Amazons of Pop!

Women artists, superheroines, icons, 1961–1973

An exhibition of MAMAC Nizza under the title "She-Bam Pow Pop Wizz! Les Amazones du Pop" in collaboration with Kunsthalle zu Kiel and Kunsthaus Graz, supported by Manifesto Expo.

Curated by Hélène Guenin, Géraldine Gourbe (MAMAC) in collobaration with Regina Göckede, Anette Hüsch (Kunsthalle zu Kiel), Katrin Bucher Trantow, Barbara Steiner (Kunsthaus Graz)
Press tour: 20.04.2022, 1.30 pm
Opening: 21.04.2022, 7 pm
Duration: 22.04.-28.08.2022

Info exhibition: +43-316/8017-9200
Info press: +43-316/8017-9213 and DDI -9211
presse@museum-joanneum.at

About the exhibition

Amazons of Pop! extensively addresses the diverse pop art of a generation of women from Europe and North America who constitute the less-well-known side of the movement confidently and expressively. The exhibition shows women who fight for their own emancipation with determination and actively champion political and social issues. They transgress boundaries in the art of their time, which was dominated by men, and test new and unusual materials such as plastic. Play with fictive characters, personalities and heroines from the big screen pervades the work of these artists, who demonstrate a great passion for experimentation, fantasy, intrepidness and a sense of strategy, conscious of the tense geopolitical and social circumstances of their time all the while.

Amazons of Pop! features approximately 120 pieces from the fields of painting, installation, performance, sculpture and film and invites visitors to delve into the world of pop and a period of awakening: the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.

The exhibition, initiated by MAMAC Nice and previously shown at MAMAC in Nice and at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, also examines Austrian Pop Art tendencies at Kunsthaus Graz.

With works by Evelyne Axell, Barbarella, Brigitte Bardot, Marion Baruch, Pauline Boty, Martine Canneel, Lourdes Castro, Judy Chicago, Chryssa, France Cristini, Christa Dichgans, VALIE EXPORT, Jane Fonda, Ruth Francken, Ángela García, Angela Hareiter, Jann Haworth, Dorothy Iannone, Jodelle & Pravda La Survireuse, Corita Kent, Kiki Kogelnik, Auguste Kronheim, Kay Kurt, Nicola L., Ketty La Rocca, Natalia LL, Milvia Maglione, Lucia Marcucci, Marie Menken, Marilyn Monroe, Isabel Oliver, Yoko Ono, Ulrike Ottinger, Emma Peel, Ingeborg G. Pluhar, Martha Rosler, Niki de Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Marjorie Strider, Sturtevant, Valentina Tereshkova, May Wilson.

Downloads

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Images

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Pictures of the art works are available here

Material

Marjorie Strider, "Girl with open mouth", 1963,

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Marjorie Strider, "Girl with open mouth", 1963,

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Marjorie Strider, "Girl with open mouth", 1963,

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Ángela García, "Breathing Out" (from the series: "Morfologias"), 1973,

Acrylic on canvas and wood, 165 x 110 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galería Punto, Valencia, Spain, © Ángela García

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Christa Dichgans, "Stillleben mit Frosch", 1969,

Aquatec on canvas, 55 x 65 cm, Esra & John Hartung, © Esra & John Hartung / Courtesy Nachlass Christa Dichgans / Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin / Photo: Jochen Littkemann

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Niki de Saint Phalle, "Long Shot – Second Shooting Session", 1961,

Relief painting and plaster on plywood, 145 x 30 cm, Collection Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice (MAMAC), Nice, © Niki Charitable Art Foundation/Bildrecht, Wien 2021 / Photo: Giulio Pietromarchi

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Sturtevant, "Rosenquist Dishes", 1966,

Oil on canvas, 122 x 152,5 cm, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul, © Estate Sturtevant, Paris / Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Seoul / Photo: Charles Duprat

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