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Radical!
Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950
Radical! encourages visitors to think differently about Modernism—to see it as multivoiced, international, and contradictory. It launches a dialogue between over sixty women*artists from more than twenty countries, presenting paintings alongside textile designs, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and films. Regardless of their background or visual language, these artists are united by their search for new forms of expression and representation, as well as their determination to redefine artistic and social boundaries.
The exhibition Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910–1950 is a joint project with Museum Arnhem and the Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken.
Curated by Stephanie Auer.
Assistant Curators: Miroslav Haľák and Katarina Lozo
In cooperation with
The Exhibition
Classic art history mostly portrays the Modernist era as a linear sequence of disparate movements. It often outright omits or makes only brief mention of works by women, queer people, and people of color. Radical! challenges this narrative. Instead of perpetuating these stylistic pigeonholes, the exhibition foregrounds the individuality of each artist’s approach, with a spectrum of styles ranging from abstract to figurative, from critical to activistic. What makes these approaches radical is not just the way they question social and artistic conventions, but mainly the tenacity with which the artists—often in the face of resistance—went their own way. Many of their subjects are just as relevant today as they were a century ago.
The exhibition includes works by Gertrud Arndt, Benedetta, Romaine Brooks, Claude Cahun, Elizabeth Catlett, Sonia Delaunay, Inji Efflatoun, Alexandra Exter, Leonor Fini, Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest, Hannah Höch, Erika Giovanna Klien, Katarzyna Kobro, Käthe Kollwitz, Lotte Laserstein, Tamara de Lempicka, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Jeanne Mammen, Marlow Moss, Alice Neel, Gazbia Sirry, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Charley Toorop, Fahrelnissa Zeid, and many more.
In this exhibition “women*artists” is used as an inclusive term that encompasses a range of gender identities.
