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Centre Pompidou Paris
MUSÉE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE - CENTRE GEORGE POMPIDOU | Place Georges-Pompidou
F-75004 Paris
artists & participants
Magdalena Abakanowicz,
Marina Abramovic,
Eija-Liisa Ahtila,
Laure Albin-Guillot,
Ghada Amer,
Alisa Andrasek,
Eleanor Antin,
Genevieve Asse,
Gae Aulenti,
Silvia Bächli,
Maja Bajevic,
Elisabeth Ballet,
Yto Barrada,
Valerie Belin,
Pierrette Bloch,
Irma Boom,
Louise Bourgeois,
Romaine Brooks,
Angela Bulloch,
Claude Cahun,
Sophie Calle,
Louise Campbell,
Niki de Saint Phalle,
Claude de Soria,
Tacita Dean,
Nanna Ditzel,
Marlene Dumas,
Tracey Emin,
VALIE EXPORT,
Martine Franck,
Helen Frankenthaler,
Gisele Freund,
Monique Frydman,
Manuell Gautrand,
Shadi Ghadirian,
Ghazel,
Nan Goldin,
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
Eileen Gray,
Guerrilla Girls,
Marie-Ange Guilleminot,
Zaha Hadid,
Alice Halicka,
Mona Hatoum,
Florence Henri,
Eva Hesse,
Hessie,
Sheila Hicks,
Hannah Höch,
Jenny Holzer,
Roni Horn,
Rebecca Horn,
Valentine Hugo,
Alice Hutchins,
Bethan Huws,
Cristina Iglesias,
Graciela Iturbide,
Sanja Ivekovic,
Wendy Jacob,
Shirley Jaffe,
Francoise Janicot,
Koo Jeong-A,
Joan Jonas,
Valerie Jouve,
Frida Kahlo,
Toba Khedoori,
Sonia Khurana,
Karen Knorr,
Bela Kolarova,
Barbara Kruger,
Germaine Krull,
Elke Silvia Krystufek,
Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller,
Yayoi Kusama,
Suzanne Lafont,
Laura Lamiel,
Sigalit Landau,
Maria Lassnig,
Marie Laurencin,
Janette Laverriere,
Louise Lawler,
Tamara de Lempicka,
Zoe Leonard,
Natacha Lesueur,
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville,
Dora Maar,
Agnes Martin,
Najia Mehadji,
Susan Meiselas,
Nathalie Melikian,
Ana Mendieta,
Annette Messager,
Joan Mitchell,
Lisette Model,
Vera Molnar,
Charlotte Moorman,
Mariko Mori,
Tania Mouraud,
Valerie Mrejen,
Aurelie Nemours,
Shirin Neshat,
Louise Nevelson,
Natacha Nisic,
Yoko Ono,
Orlan,
Chana Orloff,
Gina Pane,
Florence Paradeis,
Alicia Penalba,
Charlotte Perriand,
Chloe Piene,
Danielle Quarante,
Sara Rahbar,
Judit Reigl,
Delphine Reist,
Edda Renouf,
Lili Reynaud Dewar,
Germaine Richier,
Sophy Rickett,
Pipilotti Rist,
Sophie Ristelhueber,
Martha Rosler,
Judith Rothschild,
Carolee Schneemann,
Anne-Marie Schneider,
Zineb Sedira,
Cindy Sherman,
Mieko Shiomi,
Taryn Simon,
Adriena Simotova,
Lucy Skaer,
Sandy Skoglund,
Alexis Smith,
Kiki Smith,
Seton Smith,
Patti Smith,
Alison & Peter Smithson,
Peter Smithson,
Alison Smithson,
Wieki Somers,
Monika Sosnowska,
Nancy Spero,
Jana Sterbak,
Annelies Strba,
Katja Strunz,
Alina Szapocznikow,
Atsuko Tanaka,
Dorothea Tanning,
Agnes Thurnauer,
Betty Tompkins,
Annie Tribel,
Rosemarie Trockel,
Tatiana Trouve,
Suzanne Valadon,
Remedios Varo,
Sandra Vasquez de la Horra,
Francoise Vergier,
Maria Elena Vieira da Silva,
Isabelle Waternaux,
Sabine Weiss,
Marthe Wery,
Rachel Whiteread,
Hannah Wilke,
Nancy Wilson-Pajic,
Makhi Xenakis,
Nil Yalter,
Yuki Onodera
curator
press release
For the first time in the world, a museum will be displaying the feminine side of its own collections. This new presentation of the Centre Pompidou's collections will be entirely given over to the women artists from the 20th century to the present day.
elles@centrepompidou is the third thematic exhibition of the Centre Pompidou's collections, following Big Bang in 2005 and the Mouvement des Images (Image Movements) in 2006-2007.
This will be the occasion for the institution, which has built up the very first collection of modern and contemporary art, to show its commitment to women artists, nationality and discipline taken together, and place them at the core of modern and contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Key figures such as Sonia Delaunay, Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning, Joan Mitchell and Maria-Elena Vieira da Silva rub shoulders with today's great female creators some of whom, including Sophie Calle, Annette Messager and Louise Bourgeois have been featured recently in monographic exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou.
The programming cuts across disciplines to take a deeper look at the place occupied by women in the culture of the last century, from literature to history of thought, from dance to cinema.
EXHIBITION ITINERARY
The show is hung in chronological order by themes. It brings together a selection of over 500 works by more than 200 artists, from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day.
Pioneer Level 5. Abstract, primitive, functional, urban, mixed media, surreal, amazons, objective... Eight rooms display the works of these pioneers who were at the forefront of change in all the artistic media: Shirley Jaffe, Joan Mitchell, Sonia Delaunay, Natalia S. Gontcharova, Hannah Höch, Frida Kahlo, Judit Reigl, Suzanne Valadon, Diane Arbus, Dora Maar.
Free Fire Opening level 4. Niki de Saint Phalle, Karen Knorr, Rosemarie Trocket, among others, represent those who played historic roles, feminists, critics, photographers and performers, with their personal visions of reality.
Body slogan Level 4. Precocious and inventive in photography and video, women artists have lately transformed the art of drawing, revitalising the very notion of body. ORLAN, Atsuko Tanaka and Ana Mendieta worked on the representation of the body and its stereotypes, notably that of the life drawing genre, as well as ways of staging it in their early performances.
The Activist Body Level 4. Women artists played a key role in redefining visual and theoretical categories, and explored and commented on ways of bridging the abstract and the figurative, the organic and the systematic, the conceptual and the sensual. Typical among these was Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Vera Molnar, Valérie Jouve, Hanne Darboven.
A room of One's Own Level 4.Borrowing Virginia Wool's title of her book dealing with questions about the conditions of art production, this part of the exhibition is gathering the works of artists exploring the notion of private space, weaving new connections between mental projections and exhibition space. Here we find Dorothea Tanning, Tatiana Trouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Sophie Calle.
Wordworks Level 4. From story-telling to listing, through autobiography, quotations, legends and the many facets of the artist's book, creative women like Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Natacha Lesueur, Cristina Iglesias, Eija-Liisa Ahtila explore the various uses of language in art. Concept Art, urban myths, appropriation and post-modernism all use words as a medium while video installations redefine the idea of story-telling.
Immaterials Level 4. Matali Crasset, Alisa Andrasek, Tacita Dean, Louise Campbell, Isa Genzken, Nancy Wilson-Pajic, Geneviève Asse and more leave us with one of the most striking characteristics of contemporary art, namely its disembodiment. The title refers back to one of the Centre Pompidou's cult exhibitions, "Les immatériaux" (Immaterials).