Female artist group Erfurt

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The Erfurt group of women artists (1984–1994) was a loose association of women artists, which was founded in Erfurt in 1984 on the initiative of Gabriele Stötzer . They preferred to work with the media of film and performance as well as fashion object shows.

Development and work

From an initial discussion group of creative women who met in private living spaces, artistic activities soon developed. The moving image in particular promised "[...] a wide range of physical and emotional expressions."

Her art promised women liberation from the visual reality of the GDR on the one hand, but also from standardized gender images on the other.

From 1988 the artists found an explicit visual language of rebellion and also a larger public, especially through performative appearances and stagings with expressive costumes.

After the reunification , the name "Exterra XX" was used from the end of 1989. Before that, the name of the group changed on various projects and occasions (e.g. "Undine", "Atlantis" and others).

In 1990 the group of women artists founded the Kunsthaus Erfurt .

Members

In addition to Stötzer, the group's early actors included Monika Andres, Verena Kyselka, Monique Förster, Gabriele Göbel, Ina Heyner, Ingrid Plöttner, Elke Karl and Harriet Wollert.

Later Bettina Neumann, Sylvia Richter, Claudia Räther, Tely Büchner, Angelika Hummel and Birgit Quehl joined them.

8mm films (selection)

  • Tip, 8mm, 12 min. 1986
  • Trisal , 8mm, 20 min. 1986 *
  • Women's dreams , 8mm, 25 min. 1986 *
  • Touching the spirits , 8mm, 25 min. 1987 *
  • Comic - strange , 8mm, 25 min. 1988 *
  • Seduction , 8mm, 12 min. 1988 *
  • Signals , 8mm, 25 min. 1989 *
  • There were two royal children , Super 8, 10 min 1990 *

Performances

  • 1988: 1st public fashion object show at the Evangelical Church Congress in Erfurt (GDR)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Art Collection Dresden: Medea mucked up. Radical artists behind the Iron Curtain, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden 2018-2019 . Cologne 2019, p. 154 .
  2. ↑ a b Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden (Ed.): Medea muckt. Radical artists behind the Iron Curtain, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden 2018-2019 . Cologne 2019, p. 236 .