[spectre] CONF: Art and Feminisms in the '80s and '90s (online/Padova, 15-16 Oct 26)

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Angela Maderna
Date: Sep 29, 2026
Subject: CONF: Art and Feminisms in the '80s and '90s (online/Padova, 
15-16 Oct 26)

Università di Padova / Online, Oct 15–16, 2026

Time After Time: Art and Feminisms in the '80s and '90s

The conference "Time After Time: Art and Feminisms in the '80s and '90s" 
aims to carry out an overview of current research on the relationships 
between art and feminisms in the 1980s and 1990s and seeks to provide a 
valuable opportunity for exchange and dialogue among researchers working 
on these topics.

Scientific Committee:
Giovanni Bianchi (University of Padova), Laura Iamurri (University of 
Roma Tre), Federica Muzzarelli (University of Bologna), Raffaella Perna 
(Sapienza University of Rome), Laura Schettini (University of Padova)

International conference curated by:
Greta Boldorini (University of Padova), Angela Maderna (University of 
Roma Tre)

Join online:
bit.ly/conferencetimeaftertime

Programme

DAY 1 – 15 October, 14.30–18.45 – Salone Maldura, Palazzo Maldura

14.30   Institutional greetings

14.45   Greta Boldorini e Angela Maderna – Introduction

15.15   Keynote – Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds), online – 
"Decades versus Generations: A Sociological Understanding of “Feminist 
Time” and Artmaking at the End of the 20th Century"

16.00   Chair – Giovanni Bianchi (University of Padova)
Paper Networks: Feminist Periodicals as Transnational Critical Spaces
Katy Deepwell (Founder and Editor of KT Press) – "Undoing Narratives of 
the 1980s and 1990s by Revisiting Feminist Critical Debates in Art Journals"
Antonia Marano (University of Bari Aldo Moro) – "Art, Architecture and 
Feminist Periodicals between Local and Global Contexts: Manifesta and 
Heresies in the 1980s and 1990s"
Maria Paganopoulou (University of Brighton), online – "Women's Art in 
the Greek Feminist Magazine Poli Gynaikon (City of Women) (1982-1985)"

17.00–17.20   Coffee Break

17.20   Chair – Laura Iamurri (University of Roma Tre)
Exhibiting, Censoring, Recontextualizing: Feminist Exhibition Practices
Silvia Maria Sara Cammarata (Wallace Fellow at Villa I Tatti. The 
Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) – "Rooted in 
the Seventies, Pasted on the Walls of the Eighties: Toward a Genealogy 
of the Guerrilla Girls"
Joanna Gardner-Huggett (DePaul University) – "Artemisia Gallery, 
Chicago: Feminist Backlash and Censorship in the 1980s"
Francesca Della Ventura (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf) – "From 
the Body to the Archive: Retrospectives and Reactivations of Feminist 
Art in the German-Speaking Context during the 1990s"

18.20–18.45   Q&A / Discussion

DAY 2 – 16 October, 9.15–17.30 – Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio

9.15   Welcome

9.30   Chair – Federica Muzzarelli (University of Bologna)
Exposed Bodies, Withdrawn Bodies: Violence, Public Space, and Regimes of 
Visibility in the 1990s
Laura Mercader Amigó (University of Barcelona) – "Non mostrare, 
intervenire: operazioni simboliche nell'arte femminista spagnola di 
fronte alle violenze patriarcali (1990–1999)"
Maria Antonietta Trasforini (University of Ferrara) – "Corpi di genere e 
spazio pubblico: arte e autodifesa negli anni '90"
Elena Zanichelli (Marburg University) – "Private. Please, Come In! 
Privacy and Its Rhetorics in the1990s Art"
Michele Giuliano Cipolla (University of Genoa) – “Non voglio più essere 
nella tua immagine”. Corpi, visioni e vicende latenti in Film (1994): il 
non-film di Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster ed Eva Marisaldi"

10.50–11.10   Coffee Break

11.10   Chair – Raffaella Perna (Sapienza University of Rome)
Decentering the Gaze: Black Feminism, Ecology, and Transnational 
Politics of Looking
Elvira Vannini (NABA) – "Essere viste non significa essere comprese. 
Arte, blackness e politiche dello sguardo in bell hooks"
Gill Park (University of Leeds) – "Call and Response: Art and Feminisms 
in Britain and Ghana"
Marianna Tsionki (Leeds Arts University) – "Reconsidering the Political 
Genealogies of Ecofeminism: Feminist Visual Culture and Environmental 
Politics in the 1980s"

12.10–12.45   Q&A / Discussion

12.45–14.15   Lunch

14.30   Chair – Laura Moure Cecchini (University of Padova)
Removed Genealogies: Rewriting Feminist Histories Beyond Narratives of 
Rupture
Guilherme Susin Sirtoli (UFRGS / UFPel, Brazil; University of Coimbra, 
Portugal) – "Conceptualist Practices and Artistic Dissent in Southern 
Brazil: Lenir de Miranda in the 1980s"
Alexandra Karg (Marburg University), online – "They Remain Silent – They 
and Their Country: Migrant Feminism and Art in Germany in the 1990s and 
Beyond"
Wiktoria Szczupacka (Zachęta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw) – 
"Forgetting State Feminism: Artistic Genealogies and the Construction of 
Post-Transformation Feminism in Poland during the 1990s"
Katarzyna Gębarowska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) – "A 
Woman's Place Is on Top: Wanda Rutkiewicz's Photographic Archive and 
Feminist Reclamations of the Sublime"

15.50–16.10   Coffee Break

16.10   Chair – Guido Bartorelli (University of Padova)
Economies of Women's Labour: Precarity, Care, and Materialist Critique 
in Art
Patricia Mayayo (Autonomous University of Madrid) – "Precarie alla 
deriva: cartografie del lavoro femminile nell'arte femminista spagnola 
degli anni '90"
Fabiola Fiocco (independent scholar) – "Pratiche del lavoro, economie 
della critica. Per una rilettura materialista dell'arte femminista tra 
gli anni Ottanta e Novanta"
Maria Chiara Provenzano (Pegaso University) – "«Madri, bambini e 
teatro». Maternità, lavoro artistico, pratiche relazionali e comunità 
femminili nel Magdalena Project a cura di Silvia Ricciardelli (Aradeo, 
1988)"

17.10–17.30   Q&A / Discussion / Closing remarks

Contact: artandfeminisms at gmail.com


Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Art and Feminisms in the '80s and '90s (online/Padova, 15-16 Oct 
26). In: ArtHist.net, Sep 29, 2026. <https://arthist.net/archive/54457>.