With around 120 works _ paintings, installations, performances, sculptures and films_ by some 40 female artists, the exhibition highlights the complex and heterogeneous contribution of women artists to the history of Pop Art.
From the very beginning, as feminist pioneers, self-confident and expressive female Pop artists shaped this art movement and questioned the traditional role of woman and muse. They worked autobiographically, often across genres as well as in different media, combining the bold aesthetics of a brave new world of commodities with the self-confident adoption of the new synthetic materials and technologies.
With works by Evelyne Axell, Barbarella, Brigitte Bardot, Marion Baruch, Pauline Boty, Martine Canneel, Lourdes Castro, Judy Chicago, Chryssa, France Cristini, Christa Dichgans, VALIE EXPORT, Jane Fonda, Ruth Francken, Ángela García, Angela Hareiter, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Jodelle & Pravda La Survireuse, Corita Kent, Kiki Kogelnik, Auguste Kronheim, Kay Kurt, Nicola L., Ketty La Rocca, Natalia LL, Milvia Maglione, Lucia Marcucci, Marie Menken, Marilyn Monroe, Isabel Oliver, Yoko Ono, Ulrike Ottinger, Emma Peel, Ingeborg G. Pluhar, Martha Rosler, Niki de Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Marjorie Strider, Sturtevant, Valentina Tereshkova, May Wilson.
AMAZONS OF POP!
WOMEN ARTISTS, SUPERHEROINES, ICONS 1961–1973
APRIL 22 - AUGUST 28, 2022
KUNSTHAUS GRAZ | GRAZ, AUSTRIA
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