From the 27th of March to the 29th of May 2022 the PAC - Palazzo Massari in Ferrara hosts the XIX edition of the Woman Biennale.

This XIX edition, curated by Silvia Cirelli and Catalina Golban, presents the exhibition OUT OF TIME. Restarting from nature, a group show of five international women artists: Mónica De Miranda (Portugal/Angola, 1976), Christina Kubisch (Germany, 1948), Diana Lelonek (Poland, 1988), Ragna Róbertsdóttir (Iceland, 1945), and Anaïs Tondeur (France, 1985).

OUT OF TIME, oprganised by UDI - Unione Donne in Italia (Women Union in Italy) and by the Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries of the Municipality of Ferrara, illustrates the need to rethink the established structures, reorganise established social and economic practices and show links with the ongoing ecological debate.

This exhibition is the clear expression and demonstration of how art addresses through its own means and languages the issues of our time: among these there is also the ecological question. Reflections about this theme are therefore part of this Woman Biennale. The five women artists investigate the interaction and possible alliance between the living creatures of planet earth and do so by using different media: installation, photography, video, sculpture, sound, and others.

The exhibition opens with the work of the Icelandic artist Ragna Róbertsdóttir, a minimalist artist. The works of the Icelandic artist are characterized by the use of materials such as lava, pumice stone, obsidian, volacinc rocks and shells, and are characterized by an expressive imprint that leads to a link with the natural world.


Ragna Róbertsdóttir, View, 2019. Courtesy Persons Projects.

The French artist Anaïs Tondeur, on the other hand, uses a different approach to the subject, as she visually transaltes scientific investigations done with professionists of the field.


Anaïs Tondeur in collaboration with Jean-Marc Chomaz, Memory of the Ocean, 2015. Courtesy the artist.


The exhibition then continues with the visionary world of the Portuguese of Angolian origins. The artist explores environmental evolution from an anthropological point of view. In her works De Miranda analyzes the relation between social stratification and ecosystem change, proposing the so-called "emotional geographies".


Mónica De Miranda, Under Water, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Sabrina Amrani, Madrid.


The prevarication of the human being over the environment is central in the work of Diana Lelonek that proposes alternative solutions of coexistence between the natural world and the human sphere.


Diana Lelonek, Seaberry Slagheap, 2018-22. Courtesy the artist and lokal_30 gallery, Varsavia.

The work of Christina Kubisch, one of the most important exponents of German sound art, closes the XIX Biennale Donna at the PAC - Palazzo Massari in Ferrara. Kubisch was able to harness the exploration of the power of sound to create "acoustic landscapes". Her polyphonic installations investigate silent noise pollution.


Christina Kubisch, Cloud, 2019. Le Havre, Le Tetris.

The exhibition OUT OF TIME of the XIX Woman Biennale combines two themes of great trend of the moment: the ecological issue and the greater involvement of women artists in the international art scene and the art market. In recent years these two topics, combined with greater attention to black artists, are dominating the art sector. You might think that it is trending andthat people try to take advantage of this moment of great attention to these issues to create clickbait. You may think that it is wrong, that important issues are being exploited to generate audience, but the truth is that it doesn’t matter why you talk about it, but that you talk about it.

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