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The culture wars of the 1990's were in part driven by feminist art and practice: the tangible results were both positive and negative. On the one hand, artists like Barbara Kruger and Judy Chicago enjoyed international success and large scale solo shows, and on the other hand, feminism as a concept was vilified as anti-male with many women rejecting any connection with the word. Even the radical cyberfeminism of a few years earlier was drained of all political potential (in the hopes of being more attractive to younger women).

In 2008 and 2009, feminism is making a comeback: exhibitions like re.act.feminism performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute, Wack, Global Feminisms and Prologue New Feminism, New Europe have enjoyed press and public - as well as taking a more global perspective and tackling the work from East Europe. Upcoming exhibitions like und jetzt – Künstlerinnen aus der DDR and Gender Check promise even more. New initiatives like the Gender Art Net map out feminist art and practice. Watch out big daddy mainframe.

http://www.adk.de/reactfeminism/ http://www.mumok.at/programm/vorschau/gender-check/ http://www.portalkunstgeschichte.de/kunstgeschehen/termine.php?id=5833&PHPSESSID=qkwqhwgw http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/about/?page=9

Bettina Knaup:

Kuratorin und Kulturproduzentin im internationalen Kontext an den Schnittstellen von Kunst, Politik und Wissensproduktion. Schwerpunkte: Live Art, Performance, Gender.

Bojana Pejić: 1995 organisierte Bojana Pejić ein internationales Symposium am Literaturhaus Berlin unter dem Titel The Body in Communism. Sie war als Chefkuratorin für die Ausstellung After the Wall — Art and Culture in Post- Communist Europe verantwortlich,1999 zeigte. After the Wall.

Mare Tralla ist Medienkünstlerin und Kuratorin aus Estland.

Mara Traumane, Kuratorin/Kunstkritikerin, Riga/Berlin