n.paradoxa
international feminist art journal
List of exhibition catalogues of feminist art and contemporary women artists (post-1970)
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The feminist art/women artists' exhibition catalogues list is organised in chronological order.
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2024 Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art (Barbican Gallery and Stedelijk Museum exhibition) (Prestel)
Curator(s): Lotte Johnson, Amanda Pinatih, and Wells Fray-Smith
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, The Netherlands, international.
2024 Radical Software: Women, Art and Computing, 1960-1991 (19 September 2024-2 February 2025) (Luxembourg: MUDAM)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Luxembourg, International.
2024 Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950–1970 (Eiderdown Books)
Curator(s): Flavia Frigeri
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, international.
2024 8 Acts of Love (UK: University of Lincoln)
Curator(s): outofsite_chi and Alice Bell and Carron Little
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, UK, international.
2024 (re)FOCUS 2024 (27 Jan-31 May) program of 150 exhibitions in Philadelphia ()
Curator(s): Judith K. Brodsky, Diane Burko, Marsha Moss
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
Analysis The 50th anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts/1974, a citywide festival recognizing women artists in 150 exhibitions and referring back to the exhibition, Focus in 1974, an early exhibition of 300 women artists in USA.
2024 Ambienti 1956-2010 Environments by Women Artists II (10 April 2024-20 October 2024) (Rome: Museo Maxxi)
Curator(s): Andrea Lissoni, Marina Pugliese, Francesco Stocchi
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: International.
Analysis On show are works by Micol Assaël, Monica Bonvicini, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Laura Grisi, Zaha Hadid, Aleksandra Kasuba, Kimsooja, Christina Kubisch, Léa Lublin, Nalini Malani, Marta Minujín, Tania Mouraud, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Esther Stocker, Nanda Vigo and Tsuruko Yamazaki.
2024 The Power with which We Leap Together: Women Artists in Spain and Portugal between Dictatorship and Democracy (30 May-29 Sept) (Valencia: IVAM Centre Julio González)
Curator(s): Patricia Mayayo and Giulia Lamoni
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, Portugal.
Analysis In the sixties and early seventies, the presence of female artists increased significantly in both countries, particularly in alternative circles and in opposition to the regime. When we examine the production of Spanish and Portuguese artists of the time, we see that they adopted a wide range of media and styles: abstraction and normative art, traditional realism, pop art and critical realism, conceptualism and neo-Dadaism, among others. Not all of them were concerned with reflecting on the female condition, but a significant number of the works produced by women in those years had to do, in one way or another, with themes close to the feminist agenda; such as the sexual division of labour, the social construct of societal roles, motherhood, domesticity or sexual violence. However, this feminist or proto-feminist aspect was ignored by most of the critics of the time (and even denied, on many occasions, by the artists themselves). It was not until a few years ago that some Spanish and Portuguese historians began to study the political dimension of many of these works.
List of artists participating in the project: Alice Jorge (1924-2008), Ana Buenaventura (1942), Ana Hatherly (1929-2015), Ana Peters (1932-2012), Ana Vieira (1940-2016), Ángela García Codoñer (1944), Àngels Ribé (1943), Aurèlia Muñoz (1926-2011, Aurora Valero (1940), Bertina Lopes (1924-2012), Ção Pestana (1953), Carme Aguadé (1920-2013), Clara Menéres (1943-2018), Concha Jerez (1941), Elena Asins (1940-2015), Elisabete Mileu (1956), Elisenda Sala (1938), Elvira Alfageme (1937), Emília Nadal (1938), Esther Ferrer (1937), Eugènia Balcells (1943), Eulàlia Grau (1946), Eva Lootz (1940), Fátima Vaz (1946-1992), Fina Miralles (1950), Graça Morais (1948), Graça Pereira Coutinho (1949), Gracinda Candeias (1947), Helena Almeida (1934-2018), Helena Lapas (1940), Helena Lumbreras (1935-1995), Irene Buarque (1943), Isabel Baquedano (1936-2018), Isabel Oliver (1946), Jane Millares Sall (1928), Joana Rosa (1959), Juana Francés (1924-1990) , Lola Bosshard (1922-2012), Lourdes Castro (1930-2022), Luísa Correia Pereira (1945-2009), Magda Bolumar (1936), Manuela Almeida (1944-2002), Maria Antónia Siza (1940-1973), Maria Beatriz (1940-2020), María Droc (1903-1987), Maria José Aguiar (1948), Maria José Oliveira (1943), María Teresa Codina (1926-2016), Marisa González (1943), Menez (1926-1995), Paula Rego (1935-2022), Renée Gagnon (1942), Salette Tavares (1922-1994), Silvia Gubern (1941), Soledad Sevilla (1944), Teresa Gancedo (1937), Teresa Magalhães (1944-2023) and Túlia Saldanha (1930-1988).
2023 Inside Other Spaces: Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976 (8 Sept 2023-10 March 2024) (Munich: Haus der Kunst)
Curator(s): Andrea Lissoni and Marina Pugliese with Anne Pfautsch
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: International.
Analysis The group exhibition “Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956—1976” highlights women’s fundamental contributions to history of environments and presents the work of eleven female artists spanning three generations from Asia, Europe as well as North- and South America: Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Laura Grisi, Aleksandra Kasuba, Lea Lublin, Marta Minujín, Tania Mouraud, Maria Nordman, Nanda Vigo, Faith Wilding, and Tsuruko Yamazaki.
2023 Womanifesto: Flowing connections (12 September-29 Dec 2023) (Thailand: Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in collaboration with Womanifesto)
Curator(s): Womanifesto, Nitaya Ueareeworakul, Preenun Nan,a Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Varsha Nair
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Thailand.
2023 Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond (Apr 23–Sep 24) (Los Angeles: LACMA)
Curator(s): Linda Komaroff
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: international.
2023 MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS: MUJERES | ARTISTAS| HISTORIAS AFROLATINAS Y CARIBEÑAS
Instruments of Memory webpage (Instruments of Memory; Museum of Women Costa Rica; Regional Museum, Querétaro, Mexico )
Curator(s): Claudia Mandel Katz (Argentina-Costa Rica), Adriana Palomo (Argentina), Claudia Pretelin (México-Estados Unidos) y Sussy Vargas Alvarado (Costa Rica)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Latin America, Costa Rica, Argentina, Mexico, US.
2023 Don’t Cry! Feminist Perspectives in Latvian Art: 1965–2023 (15.07.2023. - 15.10.2023) (Latvian National Museum of Art)
Curator(s): Elita Ansone
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Latvia.
Analysis The exhibition shows works of painting, graphic art, photography, installation and video created by almost 50 Latvian female artists – Lidija Auza, Ilze Avotiņa, Ieva Balode, Biruta Baumane, Linda Boļšakova, Elīna Brasliņa, Māra Brašmane, Daina Dagnija, Evelīna Deičmane, Biruta Delle, Kristiāna Dimitere, Lilija Dinere, Zenta Dzividzinska, Krista Dzudzilo, Dace Džeriņa, Laima Eglīte, Vika Eksta, Ieva Epnere, Helēna Heinrihsone, Ieva Iltnere, Rasa Jansone, Kristīne Keire, Frančeska Kirke, Sandra Krastiņa, Ieva Kraule-Kūna, Maija Kurševa, Sarmīte Kviesīte, Liene Mackus, Anda Magone, Sarmīte Māliņa, Anita Meldere, Inga Meldere, Katrīna Neiburga, Ingrīda Pičukāne, Monika Pormale, Līga Purmale, Inta Ruka, Mētra Saberova, Skuja Braden (Ingūna Skuja, Melissa Braden), Olga Shilova, Rasa Šulca, Maija Tabaka, Diāna Tamane, Sabīne Vernere, Hilda Vīka, and Aija Zariņa – starting from the 1960s and up until newly commissioned works completed in 2023.
2023 Le Roi est Mort, Longue Vie a la Reine/The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen (exhibition 13 May-8 October) (Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden)
Curator(s): Udo Kittlemann
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, international.
2022 When Rain Clouds Gather, Black South African Women Artists, 1940–2000 (Capetown, Norval Foundation)9 February 2022 to 9 January 2023 (Cape Town)
Curator(s): Portia Malatjie and Nontobeko Ntombela
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: South Africa.
2022 She Was as Beautiful as a Russian Landscape / «Она была красива как русский пейзаж» (February 18 – April 17, 2022) (Russia: Perm Museum of Contemporary Art)
Curator(s): Алиса Савицкая
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Russia.
2022 Empowerment: Kunst und Feminismen: Empowerment: Art and Feminisms (separate German and English editions) (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/Federal Agency for Civic Education)
Curator(s): Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch and Uta Ruhkamp
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, international.
2022 Women and Creativity (pamphlet responding to Annabel Nicolson's 1978-1980 project) (Women's Art Library)
Curator(s): Catherine Grant
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
Analysis This booklet brings together responses to and archival material about the British artist and filmmaker Annabel Nicolson's project "Women and Creativity" (1978-80). Uploaded here are print versions and screen versions of the booklet. The booklet is also printed in a small run of 300 copies. This is a research project run by Catherine Grant, in assocation with Karen Di Franco at Chelsea Space, and the research network Group Work: Contemporary Art and Feminism, with the co-organisers Amy Tobin and Rachel Warriner. Contributors: Louise Ashcroft, Beth Bramich, Lauren Craig, Amy Dickson, Oriana Fox, Melissa Gordon, Catherine Grant, Faye Green, Deniz Johns, Abbe Leigh Fletcher, Helena Reckitt, Selina Robertson, Rachel Warriner and Annabel Nicolson.
2022 MANIFEST Yourself!: (Queer) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes (18 November 2022 – 22 Jan 2023) (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin)
Curator(s): Valeria Schulte-Fischedick
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, international.
Analysis Participating artists: Ouassila Arras, Rufina Bazlova, Lynda Benglis, Monica Bonvicini, Lizzie Borden, Andrea Bowers, Janet Burchill/Jennifer McCamley, Ulrike Flaig, Ceal Floyer, FRZNTE/Kolbeinn Hugi, Regina José Galindo, Guerrilla Girls, Holzinger/Sahihi, Bojana S. Knežević/Katarina Petrović (Femkanje), LASTESIS x Pussy Riot, Signe Pierce/Alli Coates, Tabita Rezaire, Marinella Senatore, Beth Stephens/Annie Sprinkle, VNS Matrix, Del LaGrace Volcano, and Billie Zangewa
2022 MANIFEST Yourself! (Queer) Feminist Manifestos since the Suffragettes (18.11.2022 – 22.01.2023) (Kunsterhaus Bethanien)
Curator(s): Valeria Schulte-Fischedick
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
2022 Women's Histories, Feminist Histories (Museum of Art, Sao Paulo)
Curator(s): Adriana Pedrosa, Isabella Rjeille, Mariana Leme
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Brazil, international.
2021 Elles font l'abstraction: Une autre histoire de l’abstraction au 20e siècle (5 May - 23 Aug 2021) and AWARE/Centre Pompidou 5-lesson MOOC, Jan 2021 Elles font l’art (Centres Pompidou, Paris)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France, international.
2021 Hosen Haben rocke an. Kunstlerinnengruppe Erfurt 1984-1994/
Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artists' Group, 1984-1994 (nGBK, 27 Nov 2021-30 Jan 2022). Book of same name, Hatje Cantz, 2023. (Hatje Cantz, nGBK, Berlin)
Curator(s): Susanne Altmann, Kataline Krasnahorkai, Christin Muller et al.
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2021 Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, January 7, 2021–April 11, 2021) (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
Curator(s): Jodi Throckmorton and Brittany Webb
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2021 Staying with the Trouble (Tufts University) (SMFA / Boston)
Curator(s): Kate McNamara
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: .
2021 New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century (August 25, 2021–January 30, 2022) (Berkeley: )
Curator(s): Apsara DiQuinzio
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
Analysis
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century is a major survey exploring recent feminist practices in contemporary art. In 1980 Lucy Lippard argued that feminist art is “neither a style nor a movement” but rather “a value system, a revolutionary strategy, a way of life.” Taking Lippard’s statement as a point of departure, the exhibition examines the values, strategies, and ways of life reflected in current feminist art. In keeping with Griselda Pollock’s observation that “feminism is a historical project and thus is itself constantly shaped and remodelled in relation to the living process of women’s struggles,” New Time aims to demonstrate that feminism in the twenty-first century is multifaceted, encompassing many complex issues and perspectives, and therefore cannot be reduced to a single subject, style, or agenda. Although artworks made since 2000 are the primary focus, the objects and installations on view span several generations, mediums, geographies, and political sensibilities. In this way the project seeks to convey the heterogeneous, intergenerational, and gender-fluid nature of feminist practices today.
Inspired by Bay Area poet Leslie Scalapino’s feminist poem of the same name, New Time presents a kaleidoscopic view of feminist artistic practices, thought, and experiences. Featuring more than 150 works by seventy-seven artists and collectives, the exhibition is organized around eight themes: hysteria; the gaze; revisiting historical subjects through a feminist lens; the fragmented female body; gender fluidity; labor, domesticity, and activism; female anger; and feminist utopias. Beyond the galleries, the exhibition unfolds in multiple spaces throughout the museum, including the Art Wall, Theater 2, and the large outdoor screen.
2021 Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem (May 22–August 15, 2021) (Washington: Frye Museum)
Curator(s): Connie H. Choi, Amanda Donnan, and David Strand
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2021 With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 (June 26 – November 28, 2021) (Hessel Museum)
Curator(s): Anna Katz
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 FeministFuturist (Boston Center for the Arts)
Curator(s): Karen Meninno and Carolyn Wirth
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Feminisms (516 Gallery, September 26, 2020–January 2, 2021) (Albuquerque, New Mexico: 516 Gallery)
Curator(s): Andrea R. Hanley
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: .
2020 In the Name of the Mother, In the name of the Earth (24.01.2020 – 25.04.2020)
(Catalunya: ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies)
Curator(s): Assumpta Bassas Vila
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain.
2020 Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction (Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art: August 25, 2020 - July 31, 2021) (Utah University: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art)
Curator(s): Bolton Colburn
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Feminist Art Coalition (2020 Season of feminist art exhibitions across USA, many solo and group exhibitions on this list were postponed into 2021 due to Covid-19 closures) (Feminist Art Coalition)
Curator(s): Feminist Art Coalition
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 MY BODY, MY RULES (Perez Art Museum, Miami, Nov. 19, 2020 – Sept. 5, 2021) (Miami, Perez Art Museum)
Curator(s): Jennifer Inacio
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Feminist Art in the Trump Era (part of the Feminist Art Coalition season in the USA) (Axle Contemporary: a mobile artspace based in Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Curator(s): Lucy Lippard
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: .
Analysis Feminist Art in the Trump Era is an exhibition of works by 27 New Mexico based artists that explore various feminist realities and rants. Works chosen for this exhibition from an open call to New Mexico based artists resonate with the hopefully soon- to-be-extinct Trump era. The exhibition takes place on the occasion of the 100 year anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution and the 10 year anniversary of the founding of the Axle Contemporary mobile artspace.
https://www.axleart.com/feminist-art (Florida International University: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum)
Curator(s): Amy Galpin
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Beasts Like Me: Feminism and Fantasy (October 22-November 21) (Bronx Art Space)
Curator(s): Deborah Yasinsky
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond (Sep 17, 2020 - Jun 6, 2021) (Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College)
Curator(s): Rachel Seligman and Minita Sanghvi
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Here She Stands: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection (Fresno Art Museum)(August 2020-June 2021) (Fresno Art Museum)
Curator(s): Sarah Vargas
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020 (University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State University (NMSU), February 28–December 6, 2020) Virtual tour (University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State University (NMSU))
Curator(s): Marisa Sage and Laurel Nakadate
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 I Remember, Therefore I Am. Unwritten Stories: Women Artists’ Archives (Latvian National Museum of Art, 14 November 2020 to 24 January 2021) (Latvian Center for Contemporary Art)
Curator(s): Andra Silapētere
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: .
2020 'Soft' Shooting?: INTRODUCING THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S PHOTOGRAPHY IN CROATIA (Spot Gallery, 15th June – 4 September 2020) (Croatia: Ured za fotografiju, Zagreb)
Curator(s): Sandra Križić Roban
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Croatia.
2020 Where the Future Came From: A Collective Research Project on the Integral Role of Feminism in Chicago's Artists-Run Culture from the nineteenth century to the present. (USA: Soberscove Press)
Curator(s): Meg Duguid
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Anneme Masallar : Feminist Hikayeler (İstanbul : Dipnot)
Curator(s): Zoë Fairbairns, Sara Maitland, Valerie Miner, Michele Roberts, Michelene Wandor, Çevirmen: Büşra Balcan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Turkey, international.
2020 Blurring Boundaries: The Women of American Abstract Artists, 1936 – Present (Touring exhibition, South Bend Museum, October 17, 2020 – January 3, 2021) (Sound Bend Museum)
Curator(s): Rebecca DiGiovanna
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 Nine Lives (Sep 12–Nov 15, 2020) (Renaissance Society, Chicago)
Curator(s): Karsten Lund and Caroline Picard
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2020 3 + 3 = 6. THREE WOMEN ARTISTS, THREE PRACTICES, THREE DECADES: Ana Nuša Dragan, Zemira Alajbegović, Ema Kugler (Ljubljana,SCCA) (SCCA-Ljubljana 2020)
Curator(s): Barbara Borčić & Peter Cerovšek
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Slovenia.
2020 Stronger Than Bone: On Feminism(s) (Berlin : Archive Books ; Gwangju : Gwangju Biennale Foundation)
Curator(s): Defne Ayas, Natasha Ginwala, Jill Winder
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: South Korea, international.
2019 The Unexpected Subject • 1978 Art and Feminism in Italy (FM Center for Contemporary Art )
Curator(s): Marco Scotini, Raffaella Perna
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy.
2019 Femminale: First Femminale of Contemporary Art (29 November-15 December 2019) (Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek National Museum of Fine Arts)
Curator(s): Altyn Kapalova and Zhanna Araeva
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Kyrgyzstan, international.
2019 Paint, also known as blood. Women, affect, and desire in contemporary painting’ (07 June – 11 August 2019) (Poland: Museum of Modern Art)
Curator(s): Natalia Sielewicz
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland, international.
2019 Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art (English text). Published on the occasion of the exhibition “A Space of One’s Own” and within the framework of the PinchukArtCentre Research Platform (Kiev: Publish Pro)
Curator(s): Kateryna Iakovlenko
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ukraine.
2019 Women Take the Floor (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 13, 2019–November 14, 2021) (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2019 Her Own Way: Exhibition of Polish Female Artists in Tokyo (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 14 Aug-14 Oct) (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Adam Mickiewicz Institute)
Curator(s): Keiko Okamura and Marika Kuźmicz
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan, Poland.
2019 Defiant Muses: Delphine Seyrig and Feminist Video Collectives in France, 1970s-1980s
(LaM Lille Metropole, Villeneuve-d'Ascq (France): 5 July – 22 September, 2019
and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid: 25 September, 2019 – 23 March, 2020)
(Museum Reina Sofia)
Curator(s): Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Giovanna Zapperi
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, France.
2019 Creating the Self. Emancipating Woman in Estonian and Finnish Art (06.12.2019–26.04.2020, Kumu Art Museum, Estonia) ()
Curator(s): Tiina Abel and Anu Allas
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Estonia, Finland.
2019 All Men Become Sisters (exhibition, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, 23 October 2015 - 17 January 2016) (Sternberg, MIT)
Curator(s): Joanna Sokołowska
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland.
2019 A Gaze at Women Artists in France (April 4-7 2019) (Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, France)
Curator(s): AWARE: Camille Morineau
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France.
Analysis Curated by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, the 2019 edition presents a critical and subjective overview of the work of women artists in France from the post-war period to the present day with 25 projects selected from amongst the exhibits of participating galleries. This selection is divided into four themes: Abstraction, the Feminist Avant-Garde, Image and Theatricality. AWARE has also been invited to write a critical essay that situates each artist’s work in its historical context.
AWARE was founded in 2014 by art historian Camille Morineau, who specialises in women artists. She is also the director of exhibitions and collections at the Monnaie de Paris. AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions aims to produce, index and distribute information about 20th century women artists.
2019 STILL BURNING – Ideas, struggles and practices of feminism across time (1919-2019)(2 Feb 2019-28 April, 2019)
(Sweden: Varbergs Konsthall)
Curator(s): Giulia Casalini and Camilla Påhlsson
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden, International.
Analysis The participating artists are Heba Y Amin (Egypt), Anna Uddenberg (Sweden) Lady Skollie (South Africa), Åsa Jungnelius (Sweden), Mary Maggic (USA/China), Kristina Johansson (Sweden), Nilbar Güreş (Turkey) Sisters of Jam (Sweden) and Saadia Hussain (Sweden/Pakistan). The exhibition is curated by Giulia Casalini and Camilla Påhlsson.
2019 Sorry for the Inconvenience (4 days, March) (Trondheim Art Academy, Gallery Kit)
Curator(s): Michelle Rassmussen and Bella da Silva Buxbom
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway.
2019 DARK ENERGY. Feminist Organizing, Working Collectively (March 29—May 25, 2019)
(Austria: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien)
Curator(s): Véronique Boilard, Andrea Haas, Nina Höchtl, Julia Wieger
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, International.
2019 Historias feministas: artistas depois 2000 (23 August-17 November)
(Sao Paulo: MASP)
Curator(s): Isabella Rjeille
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: International, Brazil.
2019 Neue Positionen – Verein Der Berliner KÜNSTLERINNEN 1867 (Berlin: Michael Imhof Verlag)
Curator(s): Anna Havemann and VdBK (the Association of Berlin‘s Female Artists 1867)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2019 Kiss My Genders (12 June–8 September 2019)
(London: Hayward Gallery)
Curator(s): Vincent Honoré
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, International.
2018 FEMINISARTE IV (Centro Cultural de España, Montevideo)
Curator(s): Margarita Aizpuru
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Uruguay, Spain, Brasil, Mexico, Colombia, Sweden, .
2018 BREAD & ROSES: Four Generations of Kazakh Women Artists (Berlin: Kunstquartier Bethanien,25 September-20 October 2018) (Momentum)
Curator(s): Rachel Rits-Volloch, David Elliott, Almagul Menlibayeva
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Kazakhstan.
2018 The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women's Art in the U.S.(September 4–November 3, 2018) (Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York)
Curator(s): Monika Fabijanska
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2018 Still I rise: Act 1: (October 27, 2018–January 27, 2019) Nottingham Contemporary
Act 2: (February 9–May 27, 2019) De La Warr Pavilion
(OOMK)
Curator(s): Irene Aristizábal (Nottingham Contemporary), Rosie Cooper (De La Warr Pavilion) and Cédric Fauq (Nottingham Contemporary)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, International.
2018 A Space of One's Own (Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev: 30 October 2018 - 6 January 2019) ()
Curator(s): Tatiana Kochubinska and Tetiana Zhmurko
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ukraine.
2018 Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity
(July 28 – November 5, 2017, Liverpool and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
2 Dec 2017 - 15 Apr 2018)
(Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, South Africa, Germany.
2018 Niepodległe: Women, Independence and National Discourse (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 26 October – 3 February) (Poland: Warsaw, Museum of Modern Art)
Curator(s): Magda Lipska
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland, international.
2017 Dreamers Awake (a commercial gallery exhibition of 50+ women artists/Surrealisms today, 28 June -17 September) (White Cube Bermondsey)
Curator(s): Alyce Mahon, Susanna Greeves
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, International.
2017 Collective Women: Feminist Art Archives from the 1970s to the 1990s (Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki 25 Nov 2017 — Sun 16 Jun 2019) ()
Curator(s): Catherine Hammond and Caroline McBride
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: New Zealand.
Analysis At the height of the second wave feminist movement in Aotearoa New Zealand women artists campaigned both for equality within the arts and for wider socio-political change. Many also diligently recorded their activities. Performance works were filmed, interviews conducted, letters demanding action sent and received, meetings minuted and manifestos written and circulated. Ideas were chronicled in scrapbooks, protest marches photographed, posters designed, and publications like Broadsheet and Spiral established and distributed.
Creating an enduring record and preserving these ‘memory-traces’ for future generations is something that feminist artists and scholars have engaged with for decades. Systematic archiving or ‘outrage in order’ as Kate Eichhorn describes it in The Archival Turn in Feminism (2014) is apparent in the carefully collated documentation that makes up the cultural artefacts of the movement both here and internationally. The proliferation of material during this period demonstrates the way in which feminist print culture both supported and sustained the women’s movement.
2017 Invencoes da Mulher Moderna: Para Aliem de Anita e Tarsila / Modern Women and their Inventions: Beyond Anita and Tarsila (Sao Paulo: Instituto Tomie Ohtake)
Curator(s): Paulo Herkenhoff
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Brazil.
2017 Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA)(Sep 15-Dec 31, 2017) (Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, LA ; Brooklyn Museum, NY; Pinacoteca de São Paulo)
Curator(s): Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Andrea Giunta with Marcela Guerrero former curatorial fellow, in collaboration with Connie Butler
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, M.
2017 Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism
(15 Dec 2017–25 Mar 2018) (Australian Centre Contemporary Art (ACCA))
Curator(s): ACCA with others
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2017 Cut Cloth: Contemporary Textiles (exhibition at Whitworth Art Gallery and Portico Library, Manchester) (UK: PO Publishing)
Curator(s): Sarah Joy-Ford
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
2017 Women House: La maison selon elles (20 Oct 2017-28 Jan 2018) (Paris: Monnaie de Paris)
Curator(s): Camille Morineau
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France, International.
2017 M/A\G/M\A. The body and the word in women’s art in Italy and Lithuania From 1965 to today (Vilnius: April 2017),(Rome: 26 January 2018 – 2 April 2018) (National Gallery of Art in Vilnius and Rome, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica )
Curator(s): Benedetta Carpi De Resmini, Laima Kreivytė
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy, Lithuania.
Analysis From January 25 to April 2, 2018 the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome is hosting the exhibiton M/A\G/M\A. The body and the word in women’s art in Italy and Lithuania from 1965 to today, curated by Benedetta Carpi de Resmini and Laima Kreivytė.
The MAGMA project, the title of which reprises one of the first women’s art exhibitions curated by Romana Loda in 1977, aims to explore the birth and origin of feminist art and feminism in Italy, in contrast with the origins under different conditions of a more-recently-born Lithuanian feminism, thus offering new and better-documented perspectives for study of one of the most original and controversial pages of our contemporary history. The title also refers to the active material burning and bubbling beneath the earth, and to the message we can draw from the works of the more than forty artists in the exhibition, but it can be divided into separate syllables for a further level of reading: MA – MA referring to the woman as mother, and the G in the middle alluding to the shape of a woman’s body.
MAGMA is the second part – expanded with a selection of more than 60 works – of the project begun in April 2017 at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius.
The exhibition aims to highlight how the use of the body and the word first came to be instruments in the struggle for political and artistic conquests. It winds along a path that highlights the creative processes characteristic of women artists working from 1965 to today in Italy and Lithuania.
The installations, videos, performances, photographic images, collages made of newspaper and magazine clippings, posters and books displayed delineate the image of a form of total art, generating new points of view from which to observe the multi-form mélange of image, verbal sign and graphic sign.
The exhibition includes works by artists including Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Suzanne Santoro and Kristina Inčiūraitė, Paulina Pukitė, Eglė Rakauskaitė and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė, as well as Chiara Fumai, Giosetta Fioroni, Nicole Gravier, Maria Lai, Ketty La Rocca, Lucia Marcucci, Elisa Montessori and many others who have contributed to the history of Italian art from the 1960s to the present day.
A section of the exhibition will be entirely dedicated to artists’ books, object-books, flyers, magazines and posters, necessary tools for distinguishing the various approaches demonstrated by components of the Italian and Lithuanian feminist movements.
During the exhibition period, a series of events are planned to encourage study and discussion of the subject, including round tables, film and video showings and a series of historical performances by some of the movement’s most representative artists.
A 300+-page catalogue will be produced for the occasion, published by Quodlibet (English – Italian) with essays by the two curators and texts by members of the scientific committee made up of Giuseppe Garrera, Laura Iamurri, Angelandreina Rorro and Giedrė Jankevičiūtė as well as texts by important critics of feminist art, Daniela Ferrari, Raffaella Perna, Audronė Žukauskaitė, Lolita Jablonskienė, Maria Antonella Fusco and Antonella Renzitti.
2017 Show Me Your Archive and I Will Tell You Who is in Power (April 27–June 16) (Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), School of Arts of University College Ghent, KIOSK)
Curator(s): Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Wim Waelput
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Belgium.
2017 FRAN Fest (South Australia, multiple venues, 25 August-24 September 2017) ()
Curator(s): Mia van den Bos, Brigid Noone, Loene Furler and Jude Adams and more!
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2017 Riot Grrrls (Dec 15, 2016–Jun 18, 2017) (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
Curator(s): Michael Darling
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, International.
2017 HERstory - des archives à l'heure des postféminismes (21 Jan-19 March)- exhibition includes copies of n.paradoxa (Maison des Arts Malakoff)
Curator(s): Julie Crenn and Pascal Lièvre
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France, International.
2017 Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? Chapter Two (20 Jan-4 March) (Dundee: Cooper Gallery)
Curator(s): Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, International.
Analysis
2017 Entangled: Threads & Making (Turner Contemporary)
Curator(s): Karen Wright
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, International.
2017 TEXTUS. Embroidery. Textile, Feminism (March 8 - April 9, 2017)
(Visual Culture Research Center, Kyiv. )
Curator(s): Oksana Briukhovetska
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ukraine, International.
2017 We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85
(April 21–September 17, 2017) (Brooklyn Museum: Elizabeth Sackler Center)
Curator(s): Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
Analysis The artists in the exhibition include Emma Amos, Camille Billops, Kay Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Linda Goode Bryant, Beverly Buchanan, Carole Byard, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ayoka Chenzira, Christine Choy and Susan Robeson, Blondell Cummings, Julie Dash, Pat Davis, Jeff Donaldson, Maren Hassinger, Janet Henry, Virginia Jaramillo, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Lisa Jones, Loïs Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Carolyn Lawrence, Samella Lewis, Dindga McCannon, Barbara McCullough, Ana Mendieta, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O’Grady, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Alva Rogers, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Ming Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems.
2017 Hacking / Modding / Remixing as Feminist Protest (Jan.28 – Feb.26 2017) (Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University )
Curator(s): Angela Washko
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: .
2016 She: International Women Artists' Exhibition (23 July-30 October) (Shanghai: Long Museum)
Curator(s): Wang Wei
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: China.
2016 Black Sheep Feminism: The Art of Sexual Politics (17 Jan-March 20) (Dallas Contemporary)
Curator(s): Alison Gingeras
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2016 WARM Guerrillas: Feminist Visions (February 26th – March 12, 2016) (Minneapolis: The Grain Belt Bottling House Gallery)
Curator(s): Jo-Anne Reske Kirkman and Laura Mayo
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2016 Art_Textiles (10 October to 31 January 2016) (Manchester: Whitworth)
Curator(s): Manchester Whitworth Gallery
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, International.
2016 Material Girls (February 3 - April 9, 2016) (Dunlop Art Gallery/Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTC)
Curator(s): Blair Fornwald, Jennifer Matotek and Wendy Peart
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
2016 Lucy’s Iris: Contemporary African Women Artists (Leon, MUSAC: 30 Jan-12 June 2016) (León : MUSAC. L’exposition a ensuite été présentée au Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, du 7 juillet au 15 décembre 2016)
Curator(s): Orlando Britto Jinorio et Annabelle Ténèze
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: International.
2016 Feminismos León. De la buhardilla del CCAN a la insumisión transfeminista (25 June 2016 - 27 November 2016) (Spain: MUSAC)
Curator(s): Maite Garbayo Maeztu and Conchi Unanue Cuesta
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain.
2016 Girls Girls Girls: A Feminist Art show (25 Feb-6 March) (Toronto: Northern Contemporary)
Curator(s): Northern Contemporary Toronto, Ontario
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
2016 Feminism is Politics! (Sept 28-Nov 23 2016) (New York: Pratt Manhattan Gallery)
Curator(s): Olga Kopenkina
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, International.
Analysis 'Feminism Is Politics! is an inquiry into what is conceptualized by feminists and queer/lesbians in the 21st century as New Feminism. The exhibition features video, performance works and art activism that address the feminist position in action and redefine the notion of "political" within the new millennium's paradigm of uncertainty and precarity.'
Artists include:
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz; Bureau of Melodramatic Research; Melanie Cervantes; Regina José Galindo; Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya); Victoria Lomasko; Liza Morozova; Mujeres Públicas; Tanja Ostojić; YES! Association / Föreningen JA!; Anna Zvyagintseva
This exhibition is sponsored in part by the Republic of Serbia Ministry of Culture, the Berlin Senate Chancellery-Cultural Affairs Department, and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists.
2016 L'autre continent (The other continent) – Artistes, Femmes, Africaines. (15 Sep 2016 - 31 Dec 2016) (Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Le Havre, France)
Curator(s): Camille Morineau
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Africa, France.
2016 No Play: Feminist Training Camp (21 May-26 June 2016) (Berlin: nGbK / neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst)
Curator(s): Freja Bäckman, Enna Gerin, Merja Hannikainen, Annika Högner, Vappu Jalonen, Clara López Menéndez
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2015 RE-ACTION, Genealogy and countercanon (Alonso y Marful) (Alonso y Marful)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, International.
2015
RE-ACTION: GENEALOGÍA Y CONTRACANON / GENEALOGIA I CONTRACÀNON (Institut d’ Estudís Baleàrics)
Curator(s): Alonso y Marful
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, International.
2015 Love at the Edge (29 May 2015- 16 August 2015) (Bialystok: Galeria Arsenal)
Curator(s): Denise Carvalho, Monika Szewczyk
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland, International.
Analysis Love at the Edge at the Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok explores the concept of love as it relates to the experience of being on the edge of desire or desperation, passion or transgression. Featuring videos and new media works by 18 Eastern European women artists, the exhibition highlights the potentialities of love as both political and sensorial imaginaries, blurring reality and fiction, private and public, individual and collective. Through the stories that permeate the shifting paradigms of specific historical and cultural moments, love becomes the sensuous and mediating perception that allows new possibilities of remembering and engaging, realizing and healing, acting out and playing out. The videos and sound installations can also be perceived as social documents or witnessing mediators, reenacting earlier political conflicts while envisioning new attitudes of transgression and nurturing. The confluence between personal and political can be pointed out in several works, but it is the reenactment of traumatic experiences through voicing, hearing, seeing, and gesturing that become the main agents for both personal and collective healing.
The exhibition Love at the Edge explores expressions of love as an ailing force amid social, political, and personal conflict. Passion and determination empowered women across Eastern Europe to overcome situations of loss, rape, war, displacement, identity, and homelessness through agency, communal exchange, responsibility, hospitality, redemption, as they highlight the hidden details or in-between-ness of broader social, cultural and political turmoil. In this context, “Love” can have many shapes, and alludes to the experience of being on the edge: the edge between desire and desperation, exhilaration and angst, passion and destruction, life and death. The artworks to be shown at this exhibition can also be perceived as social documents as artists are witnesses or mediators of the conflicts their works address, showing not a time line, but a variety of dialogues in diverse locations within the last five decades. Another important intention of the exhibition is to blur the social and geopolitical distinctions between ethnic, racial, cultural, and national identities, while accentuating local and global as dialogical and interactive.
Artists: Anna Baumgart (Poland), Milena Dopitova (Czech Republic), Ira Eduardovna (Uzbekistan), Alla Georgieva (Bulgaria), Izabella Gustowska (Poland), Kristina Inciuraite (Lithuania), Elzbieta Jablonska (Poland), Anna Jermolaewa (Russia), Magdalena Jetelova (Czech Republic), Alevtina Kakhidze (Ukraine), Sejla Kameric (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Olesia Khomenko (Ukraine), Katarzyna Krakowiak (Poland), Victoria Lomasko (Russia), Agata Michowska (Poland), Duba Sambolec
(Norway/Slovenia), Katerina Seda (Czech Republic), Mare Tralla (Estonia)
2015 Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond (1-17 May) (New York: Abrons Arts Center )
Curator(s): Guerrilla Girls
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
Analysis Over the first two weeks of May we’ll open a pop-up exhibition at the Abrons Arts Center; slap up and give out stickers art-shaming billionaire collectors, galleries and museums; and make surprise appearances around town, joining forces with other activist groups to expose corruption in today’s art world. This birthday craziness will culminate in a blowout party Friday, May 15, from 8-10 pm complete with music, DJ, cake and more.
The Abrons exhibition will include almost 100 posters, stickers and billboards from 1985 to 2015, and a wall where anyone can write us a message or complain about issues they care about. There will be a video showing our projects in situ, along with clips of hotshot gallery owners making totally embarrassing statements.
Things have improved for women and artists of color over the last thirty years, but let's face it, the celebrity-obsessed art market and the galleries and museums that fuel it, really SUCK! White guys still get most of the big money, and for sure the biggest opportunities. Super rich art collectors have too much control over museums and what is collected as the art of our time. That’s a lousy way to write the history of a culture as diverse as ours.
ABOUT THE GUERRILLA GIRLS: We use facts, humor and fake fur to embarrass and transform the powers that be. At the Venice Biennale we did a large-scale installation that dissed the Biennale on its own walls. In Istanbul we predicted the future for women artists. In Montreal we called out hate speech and violence against women through the ages. In Minneapolis we revealed that Michelle Bachman secretly supports marriage equality. In June we’re headed to Reykjavik to ask why the Parliament in Iceland is more progressive than its film industry. We opened a huge retrospective in Madrid this winter, and an exhibition of work since 2000 is traveling the US. The Guerrilla Girls are authors of books that have become texts in art history and gender studies: Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls; The Guerrilla Girls Bedside Companion To The History of Western Art, The Guerrilla Girls Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes, and The Guerrilla Girls Art Museum Activity Book. Our message reaches enthusiastic (screaming, raucous, eager) supporters on every continent, who tell us our work inspires them to do their own creative activism.
2015 Impact féministe sur l'art actuel - Feminist Impact on Contemporary Art.
40 years of La Centrale (La Centrale)
Curator(s): La Centrale
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
2015 Feminismen (March 28 – December 20, 2015) (Germany: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein: Nordstern Tower in Gelsenkirchen)
Curator(s): Marius Babias and Kathrin Becker
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: International.
Analysis Since 2012, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein has hosted the Nordstern video art center in the landmark Nordstern Tower in Gelsenkirchen. On five levels, in an annual cycle, it presents changing exhibitions of international video art are set up, from the collection of n.b.k. Video Forum, the oldest and one of the largest video art collections in Germany, founded in 1971, with more than 1,600 works. The exhibition Feminismen presents international feminist and post-feminist video works from the 1970s to the current present and introduces an extensive view of the feminist art production with the medium video.
The artist Sanja Ivekovic produces a new work which will be premiered in the exhibition.
Feminismen.
Marina Abramovic, Lynda Benglis, Ursula Biemann, Anetta Mona Chisa, Anna Daucíková, Ayse Erkmen, VALIE EXPORT, Hermine Freed, Monika Funke Stern, Mathilde ter Heijne, Mwangi Hutter, Sanja Ivekovic, Shigeko Kubota, Maria Lassnig, Ulrike Ottinger, Friederike Pezold, Lydia Schouten, Ilene Segalove, Hito Steyerl, Marlene Streeruwitz, Pipilotti Rist, Ulrike Rosenbach, Haegue Yang
Contributions to Gender Politics by: Lisa Baraitser, Mart Busche, Esma Çakir-Ceylan, Regina Frey, Claudia Gather, Katharina Grosse, Ayse Gulec, Kubra Gumusay, Harriet Häußler, Barbara Krijanovsky, Mareen Linnartz, Marian López Fernández-Cao, Philomene Magers, Angela McRobbie, Ann Phoenix, Hanna Rosin, Deborah Ruggieri, Christina Schildmann, Mark Simpson, Bettina Springer, Olav Stuve, Julia Voss
Friday, March 27, 2015, 7 pm
Opening Feminismen at Nordstern video art center. Welcome by Ralf Giesen (General manager VIVAWEST) and Marius Babias (Director n.b.k.), introduction by Silke Wenk (Professor for Sciences of Art and Cultural Gender Studies, University of Oldenburg), and artist talk with VALIE EXPORT (artist, Vienna) and Kathrin Becker (Head of n.b.k. Video-Forum)
http://www.nordsternturm.de/ (Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev)
Curator(s): Oksana Briukhovetska
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ukraine, International.
2015 Motherhood (July 3-19) (Visual Culture Research Center, Kiev/ The Palace of Art, Lviv July 3-19, 2015 )
Curator(s): Oksana Briukhovetska
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ukraine.
2015 Alien She (Riot Grrrl Movement)(Sep 3, 2015 – Jan 9, 2016) (Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon and PNCA)
Curator(s): Astria Suparak and Ceci Moss
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2015 KVINDER FREM! Et møde mellem to generationers stemmer i kunsten( 13 May – 6 September 2015) / Women Forward! - A meeting between two generations of voices in art (Denmark: Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde)
Curator(s): Birgitte Ejdrup Kristensen and Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway, Denmark.
2015 Body Talk : féminisme, sexualité et corps / Body Talk: Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the Works of Six African Women Artists (Wiels, 14 février-3 mai 2015) (Dakar : RAW Material Company ; Metz : 49 Nord 6 Est ; Lunds : Lunds konsthall ; Bruxelles : Wiels)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: International.
2015 SOY MUJER, SOY LATINOAMERICANA (26 March, presentation of virtual exhibition of 97 women artists)on provocarte.org (website now down). (Rio de Janeiro: Espaco Cultural Cedim Heloneida Studart / CEDIM - Conselho Estadual dos Direitos da Mulher)
Curator(s): Lucia Avancini et al.
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cu.
2015 Future Feminist Archive (March 2015) (Australia: SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney,)
Curator(s): Sydney College of the Arts
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
Analysis Future Feminist Archive features a variety of engagements with the archive, from official records to neglected artefacts, alternate documents, and intergenerational passing on of memories. Art Calls with Tracey Moffatt (2014) features the artist in a series of light-hearted Skype and telephone interviews with well-known visual artists and other creatives. The Artist Archive, in capturing the voices of 100 Sydney-based artists interviewed ten years ago about their understanding of their art practice, acts as a fascinating time-capsule of Australian contemporary art. Daughters Mothers comprises the creative exchanges between four daughter-mother partnerships, allowing for a rich exploration of the intersection between personal and public histories. Feminist Film Archive screens a series of pioneering films from the 1970s credited as ongoing influences to contemporary Australian film. And The Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Memory Project offers an exemplar of how unofficial stories can create a far more complex history of familiar places, one that can assist in reconciliation with the past.
The Artist Archive
Jane Polkinghorne and Anne Kay
Daughters Mothers
Alison Clouston and Joan Clouston
Toni Warburton and Enid ‘Soot’ Warburton
Sue Pedley and Peggy Pedley
Judy Watson and Joyce Watson
The Parramatta Female Factory Memory Project
Bonney Djuric
Women’s Gaze and the Feminist Film Archive screening room
Curators: Loma Bridge, Margot Nash, Jeni Thornley
Coordinator: Sara Attfield
Film For Discussion, 1973, Martha Ansara and the Sydney Women's Film Group
We Aim to Please, 1976, Margot Nash & Robin Laurie
My Survival as an Aboriginal, 1978, Essie Coffey
Maidens, 1978, Jeni Thornley
Size 10, 1978, Sarah Gibson & Susan Lambert
For Love or Money, 1983, Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver, Jeni Thornley
The Newtown Girls, 2012, Natalie Krikowa, Emma Keltie and Elyse Horne
Website (Copenhagen: Statens Museum fur Kunst)
Curator(s): Birgitte Anderberg
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
2014 Re-materialising feminism (London: Arcadia Missa)
Curator(s): Alice Brooke, Giulia Smith & Rózsa Farkas
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
2014 New Maternalisms: Maternidades y Nuevos Feminismos (26 June-31 August) (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes)
Curator(s): Natalie Loveless
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Canada, Chile, Mexico.
2014 Women in Visual Arts 1960-1980: Their contribution to the Greek avant-garde. (The Contemporary Greek Art Institute (iset))
Curator(s): Charis Kanellopoulou
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Greece.
2014 Hold Stenhårdt Fast På Greia Di – Norwegian Art and Feminism 1968-89 (Stavanger: Kunsthall Stavanger)
Curator(s): Eline Mugaas, Elise Storsveen and Kunsthall Oslo
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway.
2014 Queensize – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection (Me Collection/Olbricht Collection, 7 December 2014 until 30 August 2015) Curators: Nicola Graef and Wolfgang Schoppmann (Olbricht Collection)
Curator(s): Nicola Graef and Wolfgang Schoppmann
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
2014 WHERE WE’RE AT! Other voices on gender (18 June – 31 August 2014) (Bozar, Brussels)
Curator(s): Christine Eyene
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Brussels, International.
2013 To Be a Lady: An International Celebration of Women in the Arts (October 2013-Jan 2014) (Singapore: Sundaram Tagore Gallery)
Curator(s): Jason Andrew
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Singapore, International.
2013 Her Stories: Fifteen Years of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective (Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, May 28- August 24, 2013) (Taubman Museum)
Curator(s): Jaishri Abichandani and Josheen Oberoi
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
Analysis Exhibiting Artists: Samira Abbassy, Jaishri Abichandani, Nida Abidi, Fariba Alam, Indrani Ashe, Shelly Bahl, Anjali Bhargava, Monica Jahan Bose, Marcy Chevali, Nandini Chirimar, Ruby Chishti, Poulomi Desai, Mariam Ghani, Roya Farassat, Chitra Ganesh, Hayat Gul, Aisha Abid Hussain, Vandana Jain, Mona Kamal, Jesal Kapadia, Asma Kazmi, Tara Kelton, Amber Khokhar, Sarita Khurana, Swati Khurana, Pooneh Maghazehe, Annu Mathew, Samanta Batra Mehta, Jayna Mistry, Sabelo Narasimhan, Yamini Nayar, Bhanu Palam, Shruti Parekh, Amruta Patil, Kaveri Raina, Sa’dia Rehman, Tara Sabharwal, Sadia Salim, Negin Sharifzadeh (Moss), Pallavi Sharma, Meenakshi Thirukode, Anahita Vossoughi, Nazneen Ayyub Wood.
2013 The Side Room (exhibitions: Vienna Secession and Venice Biennale) (Revolver Publishing)
Curator(s): Rosella Biscotti
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy.
2013 Feminist Pencil - 2 (Moscow: ArtPlay)
Curator(s): Victoria Lomasko and Nadia Plungian
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Russia, International, France, Germany, Ukraine, B.
Analysis
2013 Et rum med udsigt : - en fejring af kvindelige kunstnere i Danmark gennem 200 år / A room with a view: 200 years of Danish women artists (Næstved : Rønnebæksholm)
Curator(s): Næstved Rønnebæksholm
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
2013 Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell'arte italiana contemporanea (MaMbo: Museum de Moderne Art Bologna)
Curator(s): Emanuela De Cecco, Laura Iamurri, Arabella Natalini, Francesca Pasini, Maria Antonietta Trasforini
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy.
Analysis The theme, proposed by Uliana Zanetti and and developed by a section of the MAMbo’s female staff, some of whom adopting a new role for the occasion, has stimulated the interest of established women artists, critics, scholars and directors of Italian museums who have taken part in the initiative. Their collaboration has taken various forms of research and divulgation – exhibitions, seminars, video interviews, publications – developed in a process of continuous exchange of views among the participants.
The exhibition presents the works of prominent female artists, many of which created for the occasion and related to various thematic cores formulated by Emanuela De Cecco, Laura Iamurri, Arabella Natalini, Francesca Pasini, Maria Antonietta Trasforini and a team of members of the museum's staff. These are accompanied by the encomium devoted to Maria Lai by Cristiana Collu (director of MART, Rovereto), and the curatorial intervention of Letizia Ragaglia (director of Museion, Bolzano). The a.titolo collective, composed by Giorgina Bertolino, Francesca Comisso, Lisa Parola e Luisa Perlo, has overseen the realization of a work by Anna Scalfi Eghenter specially commissioned by MAMbo as part of the Nuovi Committenti programme. The overall formulation of the project has also drawn on theoretical contributions from Federica Timeto.
The artists are: Alessandra Andrini, Paola Anziche, Marion Baruch, Valentina Berardinone, Enrica Borghi, Anna Valeria Borsari, Chiara Camoni, Annalisa Cattani, Alice Cattaneo, Daniela Comani, Daniela De Lorenzo, Marta Dell'Angelo, Elisabetta Di Maggio, Silvia Giambrone, goldiechiari, Alice Guareschi, Maria Lai, Christiane Löhr, Claudia Losi, Anna Maria Maiolino, Eva Marisaldi, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Marzia Migliora, Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini, Maria Morganti, Margherita Morgantin, Liliana Moro, Chiara Pergola, Letizia Renzini, Moira Ricci, Mili Romano, Anna Rossi, Elisa Sighicelli, Alessandra Spranzi, Grazia Toderi, Sabrina Torelli, Traslochi Emotivi, Tatiana Trouve, Marcella Vanzo, Grazia Varisco.
2013 BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art (26 April - 25 May 2013) (Melbourne: Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne)
Curator(s): Laura Castagnini
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia, International.
2013 GOOD GIRLS: memory, desire, power (20 June-29 Sept 2013) National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest (Bucharest: MNAC)
Curator(s): Bojana Pejic and Olivia Nitis
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Romania, International.
2013 Female Power. Matriarchy, Spirituality & Utopia
(2 March - 19 May)
(Arnhem: Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem)
Curator(s): Mirjam Weston
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: The Netherlands, International.
2013 Hold stenhardt fast pa greia di: Norsk kunst og kvinnekamp 1968-89 (Norwegian art and feminism 1968-89)(March 9th-April 21st 2013) (Oslo: Oslo Konsthall)
Curator(s): Jorunn Veiteberg
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway.
Analysis
2013 Re.Act.Feminism: A Performing Archive (22 June-18 August) Berlin: Academie der Kunste (www.reactfeminism.org)
Curator(s): Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
2013 Recuperar la Memoria: Experiencias feministas desde el Arte, Argentina y Espana, Ana Navarette and Mujeres Publicas (2 Aug-21 Sept), Centro Cultural de Espana, Buenos Aires (CCEBE, Sede Parana)
Curator(s): Juan Aliaga and Maria Laura Rosa
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Argentina, Spain.
2013 Bad Girls (Collection Frac Lorraine) (France: 49 Nord, 6 Est, Frac Lorraine)
Curator(s): Collection Frac Lorraine
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France, International.
2013 International Women's Day, 8 March: An Exhibition of Feminist Art (opens 6 March) (Moscow: Manezh Museum and The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum in Moscow)
Curator(s): Nataliya Kamenetskaya, Olesya Turkina, Marina Loshak
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Russia, International.
2013 'The Beginning is Always Today': Scandinavian feminist art from the last 20 years (opens 21 Sept 2013) (Norway: SKMU Saarlandets Kunstmuseum )
Curator(s): Karen Hindsbo
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway, Sweden, Denmark.
2012 - 2013 Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012 (Japan, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum)
Curator(s): Reiko Kokatsu
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan, International, Asia.
2012 Doing it in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building (Los Angeles: Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design)
Curator(s): Meg Linton and Sue Maberry
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2012 Archi-feministes: Archiver le corps (Optica)
Curator(s): Marie-Ève Charron, Thérèse St-Gelais, Marie-Josée Lafortune
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France.
2012 Woman + Body (Gwangju Cultural Foundation)
Curator(s): Hye-Seong Tak Lee and Sherri Cornett
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Korea.
Analysis A collaborative exhibition between the Korean Women Artists Association and Women's Caucus for Art (USA). The exhibition was shown at Kepco Art Center Gallery, Seoul and Media Cube 338 in Gwangju.
2012 The True Colors of Curator (Hangil Art)
Curator(s): Hong-hee Kim
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea.
2012 Re-Picturing The Feminine: New and Hybrid Realities in the Artworld - A Survey of Indian and Australian Contemporary Female Artists. (India, Cochin: Gallery OED )
Curator(s): Marnie Dean
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: India, Australia.
2012 Contemporary Australia: Women (Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane / Gallery of Modern Art)
Curator(s): Julie Ewington
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
Analysis ‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ — the second in the Gallery’s Contemporary Australia exhibition series — celebrates the diversity, energy and innovation of contemporary women artists working in Australia today.
It featured more than 70 new and recent works, including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, textiles, video and performance by 33 artists and collectives, a total of 56 visual artists.
2012 The female gaze : women artists making their world (November 17, 2012-April 7, 2013, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)
Curator(s): Robert Cozzolino
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2012 Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art (Ein Harod: Museum of Art)
Curator(s): Dvora Liss and David Sperber
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Israel, International.
2012 New Maternalisms (FADO, Toronto)
Curator(s): Natalie Loveless
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada, International.
2011 Women Artists in Singapore (Singapore: Select Books and Singapore Art Museum)
Curator(s): Bridget Tracy Tan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Singapore.
2011 Three Women: Maria Pininska-Beres, Natalia LL, Ewa Partum (Zacheta National Art Gallery of Art)
Curator(s): Ewa Toniak
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland.
2011 I Advocate Feminism! (Vienna: Galeria Art Point, Kulturkontakt)
Curator(s): Olivia Nitis
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria.
2011 A different temporality : aspects of Australian feminist art practice 1975-1985 (Caufield East, Vic. : Monash University Museum of Art)
Curator(s): Kyla McFarlane, Micky Allen et al.
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2011 Entdeckt! : rebellische Künstlerinnen in der DDR [Kunsthalle Mannheim 2. Juli bis 9. Oktober 2011] (Mannheim Kunsthalle)
Curator(s): Susanne Altmann
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2011 Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia? (Office for Contemporary Art)
Curator(s): Marta Kuzma and Pablo Lafuente
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway.
2011 Experiences: Asian Women Artists in Global Culture (Incheon Women Artists' Biennale)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea.
2010 Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010 (Whatcom Museum, Bellingham)
Curator(s): Barbara Matilsky
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2010 The Will as a Weapon – Review 1970-1980 (Icelandic Art Museum, Reykjavík) (Reykjavík: Kjarvalsstadir)
Curator(s): Hrafnhildur Schram
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Iceland.
2010 Zen d'Art (Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
Curator(s): Natalya Kamenetskaya and Oksana Sarkisyan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Russia.
Analysis Zen d'Art: The History of Gender and Art in Post-Soviet Space, 1989-2009 (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2010) curators:N. Kamenetskaya and Oksana Sarkisyan
Number of artists: several hundred. Produced 1989-2009.
There is no exhibition list in the book. Reproductions are both documentary (of earlier exhibitions) and new photographs of works in situ at the exhibition. Many of the works reproduced were included in the exhibition.
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): primarly Russia (and primarily Moscow/St Petersburg), or Russian artists working or exhibiting in America, France, The Netherlands.
Curators: 2
Number of essays/authors: 11 - a mixture of new essays for the catalogue and documentation/reproduction of essays published elsewhere. Essays in both Russian and English.
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'the first, historical, and at the same a time, a willing, if not memoiristic, attempt to reconstruct the emergence of the gender project in post-Soviet art'
'the initial section includes theoretical texts....Zen was the title of the first event in perestroika era Moscow....the beginning point of a women's trend in contemporary art'
'the second half of the book The History of Gender and Art in Post-Soviet Space, is structured as a chronology of projects and their documentation'.
2010 DONNA: Avanguardia femminista negli anni '70: Collection Sammlung Verbund, Vienna (Vienna: Sammlung Verbund, and Rome: Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna )
Curator(s): Gabriele Schor and Angelandreina Rorro
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, Italy, International.
2010 No more bad girls?
( Vienna: Kunsthalle Exnergasse)
Curator(s): Kathrin Becker and Claudia Marion Stemberger
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria.
2010 The Soviet Woman in Estonian Art (Tallin: KUMU Art Museum )
Curator(s): Katrin Kivimaa and Kadi Talvoja
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Estonia.
2010 Idila/Idyll (Bucharest: Atelier 030202)
Curator(s): Olivia Nitis
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, Romania.
2010 Griot Girlz - Feminist Art and the Black Atlantic (11 June - 16 July 2010) (Austria: Buchsenhausen)
Curator(s): Ina Wudtke
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, International.
2010 The View From Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism (14th May – 29th May 2010) (Melbourne: West Space)
Curator(s): Victoria Bennett and Clare Rae
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2009 Rebelle: Kunst en feminisme 1969-2009 (Arnhem Gemeentemuseum)
Curator(s): Mirjam Westen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: The Netherlands, International.
Analysis rebelle: kunst en feminisme 1969-2009 (The Netherlands: Arnhem Gemeentemuseum, Curator: Mirjam Westen
Number of artists: 88
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): international exhibition, includes women artists from across Europe, USA, includes artists from South Africa, Guatemala, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Croatia, Japan, China and Kenya.
18 artists were either born or still work in The Netherlands
Curators: Mirjam Westen
Number of essays/authors: 7 - essays in this catalogue focus on providing a Dutch perspective on feminist art and documenting the Dutch feminist art movement: including the diary of the editor of Ruimte and member of SVBK as well as the exhibition Feministische Kunst International from 1978.
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'Rebelle showcases forty years of feminist art....an extensive survey of the work of eighty-eight female artists...juxtapose[ing] works by different generations of artists. Displaying pioneers and contemporary female artists side-by-side and intermingling works from different social, intercultural and international contexts, the exhibition revealed the striking similarities and differences of the featured works and artists.'
2009 Elles@Centre Pompidou (2009-2011) (Paris: Centre Pompidou)
Curator(s): Centre Pompidou
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France, International.
Analysis elles@centre pompidou (Paris: Centre Pompidou 27 May 2009-21 Feb 2011)
Number of artists: more than 340 artists, 500 works - exhibits shown at different times
20th and 21st century exhibits
(women artists' work now represents 18% of the museum collection, but
25% of the contemporary art collection)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): France, USA, Korea, Japan, UK, many Eastern and Western European countries, Mexico, Brazil….generally a global spread.
Curator: Camille Morineau.
Associate Curators: Quentin Bajaco, Cecile Debray, Valerie Guilaume, Emma Lavigne
Number of essays/authors: 23 essays, 7 of these introduce the sections in the exhibition space: 'Women Pioneers' and then six themes 'Fire at Will', 'Eccentric Abstraction, 'A Room of One's Own', Words at Work', ' Immaterials/ Immaterielles', 'The Body Slogan'
Catalogue contains a chronology divided into Art and Society.
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'There is a constraint [in the exhibition] with this principle that is also an asset: drawing only from the collection, composing only from works acquired by the Museum without calling on loans that would nevertheless complete the idea opportunely'. Alfred Pacquement
'Elles@centrepompidou amounts to a shocking proposal for more than one reason: it could not be reduced to a thematic approach (how could simply separating women from men in the area of intellectual creation claim to be a theme?)' Alfred Pacquement
The Paradox of 'Elles' is a French Paradox
… 'The Mnam is exhibiting only women, and yet the goal is neither to show that female art exists nor to produce a feminist event, but to present the public with a handing that appears to offer a good history of twentieth century art…..
Indeed, the end result - a presentation of the collection based on gender - seeks to be universal despite that criterion. If women are in fact the equal of men, this is to say both potentially and actively exhibiting only women should suffice to represent any or all kinds of idea and, in this instance, any realm of creativity.'
Elle@centrepompidou is this traversed by a deep,double paradox, as is any act that attempts to interrogate, rectify or simply evoke an unresolved equality, thereby reflecting French feminist movements: on the one hand, there is the paradox that prevents women from taking the floor, on the other, there is the one that prevents them, if they do take the floor, from doing so in the name of woman.' Camille Morineau
2009 Gender Check (Vienna: MUMOK and Erste Foundation)
Curator(s): Bojana Pejic
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, Poland, International.
Analysis Gender Check (Vienna: MUMOK, 13.November 09-14 February 10, toured to Warsaw, 2010) Curator: Bojana Pejic
Number of artists: 227 artists. Majority of works were by women artists (c. 30% by male artists) from 1950-present. Majority of works, post-1988.
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): 24 Eastern European countries.
Curators: Bojana Pejic - employed 27 researchers in a team across E. European countries.
Number of essays/authors: 13 essays.
Catalogue divided into sections: 'Socialist Iconosphere', 'Negotiating Private spaces', 'Post-Communist Genderscapes'
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'The exhibition takes the form of an historical obstacle course that maps out the construction and deconstruction of role models as a component of socio-political conflicts. In pre-1989 art, thos process was reflected as a dialectic of collective cliches and individual resistance, part of which took the form of a 'latent feminism'....In contrast, growing Western influence and the impact of neoliberal and neoconservative values after1989 additionally highlighted the downsides of the new individualism as role-defining and role-changing factors.
'Studying the depiction of the body and of gender relations under socialism in Eastern Europe, around the time of the fall of the Iron curtain and in the present is an ambitious undertaking'.
'How are we to explain 'Eastern Europe'? Is this a geographical, ideological, cultural or political concept or, rather, a phantasm?' B. Pejic
'The Gender check exhibition and this publication intend to offer a rewriting of Eastern European art histories, but this endeavour is not motivated by the desire to establish a 'final', totalizing or even consistent narrative. Instead we offer fragments of works of art and texts about them to identify process, to detect gender relations and mechanisms of power as they appear in both art contexts and visual representations'. B Pejic.
2009 Feminism Never Happened (Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art)
Curator(s): Robert Leonard
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2008 Geteilte Zeit: Fragen und Antworten (Weimar: Edition Eselsweg, Text only in German, see n.paradoxa issue 20 for English.)
Curator(s): Gisela Weimann
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
2008 Cooling Out: On the Paradox of Feminism (Zurich: JRP Ringier)
Curator(s): Rene Zechlin et al
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland, International.
Analysis Cooling Out : On the Paradox of Feminism (Switzerland,Basel, Kunsthaus Baselland; Ireland, Cork: Lewis Gluckmann Gallery, Germany, Luneburg: Halle Fuer Kunst) curators: Rene Zechlin, Sabine Schaschl-Cooper, Bettina Steinbrugge (publication: Switzerland, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2008)
Number of artists: 25 (all born between 1961-1977)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, USA, The Netherlands, Austria, Croatia, Finland, Japan/Canada, S. Africa.
Curators: 3, Bettina Steinbrugge, Sabine Schaschl and Rene Zechlin.
Number of essays/authors: 8 plus three panel discussions amongst curators and audiences
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'There is hardly a political and social movement to which we owe more positive changes than feminism. At the same time, however, negative connotations are attached to this concept.
"Cooling out" then, is a latent state that under the guise of equal rights apprehends the movement of feminism as completed. We have taken the concept of cooling out to describe the present state and, building upon it, to raise the question of current forms of feminism.
Under the title 'Cooling Out - on the paradox of feminism', works of female and male artists of the younger generation were exhibited at three venues, Cork (IE), Muttenz/Basel (CH) and Luneburg (DE). They describe the attitudes towards life of young women and men, draw attention to the problems and paradoxes of gender roles and of feminism, and put them up for debate.'
2008 Dunkelschwestern : Annemarie von Matt - Sonja Sekula (Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2008)(Curator/Editors: Roman Kurzmeyer and Roger Perret) (Zürich : Scheidegger & Spiess )
Curator(s): Annemarie von Matt and Sonja Sekula
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland, Germany.
2008 HACK.fem.EAST (Berlin: Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Kunstlerhaus Bethanien)
Curator(s): Tatiana Bazzichelli and Gaia Novati
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2008 Perspective 2008 (Bucharest: Anaid Art Gallery)
Curator(s): Olivia Nitis
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Romania.
2008 Matrix: Geschlechter | Verhältnisse | Revisionen / Matrix: Gender | Relations | Revisions (Springer and MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Vienna )
Curator(s): Sabine Mostegl and Gudrun Ratzinger
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria.
2008 Girls, Girls, Girls (Melbourne: Carlton Hotel)
Curator(s): Lyndal Walker and Nat Thomas
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2008 Manon - a Person : a Swiss pioneer of body and performance art (Exhibition: Manon - a Person Helmhaus Zürich (February 23 to April 20, 2008) and SI Swiss Institute, Contemporary Art, New York (April 28 to June 13 2009) Curator: Jean-Christophe Ammann (Zürich : Scheidegger & Spiess )
Curator(s): Sabine Kronenberg and Thomas Kramer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland.
2008 We are Unsuitable for Framing online catalogue/collection (20 Dec 2008 – 26 Jul 2009) ( Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand )
Curator(s): Museum of New Zealand
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: New Zealand.
2008 A Time Like This (Melbourne: Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne)
Curator(s): Samantha Comte, Jirra Lulla Harvey, Kate Rhodes and Meredith Turnbull, Helen McDonald
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2007 Performance, Politik, Gender : Materialienband zum Internationalen Künstlerinnenfestival "Her Position in Transition" [Vienna: 4-18 March 2006] (Wien : Löcker )
Curator(s): Margit Niederhuber
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, International.
2007 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (Massachussetts: MIT and Los Angeles: MOCA)
Curator(s): Cornelia Butler
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, International.
Analysis WACK! : Art and the Feminist Revolution (Los Angeles: MOCA, 2007, toured to New York and Vancouver) curator: Connie Butler
Number of artists: 119 artists - work of the 1960s and 1970s
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): 21 countries
Curators: Cornelia Butler
Number of essays/authors: 11
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'"WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" is predicated on the notion that gender was and remains fundamental to culture and that a contemporary understanding of the feminist in art must necessarily look back to the late 1960s and 1970s.'
'Though 'WACK' is not an acronym, it gestures to those of many activist groups and political communities beginning in the 1970s whose activities focused on women's issues and cultural production…The violent and sexual connotations of WACK serve to reinforce feminism's affront to the patriarchal system, while the exhibition's conjoined subtitle is intended to acknowledge the intersection of feminism and art that is this exhibition's raison d'etre and the source of its revolutionary potential'.
My ambition for WACK! Is to make the case that feminism's impact on art of the 1970s
Constitutes the most influential "movement" of any during the postwar period - in spite or perhaps because of the fact that it seldom cohered, formally or critically, into a movement the way Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, or even Fluxus did.
….It is my contention that - whether unintentionally or lacking the language or cultural context to support a feminist idiom - the artists in this exhibition contributed to the movement and development of feminism in art, if only by reinforcing two central tenets: the personal is political, and all representation is political.
….it is not my project here to write the narrative of its [feminist art's} inception.
….I have chosen to stand by the "women-only" model.
… My earliest impulse was to abandon traditional installation models for survey exhibitions, which tend to highlight certain artists in depth, creating constellations around them…
…..{I presented} the exhibition in which constellations of artists are in dialogue across social, political, geographic, and chronological boundaries. In order to accomplish this, I created a structure in which themes were conceived as propositions rather than definitive categories…
2007 Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women (American Asian Women Artists Association)
Curator(s): American Asian Women Artists Association (AAWAA)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Asia.
2007 Gender Battle/A Battala dos Xeneros (Spain: Santiago de Compostela)
Curator(s): Juan Vicente Aliaga
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, International.
2007 Its Time for Action (There's No Option) About Feminism (Zurich: Migros Museum and JRP Ringier)
Curator(s): Heike Munder
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland, International.
Analysis It's Time for Action (There's no Option) - About Feminism (Zurich: Migros Museum fuer Gegenswartskunst, 2006) curator: Heike Munder (publication Switzerland, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2007)
Number of artists: 10 (born 1933-1972)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): UK, USA, Switzerland, Germany.
Curators: Heike Munder
Number of essays/authors: 5 essays
Expressed aim of exhibition:
It's Time for Action...encompasses female artists of the first, second and third waves of feminism. In the exhibition various atmospheres, generations and themes are consolidated: they lead the observer through the exhibition spaces from approach to approach, generating a head of steam through the voyeurism the works trigger - always on the trail of the enforced ego, the Girl Monster in us, born of the self-conception of each of their generations, a lust for life, the use of art as symbolic representation, and the conviction that in an active movement everything can be possible.
'One concern of the exhibition was to re-examine the theme of feminism, which appeared to have been discussed enough at the end of the 1990s and early in 2000, and for a brief period to draw increased attention to it.'
'Here we return to role models and remain concerned with the illustration of the body. It is significant that works in the feminist field continually return to the illustration of the body, in spite of all the attempts to negate it that took place in the riotous 1970s and 1980s.'
2007 Global Feminisms (London and New York: Merrell and Brooklyn Museum)
Curator(s): Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, International.
Analysis Global Feminisms (London and New York: Merrell and Brooklyn Museum, 2007) curators: Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly
Number of artists: more than 80 - artists all born after 1960 and the majority of work selected was produced after 1990.
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): 50 countries (includes place of birth).
Curators: Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin.
Number of essays/authors: 9 authors.
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'Global feminisms attempts to move the discourse of feminism away from its linear, Western history and towards an international inclusiveness.' (Press release)
'Global feminisms is a celebration of international feminist art at the turn of the twenty-first century. It offers an alternative narrative of art today by bringing together a wide selection of women artists whose work deals with their socio-cultural, political, economic, racial, gender, and/or sexual identities....the 1990s marked a move away from the Western domination of feminist art towards the inclusion of work by feminist artists from other regions.' (Book jacket)
'This exhibition is the joint enterprise of two women…[teacher and former student]...the show...is the product of what one might call intergenerational feminist approaches.'
'The aim of the show is suggested by its title, Global Feminisms...By making feminism a plural noun, we mean to imply that there is not a single unitary feminism any more than there is a timeless, universal 'woman', but rather, that there are varied, multiple, unstable constructions of female subjects and their predicaments and situations.
The concept of difference lies at the heart of our project as a positive factor - not just the differences between men and women, but even more, the differences among women themselves.'
Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin in the Introduction.
Also repeatedly named as the counterpoint to Linda Nochlin and Ann Sutherland Harris' 'Women Artists, 1550-1950' at LACMA (1976).
Both exhibitions are 'conceptual bookends separated by thirty years of feminist artistic practice and theory' (Maura Reilly).
2007 Bird Girls (Melbourne: Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne)
Curator(s): Daw Kate and Vikki McInnes
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2007 *normal love* precarious sex. precarious work (Berlin: Kunstlerhaus Bethanien)
Curator(s): Renate Lorenz
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: International.
2007 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: 45 Years of Art and Feminism (Bilbao: Musee de Belles Artes de Bilbao)
Curator(s): Xavier Arakistan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, International.
Analysis Kiss Kiss Bang Bang : 45 Years of Art and Feminism (Spain, Bilbao: Musee de Belles Artes de Bilbao, 2007) curator: Xavier Arakistan
Number of artists: 37
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): UK/Sweden, Austria, Australia, USA, France, Germany, Canada, Nigeria, Guatemala, Spain,
Curators: Xabier Arakistain
Number of essays/authors: 6 main essays,
then 44 contributions: each focused on one work in the show
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'Although the exhibition presents a compilation of emblematic artists and their works, covering forty five years of artistic practice and the Feminist movement, this historical period is not brought to a close through a process of documentation and exhaustive selection. Instead, there is a compilation of artistic lines and strategies…
Five subject areas:
- The fight for the civil and political rights of women and the political and artistic implications of the maxim 'the personal is political', revealing the political nature of the private sphere, without excluding categories of class and race.
- The cultural construction of sex, gender and sexuality and denunciation of sexist stereotypes.
- Struggles relating to the liberalisation of women's bodies.
- Condemnation of violence against women
- Feminist practice to make women visible and include them in the history of humankind, to write a true history that does not leave more than fifty percent of the population out of the story.
2007 Gender: Aspects of the Visual Arts of Northern and Central Russia (Russian State University for the Humanities, Museum Center and The Creative Workshop, INO)
Curator(s): Irina Bakanova and Natalya Kamenetskaya
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Russia.
2007 Kønsspektakler = Gender furore (Marianne Jørgensen and Sine Bang Nielsen) (Kvindemuseet)
Curator(s): Marianne Jørgensen and Sine Bang Nielsen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
2006 Reflections Multiplied (Sofia: Sofia City Art Gallery)
Curator(s): Maria Vassilieva
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Bulgaria.
2006 Feminist Actions (Melbourne: Spacement)
Curator(s): Veronica Tello
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
2006 Cultura Subyugada: Interrupciones y resistencias sobre lo femenino / Subjeted Culture: Interruptions and resistances on the feminine (touring exhibition, 2006-2008)
(Argentina: Buenos Aires, Fondo Nacional des Artes)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Argentina, International.
2006 Konstfeminism (Helsingborg: Dunkers Kulturhaus and Lilevalch Konsthall)
Curator(s): L. Anderson, A. Livion Ingvarsson, M. Jensner, A. Nystrom, B.Werkmeister, N. Ostlind
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden.
Analysis Konstfeminism (Helsingborg: Dunkers Kulturhaus and Lilevalch Konsthall, 2005) curators: L. Anderson, A. Livion Ingvarsson, M. Jensner, A. Nystrom, B.Werkmeister, N. Ostlind
Number of artists: 109 artists (born between 1925-1976)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Sweden
Curators: 6 - in 3 institutions, with Barbro Werkmaster
Number of essays/authors: 15
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'It is only with this exhibition that the whole history of art feminism [in Sweden], from the earliest traces up to the present has been brought to the attention of a wider public.'
'Back in the mid-1990s, art historian Barbro Werkmaster and artist Kerstin Diedrick proposed an exhibition that would deal with how women artists of the 1970s expressed their own experiences and ideas in their work. These artists also introduced a new artistic language that was taken up and developed by others. The idea was to start the exhibition in the 1960s and to continue up to the present, with the main emphasis on the 1970s.'
…proposal resurrected in 2003….rapidly developed the original proposal and the resulting exhibition comprises the period from the mid 1960s up to 2005'
'We are well aware that relatively few artists in the 1970s described their work as feminist. While it is important to be aware of changes in terminology this does not prevent a feminist interpretation from being fruitful and from clarifying historical movements that have only become visible in retrospect. For us the category of feminist art has acted as a way of reading the material, a tool for clarifying questions of sex, gender and power. These concepts are not fixed and unambiguous but are subject to a continuing process of change in which our understanding of biology, nature and culture play a decisive role.
'With this catalogue we hope to counter the evident lack of documentation that is especially evident with regard to the 1970s but also to place art feminism in a wider historical, social and theoretical context. There are many phenomena that the exhibition can only touch upon and the catalogue is intended to be a more comprehensive complement while still mirroring the content and orientation of the exhibition.'
2005 La Costilla Maldita=The Accursed Rib (Centro Atlantica de Arte Moderno)
Curator(s): Margarita Aizpuru and Christina Padura, Omar Pascual
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Grand Canaries, International.
2005 And the one doesn't stir without the other (Belfast : Ormeau Baths Gallery)
Curator(s): Ursula Burke and Ruth Jones
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
2005 Loft of Language: 8 female artists in China: SHEN Na, HE Chengyao, CHEN Qiulin, CHEN Lingyang, CHEN Qingqing, YU Hong, CUI Xiuwen, YANG Fan (Beijing:Three Quarters Art Gallery)
Curator(s): Qi Zhu
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: China.
2005 Japanese Women Artists in Avantgarde Movements, 1950-1975 (Japan: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts)
Curator(s): Reiko Kokatsu
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan.
2005 Her Noise (exhibition, South London Gallery, London
10 November - 18 December 2005) (Forma)
Curator(s): Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, international.
2005 Trautes Heim/Cosy Home (Leipzig: Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst and Konig Books)
Curator(s): Julia Schafer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2005 Life Actually (Museum of Tokyo Annual 2005 exhibition catalogue (Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) 15 Jan-21 March (Text in Japanese and English))
Curator(s): Michiko Kasahara
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan.
Analysis Life Actually Museum of Tokyo Annual 2005 exhibition catalogue (Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) 15 Jan-21 March 2005) curator: Michiko Kasahara, Text in Japanese and English.
Number of artists: 10 (b. 1940-1970)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Japan
Curators: Kasahara, Michiko
Number of essays/authors:
Expressed aim of exhibition:
Organised as the Museum of Tokyo's annual exhibition, the directors' agreed to all all-woman exhibition.
'Women artists are re-examining features of everyday life around them from their own point of view while questioning ideas that were once regarded as "common sense" and overlooked until now. They are investigating and rebuilding the society they live in, the history that has formed them and the world that surrounds them. Their creative acts are based on a capacity for empathy with the world as they deal with their everyday life and immediate surroundings. Their art, like life, overflows with "love, solitude and laughter".'
2005 Valie Export : [eine Werkschau ; 11.02. - 10.04.05 ; Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart] (Klosterneuburg ; Wien : Sammlung Essl )
Curator(s): Valie EXPORT
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, Austria.
2005 Tendenici@s: Perspectivas feministas en el arte actual (Ad Hoc Serie Ensayos 6. Spain, Murcia: CendeaC)
Curator(s): Ana Martinez-Collado
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, International.
2004 Dass die Körper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit langem = That bodies speak has been known for a long time (Generali Foundation, Wien, 22 January-25 April 2004)Curator: Sabine Breitwieser. (Köln : König )
Curator(s): Hemma Schmutz and Tanja Widmann
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, International.
2004 First International Women's Art Festival in Taiwan: Women, Art and Technology: Collected Essays (Taiwan: Kaoshiung Museum of Fine Arts)
Curator(s): Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Taiwan, International.
Analysis From My Fingers: Living in the Technological Age
(Taiwan: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, May 8 2003 to July 27 2003)
Curator: Elsa Chen. Number of artists: 34 (born between 1956 and 1980)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Taiwan, U.S.A, Singapore,
Curators: Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen
Number of essays/authors: 3 essays by Elsa Hsiang-chun Chen, Faith Wilding and Katy Deepwell. (Also available, a separate book of 12 essays published after the exhibition).
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'What kinds of ideas have Taiwanese and Asian women artists come up with Donna Haraway's observations of changes in humankind's subjectivities within a technological living environment?'
'... From My Fingers: Living in the Technological Age as being an international exhibit intervening in Taiwan/in the here-and-now/ in women/ in technology/ and in art.'
'Through the varying relationships that artists' understanding, feelings and experiences have with technology (such as whether close or distant), this exhibition is attempting to explore the cultural texture of technological art and life.'
'... From My Fingers represents the joint efforts of a group of women attempting to intervene in Taiwan's cultural and social consciousness from a contemporary art background.'
2003 Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland (Warsaw: National Museum of Warsaw; exhibition at Sculpture Center, New York)
Curator(s): Aneta Szylak
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland.
2003 Just love me : post/feminist positions of the 1990s from the Goetz Collection Curators: Rainald Schumacher, Matthias Winzen (Fries Museum (Leeuwarden, Netherlands), Bergen kunstmuseum, Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Koln : Konig)
Curator(s): Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: The Netherlands, International.
2003 Masquerade: Women's Contemporary Portrait Photography Ellipsis (Vol. 2 Cardiff: Fotogallery)
Curator(s): Kate Newton and Christine Rolf
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
2003 Melting Time #11 (Denmark: Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot, Aabenraa and Kastrupgardsamlingen, Kastrup, (Text in Danish and English))
Curator(s): Kirsten Justesen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
2003 Through the Looking Glass: Women and Self-Representation in Contemporary Art (works in Palmer Museum of Art Collection) (Pennsylvania State University Press)
Curator(s): Sarah Rich, Joyce Henri Robinson
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2003 Procreation/ Postcreation (Thailand: Bangkok)
Curator(s): Womanifesto
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Thailand, International.
2002 Gender Game: Korper-Median-Blicke-Mannlichkeiten Go Drag! (Germany: Tubingen, Konkursbuch)
Curator(s): Marion Strunk
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2002 KünstlerInnen machen Kunstvermittlung - Kunstcoop (Berlin: Vice Versa / NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst)
Curator(s): Ana Bilankov, Susanne Bosch et al.
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2002 Femme Art: Women Painting in Russia XV-XX centuries (Moscow: INO & State Tretyakov Gallery (Text in English and Russian))
Curator(s): N. Kamenetskaya and L. Iovleva
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Russia.
2002 Kauneuden Sukupuoli (Finland: Gaudearmo)
Curator(s): Pauline von Bonsdorff and Anita Seppa
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Finland.
2002 Foeminilia : memorie ferraresi e invenzioni d'autore : mostra e asta a fini benefici (Curators: Toschi Cavaliere, Chiara., Pansera, Anty.,, Soroptimist international club di Ferrara) (Ferrara, Palazzina Marfisa d'Este, 27 aprile-9 giugno 2002, Ferrara : Edisai)
Curator(s): Toschi Cavaliere Chiara; Pansera; Anty; Soroptimist international club di Ferrara
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy, International.
2002 Art/Women/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000 (California: San Jose Museum of art)
Curator(s): Diana Burgess Fuller and Daniela Salvioni
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2002 Foundlings (Brussels: Argos)
Curator(s): Orla Barry
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Belgium.
2002 Fusion Cuisine (Athens: DESTE Foundation)
Curator(s): Katerina Gregos
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Greece, International.
2002 Gloria: Another Look at feminist art of the 1970s (New York : White Columns)
Curator(s): Catherine Morris and Ingrid Schaffner
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2002 Women's Art Festival : the Second Women's Art Festival. East Asian Women and Herstories (Seoul: Women's Art Festival)
Curator(s): Seoul Women's Art Festival
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea, International.
2002 PHE02: Femininos: PhotoEspana, 2002, V Edicion del FestivlaInternacional de Fotografi (Madrid: La Fabrica)
Curator(s): La Fabrica
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, International.
2001 Threads of vision : toward a new feminine poetics (Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art)
Curator(s): Nicole Eisenman and Kristin Chambers, Ghada Amer, Shahzia Sikander, Lin Tianmiao, Fatimah Tuggar
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2001 Ostatnia Kobieta: Maskarady / The Last Woman: Masquerades (Poland, Posnan: IX Festival: Inner Spaces)
Curator(s): Agata Jakubowska
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland.
2001 Women Breaking Boundaries 21 (Osaka, Toki Art Space/Hillside Forum. Text in both Japanese and English.)
Curator(s): Women's Art Network, Japan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan.
2001 Self Portrait Palestinian Women’s Art (Tel Aviv: Andalus)
Curator(s): Tal Ben Zvi and Yael Lerer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Israel, Palestine.
2001 Perplex : Positionen und Perspektiven ; 75 Jahre GEDOK-Künstlerinnenverband (6. Oktober bis 4. November 2001 in der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn) (Köln : Wienand )
Curator(s): Ursula Toyka-Fuong and Marijanca Ambos
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2001 Journey of the Spirit: Taiwanese Women Artists and Contemporary Representations (Taiwan: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts)
Curator(s): Ying Ying Chien
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Taiwan.
Analysis Journey of the Spirit: Taiwanese Women Artists and Contemporary Representations (Taiwan: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2001) curator: Ying Ying Chien
Number of artists: c. 30 artists (born between 1945-1970)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Taiwan
Curators: Ying Ying Chien
Number of essays/authors: 4, only abstracts in English.
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'...goes beyond traditional retrospective exhibitions and stereotypical women's joint exhibitions'
'This cross-disciplinary art show attempts to combine women's experiences and intellectional reflections: artistic creativity and academic theory. Taking women's spirituality as its core, it rediscovers female gaze/vision as distinct from patriarchal reasoning.'
'the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Taiwan women's art ever'
4 sections: Spirituality/ Symbolism/Realism; Nature/ Environmental Media; Society/ Consciousness/ Practice; and Traditional/Folk/Contemporary
Chen Hsiang-chen - Abstract
'Most discourses and exhibitions of contemporary art seem to adopt an intuitive and over-simplified interpretive concept, such as 'female essence' and 'feminine essence', to universalise works by women artists, women artists' join exhibitions, 'women's art' or feminist art. They often overlook differences between women artists in terms of positionality of their artistic, cultural and sexual practices, that is, the differences in their subjectivities.'
2001 SMIRK: Women, Art and Humour (New York: Firehouse Gallery Nassau)
Curator(s): Debra Wacks
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2001 Intime Expeditionen: Das Schone, das Intime, die Neugierde (Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin. exhibition catalogue, 2001 - curator Dr. Amme Marie Freybourg)
Curator(s): Goldrausch Kunstlerinnenprojektes
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
2001 Capital and Gender: international project for art and theory (Museum of City of Skopje)
Curator(s): Suzana Milevska
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Macedonia, International.
Analysis Capital and Gender (Republic of Macedonia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, 2001) curator: Suzana Milevska
Number of artists: 17 artists, both male and female. Exhibition installed in Skopje's City Shopping Mall, at the same time that Marina Abramovic was showing Great China Wall Walk at the Museum of the City of Skopje.
Project conceived as book, symposium and public art project
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): across the states of the former Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Serbia, Turkey, Bulgaria, USA, Estonia,
Curators: Suzana Milevska
Number of essays/authors: c.7 main essays plus documentation of symposium
Expressed aim of exhibition:
To examine 'the process of changing of the ideals on political, economical and social level in the transitional societies' [which] 'started to reflected directly into the changes of individual and personal concepts of identity, love, marriage, body etc, categories that till now usually were conceived as isolated and independent issues. When the individuals in the countries of the East understood that they can completely take the responsibilities for the management over their own bodies and lives in their hands many suppressed issues appeared that were not answered by the state in the preceding phase of development of these societies.
'Such merging of capital, gender and art interwoven with the desire for their proliferation was one of the provocations for placing this first public art project of this proportion in the City Shopping Mall where the desires and phantasms of different gender, cultural and social background meet continuously.'
2001 Pink Link ou la proposition rose, 1999-2001 (Montreal: La Centrale)
Curator(s): La Centrale
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
2001 Wo....man - Arte no Feminino?Feminine Art (The Provisional Municipal Council of Macau: Old Ladies' House Art Space)
Curator(s): The Provisional Municipal Council of Macau
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: China, Macau, Hong Kong.
2000 Text and Sub-Text (Singapore: Lasalle-SIA University)
Curator(s): Binghui Huangfu
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Singapore, International.
Analysis Text and Sub-Text (curator/editor Binghui Huangfu) (exhibition catalogue, 2 vols., Singapore: Lasalle-SIA University, 2000)
Number of artists: 22 (Born between 1946-1975)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Indonesia, UK, South Korea, Japan, USA, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Vietnam, Germany, Thailand, Taiwan, China.
Curators: Binghui Huangfu
Number of essays/authors: 18 essays
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'The focus was to begin a dialogue on the issues confronting women involved in contemporary art in this part of the world.'
'As a concept this project aims to bring together the varying regions and countries of Asia for the purpose of examining the resource of their collective women artists. Such a dialogue brings together often unconnected Asian regions.'
'This project seeks to introduce the conceptual thinking and conceptual work of the varied geographically separated practitioners to each other. There will be points of similarities and areas of great difference.'
'The various nations that make up what is Asia each exist within their own local environmental and developmental issues. Each one of these countries forms the subtext to a view of Asia. Women form the subtext to this subtext. With the speed of cultural change the need for analysis of the issues affecting any subgroup is imperative.'
2000 Private Views: Spaces and Gender in Contemporary Art from Britain and Estonia (London: Women's Art Library & IB Tauris)
Curator(s): Pam Skelton and Angela Dimitrakaki, Mare Tralla
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, Estonia.
2000 Hers: : Video as Female Terrain (Vienna and New York: Springerin/ Sterischer Herbst Festival)
Curator(s): Stella Rollig
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, International.
Analysis <Hers> Video as Female Terrain (Vienna and New York: Springerin/ Sterischer Herbst Festival, 2000) curator: Stella Rollig
Number of artists: 25 artists, 3 artists included were men.
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Germany, Bulgaria, USA, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Uk, The Netherlands.
Curators: Stella Rollig
Number of essays/authors: Stella Rollig, Ruth Noack, Yvonne Volkart, Anna Harding
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'<hers> designates video as a female terrain - yet another risk. Developing the concept for <hers> involved a sort of tightrope walk between a simplistic gender-specific ascription ("female artists are especially good at working with video") and the professed interest in female positions and supporting them.
The pieces shown in <hers> do not offer a fast kick to persons obessed with imagery. I am an adherent of the school of art theory that refuses to unconditionally integrate art into visual culture and thereby obfuscate its intellectual substance. It is becoming ever more necessary to oppose this. There is a growing pressure to utilize art for increasingly diversified branches of entertainment and to use it to create corporate identities for companies and locations. Art is a conceptual system, world analysis, a way of thinking. With each work in <hers> the artists are pursuing a specific issue, formulating a claim.'
An exhibition with 22 female artists and three male artists could perhaps appear as feminist if one looks at the list of participating artists. I would prefer for it not to be called intoquestion and accepted as such. The theme of <hers> is not women's art but rather the artistic confrontation with women and with their representation in the media. By using the same image technology as the mass media, female artists confirm the dominating role that audiovisual media play as harbingers of visual and thematic innovations....With this view of the broad production of images, the artists - of this exhibition project - follow the artistic studies that were informed by the early (also feminist) critique of representations.'
2000 Women's Art in Hungary 1960-2000 (Budapest: Ernst Museum)
Curator(s): Katalin Keseru
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Hungary.
2000 Entre Femmes: Isabelle Bribosia, Pascale Wiedermann, Pascalle Willi (Luxembourg: Casino Luxembourg)
Curator(s): Isabelle Bribosia and Pascale Wiedermann, Pascalle Willi
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Luxembourg.
2000 How many "bad" fcminists does it take to change a lightbulb? / Combien de "sales" feministes faut-il pour changer une ampoule? : antifeminisme et art contemporain (Lyon : Tahin Party)
Curator(s): Laura Cottingham
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, France.
2000 Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective (London: Thames and Hudson)
Curator(s): Amanda Cruz and Amelia Jones, Elizabeth A.T. Smith
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
2000 Zona F. Una exploracion sobre los espacios habitados por los discursos feministas en el arte contemporaneo,[F Zone. An Exploration On Spaces Inhabited by Feminist Discourses in Contemporary Art]. (Trilingual edition: Spanish/English/Valencian). 3 February - 9 April (Castellan: Consorci de Museos Comunitat Valenciana. )
Curator(s): Cabello /Carceller (Helena Cabello/Ana Carceller).
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, International.
1999 Patjis on Parade: Women's Art Festival '99 (Seoul, Hongdesign Press)
Curator(s): Hong-hee Kim
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea.
1999 Anne Tallentire (Dublin: Project Press)
Curator(s): Valerie Connor
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ireland, UK.
1999 Ma'am's Box (Hong Kong: Para/Site Art Space)
Curator(s): Kith Takping Tsang, Tina West, Eliza Meilin Lai
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Hong Kong.
1999 Art : feminist art, art about women (Melborne: 'first site' Gallery, The Queen Victoria Women's Trust Centre, Tivoli Artspace, Swanston Artspace, RMIT Central Library)
Curator(s): Debbie Qadri
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1999 Past Present: The National Women's Art Anthology (New South Wales: Craftsman's House)
Curator(s): Joan Kerr and Jo Holder
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1999 Re Kollektion/Re Collection (Denmark: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 17 April-13 June)
Curator(s): Kirsten Justesen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
1999 The End and the Beginning (London: Merrell Publishers)
Curator(s): Kathy Prendergast
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ireland.
1999 Body Inscribed: Challenging Tradition (New Zealand: CYSSY, George Frazer Gallery)
Curator(s): Carole Shepheard and Sandra Chesterman
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: New Zealand.
1999 Looking at ourselves : works by women artists from the Logan Collection (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 09-April 20)
Curator(s): Daniela Salvioni and Vicki Logan and Kent Logan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1999 Woman/Goddess: An Exhibition of Photographs (New Delhi: Multiple Action Research Group)
Curator(s): Gayatri Sinha
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: India.
1999 Maria Pininska-Beres 1931-1999 (Krakow: Galerie Sztuki Wspolczesnej Bunkier Sztuki, Nov-Dec)
Curator(s): Galerie Sztuki Wspolczesnej Bunkier
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland.
1999 Figure, Sculpture, Female - Forms of Representation of the Female Body (Germany: Chemitz and Austria: Linz)
Curator(s): Chemitz, Germany and Linz, Austria
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, Austria, International.
1998 Farvens Krop (The Body of Colour) Nina Roos & Paula Modersohn-Becker (Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik)
Curator(s): Kunsthallen Brands Klaedefabrik, Odense
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark, Germany.
1998 Lithuanian Art / Women Experience (Washington DC: Contemporary Art Centre, October)
Curator(s): Essay: Dr Ieva Kuiziniene
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Lithuania.
1998 Solo para tus ojos: el factor feminista en relacion a las artes visuales=Zure begietarako barkarrik feminismo faktorea arte bisualak direla eta (San Sebastian: Arteleku)
Curator(s): Arteleku
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain.
1998 Interior/Exterior, Full/ Empty (USA : Wexner Center, February)
Curator(s): Lorna Simpson
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1998 Mind and Spirit : Women's Art in Taiwan (Taiwan: Taipei Museum of Fine Art, 18 April-9 Sept 1998)
Curator(s): Ying Ying Lai
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Taiwan.
1998 How to Use Women's Body: Transfiguration of Sex, Gender, Nationality (Tokyo: Ota Fine Arts)
Curator(s): Yoshika Shimada, Ai Mori
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan.
1998 Territories: Alison Wilding (Canada, Edmonton Art Gallery & York University)
Curator(s): Alison Wilding. Curator: Renee Baert
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1998 Feminism.Video.Art (Ja-ewon)
Curator(s): Hong-hee Kim
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea.
1998 Isebel - die Gegenspielerin des Propheten Elia : Frauenmuseum, im Rahmen des Kunst-+-Kultur-Kirche-Projektes in den Evangelischen Kirchenkreisen Bonn, Bad Godesberg, an Rhein und Sieg (Bonn: Frauenmuseum)
Curator(s): Marianne Pitzen, Marga Monheim, and Julitta Franke
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1998 Meret Oppenheim: A Different Retrospective (DAP/Switzerland,Edition Stemmle)
Curator(s): Jacqueline Burkhardt and Bice Curiger et al
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland.
1998 Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation (Boston: MIT Press)
Curator(s): Whitney Chadwick
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA International.
1998 Multiplier: Points de vue sur l'art actuel des Femmes (Montreal: La Centrale (Galerie Powerhouse))
Curator(s): La Centrale
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1998 Boomerang (Exhibition of 67 Danish women with web space Inserts Nikolaj-Copenhagen Contemporary Art Space)
Curator(s): Susan Hinnum and Marlene Landgreen, Sanne Kofod Olsen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
1998 The Fae Richards Photo Archive (Artspace Books, DAP)
Curator(s): Cheryl Dunye and Zoe Leonard
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1998 Natural Disguise/Deguisement Naturel Works/Oeuvres, 1973-1998 (Montreal: Vehicule Press)
Curator(s): Judy Garfin
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1998 Ocho Mujeres en el arte hoy (Mexico: Museo de Arte Moderno)
Curator(s): Sala Antonieta Rivas Mercado
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Mexico.
1998 Nothing Personal: Paintings, 1987-1997 (USA: DAP/Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Curator(s): Ida Applebroog
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1997 Two Ways of Life: Julia Ventura (Centro Cultural de Belem 6 June-31 August)
Curator(s): Julia Ventura (essays by Pedro Lapa & Carol Armstrong)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Portugal.
1997 The Future's Mirror (UK touring exhibition, Newcastle-upon -Tyne, Locus +)
Curator(s): Cornelia Honiger Hesse
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1997 Rebecca Horn: The Glance of Infinity (USA, Scalo; Germany, Kestner Gessellschaft)
Curator(s): Carl Haenlein
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1997 Gendered Visions: the Art of Contemporary Africana Women Artists (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press)
Curator(s): Salah Hassan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Africa, USA.
1997 Difficult Territory: A Postfeminist Project (Australia, Sydney: Wolloomolloo/ Artspace)
Curator(s): Kristin Elsby
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1997 Studiolo: The Collaborative Work of Martha Fleming & Lynn Lapointe (Art Gallery of Windsor, and Canada,Montreal : Artextes)
Curator(s): Martha Fleming and Lynne Lapointe
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1997 Social process--collaborative action : Mary Kelly 1970-75 (Vancouver : Charles H. Scott Gallery)
Curator(s): Mary Kelly. Curator: Judith Mastai
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada, USA.
1997 Vera Frenkel: ... from the Transit Bar / Body Missing (Stockholm, Kungl. Konsthogskolan, Skeppsholmen)
Curator(s): Ulla Arnell and Sigrid Schade et al
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden.
1997 Femenino Plural: Doce Artistas Valencianas / Femenino Plural: arte de mujeres al borde del tercer milenio (Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana and Universitad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, 1997)
Curator(s): David Perez [Intro.]; Adelentado, Olga; Camunas, Blanca; Cebrian, Teresa; Chafer, Teresa; Domenech, Maribel; et al.
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, Mexico.
1997 Environ 27 ans: peut-être un peu plus...: pratiques artistiques et féminismes (20 Feb- 22 March 1997, Palais de l'Athénée) (Geneve: Sous-Sol)
Curator(s): Martine Anderfuhren
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland.
1997 Yureru onna, yuragu imeji : feminizumu no tanjo kara gendai made = Floating images of women in art history from the birth of the feminism toward the dissolution of the gender (Utsunomiya-shi : Tochigi Kenritsu Bijutsukan)
Curator(s): Tokiko Suzuki
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan.
1997 Kiss kiss (XX): an exhibition of collaborative feminist art (Brisbane : Robert Hughes Gallery)
Curator(s): Linda Caroli
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1997 Vraiment: Feminisme et Art (France, Grenoble: Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain)
Curator(s): Le Magasin
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France, International.
1997 Re/Dressing Cathleen: contemporary works from Irish Women Artists (Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Oct 5-Dec 7)
Curator(s): McMullen Museum of Art
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Ireland.
1997 Ein Stuck von Himmel / Some Kind of Heaven (Nurnberg: Kunsthalle Nurnberg, South London Art Gallery, 1998)
Curator(s): Eva Meyer-Hermann and Sadie Coles
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, UK, International.
Analysis Ein Stuck vom Himmel - Some Kind of Heaven (Germany: Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg, 1997 : London, South London Art Gallery, 1998)
Number of artists: 12 artists plus a video programme with 19 artists which overlaps with participants in main show.
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Germany, UK, Japan, Switzerland, The Netherlands, USA,
Curator: Eva Meyer-Hermann and Sadie Coles
Number of essays/authors: Eva Meyer-Hermann, Jon Savage
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'Art deals with life - it has a direct and always fresh approach. It reflects experiences and responds to them in its very own way. Life, on the other hand, being unpredictable and incalculable, makes sure that art keeps on encountering new questions and finding new subjects all the time. The exhibition - Ein Stuck von Himmel - Some Kind of Heaven expresses the perception of reality experienced by a generation of artists who grew up during the seventies and eighties - like the two curators who devised the exhibition concept. It is an exhibition created by one generation and will hopefully arouse that generation's interest.'
1997 Kultur: in Gender Projekt aus Istanbul (Zurich: Shedhalle)
Curator(s): Shedhalle
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland, Turkey.
1996 Virgin Territory: Women, Gender and History in Contemporary Brazilian Art (Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts)
Curator(s): National Museum of Women in the Arts
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Brazil.
1996 Kroppen Som Membran / Body as Membrane (Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik)
Curator(s): Kirsten Justesen and Valie Export
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark, International.
Analysis Kroppen Som Membran / Body as Membrane (Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik,1996) curators Kirsten Justesen,Valie Export
Number of artists: 17
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Denmark, Austria, USA, Poland, Austria, Germany, UK, France, Finland
Curators: Kirsten Justesen, Valie Export
Number of essays/authors: 4
Expressed aim of exhibition:
Sequel to exhibition organised in 1975 by Valie Export called Magna Feminismus, Kunst und Kreativitat. Justesen was in that early exhibition. Idea for the exhibition arose from meeting again in 1991. Exhibition exhibited large format photocopies of 42 existing works and additional videos of performances. Exhibition and catalogue combined photography, photography of performances and texts by artists.
'Body as Membrane
Membrane means a border coating between the cell and its surroundings.
Membrane indicates both sensitive and soft, porous material (skin) that functions as a transformer. …'
1996 Dialogue with the Other (Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik)
Curator(s): Lene Burkhardt
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark, International.
Analysis Dialogue with the Other (Denmark: Odense, Kunsthallen Brandts Kaedefabrik,1996) curator: Lene Burkhardt.
Number of artists: 30 (3 generations)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): 15
Curators: Lene Burkard
Number of essays/authors:4
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'They represent three generations of artists from 15 countries, the modes of expression ranging from installations to sculpture, painting, graphic art, video, sound and light. They include some of the most prominent of today's international artists, as well as some who are perhaps lesser known - artists now gaining recognition. Some of the artists have created new works; especially for the exhibition; there are also works chosen by some of the artists themselves - and finally there are works which we have wanted to exhibit in precisely this context.'
'A common feature of all the works is that they related to the concept "the Other", with its many facets. We hope that the exhibition can sound out some of the most important issues and questions that have engrossed international artists in recent years, revealing how art, based on its own premises, penetrates the aesthetic, philosophical, social and gender spheres of our time.'
(Karsten Ort, Director)
'The exhibition is far from being an affirming illustration of a theme - it has become a highly varied 'exploratory and questioning practice'. 'Dialogue with the Other' has become a dialogue with the subconscious, the body, the gender, with art history, time, power, the artistic medium, aesthetics, and with the personal or the story of otherness with regard to culture….The choice of artists is not meant as a focus on gender, rather on the fact that these artists have worked on a paradigm shift as regards former contrastinc structures.
(Lene Burkard)
To gather a group of women artists together under any rubric is to be forced into an essentialist position.
Change is what this exhibition is dedicated to and that includes changing the antipodal position of the silent Other...The 'Dialogue with the Other' is an invitation to a raucous affair in which we can hear the artists both "speak" and "resound". (Jo Anna Isaak)
1996 Inside the Visible (Boston: ICA/ MIT: Kanaal Art Foundation)
Curator(s): Catherine de Zegher
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, International.
Analysis Inside the Visible (Boston: ICA/ MIT: Kanaal Art Foundation, 1996 and Touring to London, Whitechapel and Australia, Perth ICA, 1996) curator: Catherine de Zegher
Number of artists: 37
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth):
Curators: Catherine de Zegher
Number of essays/authors: 5 introductory essays by Catherine de Zegher; Jean Fisher; Paul de Vylder; Griselda Pollock and Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger - plus 37 shorter essays - each artist allocated to one of the 4 sections and represented through a short essay by 37 authors.
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'Difference is far more entangled and complex than we like to admit. Taking this into account, I have attempted to develop an exhibition concept that bypasses the artificiality of "oppositional thinking" while acknowledging the work of deconstructionism, feminism, and poststructuralism, which has been instrumental in revealing the operations that tend to marginalise certain kinds of artistic production while centralising others. Unfolding as an open-ended process, this exhibition is prompted by observation of multiple convergences in aesthetic practices both in time (over different periods of the twentieth century) and in space (different parts of the world). The curatorial procedure may be likened to the excavation of material traces and fragmentary histories, which would be recombined into new stratigraphies or configurations to produce new meanings and insights of reality. Several recurrent cycles, rather than a linear survey with its investment in artistic originality and genealogies, structure the exhibition. This suggests a hybrid form of modernism not bound "to the progressive and decisive character of avant-gardism: the place of reference, deference and difference." (quote, G. Pollock)'
Catherine de Zegher introduction
Exhibition divided into works from 1930s-1940s, 1960s-1970s and 1990s in each section.
4 Sections: 1) 'Parts of/for': 2) 'The Blank in the Page'; 3) 'the Weaving of Water and Works'; 4) 'Enjambment-"La donna e mobile'
1996 Image & Imagination: Five Contemporary Artists in India (Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing PVT Ltde, 1996; Middleton, New Jersey,Grantha Corporation)
Curator(s): Geeta Sen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: India.
1996 Women's Art at New Hall Two Essays: 'In the Fertile Bind: Making a Female Body of Art' by Marina Warner. And: 'Reframing the Marked Page' by Griselda Pollock. (Cambridge: New Hall)
Curator(s): Marina Warner, Griselda Pollock
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1996 In the Looking Glass : An Exhibition of Contemporary Self-Portraits by Women Artists (UK: Lincoln: Usher Gallery)
Curator(s): S. Wilson (curator)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1996 Trans mission (Montreal: La Centrale)
Curator(s): La Centrale(Galerie Powerhouse)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
Analysis Trans mission (La Centrale, Montreal, 1996)
Number of artists: 31 (involved in the Trans mission publication, collective exhibition and conference).
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Canada, UK, New Zealand, USA
Curators/ La Centrale Programming Commitee: Diane Brouillette, Elaine Frigon, Laura Lefave, Catherine McGovern and Lynne Marsh.
Number of essays/authors: Introduction by Daniele Racine, 3 essays by Rose Marie-Arbour, Christine Major and Manon Morin.
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'The strategies of identification of women artists differ as well, ranging from political irony to intentional transgression to personal poetry. Addressing the issue of the feminist legacy of the past two decades, La Centrale's members and coordinators have decided to join together to inscribe their practice within the framework of an event about the handing down of that legacy; an event which includes a publication, a collective exhibition and a conference.'
'We can imagine that the public will be looking for the impact of feminism in the works created for the publication as well as those presented in the exhibition. Yet, several members would agree to say that their work is not an illustration of feminist discourse.'
'Chiefly, we thought that the public and the artists themselves would be inspired by this grouping of various strategies of identification put forward by women artists. Feminism is now focused on the problematic of difference, a central concept in contemporary critical theory. '
1996 Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party in Feminist Art History (University of California Press)
Curator(s): Amelia Jones
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1996 Zij-Sporen : Kunst op het Spoor (Antwerp: Gynaika)
Curator(s): Marijke Seresia
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Belgium, International.
1996 More than minimal : feminism and abstraction in the '70's (Waltham. Mass.: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)
Curator(s): Susan L. Stoops and Lynda Benglis, Whitney Chadwick
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1996 Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists (Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Sept 5- October 27)
Curator(s): Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan, International.
Analysis Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists (Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Sept 5- October 27 1996)
Number of artists: 11
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Japan, USA, UK
Curator: Kasahara, Michiko
Number of essays/authors: 3
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'Using 'gender' as a keyword, the 'gender - beyond memory' exhibition will concentrate on the works of modern women artists to show how these have been affected by the changes that have occurred recently in both though and values. At the same time, we will be looking at how people of every sexuality, race, nationality, age and class can liver together, understand each other, love each other.'
Director of Museum
'When we think about a particular group of works produced by women artists since the seventies, we are struck by a sense of dissonance that will not go away. That is because a feeling of alienation exists between them and the works produced prior to this period - paintings and photographs, including contemporary works, that conformed to traditional values.…They [those since the 1970s] ask questions such as Why create art? Why use photography? What is art?'
Kasahara, Michiko
1996 Survivors: In Search of a Voice: The Art of Courage (Canada: Wood Lawn Arts Foundation)
Curator(s): Barbara Amesbury
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1996 Vera Frenkel: Body Missing (Germany: Bremen, Gesellschaft fuer Aktuelle Kunst)
Curator(s): Eva Schmidt and Sigrid Schade
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, Canada.
1996 An Unexpected Journey Vrouwen Kunst=An Unexpected Journey Women and Art (Antwerp: Gynaika)
Curator(s): Monique Darge and Leen Huet, Wim Neetens, Marijke Seresia
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Belgium.
1996 Women Hold Up Half the Sky: the Orientation of Art in the Post-War Pacific (Melbourne,Victoria: Monash University Gallery)
Curator(s): Monash University
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia, Asia, International.
1996 DEA SYRIA : die Grosse Gottin des Alten Orient (All Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany)
Curator(s): J. Franke and M.Pitzen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995-1996 Inside Out: Contemporary Women Artists of India (UK Middlesborough Art Gallery)
Curator(s): Alison Lloyd (Kamala Kapoor & Sutapa Biswas)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: India, UK.
1995 Andere Orte - Uberall (Hannover, Reichold im Auftrage von Agora - Platz der Frauen e.V.)
Curator(s): Regine Othmer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Die Kunstmesse der Kunstlerinnen (Bonn: Frauen Museum)
Curator(s): Frauen Museum, Bonn
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Das Menschenbild in der Werbung der 90er Jahre (Bonn: Frauen Museum)
Curator(s): Frauen Museum, Bonn
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Die Rote Konigin: Eine Sammlung von Bildern und Schriften Zur Farbe rot (Bonn: Frauen Museum)
Curator(s): Frauen Museum, Bonn
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Ahn Young Na (exhibition catalogue) (Korea: Gallery SEOHO)
Curator(s): Ahn Young Na
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea.
1995 Leiblicher Logos : 14 Kunstlerinnen aus Deustschland (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie)
Curator(s): Gudrun Inboden and Birgit Sonna
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Bad Girls (Boston,Mass: MIT)
Curator(s): Marcia Tucker
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1995 Cherchez la Femme (exhibition Hamburg: Kunsthaus, Hamburg)
Curator(s): Ursula Panhams-Buhler
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
1995 Territoires Occupes : Kunst Konversion: Guerre, Violence et Artistes-Femmes (France, Metz: Fonds Regionale d'art Contemporain de Lorraine)
Curator(s): Metz FRAC
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France, International.
1995 Zongguo dangdai yishu zhon de nuxing fangshi / Women's Approach to Chinese Contemporary Art (Beijing: Zongguo Zishu Bowuguan)
Curator(s): Liao Wen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: China.
1995 Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties (Thames and Hudson/New York:MOMA)
Curator(s): Lynn Zelevansky
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1995 Stereo-Tip (exhibition catalogue,Ljubljana: Mestna Galerija)
Curator(s): curator Alexander Bassin
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Slovenia, International.
1995 Estfem : eesti feministliku kunsti nitus (Tallinn: Vaal Galerii, Linnagalerii, Mustpeade Galerii, 18.8.-2.9)
Curator(s): Mare Tralla
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Estonia.
1995 Laughter Ten Years After (USA: Hobart & William Smith Colleges Press)
Curator(s): Jo Anna Isaak
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1995 Begriefungskrafte: Kunstlerinnen Heute (Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein)
Curator(s): Angelika Beckmann
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Karo Dame: Konstructive,Konkrete und Radiakale Kunst von Frauen von 1914 bis Heute (Germany: Baden,Lars Muller)
Curator(s): Beat Wismer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
1995 Mujer y Arte Dominicano Hoy. Homenaje a Celeste Woss y Gil (Santo Dominigo)
Curator(s): Jeanette Miller
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Dominican Republic.
1995 Auf den Leib Geschrieben (Wien: Kunsthalle Wien)
Curator(s): Monika Faber and Brigitte Huck
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria.
1995 Heritage : the National Women's Art Book : 500 Australian Women Artists from Colonial Times to 1955 (Sydney: Roseville East, New South Wales, Art and Australia)
Curator(s): Joan Kerr
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1995 Himmel und Erde : Frauen in Gewaltverhältnissen (Exhibition, 1.9. - 15.10.1995 in Dominikanerkloster, Frankfurt a.M.) Curator: Brigitte Franzen (Marburg : Jonas-Verl. )
Curator(s): Brigitte Franzen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Vizproba: Water Ordeal (exhibition catalogue, Obuda Club Gallery, Budapest, publisher: Obudi Tarsaskor, Budapest)
Curator(s): Edit Andreas and Gabor Andrasi
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Hungary.
1995 Heresies: A Critique of Mechanism= Herejias: Critica de los mechanismos (Grand Canaries: Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno)
Curator(s): Jack Ben-Levi and Amelia Jones, Jorge Luis Marzo
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Grand Canaries.
1995 Frau : Zeitspiegel - Modelle [Art Focus, 15. Dezember 1995 bis 9. März 1996] Curators: Annemarie Jordan and Alexis Schwarzenbach (Zurich: Art Focus)
Curator(s): Annemarie Jordan and Alexis Schwarzenbach
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland.
1994, 1995 Oh Boy! It's a Girl! Feminismen in der Kunst (Germany : Munchen, Kunstverein)
Curator(s): Munchen Kunstverein
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
1994, 1995 The female imaginary (Canada, Kingston, Ontario : Agnes Etherington Art Centre)
Curator(s): Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1994 Stadt der Frauen : Szenarien aus spatmittlealtericher Gechichte und zeitgenossicher Kunst (Bonn: Frauen Museum)
Curator(s): Frauen Museum, Bonn
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1994 Performing sexualities: Knowing the sensorium (Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art)
Curator(s): Michelle Boulous Walker
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1994 Woman, The Difference and the Power: Feminine Art and Feminist Art (Seoul, Hankuk Museum, Samsig-gak)
Curator(s): Hong-hee Kim
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea.
1994 Forces of change : artists of the Arab world (Lafayette, Calif. : International Council for Women in the Arts, Also published by National Museum of Women in the Arts)
Curator(s): Salwa Mikdadi Nashashibi et al
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Arab, Middle East.
1994 Ankara Women Painters Association / Ankara Kadin Ressamlar Dernegi (catalogue of association, Turkey: Ankara)
Curator(s): Ankara women painters association
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Turkey.
1994 Raising the Spirits (Bullen,Victoria,Australia: MOMA at Heide)
Curator(s): Anne Marsh and Jill Orr
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1994 An Intelligent Rebellion: Women Artists of Pakistan (UK, City of Bradford Metropolitan Council, September)
Curator(s): Salima Hashmi and Nima Poovaya-Smith
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, Pakistan.
1994 Favoritka ... : [vystavka] (Proshedsheya in Saint Petersburg. Part of the Festival of Women's Art "Not a Muse, but a Creator" ... St. Petersburg, Fresh Air, November 12-20)
Curator(s): Katie Baldwin and Olga Lipovskaya
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Russia.
1994 Fantasy. An Exhibition of the Work of 15 Contemporary British Women Artists (London: Women's Art Library)
Curator(s): Pauline Barrie, Fran Lloyd
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1994 Atkinson College Department of Fine Arts & Founder's College Department of Women's Studies present (Other) Art (Arthur Haberman Gallery, Founder's College, York University, February 26 - March 11, 1994) ([Downsview, ON : York University)
Curator(s): Atkinson College Dept of Fine Arts
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1994 Our Bodies, Ourselves: An Exhibition By Women Photographers on the Subject of Health (Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery)
Curator(s): Kit Anderson, Jenny Aston, Lesley Bricknell, Lil Ann Chepstow Lusty, Claire Collison, Gina Glover, Nancy Honey, Sumano Kurland, Clare Park, Jo Spence, Rebecca Swann
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1993 Territories of Difference (Alberta: Banff, Walter Philips Gallery)
Curator(s): Renee Baert
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1993 UltraModern: The Art of Contemporary Brazil (Washington DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts)
Curator(s): Aracy Amaral and Paulo Herkenhoff
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Brazil.
1993 Relocating history : an exhibition of work by 7 Irish women artists : Vivien Burnside, Marie Foley, Frances Hegarty, Patricia Hurl, Aileen MacKeogh, Moira McIver, Alice Maher (Fenderesky Gallery at Queen's, Belfast, May 1993 and the Orchard Gallery, Derry, July 1993) (Belfast : Fenderesky Gallery at Queen's ; Derry : Orchard Gallery)
Curator(s): Fionna Barber (introduction)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ireland.
1993 Alter/image : feminism and representation in New Zealand art, 1973-1993 (Wellington, N.Z. : City Gallery, Wellington, Wellington City Council)
Curator(s): Christina Barton and Deborah Lawler-Dormer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: New Zealand.
1993 Creators & Inventors: Australian Women's Art in the National Gallery of Victoria (National Gallery of Victoria)
Curator(s): Jennifer Phipps
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1993 The Subject of Rape (New York: Whitney Museum)
Curator(s): Pamela Gruininger Perkins and S. Schwartz
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1993 After Perestroika : Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen (New York : Independent Curators. Margarita Tupitsyn, curator; essays by Margarita Tupitsyn and Martha Rosler.)
Curator(s): Margarita Tupitsyn
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Russia.
1993 The Elements=Zwioly : Project and Execution (Poland: Lodz,Pantswowa Galeria Sztuki w Lodzi)
Curator(s): Kinga Kawalerowicz
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Poland.
1993 Regards de Femmes (exhibition catalogue Belgium: Liege: Musee d'Art Moderne. see also Sullivan & Nochlin (1990) below)
Curator(s): Liege Musee d'Art Moderne
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Belgium, International.
1993 Mediatrix: New Works by Seven Women Artists (New Zealand: Artspace)
Curator(s): Artspace
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: New Zealand.
1993 Vera Frenkel: Raincoats, Suitcases, Palms (Canada: Toronto: Art Gallery of York University)
Curator(s): Dot Tuer and M. Winzen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1993 Intimate Lives: Work by Ten Contemporary Women Latina Artists (Austin, Texas: Women and their Work)
Curator(s): Kathy Vargas and Connie Arismendi
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1993
Contemporary women artists.= Cumhuriyet'ten günümüze kadin sanatçilar. [Exhibition catalogue]. Organising committee: Engin Özgen, Günsel Renda, Muhibbe Darga, Nurhan Atasoy et all.
Curated by TOMUR ATAGÖK. (Ministry of Culture General Directorate of Monuments and Museums, Istanbul )
Curator(s): Tomur Atagok
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Turkey.
1993 Goldrausch : The Best of 1990-1993 (Berlin : Goldrausch,Frauennetzwerk)
Curator(s): Goldrausch
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1992 Presencia Femenina el las Plastica Continental (Montevideo, Uruguay, Barreiro y Ramos)
Curator(s): Maria Growel
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Uruguay.
1992 Profession Ohne Tradition: 125 Jahre der Verein Berlinner Kunstlerrinnen (Berlin: Berlinische Galerie)
Curator(s): Carolya Muyser
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1992 Feminisms: An Exhibition of 27 Women Artists (Perth: PICA,1-28 November)
Curator(s): Nikki Miller
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1992 Nuestro Autorretrato. La Mujer artista y la autoimagen en un contexto multicultural (Puerto Rico, San Juan)
Curator(s): San Juan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Puerto Rico, USA.
1992 Frauen Kunst Kultur. Wege und Perspektiven der Frauenkunst/-kultur und ihrer Forderung (Germany,Dortmund)
Curator(s): Kultur Kooperative Ruhr, Kulturburo und Frauenburo der Stadt Dortmund
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1991, 1992 Parler Femme (Amsterdam:Museum Fodor/Stedelijk, exhibition catalogue)
Curator(s): Museum Fodor/Stedelijk
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: The Netherlands, International.
1991 Kunstlerinnen Gestern und Heute 1923-1990 (Basel: GSMBK)
Curator(s): GSMBK
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland.
1991 Magadalena Jetelova: Space Drawings (Leeds: Henry Moore Sculpture Trust)
Curator(s): Magadelena Jetelova
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1991 Immersion/Exposure (Tate Gallery,Liverpool/Henry Moore Studio, Halifax)
Curator(s): Alison Wilding
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1991 Women Artists of India: A Celebration of Independence (Oakland, Mills College Art Museum)
Curator(s): Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: India, USA.
1991 Ich bin nicht ich wenn ich sehe : Dialogue - Aesthetiche Praxis in kunst und wissenschaft von Frauen (Dietrich Remier Verlag, Berlin)
Curator(s): Ines Linder and Theresa Georgen, Silke Radenhausen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibition (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales)
Curator(s): Hetti Perkins
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1991 Jana Sterbak: States of Being/Corps a Corps (National Gallery of Canada)
Curator(s): Diana Nemiroff
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1991 Frames of Reference: Aspects of Feminism and Art (exhibition catalogue. Australia: Sydney: Artspace, 15 Aug-29 Sept)
Curator(s): Artspace
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1991 Exploring the Unknown Self: Self-Portraits of Contemporary Women Artists (Tokyo: Museum of Photography)
Curator(s): Michiko Kasahara
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Japan.
1990 Marianne Pitzen's Schneckenhaus: Matriarchale Gesellschafts und Museumentwurfe (Cologne: Wienand)
Curator(s): Annette Kuhn and Michael Fehr
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1990 Instabili : La Question du Sujet : The Question of Subject (exhibition catalogue, celebrating 15 years : Montreal: La Centrale)
Curator(s): La Centrale(Galerie Powerhouse)
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
Analysis Instabili: The Question of Subject (La Galerie Powerhouse, (La Centrale) Montreal, 1990)
Number of artists: 13
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): Canada, USA, UK
Curators: Marie Fraser and Lesley Johnstone
Number of essays/authors: Introduction by Marie Fraser, 4 essays by Christine Ross, Mary Kelly, Therese St-Gelais and Liz Magor
Expressed aim of exhibition:
'Any attempt to define the exhaustive and systematic limits would be a futile endeavour; the very foundations of feminism seek to deconstruct the notion of a master concept and its restrictive domination of discourse. This is why this work was motivated by the INSTABILITY of the question of subject.'
'Feminism is addressed in its positioning and its functions as theoretical, practical and critical thought. It is examined in all the complexity that analysis presupposes of the upheaval of the object of discourse and the traditional notion of subject.'
'The texts express, each in its own way and by following different paths, the impossibility of saying, defining and, above all, discerning the various implications of the question of subject.'
1990 Artistas Espanolas en Europa (Germany Stuttgart: Haus der Wirtschaft)
Curator(s): Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, Spain.
1990 Women in Mexico/La Mujer en Mexico (New York: National Academy of Design)
Curator(s): Edward Sullivan and Linda Nochlin
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, Mexico.
1990 Paint Up Big: Walpiri Women's Art of Lajamaru (National Gallery of Melbourne)
Curator(s): Judith Ryan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1990 Feminine Presence: Israeli Women Artists in the 1970's and 1980's (Israel: Tel Aviv Museum of Art)
Curator(s): Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Israel.
1990 Dangerous Goods: Feminist Visual Art Practices (Edmonton: Edmonton Art Gallery)
Curator(s): Bridget Elliott and Janice Williamson
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1990 So Oder So (Berlin: Goldrausch)
Curator(s): Magarita Albrecht
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1990 Mujeres Artistas: Protagonistas de los Ochenta (Santo Domingo : Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico; Museo de las Casas Reales, 7 March-6 April,1990: Puerto Rico, San Juan,Museo de Arte Contempraneo de Puerto Rico,18 May-9 July,1990)
Curator(s): Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, USA.
1989 Art Beyond Barriers: the International Association of Women in the Arts (Bonn: Frauen Museum)
Curator(s): Frauen Museum, Bonn
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
1989 Zur Situation von Frauen in Kunstbetrieb: Dokumentation eines Seminar und Forschungsprojektes, 1983-1989 (Berlin: Hochschule der Kunste)
Curator(s): Aulikki Eromaki
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1989 Das Verhaltnis der Geschlechter (16 Feb- 27 Mar 1989, Bonner Kunstverein) / [anassl. d. Symposiums "Frauenforschung u. Kunst von Frauen - Feminist. Beitr. zu e. Erneuerung von Wiss. u. Kunst", 16 - 18 Feb 1989. Veranst.: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Interdisziplinare Frauenforschung u. -studien] (Pfaffenweiler : Centaurus-Verl.-Ges. )
Curator(s): Margarethe Jochimsen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
1989 What does she want? : current feminist art from the First Bank Collection (Carleton College Jan. 7-Mar. 12, 1989 ; Women's Art Registry of Minnesota Apr. 8-May 13, 1989) (Minneapolis : First Bank System, Division of Visual Arts)
Curator(s): Dale K. Haworth et al
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1989 Making their Mark:Women Artists Move into the Mainstream,1970-1985 (USA,Abbeville Press)
Curator(s): R. Rosen and C. Brauer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1989 Rooms with a View: Women's Art in Norway, 1880-1990 (Oslo: Stadtmuseum)
Curator(s): Oslo Stadtmuseum
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway.
1989 Creation/ femmes (Quebec: Galerie d'Art du Grand Theatre de Quebec)
Curator(s): Marie Carani and Nycole Paquin, Marie Rose Arbour
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1989 Performance Documentation 1978-1988 (Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Curator(s): Jill Orr
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1988 Cartax Carta : 80 European artists (Duna: Associazone Culturale Adorente All IAWA)
Curator(s): Simona Weller
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy, International.
1988 Genders and Nations: Artistic Perspectives, Shirin Neshat and Chila Kumari Burman, with essays by Octavio Zaya and Katy Deepwell (Ithaca, NY: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art)
Curator(s): Salah Hassan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, UK.
1987 Dein Land is Morgen,Tausend Jahre Schon (Berlin,Edition Heintrich)
Curator(s): Das Verborgene Museum II
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1987 Spectrum Women's Photography Festival - Exhibition Catalogue - A Collaboration with Ten 8 International Photographic Magazine (London: Ten 8 and Spectrum)
Curator(s): Elaine KRAMER, Liz Heron, Pratibha Parmar and others
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1987 Joyce Wieland (Toronto,Art Gallery of Ontario)
Curator(s): Art Gallery of Ontario
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1987 Feminist Narratives (Australia, Melbourne University George Paton Gallery)
Curator(s): Juliana Engberg
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1986 Féministe toi-même, féministe quand même (Québec : Chambre blanche gallery)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1986 Frauenstadtteilzentrum Kreuzberg Schokoladenfabrik (document of work,1982-1985, Berlin: Schokoladenfabrik)
Curator(s): Schokoladenfabrik, Berlin
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1986 The Subversive Stitch (Manchester: Cornerhouse Art Gallery)
Curator(s): Pennina Barnett
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1986 The Dinner Party: A Symbol of Our Heritage (NY:Garden City/Doubleday/ Anchor)
Curator(s): Judy Chicago
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1985 The Birth Project (NY:Garden City/Doubleday)
Curator(s): Judy Chicago
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1985 Women's Art in Wales (Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno)
Curator(s): Art Gallery Mostyn
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1985 Frauen, Autonomie, Kreativität, Subkultur : Pelze-multimedia, Mädchenladen Wedding, (Scholadenfabrik, Galerie Andere Zeichen ; eine Ausstellung der Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst)
Curator(s): Christa Erk
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1985 Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn: Aktuelle Kunst von Frauen Texte und Dokumentation (Exhibition catalogue, Wien /Munchen)
Curator(s): Sylvia Eiblmayr and Valie Export, Monika Prischl-Maier
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, Germany, International.
Analysis Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn: Aktuelle Kunst von Frauen Texte und Dokumentation (Austria: Vienna and Germany:Munchen, 1985) curators: Sylvia Eiblmayr, Valie Export
Number of artists: 81 artists, plus 10 performances by different artists.
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): USA, Germany (East and West), Portugal, Canada, Australia, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, UK, Italy, France, Switzerland, France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Jspan, former Yugoslavia (Croatia, Slovenia,), Spain, Iceland, Sweden,
Curators: Silvia Eiblmayr, Valie Export, Catherine Pichier
Number of essays/authors: 16, including Luce Irigaray,
Expressed aim of exhibition:
Eigen-Sinn means 'intrinsically meaningful' but also refers to something with its own sense of itself, another meaning of the word is "stubborn-ness": so the title refers to Art with intrinsic meaning, an exploration of art with its own sense.
This was a major international exhibition, engaging with post-structuralism, presenting works from the last decade and looking back in the mid-1980s to the first wave of feminist activity and concepts and ideas.
It was organised by two key curators/artists who have consistently promoted feminist ideas in contemporary art.
1984 Setting the Pace: The Women's Art Movement,1980-1983 (Adelaide: WAM)
Curator(s): Women's Art Movement, Adelaide. Introduction: Jane Kent
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1984 Pandora's Box (Rochdale: Rochdale Art Gallery)
Curator(s): Gill Calvert et al
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
1984 Gewalt Gegen Frauen (Kassel: Frauenhaus,e.v.)
Curator(s): Frauenhaus,e.v., Kassel
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1984 Feminisme in het Medium (Band I and II) (Amsterdam: Stedelijk)
Curator(s): Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: The Netherlands, International.
1983 Feminale 1/83 (Austria: Wien: Studentinnen der Hochschule fur Angewante Kunst)
Curator(s): Studentinnen der Hochschule, Wien
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria.
1983 La Femme et l'art (Switzerland,Triennale du Landeron)
Curator(s): Triennale du Landeron
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland, International.
1983 Sieben Finnische Malerinnen = Malerinder fra Finland (Denmark: Copenhagen, Statens Museum fur Kunst)
Curator(s): Salme Sajas-Korte and Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse, Soili Sinisalo
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
1983 Sieben Finnische Malerinnen = Malerinder fra Finland (Denmark: Copenhagen, Statens Museum fur Kunst)
Curator(s): Soili Sinisalo and Salme Sajas-Korte, Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
1983 La Releve des Muses: entrietiens avec des femmes artistes (Switzerland, Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme)
Curator(s): Valentine Anker
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Switzerland.
1983 Sieben Finnische Malerinnen = Malerinder fra Finland (Copenhagen, Statens Museum fur Kunst)
Curator(s): Leena Ahtola-Moorhouse and Salme Sajas-Korte, Soili Sinisalo
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark, Finland.
1983 Kvinne & Kunstnaar (Oslo, Norske Samlaget)
Curator(s): Karin Moe
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway.
1982 Videokunst, Foto, Aktion, Performance, feministische Kunst (Cologne: Selbstverlag)
Curator(s): Ulrike Rosenbach
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1982 Unbeachtete Produktionsformen : [vom 1.9.1982 - 3.10.1982 im Künstlerhaus Bethanien] (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien with Neuen Ges. für Bildende Kunst and GruppeArbeit Unbeachtete Produktionsformen)
Curator(s): Julie Dech
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1982 Art et Feminisme (Canada: Quebec, Musse d'Art Contemporain, Montreal & Ministere des Affaires Culturelles)
Curator(s): Marie Rose Arbour
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
1982 Louise Bourgeois (New York: MOMA)
Curator(s): Deborah Wye
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1981 Typisch Frau (Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein)
Curator(s): Margarethe Jochimsen and Philomene Magers
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1981 Women Look at Women: Feminist Art for the 1980s (USA: Allentown,PA: Center for the Arts,Muhlenberg College)
Curator(s): Linda Weintraub
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1981 Kunstlerinnen aus Mexiko: Neue Gessellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien)
Curator(s): Kunstlerhaus Bethanien
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, Mexico.
1981 Une Annee a la Galerie des Femmes (Paris)
Curator(s): des Femmes
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France.
1981 Images of Men (Outreach Gallery)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: New Zealand.
1980 Women's Art Movement 1978/1979 (Adelaide: Experimental Art Foundation)
Curator(s): Women's Art Movement, Adelaide
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1980 Nordiska Kvinnor / Nordic Women (Sweden : Malmo: Malmo Konsthall)
Curator(s): Anne Holmborn and Eje Hogestatt
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Scandanavia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway.
1980 Women at work : a week of women's performance, June 1980 (Parkville [Vic.] : George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University Union)
Curator(s): George Paton Gallery
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1980 Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework (NY:Garden City/Doubleday/ Anchor)
Curator(s): Judy Chicago
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1980 Danske Kvindelige Kunstnere fra 19 og 20 arhundrede repraesenteret pa Statens Museum for Kunst (Copenhaven: Statens Museum fur Kunst)
Curator(s): Hanne Jonssen
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
1980 Feministiese Kunst Bestaat Niet: wij maken er een potje van Nijmegen (Nijmegen: K.U.N.)
Curator(s): Heidi de Mare
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: The Netherlands.
1980 Kvinder ytrer sig om omgivelserne kommentarer til udstillingen Pa vej som viser arbejder af kvindelige arkitekter,planleggere og kunstnere (Aarhus: Modtryk)
Curator(s): Århus Modtryk
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
1980 Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists (London: ICA)
Curator(s): Lucy Lippard
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, UK.
1979 Umrisse: Blider, Objekte,Videos,Filme von Kunstlerinnin (Kiel: Kunsthalle)
Curator(s): Gesa Rautenberg
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1979 Feministische Kunst International (Den Haag, Gemeente Museum & Amsterdam, de Appel)
Curator(s): Gemeente Museum den Haag and de Appel, Amsterdam
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: The Netherlands, International.
Analysis Feministische Kunst International (The Netherlands: Den Haag, Gemeente Museum & Amsterdam, de Appel, touring 1979-1981)
Number of artists: c. 48 women artists. Separate performance festival at de Appel, Amsterdam, showed 6 major performances.
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth):
Curators: Marlite Halbertsma, Liesbeth Brandt, Rosa Lindenberg, Liedwijn Reckman, Hedy Buursma - group of women art historians/artists/theorists.
Number of essays/authors: 5 authors/9 essays
Expressed aim of exhibition:
English summary: Marlite Halbertsma (back of catalogue)
'The aim of this exhibition was to confront a broad public with feminist art, and to stimulate the discussion of the position of women in art and the significance of visual art as a medium of communication inside the feminist movement as well as outside it. Also, the art-historical aspect played a part: it is necessary and important to record and document feminist art, because women have a right to their own history and their own culture.
The working group responsible...opted for a high degree of "manifestness" of feminist commitment in the works of art presented. The selection was not based in the first place on the feminist commitment of the artist herself, but on the feminist message of the work of art.'
1979 Social Works (Los Angeles: LA Institute of Contemporary Arts)
Curator(s): Nancy Buchanan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1978 Materializzazione del linguaggio (Magazzini del Sale, Zattere, collatoral event, Venice Biennale) ()
Curator(s): Mirella Bentivoglio
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy, International.
1978 Women's Art Forum Annual (Australia : Women's Art Forum of Victoria)
Curator(s): Women's Art Forum of Victoria
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1977 Il volto sinistro dell’arte (Florence: Galleria De Amicis)
Curator(s): Romana Loda
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy.
1977 Kunstlerinnen International, 1877-1977 (Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Schloss Charlottenburg)
Curator(s): Frauen in der Kunst: Ursula Bierther, Evelyn Kuwertz, Karin Petersen, Inge Schmacher, Sarah Schumann, Ulrike Stelzl, Petra Zofelt
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, International.
Analysis Kunstlerinnen International,1877-1977: Frauen in der Kunst (Germany: Berlin, NGBK and Schloss Charlottenburg, 1977) curators: Frauen in der Kunst
Number of artists: 188 (work from 1887-1977)
Countries involved (place where artists work, not place of birth): contemporary work divided into national sections from: Germany; UK; Finland, France, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, USA
Germany, Italy and the USA form the largest national sections.
Curators: Frauen in der Kunst: Ursula Bierther, Evelyn Kuwertz, Karin Petersen, Inge Schmacher, Sarah Schumann, Ulrike Stelzl, Petra Zofelt.
Number of essays/authors: 10 historical essays on individual artists or movements pre-1950. 7 thematic essays on contemporary art.
Expressed aim of exhibition:
Presentation of the history of women artists, focused in Europe and on women artists of the avant-garde. This history is principally European but includes Frida Kahlo (Mexican).
This history provides a context for the contemporary section of work from the 1970s - organised in the catalogue into national sections: Germany; UK; Finland, France, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, USA.
Women artists from the 1950s-1977 included in the contemporary sections.
1976 Frauen Machen Kunst (Bonn, Galerie Magers)
Curator(s): Margarethe Jochimsen et al
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1976 Combative acts, profiles and voices : an exhibition of women artists from Paris : works by Bour, Hessie, Janicot, Maglione and a collective work by Aballea, Blum, Croiset, Mimi, and Yalter (New York: AIR Gallery)
Curator(s): Aline Dallier, Ruth Brandon
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, France.
1976 Magma:Rassegna internazionale di donne artiste/Magma: International Exhibition of Women
Artists (Brescia, Italy: Castello Oldofredi)
Curator(s): Romana Loda
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy, International.
1975 Mujer en el arte: homenaje,Ano Internacional de la Mujer : exposicion, pintura,escultura,dibujo,grabado (Chile, Santiago, Secretaria Nacional de la Mujer, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes)
Curator(s): Secretaria Nacional de la Mujer and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Chile.
1975 Kvindeudstillingen XX på Charlottenborg (Copenhagen: Charlottenborg)
Curator(s): Resjning and Store
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark, International.
1975 Women of Photography: An Historical Survey (an exhibition catalogue) (USA: San Francisco: SFMOA)
Curator(s): Margery Mann, Ann Noggle
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1975 Woman's Art: An Exhibition of six women artists (Christchurch: Robert McDougall Art Gallery )
Curator(s): Alison Mitchell
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: New Zealand.
1975 Frauen Kunst - Neue Tendenzen (Innsbruck,Galerie Krinzinger)
Curator(s): Galerie Krinzinger
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, International.
1975 Kvinnor Som Malat (exhibition catalogue, Stockholm: National Museum)
Curator(s): Stockholm National Museum
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden.
1975 Magna Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativitat: Ein Überblick über die weibliche Sensibilität, Imagination, Projektion und Problematik,
suggeriert durch ein Tableau von Bildern, Objekten, Fotos, Vorträgen, Diskussionen, Lesungen,Filmen, Videobändern und Aktionen, zusammen gestellt von VALIE EXPORT/MAGNA.[Feminism: Art and Creativity. A Survey of the Female Sensibility, Imagination, Projection and Problems Suggested through a Tableau of Images, Objects, Photographs, Lectures,Discussions, Films, Videos and Actions, compiled by VALIE EXPORT] (Wien, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan & Rome)
Curator(s): Valie EXPORT
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, International.
1975 Kvinnor som Konstnarer (Stockholm)
Curator(s): Anne Lindberg and Barbro Werkmaster
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden.
1975 Neid,wat ben ik bewust geworden: Vijf jaar Dolle Mina (Holland : Den Haag: Stichting Uitgeverij Dolle Mina)
Curator(s): M. van Soest and E.Besnyo
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: The Netherlands.
1975 Kvinnfolk (Sweden: Malmo:Konsthal)
Curator(s): Malmo Konsthal
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden.
1974 Coazione a mostrare (Comune di Erbusco)
Curator(s): Romana Loda
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Italy.
1974 Kvinneliv og hverdagsliv [Women’s life and everyday life] (Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway)
Curator(s):
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway, Sweden.
1973 c. 7,500 (Valencia: California Institute of the Arts, also shown in London)
Curator(s): Lucy Lippard
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1971 True Patriot Love/ Veritable Amour Patriotique (National Gallery of Canada)
Curator(s): Joyce Wieland
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.