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Notes to Continue Thinking about Feminist Artivism in Mexico

5 September 2024

We are coninuing to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). Authors: Cecila Itzel Noriega Vega, Una Pardo Ibarra Abstract:  Despite the large number of feminist artistic practices in Mexico that clearly ascribe to women’s rights and the...

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From Rio de la Plata to the Extreme West: Feminist Historiographies of Art and Artistic Activism in Argentina and Chile

5 September 2024

We are coninuing to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). Authors: Andrea Giunta Abstract:  The purpose of this article is to employ a comparative approach that allows us to understand the approaches towards art historiography articulated in two...

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The Feminist Agenda and the Brazilian Art System between the 1960s and the 1970s

5 September 2024

We are coninuing to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). Authors: Talita Trizoli Abstract:  The reception of second-wave feminist guidelines in the Brazilian artistic system has been a recurring theme of inquiry in feminist historiography because of...

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Latin American Women Artists: Subsidiary Human Beings? The Latin American Women Artists, 1915–1995 case

5 September 2024

We are coninuing to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). Authors: Georgina G. Gluzman Abstract:  In 1995, the exhibition “Latin American Women Artists, 1915–1995” opened at the Milwaukee Art Museum. This exhibition marked the first-ever survey of...

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Feminist Museology Applied to the Leipzig Museum of Arts (The MdbK)

5 September 2024

We are coninuing to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). Authors: Marina Vinnik Abstract:  In this article, I explore how museums navigate the contradictions between contemporary discourses and the presence of colonial European art. Museums as sites...

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1975 – International Women’s Year and the Exhibitions Organised on this Occasion in Warsaw: A Case Study on State Feminism and Art Through a Revisionist Lens

5 September 2024

We are coninuing to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). Authors: Wiktoria Szczupacka Abstract:  The article centres around International Women’s Year IWY (1975) and the celebrations of this international event in Warsaw – the capital city of...

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Beyond the Paradigm of Post-1989 Feminist Art History: Researching All-women Exhibitions in Czechoslovakia, Poland and Croatia/Yugoslavia (1945–1989)

5 September 2024

We are coninuing to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). Authors: Agata Jakubowska, Marianna Placáková, Vesna Vuković Abstract:  There have been some attempts in recent years to construct a global history of allwomen art initiatives, including those...

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“Ikonotheka” 33 (2024) – Introduction

5 September 2024

We are beginning to present texts published in FEMINIST ART HISTORIOGRAPHIES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA issue of “Ikonotheka” 33 (2024). You can access all the issue here Authors: Agata Jakubowska, Andrea Giunta From the Introduction: Previous years saw an increased number of projects that offered a comparison...

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“The cognate ideas appeared simultaneously in different environments, and we cannot always speak of one-way influences”: An Interview with Stanislava Barać

4 June 2024

Author: Petra Šarin In August 2023 I talked to Stanislava Barać, PhD, from the Institute for Literature and Arts in Belgrade about early feminist ideas, feminist (art) histories and epistemologies, as well as literature and art practice in Serbia (and Yugoslavia) from 19th century onwards, in order to shed...

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Rosana Paulino. Amefricana: Exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA)

9 January 2024

Author: Andrea Giunta On March 21, 2024 opens Rosana Paulino’s exhibition at MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires. This is her first comprehensive exhibition of her work outside of Brazil, which I am co-curating with Igor Simoes. Active since the 90s, Rosana Paulino – who has...

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