ATTENTION: Event is in GERMAN and at 18:30h Radical Incarnation: Michelangelo’s Muscular Women as Liminal Bodies and the Destabilization of Binary Gender Boundaries

Michelangelo Buonarroti’s muscular women break all norms. From a queer-feminist perspective, one would like to interpret them as emancipatory, but they are highly ambivalent and part of a patriarchal image system. However, it is precisely this tension that makes their existence as points of rupture in the system analytically interesting.

Radical Incarnation: Michelangelo’s Muscular Women as Liminal Bodies and the Destabilization of Binary Gender Boundaries

ATTENTION: Despite previous announcements this Event is in GERMAN and at 18:30h

Thursday, 12th of March at 18:30

This January we are launching a lecture series on queer art history entitled “What’s Missing!”. In this series, art historians and artists will highlight manifestations of queerness across different cultures and historical periods: from the Western Renaissance to Yugoslav art of the 1970s, to contemporary Black African art, and many others.

Michelangelo Buonarroti’s muscular women break all norms. From a queer-feminist perspective, one would like to interpret them as emancipatory, but they are highly ambivalent and part of a patriarchal image system. However, it is precisely this tension that makes their existence as points of rupture in the system analytically interesting.

Elisabeth Priedl studied art history, history, and philosophy at the Universities of Vienna, Graz, and Roma III. Research assistant (dissertation scholarship holder) at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (1996-2000). Director of the KlausEngelhorn Gallery for Contemporary Art (2001-2004). 2004 Doctorate at the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna with a thesis on The Two Susannas of Cardinal Girolamo Rusticucci. On the didactic image program of Santa Susanna in Rome (Dr. phil.). Research assistant at the University of Vienna (deputy chair for Dr. Ingeborg Schemper). Lecturer at the University and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since October 2007, senior scientist at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

🖼️ Lecture

📅 When? 12.03. at 18:30

📍 Where? QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA | Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien

💬 Language: German

📩 No registration required

💶 Free admission, donations welcome

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