Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Austria
vera* – Trust Centre against Harassment and Violence in Art, Culture and Sport
Region: Austria / nationwide
vera* is an independent trust centre for people in art, culture or sport who have experienced harassment, violence, abuse of power or discrimination. The centre offers confidential counselling, psychological and legal support, and accompanies those affected, witnesses and supporters in clarifying possible next steps. Its aim is to foster safe, violence-free and respectful working and development environments in culture and sport.
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D—Arts – Project Office for Diversity and Urban Dialogue
Region: Austria / nationwide
D—Arts is an Austria-wide project office that focuses on anti-discriminatory concepts, diversity and structural change in the cultural sector. Together with member associations and cultural institutions, D—Arts identifies gaps in the cultural field, supports transformation processes and develops consulting, conceptual and curatorial approaches for a more diverse and equitable cultural landscape.
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Region: Vienna
Advocacy group for visual artists focusing on fair working conditions, social security, and gender equity.
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Region: Vienna
Network promoting women in media professions; committed to equality, diversity, and fighting sexism.
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Region: Linz
Platform for feminist cultural work, networking, and empowerment.
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FIFTITU% – Network Office for Women in Art and Culture*
Region: Linz
Advocates for gender equality for women* artists, offering counseling, studies, and lobbying.
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Germany
Region: Germany / nationwide, with regional filter options
Pinkstinks offers an interactive, user-friendly search tool for people affected by discrimination, (sexualized) violence, exclusion, or psychological stress. The platform is especially aimed at FLINTA* individuals, young people, queer communities, parents, survivors of violence, and those seeking support in care contexts. The search function allows targeted filtering by topic (e.g., mental health, queer counseling, sex education) and region.
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Themis Trust Centre against Sexual Harassment and Violence
Region: Germany / nationwide, based in Berlin
Themis is an independent, cross-company trust centre for people in the cultural and media sectors who have experienced sexual harassment or violence. It offers confidential counselling, psychological and legal support, as well as prevention formats and training for institutions, managers and staff. The service is aimed in particular at employees and freelancers in film, television, theatre, orchestras, music and other areas of the cultural and media industries.
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Federal Foundation for Gender Equality (Bundesstiftung Gleichstellung)
Region: Germany / nationwide, based in Berlin
Works across sectors to promote equality, including in arts and culture.
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German Cultural Council (Deutscher Kulturrat)
Region: Germany / nationwide, based in Berlin
Umbrella Organization of German Cultural Associations. The project office Women in Culture & Media of the German Cultural Council offers a mentoring program for women who aspire to leadership positions in the cultural and media sectors or who wish to strengthen their professional position within the field.
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GEDOK – Association of Communities of Women Artists and Art Patrons
Region: Germany / nationwide with regional groups
GEDOK is a nationwide network for women artists and art patrons and is regarded as the oldest and largest network for women artists in Europe. The association supports women artists in the fields of visual arts, literature, applied arts / art design, music and performing arts. It promotes visibility, networking, funding and gender-equitable structures in the arts and cultural sector.
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Music Women Germany – Nationwide network for FLINTA in the music sector
Region: Germany / nationwide
Music Women* Germany is a nationwide umbrella network for FLINTA* and other genderqueer actors in the music sector. The network advocates for greater gender equality, visibility, connection, and participation in music culture and the music industry across genres, ages, backgrounds, and levels of professional experience. Its offers include community and networking formats, a nationwide database, job and funding information, programmes, events, and qualification formats that strengthen FLINTA* in the music sector.
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Culture.Care – Model project for care-sensitive working structures in theatre
Region: Germany / model theatres nationwide
Culture.Care is a model project by Bühnenmütter* e. V. that develops structures for better compatibility between care responsibilities and theatre production. At seven model theatres, measures for care management, organisational development and changed production processes are being tested. The aim is to create more sustainable, family- and care-sensitive working conditions in theatre and to make care responsibilities visible as a structural reality in the cultural sector.
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Pro Quote Bühne / ProQuote Film – Initiatives for gender equality in theatre and film
Region: Germany / nationwide
Pro Quote Bühne and ProQuote Film advocate for greater gender equality, visibility and fair distribution of power in the performing arts and film sector. The initiatives highlight structural inequalities, call for gender parity in leadership positions, committees and funding decisions, and strengthen women*, FLINTA* and marginalised perspectives in artistic production fields. ProQuote Film also provides a platform that makes women* and FLINTA* working in different film departments easier to find.
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Queer Media Society – Initiative of queer media professionals
Region: Germany / nationwide, focused on the media and cultural sectors
Queer Media Society is a volunteer-based activist initiative of queer media professionals. It works against discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, inter* and non-binary people in the media, cultural policy and the media industry. Its aim is to promote fairer representation of queer realities, greater participation in decision-making and anti-discriminatory change in media production, staffing structures and storytelling.
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Diversity Audit Arts & Culture
by the Zentrum für Kulturelle Teilhabe Baden‑Württemberg (ZfKT)
Region: Baden-Württemberg
The ZfKT supports and advises cultural institutions in Baden-Württemberg in developing and implementing holistic diversity management. This structured certification program accompanies institutions over a two-year pilot phase to help them further develop their structures, staffing, programming, audience outreach, and strategic orientation with a strong focus on diversity.
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Diversity Arts Culture – Berlin Project Office for Diversity in the Arts
Region: Berlin
Diversity Arts Culture advises cultural institutions and public authorities on diversity issues. They develop training programs for cultural professionals and support artists and workers who face exclusion in the cultural sector. They also offer anti-discrimination counseling and advocate for collecting equality data within Berlin’s cultural institutions.
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Gunda-Werner-Institut of the Heinrich Böll Foundation (GWI)
Region: Berlin
Advocates for feminism and gender democracy and promotes gender topics in politics, culture, and science.
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Platz da! – Accessible cultural mediation and process support for inclusion
Region: Berlin / active nationwide
Platz da! supports cultural institutions in becoming more inclusive and reducing barriers. Its holistic approach combines accessible cultural mediation formats, process support, and training for staff. The initiative works closely with cultural mediators with different disabilities, who help make barriers in the areas of seeing, hearing, learning, and mobility visible and develop new forms of access for diverse audiences.
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Region: North Rhine-Westphalia
Supports female artists and their projects in NRW and promotes visibility for women in culture.
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Service Centre for Inclusion in the Cultural Sector
Region: Saxony, Germany
The Service Centre for Inclusion in the Cultural Sector supports cultural institutions, cultural workers and funding structures in implementing inclusion and accessibility. It provides information on funding opportunities, training and practical knowledge, offers guidelines and resources, and helps institutions embed cultural participation for people with disabilities into their structures and planning processes.
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Switzerland
m2act – Funding and Networking Project by Migros Culture Percentage
Region: Switzerland / nationwide
m2act promotes fair, collaborative, and sustainable production conditions in the performing arts, with a focus on care, justice, and structural change.
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Specialist Office Culture Inclusive by Pro Infirmis
Region: Switzerland / nationwide, based in Zurich
The Specialist Office Culture Inclusive by Pro Infirmis is Switzerland’s nationwide competence centre for inclusive culture. It supports cultural institutions in developing inclusive cultural practices, offers consulting, networking and communication services, and strengthens the visibility of cultural participation for people with disabilities. Through the «Culture Inclusive» network and label as well as the «Charter for Cultural Inclusion», the office accompanies institutions on their path towards greater accessibility and participation.
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INKLUSEUM – Consulting, projects and processes for inclusive museums and cultural institutions
Region: Switzerland / nationwide
INKLUSEUM supports museums and cultural institutions in developing inclusion, accessibility, diversity and participation. The initiative combines consulting, project development and process support to make cultural spaces more accessible for different people and to integrate diverse individual perspectives more strongly. Its focus is on practical change in mediation, organisation and institutional culture.
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Region: Basel (active nationwide)
Coordination office for women* musicians, DJs, and producers in jazz, pop, and rock – with a strong focus on gender equity.
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Fachstelle Kulturvermittlung Schweiz (Equality Division)
Region: Bern
Supports inclusive access and promotes gender diversity in cultural education and mediation.
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Reading Lists
Content Overview
Books:
- Art and Care
- Care (Revolution, Society, Structures)
- Art and Gender Equality
- Motherhood, (Non-)Parenthood, Care & Queer Kinship
- Feminist Resistance: Race, Class, Gender, and Beyond
- Disability Justice, Crip Studies & Interdependency
Further Resources:
- Exhibition Catalogues & Fanzines
- Studies & Reports
Sources: The list draws from the reading list published by art+care Schweiz and contains further resources from our own research.
Books:
Art and Care
Why Call It Labor? On Motherhood and Art Work – Mai Abu ElDahab (ed.)
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-Assembling Motherhood(s). On Radical Care and Collective Art as Feminist Practices – Sascia Bailer, Magdalena Kallenberger, Maicyra Leão Teles e Silva (eds.)
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Caring Infrastructures – Transforming the Arts through Feminist Curating – Sascia Bailer
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Other writers need to concentrate – Katharina Bendixen, David Blum, Barbara Peveling, Sibylla Vričic Hausmann (eds.)
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Mothering Myths: An ABC of Art, Birth and Care – Laurie Cluitmans, Heske ten Cate (eds.)
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Art Monsters. Unruly Forms of Womanhood – Lauren Elkin
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Mütter, die gehen (Mothers Who Leave) – Begoña Gómez Urzaiz
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Mother Tongue – Camille Henrot
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Die Träume anderer Leute (The Dreams of Other People) – Judith Holofernes
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Acts of Creation – On Art and Motherhood – Hettie Judah
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KUNSTFORUM International, Heft
284: Mutter-schaft (Mother-hood) – Larissa Kikol
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Radicalizing Care. Feminist and Queer Activism in Curating – Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold, Vera Hoffmann (ed.)
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Curating with Care – Elke Krasny, Lara Perry (eds.)
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Das Leben der Kunst. Transversale Linien der Sorge (The Life of Art. Transversal Lines of Care) – Bojana Kunst
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Fremdlinge (Strangers) – Anna Katharina Laggner
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Kunst + Care. Fürsorge als Chance und Risiko im aktuellen im Kulturbetrieb – (Art + Care. Care as Opportunity and Risk in Today’s Cultural Sector) Ursula Theißen, Susanne Ristow, Lisa Bosbach (Hg).
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Ambivalenzen der Sichtbarkeit (Ambivalences of Visibility)– Johanna Schaffer
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Meine Arbeit (My Work) – Olga Ravn
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Frühe Pflanzung (Early Planting) – Anna Ospelt
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Ich stehe hier und bügle (I Stand Here Ironing) – Tillie Olsen
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The Mother Artist – Catherine Ricketts
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Arbeitstage (Working Days) – Jenny Schäfer
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To Becoming Two – Alex Martinis Roe
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Migrant Mother. Migrant Gender – Sally Stein
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Hallo Mama (Hello Mama, Graphic Novel) – Polly Dunbar
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Ein Geist in der Kehle (A Ghost in the Throat) – Doireann Ní Ghríofa
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On Connection – Kae Tempest
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How to enter the Art World – After a late start, a first career, illness, raising children, a crisis of confidence, leabing it in disgust … – Hettie Judah
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Milk Factory – Corinne May Botz
Care (-Revolution, -Society, -Structures)
for Care and Liberation – Sophie Lewis
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Alle Zeit (All the Time) – Teresa Bücker
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Alles Familie! (All Family!) – Alexandra Maxeiner, Anke Kuhl
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Alles inklusive (All Inclusive) – Mareice Kaise
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Behindert und stolz (Disabled and Proud) – Luisa L’Audace
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Chorus of Mushrooms – Hiromi Goto
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Das Ende der Ehe. Für eine Revolution der Liebe (The End of Marriage. For a Revolution of Love) – Emilia Roig
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Das Ministerium der Träume (The Ministry of Dreams) – Hengameh Yaghoobifarah
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Decolonize Selfcare – Alyson Spurgas / Zoë Meleo-Erwin
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exit RACISM – rassismuskritisch Denken lernen (exit RACISM – Learning to Think Critically About Racism) – Tupoka Ogette
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Freiheit. Vier Variationen über Zuwendung und Zwang – Maggie Nelson
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Für Sorge – wie Equal Care euer Familienleben rettet (Careful – How Equal Care Saves Your Family Life) – Jo Lücke
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Kümmern und Kämpfen (Caring and Fighting) – Anne Waak
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Ich stehe hier und bügle – Tillie Olsen
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Milkyways – Camille Henrot
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Musterbruch (Breaking the Pattern) – Patricia Cammarata
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Meine Arbeit (My Work) – Olga Ravn
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Ökologien der Sorge (Ecologies of Care) – Tobias Bärtsch u.a.
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Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler
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Solidarisch gegen Klassismus. organisieren, intervenieren, umverteilen (In Solidarity Against Classism: Organizing, Intervening, Redistributing) – Francis Seeck, Brigitte Theiß (Hg.)
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The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson
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Technopolitiken der Sorge (Technopolitics of Care) – Christoph Brunner, Grit Marti Lange, Nate Wessalowski (Hg.)
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Und alle so still (And Everyone So Silent) – Mareike Fallwickl
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Unlearn Patriarchy (Bände 1+2) (Unlearn Patriarchy (Volumes 1 & 2)) – Lisa Jaspers, Naomi Ryland, Silvie Hoch (Hg.)
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Utopien für den Alltag (Utopias for Everyday Life) – Kristen R. Ghodsee
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WORKING CLASS DAUGHTERS – Über Klasse sprechen (WORKING CLASS DAUGHTERS – Talking About Class) – Karolina Dreit, Kristina Dreit
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3 Väter (3 Fathers) – Nando von Arb (Graphic Novel)
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Wirtschaft neu ausrichten. Care-Initiativen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (Realigning the Economy. Care Initiatives in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) – Uta Meier‑Gräwe, Ina Praetorius, Feline Tecklenburg (Hg.)
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Radikale Selbstfürsorge Jetzt! (Radical Self-Care Now!) – Svenja Gräfen
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Revolution der Verbundenheit (Revolution of Connectedness) – Franziska Schutzbach
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Revolution für das Leben. Philosophie der neuen Protestformen (Revolution for Life. Philosophy of New Forms of Protest) – Eva von Redecker
Art and Gender Equity
The Milk of Dreams – Cecilia Alemani (ed.)
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Women, Art, and Society – Whitney Chadwick
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Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Women in Art – Jane Chin Davidson
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Feminist Art Manifestos: An Anthology – Katy Deepwell (ed.)
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Orshi Drozdik: Feminist Methodologies in Visual Arts – Katalin Timár (ed.)
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The Expanding Art Canon. Women, Queer, Global – Joanna Fateman, Inka Meißner (eds.)
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Käthe, Paula und der ganze Rest (Käthe, Paula and All the Others) – Carola Muysers, Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen (eds.)
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Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art – Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin (eds.)
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The Reckoning. Women Artists of the New Millennium – Eleanor Heartney et al.
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Post-Feminist Trans/Feminism in Contemporary Art – Gillian Hannum & Kyunghee Pyun (eds.)
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How to Not Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) – Hettie Judah
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Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History – Amelia Jones
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Kunst/Macht/Politik – Künstlerinnen in der DDR (Art/Power/Politics – Women Artists in the GDR) – Angela Lammert et al.
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A Time of One’s Own – Catherine Grant
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The Story of Art Without Men – Katy Hessel
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Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader – Linda Nochlin
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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? – Linda Nochlin
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Nachbilder. Kunst der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre von Künstlerinnen (Afterimages. Art of the 1960s to 1980s by Women Artists) – Museum Ludwig Köln (ed.)
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Contemporary Art and Feminism – Jacqueline Millner
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Kunstfrauen. Künstlerinnen sehen die Welt (Art Women. Women Artists See the World) – Christiane Meixner
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Kunst, die Wissen schafft (Art That Creates Knowledge) – Ulrike Müller (ed.)
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Boobs in the Arts: Fe:male Bodies in Pictorial History – Natanja von Stosch & Juliet Kothe
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Feminisms/Museums/Surveys: An Anthology – Hilary Robinson & Lara Perry
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Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology – Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock
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Art and Feminism – Helena Reckitt (ed.)
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Queer Art: A Freak Theory – Renate Lorenz
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Das unterdrückte Talent. Die Rolle der Frauen in der Bildenden Kunst (The Obstructed Talent. The Role of Women in the Visual Arts) – Germaine Greer
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A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Motherhood(s), (Non-)Parenthood, Care & Queer Kinship
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Work-Life-Balance (Grafik Novel) (Work-Life Balance [Graphic Novel]) – Aisha Franz
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Patriarchale Belastungsstörung (Patriarchal Stress Disorder) – Beatrice Frasl
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Karriere & Familie (Career & Family) – Claudia Goldin
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Mutterschaft (Motherhood) – Sheila Heti
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Intimacies – Lucy Caldwell
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Lebenswerk. Über das Mutterwerden (Life’s Work. On Becoming a Mother) – Rachel Cusk
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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids – Meghan Daum (ed.)
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Mother Reader. Essential Writings on Motherhood – Moyra Davey (ed.)
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Unter Umständen (Under Certain Circumstances) – Jil Erdmann, Lena Käsermann (eds.)
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Die Wut die bleibt (The Anger That Remains) – Mareike Fallwickl
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Aus dem Bauch heraus (From the Gut) – Jana Heinicke
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Krawall und Kekse (Riot and Cookies) – Shirley Jackson
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Das Unwohlsein der modernen Mutter (The Malaise of the Modern Mother) – Mareice Kaiser
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Kinder haben (Having Children) – Heide Lutosch
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Queering Reproduction – Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience – Laura Mamo
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Slug – Hollie McNish
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Nobody Told Me – Hollie McNish
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Mutter. Sein. (Mother. Being.) – Susanne Mierau
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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter – Aja Monet
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The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson
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Maternal Theory: Essential Readings – Andrea O’Reilly (ed.)
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Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption – Lisa Baraitser
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The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood – Sharon Hays
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Ist das OK? (Is That OK?) – Agota Lavoyer
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Jede_ Frau (Every_ Woman) – Agota Lavoyer
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution – Adrienne Rich
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Radical Reproductive Justice – Loretta Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples & Pamela Bridgewater Toure (eds.)
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The Motherhood Constellation – Daniel N. Stern
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem – Julie Phillips
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Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters
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Mythos Mutterinstinkt (The Myth of Maternal Instinct) – Annika Rösler, Evelyn Höllrigl Tschaikner
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Schwangerwerdenkönnen (The Capacity to Become Pregnant) – Antje Schrupp
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Die Abwertung der Mütter (The Devaluation of Mothers) – Anne Theiss
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Nicht nur Mütter waren schwanger (Not Only Mothers Were Pregnant) – Alisa Tretau (ed.)
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Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back – Andi Galdi Vinko
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Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation – Sophie Lewis
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Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family – Sophie Lewis
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Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama – E. Ann Kaplan
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Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness – Laurie Lisle
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Mothering – Subversive Fürsorge als radikale Praxis (Mothering – Subversive Care as a Radical Practice) – Purnima Vater, Caroline Tamayo Rojas (ed.)
Feminist Resistance: Race, Class, Gender, and Beyond
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We Should All Be Feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Süss – eine feministische Kritik (Sweet – A Feminist Critique) – Ann-Kristin Tlusty
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Decolonizing Methodologies. Research and Indigenous Peoples – Linda Tuhiwai Smith
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Can the Subaltern Speak? – Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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A Decolonial Feminism – Françoise Vergès
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Untenrum frei (Free Down Below) – Margarete Stokowski
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Die letzten Tage des Patriarchats (The Last Days of the Patriarchy) – Margarete Stokowski
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Der Ursprung der Welt & Der Ursprung der Liebe (Graphic Novels) (The Origin of the World & The Origin of Love) – Liv Strömquist
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Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism – bell hooks
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Feminism Is for Everybody – bell hooks
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Sprache und Sein (Language and Being) – Kübra Gümüşay
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Frauen erfahren Frauen (Women Experience Women) – Jil Erdmann (ed.)
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KINGKONG THEORIE (King Kong Theory) – Virginie Despentes
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Geliebtes Arschloch (Dear Asshole) – Virginie Despentes
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Sister Outsider. Essays and Speeches – Audre Lorde
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The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism – Audre Lorde
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KLASSENFAHRT. 63 persönliche Geschichten zu Klassismus und feinen Unterschieden (FIELD TRIP. 63 Personal Stories About Classism and Subtle Differences) – Frede Macioszek, Julian Knop (eds.)
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Azadi. Freedom. Fascism. Fiction – Arundhati Roy
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Gott der kleinen Dinge (The God of Small Things) – Arundhati Roy
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153 Formen des Nichtseins (153 Forms of Nonbeing) – Slata Roschal
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Women, Race & Class – Angela Y. Davis
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday – Angela Y. Davis
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Gruss aus der Küche. Texte zum Frauenstimmrecht (Greetings from the Kitchen. Texts on Women’s Suffrage) – Rita Jost, Heidi Kronenberg (eds.)
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Caliban und die Hexe (Caliban and the Witch) – Silvia Federici
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Wages Against Housework – Silvia Federici
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Weissen Feminismus canceln (Cancel White Feminism) – Sibel Schick
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Hast du Nein gesagt? (Did You Say No?) – Natalia Widler, Miriam Suter
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Against White Feminism – Wie weisser Feminismus Gleichberechtigung verhindert (Against White Feminism – How White Feminism Obstructs Equality) – Rafia Zakaria
Disability Justice, Crip Studies & Interdependence
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Bewegung tut gut. Crip, Care, Kunst und Kollektive (Movement Feels Good. Crip, Care, Art, and Collectives) – Esther Andradi, Anne Hoffmann, Kimba (eds.)
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Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good – adrienne maree brown
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Care Revolution: Living and Learning with Disabled Children – Nina Fletcher
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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist – Judith Heumann
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Intensiv – Wenn der Ausnahmezustand Alltag ist (Intensive – When the Exception Becomes Everyday) – Mareice Kaiser
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Wie behindert ist das denn?! Mein Leben zwischen Perfektion und Pause(How Disabled Is That?! My Life Between Perfection and Pause) – Laura Gehlhaar
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Sex, Disability, and Motherhood: Accessing Care and Control – Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire, Christine Kelly (eds.)
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The Care Manifesto – The Care Collective
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Behinderung radikal denken. Eine Streitschrift für eine andere Gesellschaft(Rethinking Disability. A Polemic for Another Society) – Theresia Degener
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Sick Woman Theory – Johanna Hedva
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Technologien der Fürsorge. Perspektiven auf ein Handlungsfeld zwischen Sorge, Herrschaft und Solidarität
(Technologies of Care. Perspectives on a Field between Care, Domination, and Solidarity) – Anna Lipphardt, Regina Römhild, Katja Ketterer (eds.)
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Geist und Körper – Philosophie der Interdependenz(Mind and Body – Philosophy of Interdependence) – Eva von Redecker
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Inklusion. Wer darf dabei sein? (Inclusion. Who Gets to Be There?) – Ninia LaGrande
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Behinderung und Gesellschaft. Crip Perspectives (Disability and Society. Crip Perspectives) – Ninia LaGrande, Raul Krauthausen, Rebecca Maskos (eds.)
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Feminist, Queer, Crip – Alison Kafer
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Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid – Shayda Kafai
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century – Alice Wong (ed.)
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The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability – Jasbir K. Puar
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Crip Times: Disability, Globalization, and Resistance – Robert McRuer
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Chronically Ill: Disability, Time, and the Art of Living – Esmé Weijun Wang
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Allein im Garten – Tagebuch einer Pflegekraft (Alone in the Garden – Diary of a Care Worker) – Jennifer Sonntag
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No Body Is Disposable: The Logic of Ableism – Eli Clare
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Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure – Eli Clare
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The Queer Art of Failure – Jack Halberstam
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Disability Justice: Community, Culture and Leadership – Mia Mingus et al.
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Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction – Sami Schalk
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Further Resources:
Exhibition Catalogues & Fanzines on Care, Motherhood(s) & Family
double bind – Kunst Kinder Karriere (Double Bind – Art, Children, Career)
Edited by Signe Theill, Vice Versa Verlag, Berlin
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MUTTER! (MOTHER!)
Exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Distanz Verlag
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Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births
Exhibition catalog for the international touring show (Mütter Museum Philadelphia, MassArt Boston, ArkDes Stockholm, HCCC Houston), MIT Press
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Fanzine zur Ausstellung “Which Gender has Care?”
D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
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Kochen Putzen Sorgen – Care-Arbeit in der Kunst seit 1960 (Cooking Cleaning Caring – Care Work in Art since 1960)
Exhibition catalog, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, published by Quadrat Bottrop
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Mother Tongue Summit – Fanzine zur Ausstellung On the Horizon: Care, Stuttgart
Editor: Anna Gohmert / Mother* Warriors and Poets
Order via email: contact@mothers-warriors-and-poets.net
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Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood
Catalog for the touring exhibition curated by Hettie Judah (Hayward Gallery, Arnolfini, MAC Birmingham, etc.), Thames & Hudson
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Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family
Exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Hatje Cantz
Exhibition Catalogues on Historical Exhibitions on Visibility of Women Artists
Kampf um Sichtbarkeit – Künstlerinnen der Nationalgalerie vor 1919 (Struggle for Visibility – Women Artists of the National Gallery before 1919) – Yvette Deseyve, Ralph Gleis (eds.), Reimer, 2019
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Die schaffende Galatea (The Creative Galatea) – Matthias Rataiczyk (ed.), Kunstverein Talstraße e.V., Halle (Saale), 2019
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Neue Positionen – Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 (New Positions – Association of Women Artists in Berlin 1867) – Anna Havemann (ed.), Michael Imhof Verlag, 2019
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Stadt der Frauen – Künstlerinnen in Wien 1900–1938 (City of Women – Women Artists in Vienna 1900–1938) – Sabine Fellner, Stella Rollig (eds.), Prestel, 2019
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Fortsetzung folgt! 150 Jahre Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen 1867 e.V. (To Be Continued! 150 Years of the Association of Women Artists in Berlin 1867 e.V.) – vice versa, 2017
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Sturm-Frauen. Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde in Berlin, 1910–1932 (Storm Women. Women Artists of the Avant-Garde in Berlin, 1910–1932) – Ingrid Pfeiffer, Max Hollein (eds.), Schirn / Wienand, 2016
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Profession ohne Tradition – 125 Jahre Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen (Profession without Tradition – 125 Years of the Association of Women Artists in Berlin) – Berlinische Galerie (ed.), Kupfergraben, 1992
Studies & Reports
Care works in Music? Wer macht die Care-Work, wer Karriere? (Care works in music? Who does the care work, and who pursues a career?) – Musikforum Rheinland-Pfalz in cooperation with music family hub and musicRLPwomen*, 2025
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Gender Pay Gap in der Kultur weiter gestiegen (Gender Pay Gap in the Cultural Sector Continues to Grow) – ver.di Kunst & Kultur, März 2025
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Baustelle Geschlechtergerechtigkeit – Zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Lage im Arbeitsmarkt Kultur (Construction Site Gender Equality – On the Economic and Social Situation in the Cultural Labour Market (PDF)) – Gabriele Schulz & Olaf Zimmermann, Deutscher Kulturrat, März 2024
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Einkommensstudie von Künstlerinnen in Bayern (Income Study of Female Artists in Bavaria (PDF)) – Claus-Dieter Söndermann on behalf of the Green Party in the Bavarian State Parliament, 2022
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Elternschaft und Kunstbetrieb. Eine Studie zur Situation von Künstler*innen mit Sorgeverantwortung in Sachsen (Parenthood and the Art Sector. A Study on the Situation of Artists with Care Responsibilities in Saxony) – Landesverband Bildende Kunst Sachsen (ed.), 2023
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Kunstberuf und Familie. Erkenntnisse und Handlungsanleitungen zur Vergabepraxis von Atelierstipendien (Art Profession and Family. Findings and Guidelines for Awarding Studio Grants) – Philippe Sablonier for visarte.schweiz, 2023
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Gender-Monitor zur Gleichstellung in Kunst und Kultur in der Schweiz (Gender Monitor on Equality in Art and Culture in Switzerland) – Anja Zimmermann et al., 2021
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Leitlinien für gute Arbeitszeitgestaltung (Guidelines for Good Working Time Design) – ver.di, December 2021
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Beruf Künstlerin – Forderungen an die Politik (Profession: Female Artist – Political Demands) – BBK Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler, 2019
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bbk berlin: Ergebnisprotokoll des Summits zum Gender Gap (bbk berlin: Summary of the Gender Gap Summit (PDF)) – bbk Berlin, 2019
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Frauen und Männer im Kulturmarkt. Bericht zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Lage(Women and Men in the Cultural Market. Report on the Economic and Social Situation (PDF)) – Gabriele Schulz & Olaf Zimmermann, Deutscher Kulturrat, 2020
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Forderungskatalog zur Geschlechtergerechtigkeit im Kulturbereich (Catalogue of Demands for Gender Equality in the Cultural Sector) – Deutscher Kulturrat, 2020
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Frauen in Kultur und Medien (Women in Culture and Media) – Deutscher Kulturrat, 2016
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Arbeitsmarkt Kultur. Zur wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Lage in Kulturberufen (Cultural Labour Market. On the Economic and Social Situation in Cultural Professions (PDF)) – Deutscher Kulturrat, 2012
Press Reviews & Articles
BR – Kultur, Karriere und Kind: Wo bleibt die Vereinbarkeit?
(Culture, Career and Children: Where Is the Compatibility?)
Published on 26 June 2025 by BR Kultur-Online
Explores the question of how careers in the cultural sector can be reconciled with parenthood.
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taz – Frauen in der Kunst: Viel Care und wenig Kohle
(Women in the Arts: Lots of Care, Little Pay)
By Sascia Bailer, published 31 May 2025
A commentary on the disproportionate care burdens carried by women artists – and their financial consequences.
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taz – Diskussion um Care-Arbeit: Auch Kinderlose kümmern sich
(Debating Care Work: Child-Free People Care Too)
By Simone Dede Ayivi, published 23 May 2025
A column arguing for broader recognition of care work beyond the context of motherhood.
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ver.di Kunst & Kultur – Gender Pay Gap in der Kultur weiter gestiegen
(Gender Pay Gap in the Cultural Sector Continues to Widen)
Published on 3 March 2025
A trade union report on the worsening gender wage gap within Germany’s cultural industries.
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A text by Elena Philipp, 2024
Personal perspectives and structural analysis on how (in)compatible family life—especially motherhood—is with working conditions in opera and theatre institutions. Published in VAN Magazin.
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Stuttgarter Zeitung – Mütter haben es schwer in der Kunst
(Mothers Have It Hard in the Art World)
By Adrienne Braun, published 14 November 2024
Sascia Bailer discusses the structural challenges faced by mothers working in the cultural sector.
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Kontext Wochenzeitung – Mütter und Kunst: Wie verstecke ich mein Kind?
(Mothers and Art: How Do I Hide My Child?)
Published on 13 November 2024
An interview with the collective Mothers, Warriors and Poets on navigating motherhood in the arts.
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Monopol – Kunst und Care – Der vernachlässigte Zusammenhang
(Art and Care – The Neglected Connection)
By Sascia Bailer, published 8 March 2024
A call to acknowledge and value care work as a crucial component of the art world.
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Monopol – Bezahlung und Sichtbarkeit. Wie es um Geschlechtergerechtigkeit in der Kunst steht
(Payment and Visibility: The State of Gender Equality in the Arts)
By Sascia Bailer, published 8 March 2023
An analysis of ongoing gender pay gaps and the lack of visibility for women artists.
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(NICHT) DER REDE WERT: ELTERNSCHAFT UND KUNST
(“NOT” WORTH MENTIONING: Parenthood and Art)
By Marcia Breuer, published 2022 on Call for Kunst
A personal and political reflection on how parenthood is sidelined in the cultural sector.
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And Partners in Crime – Art as Labour. On Art, Motherhood and Institutional Critique (PDF)
Documentation of the 2021/22 project
A curatorial-publication initiative exploring care, motherhood, and structural exclusion in the cultural field
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Stuttgarter Zeitung – Mothers, Warriors and Poets im Kunstverein Wagenhalle
(Mothers, Warriors and Poets at Kunstverein Wagenhalle)
Published on 16 September 2021
A report on the exhibition of the activist mother-artist collective in Stuttgart.
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Hannah Cooke in der Monopol – „Der Kunstbetrieb muss elternfreundlicher werden“
(“The Art World Must Become More Parent-Friendly”)
Published on 03 April 2021
An interview with artist Hannah Cooke discussing why the art world needs to adapt to the realities of parenting.
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MATERNAL FANTASIES – Fake Gleichberechtigung (Fake Equality)
By the collective Maternal Fantasies, published 2020 in Arts of the Working Class
A manifesto for embracing care work as a future-oriented, compassionate force in art and society.
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Tagesspiegel / BBK – Vom Malweib zur Quoten-Künstlerin – Warum Umdenken nötig ist
(From “Painting Wives” to Quota Artists – Why a Rethink Is Needed)
By Ines Doleschal, October 2019
A historical and contemporary look at persistent gender inequality in the art field.
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Media (Videos & Podcasts)
Films
Katharina Pethke, REPRODUCTION / REPRODUKTION, 2024
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Laura Kaehr, Becoming Giulia, 2024
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Lyndsay Mann, As You Were, 2024
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Johanna Faust, I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR, 2019
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Cosima Spender, PHYLLIDA, 2019
Documentaries
fair share! for women artists, mind the *gap!, 2024 - New National Galery
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Videos from the Conference Writing with CARE / RAGE, 2021
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Video about the fair share! campaign Visibility for female artists on International Women’s Day 2021 in Berlin
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Kinder Kunst Corona
A video message for Mother’s Day during the coronavirus pandemic from K&K – Bündnis Kunst und Kind München, kunst + kind berlin and Mehr Mütter für die Kunst.
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Burning Issues meets Kampnagel, 2020
Selected videos:
Pro Quote Bühne
kunst&kind Berlin
Mehr Mütter für die Kunst.
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Panel “Child and Art” at HFBK Hamburg, 2020
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Art Basel Conversations (2019/2023)
Topic: Motherhood/Parenthood in the Art World
Shifting Mindsets: Welcoming Parenthood in the Art World
Art Basel in Basel, June 14, 2023
Participants: Andrea Büttner, Camille Henrot, Basim Magdy
Moderator: Emily Butler
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Between Production and Reproduction – Career and Motherhood in the Art World
Art Basel in Basel, June 10, 2019
Participants: Chus Martínez, Coco Fusco, Nadine Zeidler
Moderator: Julieta Aranda
Podcasts
Make it happen! Kunst braucht Gleichstellung
Fair Share For Women Artists, 2025
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YES WE CARE!
Fair Share For Women Artists, 2025
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Literarisch Solidarisch Episode 11: Care Work, 2025
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Die Leser:innen – Feminist Book Podcast
Episode 68: Motherhood, Care, and the Art World – Incompatible?
With: Sascia Bailer for Critical Mother’s Day
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Deutschlandfunk Kultur: “Motherhood Reclaimed – How Mothers Are Changing the Art Scene”, by Tina Hammesfahr
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Podcast for the exhibition “Family Affairs”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2021