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Last chance to see! Haus am Lützowplatz is showing the exhibition “The Bad Mother” until 11 February 2024. Following on from the title-giving work “The Bad Mother” by Louise Bourgeois, the group exhibition takes an artistic look at the expectations placed on mothers. With mothers who are too selfish, too sexy, too self-sacrificing, too “motherly”. With mothers who do not fulfil their own expectations and whose reality of life is a continuum between self-sacrifice and self-assertion. With mothers who project their own dreams and values onto their children. With mothers who work off their mothers while being mothers themselves. With mothers whose children are wondering whether they want to and can be mothers/fathers themselves.
The exhibition brings together works that go beyond the clichéd depiction 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. The exhibition is an attempt to present a realistic image of motherhood. …
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Image above: Katarina Janeckova Walshe, Givers, 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 182 x 279 cm, Courtesy Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin
