Exhibition
The exhibition took place from 18 November 2017 to 8 April 2018.
The VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, was hosted in the ZKM | Karlsruhe from 18 November 2017 to 8 April 2018
The VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, presents over 400 works of the Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s at the ZKM | Karlsruhe. The exhibition shows how female artists in the 1970s began to subvert cultural constructs of the feminine and to create a self-determined image of woman.
Curator:
Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna,
and Peter Weibel, director of the ZKM | Karlsruhe
Exhibition team
Judith Bihr, project leader and curator of the ZKM | Karlsruhe
Anne Däuper, technical director of the ZKM | Karlsruhe
Katja Eller, curatorial assistant of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Regina Hock, press spokesperson of the ZKM | Karlsruhe
Philip Ziegler, curator of the ZKM | Karlsruhe
A-L
Helena Almeida | Eleanor Antin | Anneke Barger | Lynda Benglis | Judith Bernstein | Renate Bertlmann | Teresa Burga | Marcella Campagnano | Judy Chicago | Linda Christanell | Lili Dujourie | Mary Beth Edelson | Renate Eisenegger | VALIE EXPORT | Esther Ferrer | Alexis Hunter | Sanja Iveković | Birgit Jürgenssen | Kirsten Justesen | Ketty La Rocca | Leslie Labowitz | Katalin Ladik | Brigitte Lang | Natalia LL | Suzanne Lacy | Suzy Lake
M-Z
Karin Mack | Ana Mendieta | Rita Myers | Lorraine O'Grady | ORLAN | Gina Pane | Letícia Parente | Ewa Partum | Friederike Pezold | Margot Pilz | Ulrike Rosenbach | Martha Rosler | Suzanne Santoro | Carolee Schneemann | Lydia Schouten | Cindy Sherman | Penny Slinger | Annegret Soltau | Betty Tompkins | Hannah Wilke | Martha Wilson | Francesca Woodman | Nil Yalter
The exhibition took place from 18 November 2017 to 8 April 2018.
published by Gabriele Schor
Hardcover: 559 pages
Publisher: Prestel Verlag
Edition: 2016
Language: German
ISBN-10: 3791356275
ISBN-13: 978-3791356273
Using the extensive holdings of the VERBUND COLLECTION, this exhibition is dedicated to one of the most important art history phenomena of the 1970s: the advent of the female artists, who countered the view of a male-dominated art world with a self-determined ‘image of the woman’. With the title “Feminist Avant-Garde”, Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, underscores the pioneering achievement of a generation that emancipated itself from the traditional female role of muse and model in order to establish the woman as an active subject in art and society.
The female artists are part of a strengthening civil rights and women’s movement in the 1960s that results in women’s concerns increasingly being discussed in public. The personal is understood as being political and women increasingly get make themselves heard through their organisation into feminist networks both socially and in the field of art. The rejection of traditional models based on normative ideas is what connects the female artists of the “Feminist Avant-Garde”. In a radically provocative way and yet with plenty of poetry, humour and irony, one-dimensional role assignments as mother, housewife and wife are questioned. Female sexuality, beauty, violence towards women, clichés and stereotypes become central themes, amongst other things in the form of role-plays. The female artists frequently work under the use of their body and, in a rejection of male-dominated painting, champion historically less utilised media such as photography, video, film as well as action and performance.
The exhibition is arranged into four areas:
Photos: © Tobias Wootton @ ZKM | Karlsruhe