Magdalena Kallenberger
Me and the Boy
Photography
2019
Magdalena Kallenberger is a visual artist, writer and educator. She works with video, photography, performance, installation and text, combining research into feminist histories and writing with autobiography, theory and performative elements. Kallenberger’s research-based and often collaborative practice investigates themes around radical care and feminist practices tackling the in/visibility of care/work and motherhood(s) not just in the Arts.
She has studied at the University of the Arts Berlin (Diplom/MFA and Meisterschüler Degree in Media Art) and the Willem de Kooning Academy / Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Between 2010 and 2017, she worked as an artist in Cairo, Egypt and taught at The American University in Cairo and the German University in the field of Time Based Media. Currently, she is Ph.D. Candidate at Bauhaus University Weimar supported by a doctoral fellowship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation.
Kallenberger’s most recent articles and essays will appear in publications with MIT Press (2023), k-Verlag (2023), demeter press (2023) and gender(ed) thoughts (2023). She has co-edited “Re-Assembling Motherhood(s): On Radical Care and Collective Art as Feminist Practices” by MATERNAL FANTASIES, published with onomatopee in 2021, second edition in 2022. Available via onomatopee https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/re-assembling-motherhoods/
Magdalena Kallenberger is initiator, co-founder and active member of MATERNAL FANTASIES collective.
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