Art and gender

MANIFEST Yourself! is an appeal and an empowering hymn to the (queer) feminist manifesto as an integral part of an ongoing protest culture and a medium of expression frequently used in contemporary art and culture.

52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone celebrates the fifty-first anniversary of the historic exhibition Twenty Six Contemporary Women Artists, curated by Lucy R. Lippard and presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 1971. 

52 Artists will showcase work by the artists included in the original 1971 exhibition, alongside a new roster of twenty-six female identifying or nonbinary emerging artists, tracking the evolution of feminist art practices over the past five decades.

"M77 is proud to present Charlotte Perriand. L’avanguardia è donna: an exhibition curated by Enrica Viganò, staged in collaboration with the Archives Charlotte Perriand and Admira e Cassina, due to open to the public on Monday 27 June at 7 pm through until Sunday 25 September 2022. 

The exhibition project sets out to shed light on the rich and versatile production of Charlotte Perriand, the famous French designer and photographer, collaborator and friend of Le Courbusier and other great names of her time, placing her photographic production of the 1930s in dialogue with a selection of the iconic furniture items produced exclusively by Cassina."

An empowering new exhibition looks back on the work of female photographers from around the world over the last 100 years

Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum is now on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until 2 October 2022.

"Far from empty wildernesses, the ancestral lands of the Sámi people in the European Arctic are ecologically diverse sites of culture, care, and collective endeavor."

"Anna Souter speaks with Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, and Anders Sunna about their participation in this year's Venice Biennale. 

The project undermines the nationalistic structure behind the Biennale, instead recognizing the sovereignty and cultural cohesion of Sápmi, the Sámi cultural region, which covers much of the northernmost areas of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, as well as part of Russia. The three contributing artists draw attention to the ongoing colonial oppression and discrimination experienced by Indigenous Sámi under local and national governments across the Nordic region."

"With the exhibition Empowerment, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is for the first time offering a comprehensive global overview of art and feminisms of the twenty-first century with roughly 100 artistic positions from some fifty countries from all continents. 

Within the framework of seven thematic fields that have emerged from the worldwide research (Protest & Empowerment, Gender & Identity, Herstories & Other Narratives, Desired & Violated Bodies, Labour of Care, Planetary Challenges, Feminist Futures), the artworks will explore the following questions, among others: How do artists act out of their respective situations in the postcolonial, digital present? What emancipatory understanding underlies their art? How do they broaden their view of a feminist-oriented future? Questions regarding social inequality, sexism, racism, migration, the relationship of bodies, technology, and ecological concerns will also be negotiated."

Empowerment

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, until January 08, 2023

World-famous and exhibited many times, but still largely unknown in her entire creative range: Hannah Höch. Celebrated as a Dada icon, her work is still attributed primarily to this art movement. Yet the oeuvre of this accomplished avant-garde artist is far more complex and multifaceted. The exhibition Hannah Höch. Millions and millions of views takes a look at her impressive visual cosmos and shows the artist as a tireless explorer and inventor of artistic expression.

"Le Mudam présente deux séries d’œuvres inédites et récentes de l’artiste britannique.

Photographie, cinéma, dessin, gravure, collage... Tacita Dean refuse de limiter son champ d’action à un seul genre, à un unique langage. Ses propos sont délibérément pluriels. A l’image de la double exposition que le Mudam consacre actuellement à l’artiste britannique dans les deux grandes salles du premier étage."

"An artist, cultural critic, filmmaker, writer and professor, Hito Steyerl is one of the most significant and influential figures in contemporary art. She operates on the boundary between film and visual art, working in genres ranging from documentary cinema to innovative multimedia installations. Her rigorously researched and visually stunning installations illuminate some of the most pressing issues of our time."

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, until 12th of June 2022

"Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950) was born in Le Havre, France, to a French father and Scottish mother. During her lifetime her works in printmaking and oil painting would be held in high regard by an early to mid-twentieth century art establishment. Her perseverance in perfecting her technical abilities was particularly significant, but it was the consideration of her subject matter that was perhaps the most notable."

Photographing Protest: resistance through a feminist lens

Our new exhibition celebrates images by feminist photographers, who have used their cameras to support social change in Britain from 1968 to the present. 

18 March - 30 April 2022, Four Corners Gallery, London
Free Entry | No booking required

Gallery hours:
Tuesday to Saturday 11am – 6pm
(8pm on Thursdays)

Photographing Protest explores how women and nonbinary photographers, and those making work within a feminist context have shaped the representation of public protest. Posing a challenge to the male-dominated history of reportage, it explores how photographers have created alternative, feminist narratives. From sit-ins to street theatre, candlelight vigils to deportation campaigns, their images resonate across the generations in struggles for gender equality, social justice and civil rights.  

"It was the seventies. I was a young and untested art critic when John Coplans, then editor of Artforum, asked me to fly to Cuba, New Mexico, one December, to write an essay about a few of Agnes Martin’s early figurative paintings."