Artists Female artists

JOAN JONAS

Joan Jonas is a pioneer of performance and video art. In the early 1960s, she developed her first happenings, in which she used the female body naked or dressed as "sculptural material" in space and used mirrors to scan, fragment, and reflect.

ANNETTE MESSAGER

Since the early 1970s, the French artist has critically examined the role of women in her work. Her personal cosmos of images is as playful as it is profound, as poetic as it is oppressive.

HILMA AF KLINT

Hilma af Klint's 2019 solo show is the most visited exhibition ever at the Guggenheim Museum in New York: it is the spectacular rediscovery of the pioneer of abstract painting.

MERET OPPENHEIM

The "Fur Cup" established the fame of Meret Oppenheim in 1936, who joined the Surrealists in Paris. In her work she took on the special position of the "female artist" - she is one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

JIMMIE DURHAM

Jimmie Durham, a descendant of North American Cherokee Indians, was active in the Texas civil rights movement in the 1960s. Since his move to Europe in 1994, his work has focused on nature and culture, religion and architecture. The material stone plays a central role in the work of the artist, writer and former political activist.

HANNAH RYGGEN

Originally trained as a painter, Hannah Ryggens discovered woven murals early on as a form of artistic expression for her social and political involvement.

ROSEMARIE TROCKEL

The work of the conceptual artist is often read as a critical commentary on traditional role models of women in society and art. Yet, as her works with and about the animal show, for example, it goes beyond the feminist gesture.

NALINI MALANI

Nalini Malani is a master of visual narration: she raises her voice against religious fundamentalism and destructive delusions of progress with video installations, sculptural spatial stagings and shadow plays.

JACQUELINE HASSINK

What do the centers of economic power look like in the post-industrial age? Conceptual artist Jacqueline Hassink explores questions like these. The explorative photographer maps spaces and objects of the global economies so that a topography of economic power becomes visible in artistic aesthetics.

KERSTIN DRECHSEL

Kerstin Drechsel's works fascinate and irritate. She shows spaces and scenes of great intimacy, in which a fundamental examination and questioning of norms and boundaries is embedded.

MONIKA GRZYMALA

Monika Grzymala's exploration of drawing and line follows a long art-philosophical tradition, but in her works of recent years she has impressively taken the line out of two-dimensionality.

MARIKO MORI

The art world of Japanese multi-media artist Mariko Mori is a mix of art, technology, performance, music, architecture, nature and spirituality. Not infrequently, she herself is part of her artificial landscapes and sculptures, in which universal themes collide with cyber-pop.

KARIN KNEFFEL

The suggestive pull emanating from Karin Kneffel's hyper-realistic mode of representation is followed by an unmistakable call to distrust the character of the image. It is the extreme details, the meticulous attention to detail, that reveal Kneffel's conceptuality at second glance.