Fotograf Magazine

The installation Weiche Knie encompasses photographs as well as material from the artist’s research in queer/feminist archives. These archives hold documentation of the historical continuity of violence in connection with institutional care as well as the first resistance movements and initiatives, e.g., self-help practices such as the 1970s feminist health centres, first-aid manuals for police violence or the early use of bidets to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

The photographs show gestures between accomplices that are set in motion anew through the print material as well as the sculptural arrangement with plasterboard. Weiche Knie explores the questions of what relationships we desire in order to enable other forms of caring and being cared for, and asks what it means to show attitude in everyday life.

Julia Lübbecke studied fine arts in Antwerp and Prague as well as Leipzig, and was a participant of the postgraduate programme Goldrausch in 2020. Her works have been shown at Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos in Santiago de Chile, Galerie im Turm in Berlin and IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen. She was a recipient of the IKOB – Art Prize for feminist art in 2019 and the Dorothea Schlegel Artist in Residence Programme in 2022.