Review: The Feminist Avant-Garde, Hamburger Kunsthalle
Niamh Coghlan, Aesthetica
April 2015
“Down with religious iconography and pornographic photography, the desire for novelty, the desire of possessing women, of fantasising (about them)”. Angela Molino’s call to action in Helena Almeida: Learning to See (2005) illustrates the necessity for change in the canons of art history. A call to change that is the focus of the Viennese corporate art collection, Sammlung Verbund. Under the curatorial directorship of Gabriele Schor, the collection includes significant bodies of work by some of the key feminist avant-garde artists of the 1970s (as well as by many male artists, it should be pointed out). It is this collection that forms the basis of the current touring exhibition The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, currently on show at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, and curated by Schor and Merle Radtke. […]