Ana Mendieta
in ‘Magical Women’, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany
26 October 2025 – 22 February 2026
Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, 1979 © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Ana Mendieta is included in ‘Magical Women’, an exhibition which showcases works from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that explore these themes, often from a feminist perspective, at Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen.
Mendieta’s work is exhibited alongside alongside artists including Myrlande Constant, Mary Beth Edelson, Rebecca Horn, Zanel Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Rosana Paulino, Gillian Wearing and Portia Zvavahera. The works featured in the exhibition engage with ambivalent images of the magical and the feminine, shifting their meanings and reclaiming the authority to interpret them. Their works highlight the instability of social orders, rules, and norms by provoking questions about identity, subverting established evaluation patterns, and offering alternatives. In doing so, they address topics such as body and gender politics, the attribution of character traits, female sexuality, and moments of identification.