The Women Artists Shows.Salons.Societies project was launched in 2017 as a collaboration between Artl@s and AWARE. Combining AWARE’s ambitions to restore the presence of 20th-century women artists in the history of art, and Artl@s’s desire to provide scholars with the data and tools necessary to question the canonical art historical narratives through quantitative and cartographic analyses, we decided to work on group exhibitions of women artists.
Our first ambition is to build a community of scholars and work together to develop a common terminology and even possibly a common and consistent methodology to study these events, because the ones used in the field of exhibition history are inadequate.None of these exhibitions “made art history” or can be thought as “exemplary,”and the discursive silence that surrounds them require art historians to come-up with new questions, new research strategies, and new discourses.
Through the programs we organized and will organize, and through the tools and resources we are making available to the public, including this issue of the Artl@s Bulletin, we also want to contribute to a global history of all-women exhibitions from the 1870s to the 1970s.
TÉLÉCHARGER ET LIRE L’INTRODUCTION EN INTÉGRALITÉ SUR LE SITE DE L’ARTL@S BULLETIN.
Cet essai s’intéresse aux expositions de femmes artistes organisées dans l’Europe de l’après-guerre par les associations d’artistes (femmes), qui – comme l’ont montré les premières recherches – ont été les principales initiatrices de ces expositions durant cette période. L’article propose une analyse comparative des activités de ce type d’associations dans trois pays dont la situation pendant et après la guerre était sensiblement différente : l’Autriche, la France et la Pologne. La position géopolitique de ces pays et la politique de genre qu’ils ont mises en œuvre ont influencé le fonctionnement des associations analysées et l’organisation de leurs expositions annuelles, mais aussi la place qu’elles occupent dans l’histoire de l’art.
Agata Jakubowska is Associated Professor and Deputy Director at the Department of Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is the author of On Margins of the Mirror. Female Body in the Polish Women Artists’ Works (in Polish, Poznań 2004), Multiple Portrait of the Alina Szapocznikow Oeuvre (in Polish, Poznań 2008), Awkward objects. Alina Szapocznikow (ed., Museum of Modern Art, distributed by the Chicago University Press, Warsaw 2011), All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the Long 1970s (ed. together with Katy Deepwell, Liverpool University Press, 2018). She is currently working on a project devoted to the history of women-only exhibitions in Poland and a book on the Polish sculptor Maria Pinińska-Bereś (1931-1999).