Mama

From Mary to Merkel

12 Mar – 3 Aug 2025

Sumi Anjuman, I am the Mother too, 2019

Date

12 Mar – 3 Aug 2025

Location

» Kunstpalast

Admission: 16 € / concessions 13 €
Children / young people under 18: free
Members of Friends of the Kunstpalast: free

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The Kunstpalast is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the manifold ideas of what it means to have, become or be a mother.

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Paula Modersohn-Becker, Stillende Mutter, 1902

The focus is on the societal expectations that have always influenced motherhood and are reflected in art, culture and everyday life. The approximately 120 works on display from the fourteenth century to the present day create a panorama that involves everyone, including fathers and those without children of their own.

Peter Opsvik, Tripp Trapp, Entwurf 1972

In addition to painting, sculpture, video installations and photography, the broad spectrum of the show also encompasses everyday objects as well as music and commercial images. Connections between the works reveal continuities, but also the versatility of depictions of mothers, which are continuously being appropriated, reinterpreted, disputed and celebrated.

Curators: Linda Conze, Westrey Page, Anna Christina Schütz, Kunstpalast

Participatory action

Alice Neel, The Family, 1980

MAMAPHONE

Motherhood has many facets – and the MAMAPHONE has captured numerous voices on the subject.

As part of a participatory campaign, many people sent us their thoughts and experiences on the subject of motherhood by voice message. These voices are now part of a large spatial installation that brings the diversity of this topic to life.

Catalogue about the exhibition