Exhibition
The exhibition took place from 6 May to 3 September 2017.
The VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, was hosted at the mumok from 6 May to 3 September 2017.
With over 300 works from the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna, the exhibition WOMAN. FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE of the 1970s Works from the VERBUND COLLECTION opens at the mumok, Vienna, on Friday, 5 May 2017.
Curator:
Curated by Gabriele Schor, founding director of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna,
and Eva Badura-Triska, curator at the mumok, Vienna
Exhibition team
Karin Bellmann, press and PR, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Claudia Dohr, exhibition coordinator, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Katja Eller – curatorial assistant of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Daniela Hahn – curatorial assistant of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Marie-Therese Hochwartner, archive and library, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Katja Kulidzhanova, press spokesperson, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Lena McFadden, curatorial assistant of the VERBUND COLLECTION, Vienna
Leonhard Oberzaucher, marketing, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Ulrike Todoroff, exhibition manager, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Jörg Wolfert, head of art mediation, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
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 6 May to 3 September 2017.
published by Gabriele Schor
Hardcover: 559 pages
Publisher: Prestel Verlag
Edition: 2016
Language: German
ISBN-10: 3791356275
ISBN-13: 978-3791356273
Many female artists emancipated themselves from the role of muse and model in the 1970s, i.e. they emancipated themselves from their status of object towards being a self-determined subject that actively participates in social and political processes. Against the backdrop of the 1968 movement, the women’s movement coined the slogan “The personal is political”. The one-dimensional role assignment as mother, housewife and wife was therefore questioned radically and ironically. The exhibition is arranged into four areas: the reduction to mother, housewife and wife; role-plays as masquerade and parody; female sexuality versus objectification, and the diktat of beauty. The female artists debunk patriarchal ideas about how a woman should live and be as a social construct. In contrast to the male-dominated field of painting, many female artists in the 1970s opted for historically unaffected media such as photography, video, film and presented performances and actions. What is amazing here is that some female artists selected formally similar strategies, although they did not know each other’s works.
The exhibition is not an exhibition about women but an exhibition about topics. It combines 48 female artists from the VERBUND COLLECTION who were born between 1930 and 1958. Amongst the European, North and South American female artists, eight of them are from Austria.
Photos: © Lisa Rastl / mumok, Vienna