The SAMMLUNG VERBUND collection was created in 2004 by VERBUND AG, Austria’s leading electric company and one of the most important hydroelectric power stations in Europe. Since its inception in 2004 the SAMMLUNG VERBUND focuses on the feminist art movement of the 1970s as one of the main areas of collecting. The fruits of this particular focus are now for the first time presented in Spain.
The director of the collection, Gabriele Schor, has deliberately designated the feminist art movement of the 1970s as Feminist Avant-Garde, in order to emphasise its trailblazing role, as it is, like no other art movement in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a decisive force in shaping contemporary art production. The Feminist Avant- Garde is still an open field and many artists and their works are yet to be discovered. Thus, in showing a number of relatively unknown positions and groups of works, MUJER claims to redefine and expand the coordinates of the feminist art movement.
Art history shows: the image of woman is a man’s image of woman. This iconography, hand- ed down for centuries, has been radically deconstructed by the Feminist Avant- Garde in the 1970s for the first time. In their work these 21 artists create a new image of women. Their work often discusses their own body as well as themselves in their object-subject relations and fathoms the prospect of self-determined feminine identities. The exhibition provides a glimpse of the multi-layered works of artists, who deal with constructions of identity in a provocative, poetic and ironic way.
Photographers : Helena Almeida, Eleanor Antin, Renate Bertlmann, VALIE EXPORT, Esther Ferrer, Alexis Hunter, Sanja Ivekovic, Birgit Jürgenssen, Ketty La Rocca, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Suzy Lake, Ana Mendieta, Rita Myers, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman, Annegret Soltau, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesca Woodman, Nil Yalter
WOMAN. The Feminist Avant-Garde from the 1970s.
PHotoEspaña 2013
June 4 – September 1st, 2013
Círculo de Bellas Artes
Fundación Banco Santander / Sala Picasso
Madrid
Spain
