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3 February, Reflexions on feminist art criticism

An open seminar/gathering with Katy Deepwell.

 

What is the relationship between feminism (an umbrella term for multiple and different kinds of politics regarding women) and the writing of art criticism about contemporary art (ostensibly an aesthetic practice, within an institutional framework of publishing, exhibition and education)?1 What concerns does feminist art criticism have which other forms of art criticism don’t? Are there principles or preoccupations which have marked the difference that feminist art criticism represents in recent decades? For example, is it about new subjects, new criteria, new sensibilities or approaches to writing art criticism or has it become a label attached to reading certain kinds of art practice – namely those artists already identified as feminist/queer feminist/black feminist/postcolonial feminist in their aesthetics/politics? The seminar will explore the tension between “doing” feminism as opposed to “being” a feminist, and consider what this distinction contributes to identifying standpoint/location and/or essentialist/anti-essentialist positions about women’s art production?

To make this discussion more concrete, short examples of different forms of feminist art criticism will be presented and read by participants as the basis for discussion. Participants are welcome to bring a short example of what for them constitutes a “feminist reading” in contemporary art?

Seminar will be in English. No preparatory reading required. This seminar follows Katy Deepwells lecture on Feb 2nd as advertised in gdc programme.

Date: 3 February, 2026, 10:00-12:30 (with coffee)

Please register here until 29 January 2026.

 

  1. See: Deepwell, Katy. 2023. “The Politics and Aesthetic Choices of Feminist Art Criticism” Arts 12, no. 2: 63. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020063