Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s: Works from the Verbund Collection
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, 2013
Featuring In Mourning and In Rage by Leslie Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy
Feminist Avant–Garde of the 1970s, is an expansive exhibition comprising forty-eight international female artists and over 150 major works from the VERBUND COLLECTION in Vienna.
The exhibition highlights groundbreaking practices that shaped the feminist art movement and provides a timely reminder of the wide impact of a generation of artists. Focusing on photographs, collage works, performances, films and videos produced throughout the 1970s, the exhibition reflects a moment during which practices of emancipation, gender equality and civil rights protest movements became part of public discourse. Operating across the public and personal realms – as well as using their own bodies as central motifs – these artists sought to address broad political issues and confront patriarchy and sexism in art and society. In doing so they created new, positively assertive female identities.
Exhibition traveled to Mjellby Konstmuseum, Halmstad, Sweden, 2014, BOZAR, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 2014, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 2015, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England, 2016-2017, mumok museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna, 2017, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, 2018, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, 2018, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2018, The Brno House of Arts, Brno, 2019 and Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain, 2019.