What’s Happening? Feminism, Gender, and the Art Museum
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Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum. ed. / Malene Vest Hansen; Kristian Handberg. New York : Routledge, 2023. p. 139-152 .Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - What’s Happening? Feminism, Gender, and the Art Museum
AU - lkr893, lkr893
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In 2015, Denmark’s national gallery, The National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst), explored the importance of the so-called second-wave feminist movement for the Danish art scene during the 1960s and 1970s with the expansive exhibition What’s Happening? With the exhibition, the National Gallery not only gave feminist art an authoritative stamp of approval, it also underscored feminism as a crucial component in addressing the question of the contemporary that has preoccupied art historians and institutions over the last two decades. Nevertheless, the museum situated the feminist art of the period within the context of concurrent male-dominated neo-avant-gardes. Although the ambition was to generate a new, productive discourse among the two factions and appear relevant with regard to current issues of gender and representation in the art world, the emancipatory activism and creativity embedded in the original feminist artworks was institutionalized within a rather conventional patriarchal and nationalist framework. By applying the critical thrust of the exhibition’s title one aim of the essay is to illuminate to an international audience the feminist art projects of the period, many of which were groundbreaking and visionary. The other objective is to address the possibilities and problematics regarding the curation of “second-wave” feminist art and how it has been instrumentalized in shaping our understanding of the contemporary.
AB - In 2015, Denmark’s national gallery, The National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst), explored the importance of the so-called second-wave feminist movement for the Danish art scene during the 1960s and 1970s with the expansive exhibition What’s Happening? With the exhibition, the National Gallery not only gave feminist art an authoritative stamp of approval, it also underscored feminism as a crucial component in addressing the question of the contemporary that has preoccupied art historians and institutions over the last two decades. Nevertheless, the museum situated the feminist art of the period within the context of concurrent male-dominated neo-avant-gardes. Although the ambition was to generate a new, productive discourse among the two factions and appear relevant with regard to current issues of gender and representation in the art world, the emancipatory activism and creativity embedded in the original feminist artworks was institutionalized within a rather conventional patriarchal and nationalist framework. By applying the critical thrust of the exhibition’s title one aim of the essay is to illuminate to an international audience the feminist art projects of the period, many of which were groundbreaking and visionary. The other objective is to address the possibilities and problematics regarding the curation of “second-wave” feminist art and how it has been instrumentalized in shaping our understanding of the contemporary.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003177081-13
DO - 10.4324/9781003177081-13
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 139
EP - 152
BT - Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum
A2 - Hansen, Malene Vest
A2 - Handberg, Kristian
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -
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