The home as a feminist battleground with Rikke Viemose, Charlotte Schwartz & Lea Fløe Christensen
How is our understanding of the home shaped in a feminist context? Is it a battleground, a sanctuary – or both?
Author and journalist Rikke Viemose delves into this question in a conversation with literary agent Lea Fløe Christensen and Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz, curator of the exhibition Lene Adler Petersen - Rummet og Tingene (Space and Things) – a new exhibition at Royal Danish Library with works by the artist Lene Adler Petersen.
Since the late 1960s, Lene Adler Petersen has been a prominent figure in Danish contemporary art and the women's movement. She has challenged norms through painting, text, film, performance and iconic art actions. Her most famous work, Den Kvindelige Kristus (The Female Christ) (1969), still stands as one of the most radical feminist statements in Danish art history.
Rikke Viemose, known for the critically acclaimed book Nu taler jeg (Now I Speak) (2022), has selected five works from the exhibition that she will discuss in light of today's fight for equality. Based on her book, in which she writes to her young daughter about sexism, hope and change, she, together with Lea Fløe Christensen and Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz, will explore the dual meaning of the home: as an arena for gender political confrontation and as a space for beauty, freedom and revolutionary action. The audience will also have the opportunity to experience the exhibition both before and after the event.
Lene Adler Petersen – Rummet og Tingene
Participants
Rikke Viemose
Rikke Viemose is a Danish journalist, writer, debater and author. She is a journalist from the Danish School of Journalism and holds a BA in Literary Studies and Modern Culture from the University of Copenhagen. She is a literary writer for Jyllands-Posten.
Lea Fløe Christensen
Lea Fløe Christensen holds a Master's degree in Modern Cultural Communication and a Bachelor's degree in Literary Studies from the University of Copenhagen. She works as a literary communicator, lecturer, moderator and teacher. In 2023, she was nominated for this year's Blixen Prize in the category 'Best Literary Communicator of the Year'.
Charlotte Schwartz
Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz, MA and PhD in art history, is a photography curator and research librarian responsible for the National Photo Collection at Royal Danish Library.
