Exhibition
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2022
29 Apr 2022 – 01 May 2022
Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) can, without doubt, be seen as one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
She painted and drew, was active as a sculptor, created design and fashion objects, wrote poems, designed stage sets or jewellery, and was active as a photographer and model.
Even though today many consider her a prominent representative of (French) Surrealism, she eluded stylistic classifications and stringent lines of development. Oppenheim resisted prevailing opinions, genre boundaries or classifications of artistic creation. The focus was on experimentation: curiosity, the joy of the unknown and the new. Serial works, repetitive motifs and doing the same thing over and over again were of no interest to her. The examination of questions about gender and related social, artistic and societal ideas played another central role in her work. As a female artist in a (still) strongly male-dominated field, her own gender was not just a motif for her artistic expression, but also for her private and political actions. Through her always critical, emancipatory and non-conformist attitude, Meret Oppenheim was and remains a role model and point of reference for many artists who have come since.
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