GIRLS / MUSEUM - GoetheKino: QUESTIONS OF HER OWN
Schedule
Wed, 27 May, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC+03:00Location
Leoforos Markou Drakou 21, 1102 Nicosia, Cyprus | Nicosia, NI
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The Goethe-Institut Cyprus concludes its GoetheKino: Questions of her Own series with the screening of Girls / Museum, followed by a discussion with Evagoras Vanezis, art theorist, writer and curator, and Melita Couta, multidisciplinary artist, to create a meaningful link to the Cyprus context.We are born into an already-constructed world. We each enter with new eyes into a culture that has already been shaped and structured based on the desires and power of others. Historical art museums are charged with preserving and interpreting the tangible evidence of civilization’s cultural trajectory and artistic achievement. The artworks they display have overwhelmingly been made, collected and contextualized by men. On the walls of their hushed galleries, there is no lack of depictions of women on display – mothers, wives, prostitutes, artist’s models and muses, all seen through the eyes of male artists.
Girls / Museum takes the viewer through the historical art collection of the MdbK/Museum of Fine Art Leipzig, guided by a group of girls, ages 7 to 19. Moving from artwork to artwork, century to century, the girls tell us what they see. Art is typically the reserve of anointed experts and girls rarely take or are given a central and unfettered place to speak from. From imaginative leaps of storytelling to curt pronouncements, from gender fluidity to power, inequality, precarity and war, Girls / Museum, in its quiet way, calls for questioning basic assumptions of what and who we value.
Directed by: Shelly Silver
Award: 3sat Documentary film award, Duisburger Filmwoche
"Questions of her Own" is supported by the Visual artists and art theorists association - phytorio and is part of the KunstRaumGoethe exhibition "Between Imagination and Hope" that will take place from 17 April to 5 June 2026.
🎟Free Admission.
⏰Wednesday 27 May 2026, 7p.m.
📍Goethe-Institut Zypern, 21 Markou Drakou Ave., 1102 Nicosia
🗣In German, with English subtitles. Discussion in English.
ℹ️Information: https://www.goethe.de/ins/cy/en/ver.cfm?event_id=27239161
© Shelly Silver 2020
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