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Mutterleidb - can you hide us from the waiting world?

Kadi Kaivo, Anna Shneivas, Jana Villaluz

28 June 2025 12:00–18:00 29 June 2025 12:00–18:00
Woman is subjugated to man not only by her flesh, but also by a whole mythology of motherhood imposed on her by the state, the church and society. The fascist state elevates the woman to the status of 'holy mother', but this holiness is just another form of servitude: she is not recognized as an individual, but as the vessel of the nation's future. In this deification lies her dehumanization.
Mutterleidb looks at the womb as origin and prison, as refuge and utopia of purity, as the cradle of a world that wavers between longing for security and fear of the outside. Mutterleidb questions the mechanisms of the hygiene of belonging, the dialectic of integration and exclusion, the seductive power of the fortress and the despair of the outsider. And it poses the uncomfortable question: what if birth, the cry for freedom, has long since become the reactive slogan of new authorities?
And what if the body that gives life is itself considered unsustainable? The pregnant form - a miracle of cell division and metamorphosis - is marveled at like a work of art - touched, interpreted, appropriated. An aesthetic of abundance, of transgression, of radical creative power is condensed within. And yet in the modern meritocracy, the mother becomes a disruptive factor: too difficult, too vulnerable, too demanding. Motherhood is considered a sacrament as long as it fits into the framework of the representable - beyond that, it becomes an imposition. The perception of the mother oscillates between cult and exclusion, between divine elevation and labor market invisibility.
Mutterleidb focuses on these tensions. The womb as a haven of security, but also as a fascist paradise. Society as a censored fortress, but also as a place where one must constantly fight to belong.

Biography

Kadi Kaivo, Anna Shneivas, Jana Villaluz

Kadi Kaivo is a multidisciplinary artist working with oil painting and mixed media, inspired by human characteristics and delving into the deeper and darker layers of the subconscious.

Anna Shneivas is a self-taught artist born in Mongolia. Her work explores the theme of motherhood through intimate, emotionally resonant moments.

Jana Villaluz' artwork explores the rich complexity of the mother-daughter relationship; how it nurtures us, fractures us, and if, with some courage, it can be rebuilt.

Venue

Karl-Marx-Str. 107
12043 Berlin
Germany

Galerie Neukölln

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