Promotional card by Feminine Moments Call for Co-editors and Guest Writers The amount of amazing queer and lesbian feminist art and arts events around the world which could be presented at Feminine Moments’ art blog is so much bigger than it was just five years ago and I am…
Tag: Birthe Havmoeller
This year is the first time that I have promoted Feminine Moments: the international lesbian and queer feminist art blog at my local pride march.
I wish all my readers and contributors a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May 2015 bring you lots of inspiration and creative ideas. Love and kisses Birthe Havmoeller, editor of Feminine Moments
Birthe Havmoeller, editor of Feminine Moments and a screendump of Feminine Moments version 2013. Hurray! Feminine Moments is 10 years! Birthe Havmoeller: I launched Feminine Moments in 2003, because I couldn’t find a site about contemporary art by lesbian, bisexual and queer women artists. My dream was to create a…
Queer [Feminist] Art Salon Indigo Vela, Victoriagade 2-4, Copenhagen Thursday September 19, 2013 at 7pm. Salon Indigo presents emerging visual artist Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller, who will talk about the theme of ‘queer art’ – especially queer feminist art – as a personal as well as professional praxis. Henriette will share her…
I was in Berlin a few weeks ago, where I went walkabout with my camera looking for queer messages in the masses of visual messages in the streets of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
Birthe Havmoeller, self portrait January 2012 The Danish winter at its best – no snow yet. The sun is low. It never reaches zenit at this time of the year. Today it is windy and very cold. I have made a new self portrait for my profile as independent editor…
Little Red Riding Hood, Photo by Birthe Havmoeller, Berlin 2011 Walking in rainy Berlin I noticed Little Red Riding Hood with a red mustache…
My Sun Tan – Selfportrait in a Rainbow by Birthe Havmoeller, 2011 I visited the interative sculpture ‘Your Rainbow Panorama’ by Olafur Eliasson on the roof of Aros, Aarhus Museum of Modern Art, my local art museum yesterday. It is an amazing experience to walk in a rainbow of coloured light…
Today I want to show you my home office. This is where I spend my morning updating Feminine Moments.
My life is quest for a connection with my spiritual roots and a wish to raise my spiritual awareness. I took up photography 20+ years ago as a creative tool. My latest exhibition ‘Work in Progress’ features five black & white works from my series ‘Land Art’ made in 1999-2001 and three color works made in 2009-2010. The show runs through January 31, 2011 in Aarhus, Denmark.
I think that it is time for a bit of storytelling. I created Feminine Moments in 2003, because I felt that the world – especially the lesbian and queer communities – needed a coherent body of resources about contemporary art made by lesbians and queer female artists.
In the 1990’ies everybody did gender, but now gender as an art themes has had its 15 minutes of fame, and we are back to square one: art made by queer women artists is ignored by the art world. It is a big backslash that the art world isn’t open and curious any more.
Traditionally art has had the role of being society’s eye opener. Art must make strong statements and spark a cultural debate. Debates about new issues can lead to change just like new technology, and thus art may lead to new trends and be an agent in the process of change in…
As a lesbian/ queer female artist your lifestyle flavours your art. No art works by lesbian or queer female artist can be defined as works of art that is of no interest at all to the queer community or an audience of female readers. I call all works of fine art made by lesbian or queer…