Antje Dorn

Motorgirls is the title of an extensive series of paintings and watercolour drawings I made in the years 2000 und 2001. The gouaches on paper have the size 29,7x42 cm and the paintings are in various sizes around 190 x 220 cm.

The first driver’s license in history was acquired by a woman. Nevertheless, driving in the early days of automotive history was mostly the preserve of men. Clichés and prejudices thus soon abounded about women’s relationship to cars, also manifested in pictures.
Antje Dorn takes a humorous look at this genre in her gouache series “Motorgirls”, displaying a number of different facets. Instead of trying to look alluring, Dorn’s “motorgirls” appear confidently and sometimes helpless at the wheel of a car or doing their own repairs – in comical exaggeration.