January 03, 2024, 4 pm

Many thanks to the artistic director Katharina Schilling introducing our participants to the concept, program & history of the Haus am Lützowplatz – Fördererkreis Kulturzentrum Berlin e.V. and guiding us through the exhibition The Bad Mother curated by her. The visit is part of the BAI Studio Program | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.

Exhibition Date: November 25 – February 11, 2024
Location: HaL – Haus am Lützowplatz
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11 AM – 6 PM 
Address: Lützowplatz 9, 10785 Berlin

With works by: Louise Bourgeois, Candice Breitz, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Antje Engelmann, Daniel Hopp, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Carina Linge, Eva Vuillemin, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Katarina Janečková Walshe

“Following on from the titular work The Bad Mother by Louise Bourgeois, the group exhibition artistically explores the expectations placed on motherhood. With mothers who are too selfish, too sexy, too self-sacrificing, too „motherly“. With mothers who do not fulfill their own expectations and whose life reality is a continuum between self-sacrifice and self-assertion. The exhibition brings together works beyond the clichéd image of family happiness and the eternally mildly smiling mother as is still prevalent not only in depictions of the supermother Mary, but also in social media images.” (Excerpt from the press release by courtesy of HaL & Katharina Schilling)

More information on the Haus am Lützowplatz Website.