Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain’ at Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany -ARTnews

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Alina Szapocznikow, Lamp III, 1970.

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Today’s show: “The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain” is on view at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau in Dresden, Germany, through Saturday, March 31. The group exhibition includes work by Monika Andres, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sibylle Bergemann, Geta Brătescu, Christa Jeitner, Katalin Ladik, Natalia LL, Dora Maurer, Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Erika Stürmer-Alex, Alina Szapocznikow, and Karla Woisnitza, among others.

Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Berlin, 1987, from the series “Zyklus: Der große und der kleine Schritt” (The big and the small step), 1984–90.

STEFANIE RECSKO/©GUNDULA SCHULZE ELDOWY/STAATLICHE KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN DRESDEN

Sibylle Bergemann, Heike, Allerleirauh, Berlin, 1988.

NACHLASS SIBYLLE BERGEMANN, OSTKREUZ/COURTESY LOOCK GALERIE, BERLIN/COSTUME: ANGELIKA KROKER

Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt with Monika Andres, Name, Stadt, Land, 1988.

©ARCHIV MONIKA ANDRES

Natalia LL, from the series “Consumer Art,” 1972–75.

JÓZSEF ROSTA/COURTESY THE ARTIST/LUDWIG MUSEUM

Alina Szapocznikow, Lamp III, 1970.

Geta Brătescu, The Traveller, 1970.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART IN WARSAW

Katalin Ladik, Blackshave Poem, 1979, at Club of Young Artists, Budapest.

GYÖRGY GALÁNTAI/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND ACB GALLERY

Gundula Schulze Eldowy, Tamerlan, Berlin, 1985.

©GUNDULA SCHULZE ELDOWY

Christa Jeitner, Fahne für Camilo Torres (Banner for Camilo Torres), 1970.

Geta Brătescu, Pre-Medeic Drawings (Form-Inform), 1975–78.

ȘTEFAN SAVA/COURTESY IVAN GALLERY, BUCHAREST

Erika Stürmer-Alex, Herakles IV, 1988.

Erika Stürmer-Alex, Herakles II, 1988.

Karla Woisnitza, Medea Mythos, 1985.

Installation view of “The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain,” 2018–19, at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany.

KLEMENS RENNER/©SKD

Installation view of “The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain,” 2018–19, at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany.