© Guerrilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com
This French roll represents the 400,000 graphic works in the MK&G – This crumb represents the works of women: 1.5%, 2022.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe shows feminist graphics exhibition
Just a crumb
Hardly worth mentioning is the crumb next to the whole Franzbrötchen that dominates the visually stunning poster. It illustrates how high the proportion of graphic works by women is at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. In the group show The F* word: Guerilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design, the exhibition house will delve into this topic starting February 17 - and give space to a decades-old problem.
February 17, 2023
In the scene a term since 1989: The Guerilla Girls. Behind them is an artists' collective from the USA. They became known more than 30 years ago in New York City with an eye-catching yellow poster. The pointed words »Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?« refer to how things run in the art world: Women as subjects: yes, behind the screen: no. Relentlessly, then, the group continues to educate about sexism, racism, discrimination, abuse of power, and corruption in humorous, enlightening, and accusatory ways.
In the exhibition The F* word – Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design, starting February 17, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg is taking the collective's posters as the basis for an entire group show. It brings together around 400 works from 1870 to the present day, all of which focus on, illuminate and decuvate grievances on the subject of »women in graphic design«. They can be seen until September 17.
© Guerrilla Girls, courtesy guerrillagirls.com
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