CULTURE

A Selection of Works From “Woman. Feminist Avant-garde in the 1970s,” at Vienna’s Mumok

The exhibition up now at the Austrian museum tells the origin story of feminist art—with a big asterisk.


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BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN, Hausfrauen-Küchenschürze [Housewives’-Kitchen Apron], 1975

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CINDY SHERMAN, Magic Time, 1975/2014

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FRANCESCA WOODMAN, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975–1978/1997

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RENATE BERTLMANN, Zärtlicher Tanz [Tender Dance], 1976

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HANNAH WILKE, Super-T-Art, 1974

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Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles. © Marsie, Emanuelle, Damon, and Andrew Scharlatt / VAGA, New York, 2017 / The SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna

HANNAH WILKE, S.O.S. Starification Object Series. One of 36 playing cards from mastication box, 1975 Postcard

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BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN, Ohne Titel (Selbst mit Fellchen) [Untitled (Self with Little Fur)], 1974/1977

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VALIE EXPORT, Die Geburtenmadonna [The Birth Madonna], 1976

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© Lynda Benglis / Thomas Dane Gallery, London / VAGA, New York, 2017 / The SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna

LYNDA BENGLIS, Portfolio with 9 pigment prints

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LYNDA BENGLIS, Advert in Artforum Magazine, 1974