ARTISTS
Female Voices
Grieder Contemporary is pleased to present "Female Voices" an exhibition comprised exclusively of female contemporary artists. This exhibition showcases the works of a group of leading contemporary women artists with very distinct approaches to art, who experiment with all types of artistic techniques and subject matter.
Women artists are still widely underrepresented in all aspects of the art world. This is a fact that will probably not come as a surprise to anyone visiting this exhibition. Be it gallery representation, museum shows, grants, press coverage or auction prices, female artists are far from having achieved equality in the art world, even if the existence of a few female artist superstars sometimes makes us want to believe that.
Time and again, research has shown that this gap is still far from being closed. According to a survey made in 2019 by the news portal Swissinfo, during the period 2008-2018, in solo exhibitions in Swiss museums, only 26% of artists were women, and only 10% of the museums surveyed had more individual shows with female artists than men.
Nonetheless, even with this information in the background, the question as to whether women-only exhibitions are still needed is an important and relevant one to discuss. Do these shows give women a visibility that will lead to their fuller integration within a broader discourse? Or, rather, do they position women as outsiders, separate, and forever unequal?
Opinions among curators and art scholars seem to be divided. Some argue that these exhibitions "challenge the masculine assumptions of the sacred canon of history by reclaiming women artists and inserting them back into a narrative from which they have been dismissed because they are female". Others say that these exhibitions "unwittingly contribute to the marginalization of female artists by reducing the artwork鈥檚 value to its creator鈥檚 gender and separating it from broader histories".
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Grieder Contemporary is pleased to present "Female Voices" an exhibition comprised exclusively of female contemporary artists. This exhibition showcases the works of a group of leading contemporary women artists with very distinct approaches to art, who experiment with all types of artistic techniques and subject matter.
Women artists are still widely underrepresented in all aspects of the art world. This is a fact that will probably not come as a surprise to anyone visiting this exhibition. Be it gallery representation, museum shows, grants, press coverage or auction prices, female artists are far from having achieved equality in the art world, even if the existence of a few female artist superstars sometimes makes us want to believe that.
Time and again, research has shown that this gap is still far from being closed. According to a survey made in 2019 by the news portal Swissinfo, during the period 2008-2018, in solo exhibitions in Swiss museums, only 26% of artists were women, and only 10% of the museums surveyed had more individual shows with female artists than men.
Nonetheless, even with this information in the background, the question as to whether women-only exhibitions are still needed is an important and relevant one to discuss. Do these shows give women a visibility that will lead to their fuller integration within a broader discourse? Or, rather, do they position women as outsiders, separate, and forever unequal?
Opinions among curators and art scholars seem to be divided. Some argue that these exhibitions "challenge the masculine assumptions of the sacred canon of history by reclaiming women artists and inserting them back into a narrative from which they have been dismissed because they are female". Others say that these exhibitions "unwittingly contribute to the marginalization of female artists by reducing the artwork鈥檚 value to its creator鈥檚 gender and separating it from broader histories".
