Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe. Vienna and Warsaw
Exhibition Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, MUMOK (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig), Vienna, Austria, November 13, 2009—February 14, 2010. Subsequently the exhibition was on view at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, March 19 — June 13, 2010. Curated by Bojana Pejić. Research for Latvian section by Māra Traumane.
Gender Check, according to MUMOK, was the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s based on the theme of gender roles. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the curator Bojana Pejić, along with a team of experts from 24 different countries, put together a selection of over 400 works including paintings, sculpture, installations, photography, posters, films and videos. With over 200 artists, the exhibition painted an exceptionally diverse picture of a chapter in art history that until recently had been largely unknown and that could also act as an important addition to contemporary gender discourse.”
Dzividzinska contributed eleven black and white photographs from the 1960s, previously exhibited in her solo show Black and White in Riga in 1999.
Access a comprehensive archive of the exhibition, its background research, and numerous related activities here on Gender Check website.
Read more about the Gender Check project on MUMOK website.
Find out about a related research publication, Gender Check Reader, on MUMOK website here.
Image selection process at the artist’s studio. Riga, 2009.
Advertisement for Gender Check near MUMOK, Vienna., 2009.
Zenta Dzividzinska at the Gender Check exhibition in Vienna, 2009.
Curator Bojana Pejić (left) and artist Zenta Dzividzinska. Vienna, 2009.
At the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2010.
Zenta Dzividzinska at the Gender Check exhibition in Warsaw, 2010.
