Golden Notebooks

The starting point for the exhibition is the first conference of art historians in the GDR, which took place in November 1989 and was subsequently largely ignored in the discourse of feminist art history. The questions discussed there regarding the correspondences and differences between interpretations of feminist art, as well as their prerequisites, interests, and perspectives, touch on fundamental questions of gender-critical art history.

Works by international artist couples of different generations and spheres of influence are now linked in the exhibition with a new reading of themes from early women's art history and supplemented by video interviews with protagonists from that time.

They make it clear once again that there was and is no uniform understanding of feminist thinking, neither in the East nor in the West. However, there are projections shaped by experience that need to be reviewed retrospectively. At the same time, the exhibition is a plea for greater visibility for women's art, which is still not a matter of course.

With works by Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Manuela Ballester, Lynda Benglis, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Sibylle Bergemann, Lis Bertram-Ehmsen, Lina Bo Bardi, Christa Böhme, Lygia Clark, Kate Diehn-Bitt, Heinrich Ehmsen, VALIE EXPORT, Valérie Favre, Gego, Gertrud Grunow, Birgit Hein, Dörte Helm, Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Katalin Ladik, Elena Liessner-Blomberg, Ute Mahler, Ingeborg Meyer-Rey, Nnenna Onuoha, Ann Oren, Andrea Pichl, Germaine Richier, Karin Sander, Cornelia Schleime, Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Gabriele Stötzer, Jenny Wiegmann-Mucchi, and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, as well as interviews with art historians Irene Dölling, Annette Dorgerloh, Ada Raev, Angelika Richter, Sigrid Schade, Silke Wenk, and Gabriele Werner

Curators of the exhibition: Angela Lammert and Annette Tietz

• Exhibition period: 12.11.2025, to 25.01.2026
  

Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday
12:00 to 20:00
Saturday and Sunday
14:00 to 20:00

Events

Thursday, 20.11.2025, 19:00
READING + DISCUSSION
Making the impossible possible/ With ingenuity and cunning (Inge Müller)
An evening for Helene Weigel and Inge Müller With Corinna Harfouch, actress, Kirstin Schulz, literary scholar and author, and Iliane Thiemann, Bertolt Brecht Archive, Academy of Arts, Berlin

Thursday, 04.12.2025, 18:00
CATALOG PRESENTATION
With art historians Irene Dölling, Annette Dorgerloh, Ada Raev, Angelika Richter, Sigrid Schade, and Silke Wenk

Thursday, 11.12.2025, 19:00
READING
Author Annett Gröschner reads from her novel “Schwebende Lasten” (Suspended Burdens) (Munich 2025)

Thursday, 15.01.2026, 19:00
LECTURE
The creative process is a transformative ritual
Jo Ziebritzki, art historian, on art historian Stella Kramrisch (1896-1993)

Thursday, 22.01.2026, 19:00
FILM EVENING
Wäscherinnen (Washerwomen), documentary film by Jürgen Böttcher, GDR 1972, 23 min Winter adé (Goodbye Winter), documentary film by Helke Misselwitz, GDR 1988, 112 min
With Helke Misselwitz

Location: Galerie Pankow
Breite Straße 8
13187 Berlin

(Events in German Language)