Gender and art

 "The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents Meret Oppenheim: Tender Friendships, on view April 26–Sept.14, 2014. This spotlight exhibition includes artworks from the Furtak collection supplemented by loans that span Meret Oppenheim’s (1913–1985) career. Highlights include the witty Table with Bird’s Feet (1973) and the famous photograph The Couple (1973) of two boots “kissing” as well as small sculptures, drawings, prints, books, letters and other archival materials. During her prolific career, Oppenheim created art that explored themes of sensuality and desire, friendship and love, nature and culture, and reality and imagination. This exhibition explores friendship as a source of inspiration and support."

Meret Oppenheim : Tender Friendships

April 26 - September 14, 2014

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington

http://nmwa.org/exhibitions/meret-oppenheim-tender-friendships

Le Lam de Villeneuve d'Asq propose jusqu'au mois de juin 2014 une exposition consacrée à Meret Oppenheim. C'est une rétrospective de l'oeuvre de cette écrivaine, peintre et plasticienne suisse surréaliste réputée pour sa liberté et le caractère singulier de son oeuvre.

http://www.musee-lam.fr/

"LONDON — She was called the enfant terrible of Surrealism. She was immortalized in some of Man Ray’s best photographs. Her well-known “Object” (1936) is considered one of the most important surrealist works.

This year is the centenary of Meret Oppenheim’s birth. To mark the occasion, the Bank Austria Forum, Vienna, and the Martin Gropious Bau, Berlin, organized what they described as the most comprehensive retrospective of her work ever. (The exhibition will travel to the Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Lille, next February). Other exhibitions were held at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, and at the Kunstmuseum, Bern, not to mention talks and special events dedicated to her all over Europe. I contacted her niece, Lisa Wenger, to talk about Oppenheim’s work and life. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation."

"Berlin is dedicating a first major retrospective to Meret Oppenheim to mark the centenary of the famous artist's birth here on 6 October 2013. [...]

The exhibition will show the whole spectrum of Meret Oppenheim’s oeuvre, which in its independence and diversity is still a pioneering force even today. Following Oppenheim's artistic method, who kept returning to specific motifs over long periods of time and subjected them to new treatment, the show runs a course through the ever-densifying themes in a cross-section of the artist's creative periods: magic objects, dream scenes and myths, depictions of the invisible, cadavre-exquis and play as an artistic method, the search for identity, metamorphoses between the sexes, between human being and animal, nature and civilization..."

Meret Oppenheim - Retrospective

Berliner Festspiele - Martin-Gropius-Bau

16 August to 1 December 2013

http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/aktuell/festivals/gropiusbau/programm_mgb/veranstaltungsdetail_mgb_ausstellungen_55897.php

"Berlin is dedicating a first major retrospective to Meret Oppenheim to mark the centenary of the famous artist's birth here on 6 October 2013. The playful and humorous treatment of everyday materials, conveyed with constantly new connotations, is a special feature of Oppenheim’s artistic works and links her to her artist friends whose company included Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Hans Arp and Man Ray..."

Meret Oppenheim. Retrospective

16 August to 1 December 2013

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin