Helga Goetze Article in Frieze Magazine - Print Issue January/February 2020

Helga Goetze, Indianische Astrologie (Indian Astrology), 1984-1985, embroidery, cotton twist, metal thread and nettle, 126 × 180 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Delmes & Zander, Cologne; photograph: Johannes Post

FRIEZE MAGAZINE Issue 208
Helga Goetze Review

In the new print issue of Frieze Magazine (Number 208 - January/February 2020) you can find a sharp review about Delmes & Zander's exhibition "Helga Goetze", written by Martin Scheper. 

"Consisting of tapestries, collages and protest signs, Goetze’s current exhibition ‘Ficken ist Frieden’ (Fucking is Peace) at Delmes & Zander in Cologne is the first to provide an overview of her various artistic practices and their links to her sex-positive activism, revealing the cosmos behind ‘Germany’s super-bitch’, as she called herself with reference to a tabloid headline."

The full article is available online at: frieze.com/article/what-helga-goetzes-tapestries-teach-us-about-sexual-liberation

Article about HELGA GOETZE. FICKEN IST FRIEDEN / Frieze

right: Helga Goetze: Zur Welt kommen ist zur Sprache kommen, undated Archive #009, mixed media, 23 × 29 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Delmes & Zander, Cologne; left: Helga Goetze: Ficken Lieben Frieden undated Archive #008, mixed media, 30 × 23 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Delmes & Zander, Cologne; photo: Johannes Post

Moritz Scheper writes in his article "What Helga Goetze’s Tapestries Teach Us About Sexual Liberation" for Frieze:

"(...) Consisting of tapestries, collages and protest signs, Goetze’s current exhibition ‘Ficken ist Frieden’ (Fucking is Peace) at Delmes & Zander in Cologne is the first to provide an overview of her various artistic practices and their links to her sex-positive activism, revealing the cosmos behind ‘Germany’s super-bitch’, as she called herself with reference to a tabloid headline. (...)"

Read the full article here

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Installation View of HELGA GOETZE. FICKEN IST FRIEDEN

Installation View of HELGA GOETZE. FICKEN IST FRIEDEN,

Photos by Johannes Post, Courtesy Delmes & Zander, Cologne

HELGA GOETZE. FICKEN IST FRIEDEN / Frieze

Helga Goetze, Gewerkschaftsteppich (Union Rug), 1989, embroidery, cotton twist, metal thread and nettle, 101 × 99 cm Courtesy Delmes & Zander, Cologne

Moritz Scheper writes about our show FICKEN IST FRIEDEN by Helga Goetze in his 'Critic Guide' for Frieze:

"Last year marked the 30th anniversary of Delmes & Zander – a gallery that continues to present interesting works by outsider artists. The current exhibition ‘Ficken ist Frieden’ (Fucking Is Peace), features wall hangings by Helga Goetze, who spent decades as a sex-positive activist trying to loosen up Berliners’ stiff morals with slogans like: ‘Fucking is important’. The hangings in the exhibition show an idealized state of liberal sexual mores. The largest work, Indianische Astrologie (Indian Astrology, 1984–85), depicts humankind in harmony both with the natural world and with its own nature, its own desires. While there is a striking stylistic similarity between these works and those of American artist Dorothy Iannone, Goetze developed her style significantly earlier. (...)"

Click here to read the whole "Guide To The Best Shows in Dusseldorf and Cologne During DC Open"

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HELGA GOETZE. FICKEN IST FRIEDEN / Monopol

Installation View of HELGA GOETZE. FICKEN IST FRIEDEN, Photo by Johannes Post, Courtesy Delmes & Zander, Cologne

 
Leonie Pfennig writes for Monopol about her highlights of DC Open, Cologne. We are very pleased that she mentions our exhibition HELGA GOETZE. FICKEN IST FRIEDEN:

"Eine etwas anders geartete Zukunftsvision proklamierte zeitlebens die Künstlerin und Aktivistin Helga Goetze, deren vielseitiges Werk bei Delmes & Zander entdeckt werden kann. Mit dem Slogan, "Ficken ist Frieden" kämpfte die Berlinerin seit 1983 mit täglichen Aktionen vor der Gedächtniskirche für die sexuelle Befreiung insbesondere der Frau. Sie empfand Sex als einzig probates Mittel auf dem Weg der Erkenntnis. Die Galerie präsentiert eine Auswahl aus ihren über 3000 Gedichten, Zeichnungen und gestickten Tapisserien mit erotischen Szenen, um Goetze, die zu Lebzeiten für ihre Aktionen eher belächelt wurde, als Künstlerin zu ehren. (...)"

To read the whole article click here

www.monopol-magazin.de