--- type: exposition title: "Radical!" language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/radical" --- # Radical! ## Women\*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950 ![Lavinia Schulz, Walter Holdt, Maskenfigur Toboggan Frau, um 1921](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/2024-08/Lavinia%20Schulz_Walter%20Holdt_Maskenfigur%20Toboggan%20Frau_um%201921_Museum%20f%C3%BCr%20Kunst%20und%20Gewerbe%20Hamburg_Foto%20Maria%20Thrun.jpg.webp?itok=HcRezGYM) **Duration:** 18 June 2025 - 12 October 2025 *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](https://www.museumarnhem.nl/nl) and the [Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie](https://www.modernegalerie.org/de/), Saarbrücken. Exhibition architecture and design by Dominik Strzelec, Marie Artaker and Alexandra Möllner. Curated by Stephanie Auer. Assistant Curators: Miroslav Haľák and Katarina Lozo ### [Lower Belvedere](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/lower-belvedere) **Opening hours:** Monday to Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm **Address:** Lower Belvedere, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=3) ##### In cooperation with - Kurier - [Logo Kunstfreunde](https://kunstfreunde.at/) ## Impressions - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/20250617_Belvedere_Radikal%21%20%28c%29%20Ouriel%20Morgensztern%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=d6ptcmlV) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/20250617_Belvedere_Radikal%21%20%28c%29%20Ouriel%20Morgensztern%20%2814%29.jpg.webp?itok=31RNKQCl) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Ouriel Morgensztern / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/20250617_Belvedere_Radikal%21%20%28c%29%20Ouriel%20Morgensztern%20%285%29.jpg.webp?itok=2oeyE8ia) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-01.jpg.webp?itok=CfWr9rxM) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-11.jpg.webp?itok=Cv5dDrp9) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-10.jpg.webp?itok=I9OkFBBp) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-09.jpg.webp?itok=n5I8lQQy) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-08.jpg.webp?itok=FTmfTXWm) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-07.jpg.webp?itok=jtHD4aax) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-05.jpg.webp?itok=_OwRPkiv) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-04.jpg.webp?itok=7yuAc3YY) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-03.jpg.webp?itok=GvY4TKld) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-13_0.jpg.webp?itok=8pvxttUH) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-12_0.jpg.webp?itok=3Jj-gf_Y) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Radikal! Künstlerinnen* und Moderne 1910–1950", Unteres Belvedere — Installation view "Radical! Women*Artists and Modernism 1910-1950", Lower Belvedere — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2025-06/UB%20Radikal_Presse-06.jpg.webp?itok=vCsNrZDB) ## The Exhibition - ![Lavinia Schulz, Walter Holdt, Maskenfigur Toboggan Frau, um 1921 — Lavinia Schulz, Walter Holdt, Costume Toboggan Woman, c. 1921 — Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Photo: Maria Thrun](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2024-08/Lavinia%20Schulz_Walter%20Holdt_Maskenfigur%20Toboggan%20Frau_um%201921_Museum%20f%C3%BCr%20Kunst%20und%20Gewerbe%20Hamburg_Foto%20Maria%20Thrun.jpg.webp?itok=Be7nhecY) - ![Fahr El Nissa Zeid, Untitled (Komposition), um 1949 — Fahrelnissa Zeid, Untitled (Composition), c. 1949 — Taimur Hassan Collection, Photo: Justin Piperger © Raad Zeid Al-Hussein](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2024-02/Fahr-El-Nissa-Zeid%2C-Untitled-%28Composition%29%2C-c1949_web.jpg.webp?itok=O-16HU6N) - ![Goldene Messingkonstruktion von Anton Prinner — Anton Prinner, Construction in Brass, 1935 — Ville de Grenoble / Musée de Grenoble-J.L. Lacroix © Bildrecht, Vienna 2025](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2025-04/Anton%20Prinner_Messingkonstruktion_1935_Ville%20de%20Grenoble_Mus%C3%A9e%20de%20Grenoble-J.L.%20Lacroix.jpg.webp?itok=fUzN5Tsx) - ![Schwarz/Weiß-Fotografie, die Claude Cahun als Kraftsportler*in zeigt mit schwarzen Shorts, hellen Strumpfhosen und einem Oberteil mit der Aufschrift „I am in training Don't kiss me“ (Ich trainiere, küss mich nicht), mit dem rechten Bein über dem linken sitzend, ein Herz auf dem Oberschenkel, zur rechten und linken Seite Kettencurler — Claude Cahun, I Am in Training Don’t Kiss Me (Detail), 1927 (2024) — Jersey Heritage Collections](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2025-06/Claude%20Cahun_I%20Am%20in%20Training%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Kiss%20Me_1927_Jersey%20Heritage%20Collections_0.jpg.webp?itok=v7hyaR7w) - ![Gertrud Arndt, Maskenbildnis 13 (Reprint 1996), 1930 — Gertrud Arndt, Masked Self-Portrait No. 13, 1930 (1996) — Museum Folkwang, Essen, Photo: Jens Nober © VG Bildkunst](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2024-02/Gertrud%20Arndt_Maskenbildnis%2013%2C%201930_Foto_Jens%20Nober%2C%20Museum%20Folkwang%2C%20Essen.jpg.webp?itok=NUsiDziX) - ![Futuristische Skulptur aus Aluminiumblech einer Tänzerin Figur — Regina Cassolo Bracchi, Dancer, 1930 — Collezione Archivio Gaetano e Zoe Fermani © Archivio Regina Cassolo Bracchi, Milan](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2025-04/Regina%20Cassolo%20Bracchi_T%C3%A4nzerin_1930.jpg.webp?itok=QdRMJtxH) - ![Gemälde einer sitzenden Braut mit weißem Brautkleid und Schleier mit einer angezündeten Zigarette — Milada Marešová, Bride with a Cigarette, 1933 — Martina Pachmanová, Photo: Jakub Přecechtěl / National Gallery Prague © Zlata Marešová](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2025-04/Milada%20Mare%C5%A1ov%C3%A1_Braut%20mit%20Zigarette_1933_Nationalgalerie_Prag%20%C2%A9%20Zlata%20Mare%C5%A1ov%C3%A1.jpg.webp?itok=bp6SHQcJ) - ![Charley Toorop, Female Figures, 1931-1932 — Collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Photo: Peter Cox, Eindhoven © Bildrecht, Vienna 2025](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2025-04/Charley%20Toorop_Vrouwenfiguren_%201931-1932_Collection%20Van%20Abbemuseum_%20Eindhoven_0.jpg.webp?itok=KBE8r2IG) - ![Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Paragraf 218, 1931 — Stadtmuseum Berlin, Foto: Michael Setzpfand © S. Nerlinger](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2024-11/Alice%20Lex-Nerlinger_Paragraf%20218_1931_Stadtmuseum%20Berlin.jpg.webp?itok=WPUL4mxg) - ![Elizabeth Catlett, I Have Special Reservations, 1946 (printed 1989) — Elizabeth Catlett, I Have Special Reservations..., from the series The Black Woman, 1946 (1989) — Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia © Bildrecht, Vienna 2025](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2024-02/Elizabeth-Catlett%2C-I-Have-Special-Reservations%2C-1946.jpg.webp?itok=LMdUuoZR) - ![Toyen, Krieg (Die Vogelscheuche), 1945 — Toyen, War (Field Scarecrow), 1945 — 8smicka Foundation, Humpolec / Photo: Polak](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2024-11/Toyen_Krieg%20%28Die%20Vogelscheuche%29_1945_%208smicka%20Foundation_%20Humpolec.jpg.webp?itok=pHhjwy3l) - ![Alice Neel, Nazis ermorden Juden, 1936 — Alice Neel, Nazis Murder Jews, 1936 — Loan of Rennie Collection, Vancouver, photo: Stephen White © The Estate of Alice Neel](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/full_content_width_no_crop/public/2024-11/Alice%20Neel_Nazis%20ermorden%20Juden_1936_Leihgabe%20Rennie%20Collection.jpg.webp?itok=x81GCe1B) 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.* ## Videos **Radikal! (Part 1)** **Radikal! (Part 2)** **Radikal! (Part 3)** **Radikal! (Part 4)** **Radikal! (Part 5)**