Exhibition Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s

From 24 September 2021 to 9 January 2022, the Lentos Art Museum Linz will be showing the exhibition FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE of the 1970s from the VERBUND COLLECTION.

The Linz show presents by 200 works by 82 artists. For the first time, the touring exhibition in Austria is hosted outside Vienna in one of the most renowned museums in Upper Austria’s regional capital. The exhibition emphasises the pioneering work of the "Feminist avant-garde". Irony was used as a weapon against the patriarchy. The “private” was politicised. The exhibition can be seen in this setting for the first time in Austria outside Vienna.

Curator:

Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
and Hemma Schmutz, director of the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz

Team of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Theresa Dann – curatorial assistant
Lisa Trapp – curatorial assistant

FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE

Artists

Exhibition

The exhibition took place from 24 September 2021 - 9 January 2022 at the Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz.

A view of the façade of the Lentos. The sun is low. The right part of the picture is illuminated in gold.

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz

Ernst-Koref-Promenade 1, 4020 Linz

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Insights into the exhibition FEMALE SENSIBILITY

An exhibition room in bluish light with a blue floor can be seen, and paintings hang on several walls, all in blue clay.

A bright exhibition room with a light gray floor and several photographs on the wall. To the left of the room is a display table with black table legs.

A bright exhibition room with red accentuated wall sides. Photographs hang on the white walls and there are showcases on white pedestals in the room.

a very bright corridor with black and white photographs on all visible walls can be seen

A very modern and bright exhibition room shows photographs in black frames on the walls. There are two display tables in the room. One of them mirrors the pictures on the wall behind it

A bright exhibition room with very cold light can be seen. On the wall are photographs and other prints. The side wall of a passageway is painted in bright green.

The expansion of the art canon

The Lentos shows with over 200 artworks from the Viennese VERBUND COLLECTION how 82 artists explored the construct of the female in the 1970s. The exhibition emphasises the pioneering work of the "Feminist avant-garde". The term was coined by founding director Gabriele Schor in order to expand the canon of art. For the first time in the history of art, many female artists in Europe and the USA depicted the suppression of women. In doing so, they used their own body as a social sign. They denounced the reduction to the role of mother, housewife and spouse, visualised being shut in, female sexuality, the diktat of beauty, and covered a large number of female identities. It is amazing how formally similar strategies arose, although the artists never knew each other.

Interesting links

Video: #SneakPeek: Female Sensibility

Watch the video

Press release: Female Sensibility

9/23/2021

Open press release

The picture shows the artist ORLAN. She is naked, kneeling on the floor, wearing a mask and her hair is tousled. The photo is in black and white.

The exhibition catalogues

We have published further publications and exhibition catalogues in collaboration with various publishers. You can find an overview here.

To the publications

All exhibitions at a glance.

Cindy Sherman. The Early Works 1975 – 1980

Yellow Fog

Retrospect: Exhibitions

Female Sensibility.
Lentos Art Museum Linz

FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE

Artists

Exhibition

Insights into the exhibition FEMALE SENSIBILITY

The expansion of the art canon

The exhibition catalogues

feminist avant-garde | perception
of spaces and places | gender identity and diversity

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Cindy Sherman. The Early Works 1975 – 1980

Yellow Fog

Retrospect: Exhibitions

Female Sensibility.Lentos Art Museum Linz

FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE

Artists

Exhibition

Insights into the exhibition FEMALE SENSIBILITY

The expansion of the art canon

The exhibition catalogues

feminist avant-garde | perceptionof spaces and places | gender identity and diversity

Female Sensibility.
Lentos Art Museum Linz

feminist avant-garde | perception
of spaces and places | gender identity and diversity