Collection Bites: Anna Rosenwasser meets Guerilla Girls (Episode 1)

Anna Rosenwasser meets Guerilla Girls
LGBTQ-activist, political influencer and moderator Anna Rosenwasser meets the Guerilla Girls, an anonymous feminist artists’ collective that has dedicated itself to the fight against sexism and racism in the art world. Similar to the Guerilla Girls, Anna's activism works with thought-provoking political messages and memes, which she cleverly uses in the digital space in favour of empowerment.
The collective formed in 1985 in response to the exhibition International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture at New York’s MoMA, where less than 10% of the featured artists were women and the overwhelming majority were white. Incensed by such unequal representation, the collective has employed guerrilla tactics with the stated aim of drawing attention to mechanisms of patriarchal and racist exclusion in art and culture. Wearing gorilla masks and disguising their identities by adopting the names of dead women artists like Frida Kahlo or Käthe Kollwitz, the group’s members leverage the power of humor, provocation, and protest. For example, they have plastered the walls of public spaces with eye-catching posters to articulate their demands, combining slogans that pinpoint grievances with illustrations from art history and statistical data they typically compile themselves in works of trenchant irony. For the first decades of their existence, the Guerrilla Girls typically operated outside the art system, but over time they have become an institution in their own right. What has not changed is their commitment to holding a mirror up to institutions, harnessing the “art of bad behavior” to initiate changes.
These works by the Guerilla Girls are part of the collection, amongst 1400 others.
About «Collection Bites»
In «Collection Bites», personalities from pop culture, music, politics, sports and the social sphere meet works from the collection of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. «Collection Bites» provides space for unconventional interpretations and personal interactions with art. Little tidbits emerge from the encounter, providing a unique insight into the museum's diverse collection in just a few minutes.
More infos: www.migrosmuseum.ch
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