 2

Die von der Graduate School and International Education der University of Arkansas organisierte Tagung „Women Critics and Art Historians 2“ fand vom 22. bis 24. Mai 2025 in Rom statt und wurde zusätzlich online im hybriden Format übertragen.

Die Vorträge des ersten und dritten Tagungstags werden kostenlos über den Youtube-Kanal des University of Arkansas Rome Program zur Verfügung gestellt.


Vorträge des ersten Tagungstags am 22. Mai 2025

Vorträge des dritten Tagungstags am 24. Mai 2025

Das vollständige Tagungsprogramm ist unter diesem Link einsehbar.