Feminist Shows Opening in 2007

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution—March 4-June 18, 2007

LA-MOCA, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles

Traveling version will be smaller than the main one

Rental Fee is $125,OOO, but the National Museum of Women in the Arts says the actual cost, including insurance, shipping, etc. is closer to $500,000

This exhibition’s organizers say it is “the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the foundations and legacy of the impact of feminism on art.” Work will come from the US, UK Western and Central Europe, Australia, Canada, and a few from India Japn, China and South and Central America, but the emphasis will be on US, UK, Western and Central Europe and Canada. Will cover period from 1965-1980 and will “interrogate the binary axis between North America and the UK that dominates the scholarship of the period.” Will include key works of feminist artists of color and “work by artists who did not necessarily acknowledge feminist discourse but whose work was embraced by or impacted the feminist art movement.” Accompanied by catalogue.

Global Feminisms – March 23-July 1, 2007

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art/Schapiro Wing

Brooklyn Museum

Traveling version is around 4,500 sq ft. Will work with institution to fit.

Rental Fee: $90,000 plus shipping (not clear if includes insurance)

Available early 2008 at earliest

This exhibition’s organizers say it it “the first major exhibition to examine international feminist art at the turn of the 21st Century.” 100 contemporary artists from 50 countries. Inaugurates the Sackler Center for Feminist Art, first such center in the world. The curators “aim to acknowledge the profound cultural differences in women’s lives and in the meanings of feminisms transnationally. Work dates from 1990, the moment when “race class and gender were placed at the forefront of feminist art production.” The show aims to demonstrate “that there are other modes of expression, other formal languages, and other urgencies engaged by feminist art” produced outside the US and Western Europe. The show is organized around four themes: Life Cycles, Emotions, Identities and Politics. Catalogue.

How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970-1975 – Show closed January 17, 2006

Size unspecified

Available to travel

Rental Fee: $7500 not including shipping and presumably insurance

From the catalogue: “The Feminist Art Movement of the 1970s introduced bold new concepts so thoroughly embedded in contemporary art that they ar now taken for granted. The purpose of this exhibition is to make clear that many of the sources of Postmodernism lie in the work of Feminist artists…including re-introduction of narrative…,new depictions of the body…performance art, video and photography…use of novel materials…pattern and decoration…installation…and collaboration…”