ZOOOM.
PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
Opening: Jan 10, 2025 6 pm
Duration of the show: Jan 10 – Mar 23, 2025
The Arsenał Municipal Gallery in Poznán, Poland
MNW artists:
Tobia König, Kathrin Landa, Tanja Selzer,
Isabelle Dutoit, Justine Otto, Nina K. Jurk,
Anke Völk, Eva Schwab, Verena Landau,
Anija Seedler, Cornelia Renz, Bettina Sellmann
Polish Artists:
Maria Kiesner, Malwina Niiespodziewana, Joanna Pawlik
Curated by Bogna Błażewicz
A few years ago painters from a female group, or more precisely an artistic network known as the MalerinnenNetzWerk Berlin-Leipzig (MNW), accepted my invitation to hold an exhibition at Arsenał Municipal Gallery to introduce contemporary German painting with feminist overtones to audiences from Poznań and beyond.
Driven by the idea of feminist networking, the German artists have suggested inviting several Polish women painters to a joint exhibition as the crowning achievement of their on-line studio meetings of the past few years.
The title, Zooom, is a reference to both the manner of looking, to the close-up view as in the camera lens, and to the meetings on the ZOOM platform (spelled with two O’s) we have attended for a couple of years, preparing the Poznań show.
Personal is Political reflects a time in which there is no escaping the wider contexts. The female body, the age-old subject of painting, which also appears in the work of many of the women-artists on show, has for years been a training ground for partisan battles. The existence of the individual in the modern world is no longer a private matter, just like nature is no longer neutral because it evokes climate change and the risks addressed in a public forum by various factions. There are examples aplenty, as today everything is political.
Bogna Błażewicz
