tussen kunst en kind | between art and family

Sophie Lewis is a German British academic and self acclaimed communist writer known for her theoretical ideas of family abolition and the use of surrogacy on a societal scale. Her first book Full surrogacy now, Feminism against the family was published in 2019 by Verso Books, followed by Abolish the Family, a manifesto for care and liberation in 2022. Lewis teaches courses on feminist, trans and q...

Jutta Allmendinger is one of Germany's leading thinkers on topics such as (unpaid) labor, gender inequality, family politics, social policy and welfare. Since 2007, she is the President of the Social Science Research Center in Berlin, professor of educational sociology and labor market research at Humboldt University, senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and m...

Lauren Elkin is an award winning Franco-American writer, translator and cultural critic. In 2023 she published the bestseller Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art . A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer...

Kaveri Mayra is a midwifery, nursing and global health researcher from India. In her research she highlights how systemic, gender injustices can impact and negatively manifest health policy-making and affect women's empowerment and health. During her PhD in Global Health from the University of Southampton she explored the experiences and determinants of obstetric violence in India through a ne...

Camille Henrot is one of the most influential voices in contemporary art today, with a practice encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and film. Inspired by references from literature, psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology and the banality of everyday life, she questions what it means to be both a private individual and a global subject in an increasingly connected and over-stimul...

Hettie Judah is a British art critic, broadcaster and writer who has spent many years dealing with the subject of art and motherhood. Following the publication of her 2020 study on the impact of motherhood on artists' careers, she collaborated with a group of artists in 2021 on the manifesto How Not To Exclude Artist Parents , now available in 15 languages. In 2022, Judah co-founded the Art Wo...