Girls/Museum. Final Film Screening at the Goethe-Institut

The Goethe-Institut Cyprus concludes the “Questions of her Own” screening series with the film “Girls/Museum,” followed by a discussion with art theorist, writer, and curator Evagorass Vanesis and multidisciplinary artist Melita Kuta—with a focus on the connection to the Cypriot context.

Director: Shelley Silver. Award: Best Documentary Film (3sat Documentary Film Award, Duisburg Film Week).

The Questions of her Own project is supported by the association of visual artists and art theorists Phytorio and is part of the KunstRaumGoethe exhibition “Between Imagination and Hope” (April 17 – June 5, 2026). Free admission. In German with English subtitles. Discussion in English. More information: https://www.goethe.de/ins/cy/en/ver.cfm?event_id=27239161

The film offers an unusual tour through the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig (MdbK). The director invited a group of girls and young women aged 7 to 19 to share their thoughts and feelings as they looked at classical works of art—paintings and sculptures created by men over the centuries.

Main themes:

• “The Female Gaze”: The girls comment on how women are depicted in the paintings (often as objects of beauty, victims, or mothers) and how this relates to their own lives.
• Deconstructing the Classics: Young female viewers ask direct and sometimes uncomfortable questions about art, history, and gender roles, transforming the museum into a space for discussion.
• Coming of Age: The film captures the process of critical thinking developing in a new generation.