MATERNAL FANTASIES is an interdisciplinary group of international artists and cultural producers based in Berlin, Germany exploring the most marginalised topic within both the art world and feminist discourse: Motherhood.
We began meeting in February 2018 to examine through artistic research, collaborative artworks and lived experience the dynamics between artistic creation and motherhood, in order to shape the discourse of motherhood through our artistic working process.
Arthur Boskamp Advancement Award 2019/2020
Maternal Fantasies is the 2019/2020 recipient of the M.1 Arthur Boskamp Förderpreis with a curatorial focus on care work.
“Like So Many …”
In the group exhibition “Colleagues Wanted I – Superheroines and visionary associates” at alpha nova galerie futura berlin, the artist group Maternal Fantasies presents a photo-text installation whose starting point is a collective writing session, as well as a series of staged photographic and moving images. The texts are composed of fragments of autobiographical-tinged writing that have arisen from grappling with motherhood, identity and representation, as well as with second wave feminist polemical pamphlets. The visual components recall tableaux vivants that are staged with varying numbers of group members and children. Artistic production appears here as collective experience. Outdated role models are countered by contemporary, processual alternatives developed through practical work.” –Dr. Katharina Koch / alpha nova galerie futura
“Landpartie”
The Maternal Fantasies “Landpartie” is a collective action in form of a mini-residency, in whcih we experiment with open authorship modes, while actively practicing the fusion of art and life by integrating our children in the process of our collective art production.
Landpartie 01 took place in June 2018 at BetOnest, an emerging new art space located in a former cement factory in the village of Stolpe/Oder in the Uckermark region.
The Maternal Fantasies “Landpartie 01” consisted of two parts of collective production: A creative writing session as well as collectively created photographic and video works.
Participants: Aino El Solh, Hanne Klaas, Isabell Spengler, Lena Chen, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão, Melanie Schlachter, Mikala Hyldig Dal.
Additional participants: Ten children, one unborn and one father.
