With works by: Louise Bourgeois, Candice Breitz, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Antje Engelmann
Daniel Hopp, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Carina Linge, Eva Vuillemin, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Katarina Janečková Walshe

Curated by Katharina Schilling

Following on from the titular work “The Bad Mothe”r by Louise Bourgeois, the group exhibition artistically explores the expectations placed on motherhood. With mothers who are too selfish, too sexy, too self-sacrificing, too "motherly". With mothers who do not fulfill their own expectations and whose life reality is a continuum between self-sacrifice and self-assertion. The exhibition brings together works beyond the clichéd image 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.

December 7, 2023, 7 pm: Curator’s tour in dialog with Susanne Weiß
January 13, 2024, 4 pm: Performance by Antje Engelmann and Jordan Troeller
January 27, 2024, 4 pm: Reading by Daniela Dröscher
Februar 4, 2024, 4 pm: Artist talk and closing event