Curatorial Tour - Animals and insects (EN)
With Anaël Daoud, assistant curator
| When |
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| What | General public Tours |
| Where | Galleries |
| Related exhibition | Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists after 1945 |
| Access | Free |
| Max. attendance | 20 |
| Booking required | Link available soon! |
Organised into thematic sections, Kaihō: Japanese Women Artists after 1945 provides an insight into dynamic cultural exchanges and the forgotten margins of modernism. Drawing from the artists’ personal lives, creative resilience and transnational activism, the exhibition brings together works by Atsuko Tanaka, Yayoi Kusama, Yoko Ono, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomie Ohtake, Taeko Tomiyama and Yoshiko Shimada, among many others – some of which have rarely, if ever, been shown outside of Japan. From Gutai to experiments in video art, Kaihō explores the radical yet often overlooked contributions of women artists from Japan to global postwar art movements.
For this special tour, the curator invites the audience to discover the exhibition not through its main narrative, but a thematic perspective. Spiders, fish, foxes, cats or fireflies: animals and insects can be spotted throughout the exhibition. Their trail cuts a new path through it, one that leads to readings of ecological crimes, imperialist martyrdom, motherhood, infinity or the cosmos.
Discover the exhibition through the lens of assistant curator Anaël Daoud.
