Erfurt Women Artists' Group

The Erfurt Women Artists' Group (Erfurter Künstlerinnengruppe) was founded in 1983 by Gabriele Stötzer.[1] It was a group of women artists in Erfurt, East Germany. They met weekly in various houses around Erfurt.[2] They created films and fashion as well as ceramics, photographs and paintings.[3] The group staged performances, fashion shows, and concerts.[4]

Erfurt Women Artists' Group
Erfurter Künstlerinnengruppe
Formation1983
Dissolved1994
Purposearts organization for women
HeadquartersErfurt, Germany

The group changed its name to Exterra XX in 1989.[1]

Examples of their work were included in the 2019 exhibit The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain at Wende Museum in Culver City, California.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Crawford, Holly (2008). Artistic Bedfellows: Histories, Theories and Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices. University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-4191-3.
  2. ^ Cseh-Varga, Katalin; Czirak, Adam (2018). Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere: Event-based Art in Late Socialist Europe. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-75707-2.
  3. ^ Norman, Beret L (1 January 2004). "(Abstract) Bricolage as resistance: The lyrical, visual and performance art of Gabriele Stoetzer". UMass Amherst. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Self Directing. Women Artists from the GDR and the Expansion of their Art in Performance and Actions". Obieg. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  5. ^ "The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain". Wende Museum. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2020.