n.paradoxa
international feminist art journal
List of exhibition catalogues of feminist art and contemporary women artists (post-1970)
Use the search mechanisms above to locate exhibition catalogues amongst all other books and material listed on these pages by searching for curator's last name, country, word in title or date. Book reviews of exhibition catalogues, where available, will be listed in this search.
The list includes only exhibitions where a printed catalogue is known: for an overview of international feminist art exhibitions by date, read the PDF in the link.
The feminist art/women artists' exhibition catalogues list is organised in chronological order.
In the list below, a brief analysis of the scope of some major group exhibitions is offered by n.paradoxa.
2011 Women Artists in Singapore (Singapore: Select Books and Singapore Art Museum)
Curator(s): Bridget Tracy Tan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Singapore.
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'.
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 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 (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
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.'
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 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 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 Gender Battle/A Battala dos Xeneros (Spain: Santiago de Compostela)
Curator(s): Juan Vicente Aliaga
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain, international.
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 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…
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
: Canary Islands, international.
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 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 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.
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 Trautes Heim/Cosy Home (Leipzig: Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst and Konig Books)
Curator(s): Julia Schafer
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
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 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 Procreation/ Postcreation (Thailand: Bangkok)
Curator(s): Womanifesto
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Thailand, 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 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 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.
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 Gender Game: Korper-Median-Blicke-Mannlichkeiten Go Drag! (Germany: Tubingen, Konkursbuch)
Curator(s): Marion Strunk
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
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 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.
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.
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 Pink Link ou la proposition rose, 1999-2001 (Montreal: La Centrale)
Curator(s): La Centrale
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
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 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 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 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.'
2000 Women's Art in Hungary 1960-2000 (Budapest: Ernst Museum)
Curator(s): Katalin Keseru
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Hungary.
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 Dimitrikaki, 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 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 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 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.'
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.
1999 Anne Tallentire (Dublin: Project Press)
Curator(s): Valerie Connor
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ireland, UK.
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 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, Kent Logan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1999 The End and the Beginning (London: Merrell Publishers)
Curator(s): Kathy Prendergast
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Ireland.
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 Patjis on Parade: Women's Art Festival '99 (Seoul, Hongdesign Press)
Curator(s): Hong-hee Kim
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea.
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 Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the Present (London: IB Tauris)
Curator(s): Fran Lloyd
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK, Arab, Middle East.
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 Interior/Exterior, Full/ Empty (USA : Wexner Center, February)
Curator(s): Lorna Simpson
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
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 Natural Disguise/Deguisement Naturel Works/Oeuvres, 1973-1998 (Montreal: Vehicule Press)
Curator(s): Judy Garfin
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
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 Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation (Boston: MIT Press)
Curator(s): Whitney Chadwick
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, international.
1998 The Fae Richards Photo Archive (Artspace Books, DAP)
Curator(s): Cheryl Dunye and Zoe Leonard
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
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 Nothing Personal: Paintings, 1987-1997 (USA: DAP/Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Curator(s): Ida Applebroog
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
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 Femenini, plural: arte de mujeres al borde del tercer milenio (Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana)
Curator(s): Jorge Glusberg
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Spain.
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 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 Territories: Alison Wilding (Canada, Edmonton Art Gallery & York University)
Curator(s): Alison Wilding. Curator: Renee Baert
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.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 The Future's Mirror (UK touring exhibition, Newcastle-upon -Tyne, Locus +)
Curator(s): Cornelia Honiger Hesse
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
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 Rebecca Horn: The Glance of Infinity (USA, Scalo; Germany, Kestner Gessellschaft)
Curator(s): Carl Haenlein
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
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 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.
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 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 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 Zij-Sporen : Kunst op het Spoor (Antwerp: Gynaika)
Curator(s): Marijke Seresia
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Belgium, international.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Klædefabrik,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 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.
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 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 Ahn Young Na (exhibition catalogue) (Korea: Gallery SEOHO)
Curator(s): Ahn Young Na
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Korea.
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 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 Bad Girls (Boston,Mass: MIT)
Curator(s): Marcia Tucker
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
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 Begriefungskrafte: Kunstlerinnen Heute (Karlsruhe: Badischer Kunstverein)
Curator(s): Angelika Beckmann
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Auf den Leib Geschrieben (Wien: Kunsthalle Wien)
Curator(s): Monika Faber and Brigitte Huck
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria.
1995 Leiblicher Logos : 14 Kunstlerinnen aus Deustschland (Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie)
Curator(s): Gudrun Inboden and Birgit Sonna
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1995 Laughter Ten Years After (USA: Hobart & William Smith Colleges Press)
Curator(s): Jo Anna Isaak
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
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 Cherchez la Femme (exhibition Hamburg: Kunsthaus, Hamburg)
Curator(s): Ursula Panhams-Buhler
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, 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 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 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 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 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 Stereo-Tip (exhibition catalogue,Ljubljana: Mestna Galerija)
Curator(s): curator Alexander Bassin
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Slovenia, 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.
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, 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 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 Woman, The Difference and the Power: Feminine Art and Feminist Art (Seoul, Hankuk Museum)
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 Raising the Spirits (Bullen,Victoria,Australia: MOMA at Heide)
Curator(s): Anne Marsh and Jill Orr
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
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 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.
1993 Goldrausch : The Best of 1990-1993 (Berlin : Goldrausch,Frauennetzwerk)
Curator(s): Goldrausch
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
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 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 Territories of Difference (Alberta: Banff, Walter Philips Gallery)
Curator(s): Renee Baert
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
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 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 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 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 Mediatrix: New Works by Seven Women Artists (New Zealand: Artspace)
Curator(s): Artspace
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 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 The Subject of Rape (New York: Whitney Museum)
Curator(s): Pamela Gruininger Perkins and S. Schwartz
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1992 Presencia Femenina el las Plastica Continental (Montevideo, Uruguay, Barreiro y Ramos)
Curator(s): Maria Growel
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Uruguay.
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.
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.
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 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 Jana Sterbak: States of Being/Corps a Corps (National Gallery of Canada)
Curator(s): Diana Nemiroff
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.
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 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.
1991 Aboriginal Women's Exhibition (Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales)
Curator(s): Hetti Perkins
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
1991 Immersion/Exposure (Tate Gallery,Liverpool/Henry Moore Studio, Halifax)
Curator(s): Alison Wilding
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: UK.
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.
1990 So Oder So (Berlin: Goldrausch)
Curator(s): Magarita Albrecht
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
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 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 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 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 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 Marianne Pitzen's Schneckenhaus: Matriarchale Gesellschafts und Museumentw?rfe (Cologne: Wienand)
Curator(s): Annette Kuhn and Michael Fehr
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 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 Performance Documentation 1978-1988 (Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art)
Curator(s): Jill Orr
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Australia.
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 Rooms with a View: Women's Art in Norway, 1880-1990 (Oslo: Stadtmuseum)
Curator(s): Oslo Stadtmuseum
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway.
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 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 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.
1986 Frauenstadtteilzentrum Kreuzberg Schokoladenfabrik (document of work,1982-1985, Berlin: Schokoladenfabrik)
Curator(s): Schokoladenfabrik, Berlin
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.
1985 The Birth Project (NY:Garden City/Doubleday)
Curator(s): Judy Chicago
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
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.
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.
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 (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 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 Kvinne & Kunstnaar (Oslo, Norske Samlaget)
Curator(s): Karin Moe
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Norway.
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 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.
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 Kunstlerinnen aus Mexiko: Neue Gessellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien)
Curator(s): Kunstlerhaus Bethanien
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany, Mexico.
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 Une Annee a la Galerie des Femmes (Paris)
Curator(s): des Femmes
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: France.
1981 Typisch Frau (Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein)
Curator(s): Margarethe Jochimsen and Philomene Magers
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
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 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 Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework (NY:Garden City/Doubleday/ Anchor)
Curator(s): Judy Chicago
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
1980 Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists (London: ICA)
Curator(s): Lucy Lippard
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA, UK.
1980 Kvinder ytrer sig om omgivelserne kommentarer til udstillingen Pa vej som viser arbejder af kvindelige arkitekter,planleggere og kunstnere (Aarhus: Modtryk)
Curator(s): Aarhus Modtryk
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Denmark.
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.
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 Umrisse: Blider, Objekte,Videos,Filme von Kunstlerinnin (Kiel: Kunsthalle)
Curator(s): Gesa Rautenberg
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
1979 Social Works (Los Angeles: LA Institute of Contemporary Arts)
Curator(s): Nancy Buchanan
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: USA.
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 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 Magna Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativitat (Wien, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan & Rome)
Curator(s): Romana Loda and Valie Export
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, international.
1976 Frauen Machen Kunst (Bonn, Galerie Magers)
Curator(s): Margarethe Jochimsen et al
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Germany.
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 Frauen Kunst - Neue Tendenzen (Innsbruck,Galerie Krinzinger)
Curator(s): Galerie Krinzinger
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Austria, international.
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 Kvinnor Som Malat (exhibition catalogue, Stockholm: National Museum)
Curator(s): Stockholm National Museum
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden.
1975 Kvinnor som Konstnarer (Stockholm)
Curator(s): Anne Lindberg and Barbro Werkmaster
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden.
1975 Kvinnfolk (Sweden: Malmo:Konsthal)
Curator(s): Malmo Konsthal
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Sweden.
1971 True Patriot Love/ Veritable Amour Patriotique (National Gallery of Canada)
Curator(s): Joyce Wieland
Exhibition location and/or countries represented
: Canada.