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Sophie Calle in "Mother!"

Present or absent, supportive or domineering, warm or diabolical – everyone has a Mother! Louisiana's large-scale exhibition revolves around motherhood, viewed through changing notions of art and culture, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The exhibition presents works by:

Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Tracey Emin, Petrit Halilaj, Candice Breitz, Ragnar Kjartansson, Kirsten Justesen, Lucian Freud, Mary Kelly, Otto Dix, Jennie Livingston, Paul McCarthy, Dea Trier Mørch, René Magritte, Alice Neel, Isamu Noguchi, Laure Prouvost, Egon Schiele, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Johan Georg Röderer, Cindy Sherman, Marcel Proust, Catherine Opie, Pablo Picasso, Yoko Ono, Kai Nielsen, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Henry Moore, Ana Mendieta, Edvard Munch, Suzanne Valadon, Lennart Nilsson, Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson), Wilhelm Lachnit, Julie Laurberg & Franziska Gad, Peter Keler, Meret Oppenheim, Henry Heerup, Käthe Kollwitz, Svend Wiig Hansen, Chantal Joffe, Alfred Hitchcock, Tracey Moffatt, Peter Hujar, Frida Orupabo, Stephan Zick, Alina Szapocznikow, Mason Poole, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Valie EXPORT, Rineke Dijkstra, Walt Disney, Ane Crabtree, Jean-Paul Goude, Sophie Calle, Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm & Wilhelm Carl Grimm, Mary Cassatt, Max Beckmann, Miyako Ishiuchi, Dieric Bouts, Elina Brotherus, Thomas Bartholin, Jeanne Mammen, François-Joseph Moreau, Tala Madani, Sano di Pietro, Manjari Sharma & Irina Rozovsky, Ulrike Rosenbach, Kaari Upson, Annegret Soltau and Osamu Takahashi / Taikan Hoshino / Masaharu Kurosu / Kyoko Kita / Madoka Yoshio.